Pam Padgett ... teacher
2 Peter 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
A temptation is a trial, or something that provokes or entices us to an action, especially an action that is unwise or wrong.
Peter told us here of God delivering Lot from the trial of being vexed continually by what the wicked said and did. God removed Lot from Sodom, and then destroying both Sodom and Gomorrha.
Another example of God delivering the godly out of temptations is
when David was provoked by Nabal railing at the messengers David sent
....
1 Samuel 25:9 And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal
according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased. 10 And
Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the
son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every
man from his master. 11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my
flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I
know not whence they be? 12 So David's young men turned their way, and
went again, and came and told him all those sayings. 13 And David said
unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every
man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up
after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
God delivered David from shedding blood by Abigail going to meet him,
bringing food and wine for David and his men. Abigail spoke with great understanding of what God had spoken concerning David, and humbly asked
David not to shed blood which would be a grief to David when he ruled
over Israel. By these things David was kept from bloodshed.
1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and
two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of
parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes
of figs, and laid them on asses. ... 27 And now
this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it
even be given unto the young men that follow my lord. 28 I pray thee,
forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make
my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD,
and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days. 29 Yet a man is
risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord
shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the
souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of
a sling. 30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done
to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning
thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel; 31 That this
shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either
that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged
himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: 33 And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
Although David was kept from killing Nabal, God killed him. David thanked God for dealing with Nabal and keeping him (David) from evil.
1 Samuel 25:37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine
was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his
heart died within him, and he became as a stone. 38 And it came to pass
about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died. 39 And
when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that
hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath
kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of
Nabal upon his own head. ....
We face various temptations today as we are vexed and provoked by the unjust and wicked around us. God knows how to help us and deliver us when we are tempted.
I've also been reminded of the following promise we've been given ...
1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as
is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be
tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a
way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.