out of my head for a time. I don't know whether it is right or
wrong for me to do this particular thing, but there are twenty other
things which I DO know are right. I'll go and do THEM, and let this
wait awhile.'

Believe me, my friends, you CAN do this--you can resist these evil
spirits which tempt us all; else why did our Lord bid us pray, "Lead
us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil?" Why? Because
our Father in heaven, if we ask Him, will NOT lead us INTO
temptation, but THROUGH it safe. Tempted we MUST be, else we should
not be men; but here is our comfort and our strength--that we have a
King in heaven, who has fought out and conquered all temptations,
and a Father in heaven, who has promised that He will not suffer us
to be tempted above that we are able, but will, with the temptation,
make a way to escape, that we may be able to bear it.

Again, I say, draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.



SERMON X. NOAH'S JUSTICE



GENESIS, vi. 9.

"Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked
with God."