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Tempting God

A good review and reminder of what I know and have preached (several times) in the past about tempting God from Matthew 4:7.

To tempt God is to conduct an undue and unwarranted trial of God, concerning His power, goodness and greatness, from a position of unbelief and a demand from distrust, questioning the presence of God until see a supernatural proof of it.

Throwing yourself  into voluntary and uncommanded dangers, then appealing to God for protection or trifling with His promises about His assistance in times of danger is a big NO NO.

God aids His people who are placed by Him in trials and dangers and NOT those who do so unwisely or purposefully especially in order to tempt Him or prove Him and His Word.

If there are stairs in a building you can take to go down, casting yourself from the top of the building because God has promised to protect you is presumption not faith, tempting God not trusting Him.

"Do not question whether God will save you from dangers which you have entered uncalled."

This verse also shows how a Bible verse can be twisted to result in danger to oneself (not to mention displease God) and how this mispracticed can be remedied.

Scriptura per Scripturam interpretanda et concilianda. The promise you quote must be explained by another passage of Scripture. "Neither may it (the Church) so expound one place of Scripture that it be repugnant to another." - Bengel

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