yay... i am back blogging again :)
friday: OG BBQ. Busy preparing(buying+marinating) food and BBQing stuff. Thank God I still had some time to interact with my OG group. overall the whole thing was ok lor.
Saturday: hmm... at 5.30am, my parents and i saw my brother Gerald off to USA at the Changi airport T2... for some robotics exchange and competition. for 10 days. then he never wave to us goodbye when he went into the area for passengers (forgot the name of the place) one... lol. Guess i will miss him? lol.
later on... youth meeting... still on the topic of temptation...
well, we discussed on the 'assignment' that bro kian heng gave us last week (which i had totally forgotten although i blogged about it! lol.) well, if any of u audiences had forgotten about it, we were told to find out why David fell into the 'women' temptation but not Joseph. hmm... well, i 2nd Samuel 12:1, it sort of say that it happened at a time when kings were supposed to go out to battle but King David remained in Jerusalem. That's one reason why. cos if he had went out for battle, then the tempter (aka Satan) will not have the opportunity to use Bathsheba to make David sin. Also, as seen through the previous 3 chapters of 2nd Samuel, King David had killed thousands of people in the battlefield, making a name for himself. Perhaps, it was because of this and the fact that he was at the peak of his success, he kind of weaken his defense against Satan and allowed him to tempt David to sin... while on the other hand, Joseph was not in a very good condition (under the 'control' of portiphar) as compared to David, and that Joseph did not have 'everything' under his control like David, that's why Satan's women tactics did not work well on Joseph (we must also not forget that Joseph was very focused on God and that God was with him wherever he was, hence when he faced portiphar's wife and her temptations daily, he did not give in and fled when the temptation grew stronger).
therefore the moral of the story is: We must guard against Satan all the time... especially when we are at the peak of our success.
anyway, after that, we continued on the main topic and discussed the motive and purpose of Satan tempting our Lord Jesus.... and also in what situations and circumstances men are more easily tempted. well, after another round of 30-min long discussion, we came out with these few points:
*motive and purpose of Satan tempting our Lord Jesus...
-Challenging God's Word and wanted Jesus to prove it (which btw should not be tested, but to accept... i know it sounds kind of barbaric, but His word is the truth! so accept the truth people...)
-To confuse Jesus through the using of God's word, which is wrongly quoted by Satan, in the 2nd temptation.
-Intended to use the riches of the world to make Him fall since Jesus is now in the form of flesh... so He is subjected to all the weakness of the flesh.
-Wanted Jesus to forget that He is the Son of God.
*situations/circumstances where people are more easily tempted...
-more involved about the things of the world
-women and money (for brothers)
-television programmes, computer games
-Friends & classmates
-Bad mood
-Busy... which lead to tiredness
-the Internet
haha... guess i shall stop here now... need to go do my tutorials liao... shall blog about the interesting things that happened in Sarah's house (which happened after youth meeting) some other time... at least after Siswand send me the photos...
