Quiet Talks About the Tempter

1 Introduction 2 1. Temptation 3 Using God's Roads 4 How to Meet Temptation 5 Temptation's Weak Spot 6 How to Win 7 2. The Tempter 8 The Story of His Career 9 The Keynote 10 Our Ignorance of His Devices 11 Three Sorts of Evidence 12 The Bible Viewpoint 13 Going to the Original Sources 14 The Ezekiel Picture 15 The Break with God 16 A Human Understudy 17 His Aim and Ambition 18 The Trinity of Action 19 The Human Battlefield 20 An Unfailing Ally 21 The Awe of Power 22 The Itch of Power 23 Satan-Worship 24 The True Aim 25 A Sensitive Thermometer 26 His Defeat 27 Great—greater 28 Opening a Way for God 29 The Spirit That Won 30 Defeated by a Life 31 A Running Fight 32 The Climax 33 The Second Defeat 34 His Present Struggle 35 Each One Must Choose 36 We Have Only What We Take 37 The Real Struggle 38 The Battlefield 39 Proper Air Supply 40 Personal Characteristics 41 Watch As Well As Pray 42 Some Important "Nots." 43 His Mental Status 44 The Immense Power of Experience 45 Unsurrendered Mental Powers 46 A Cowardly Weapon 47 At His Strongest—weak 48 3. Typical Temptations 49 Eden: How the Tempter Works 50 Three Attacks 51 The One Aim in Temptation 52 The Eden Trail 53 How He Came 54 The Generations of Doubt 55 Some of the Results 56 The Wilderness: How the Tempter Is Defeated 57 Forestalling the Tempter 58 The Holy Spirit's Generalship 59 Our Lord's Unfailing Response 60 The Temptation Itself 61 "Lead Us Not Into Temptation." 62 4. The Secret of Victory 63 In the Victor 64 The Tempter Afraid of Jesus 65 The Tempter Couldn't Touch Jesus 66 No Sin 67 A New Experience for the Tempter 68 No Self 69 What Is Unselfishness? 70 Obedience 71 Obedience Never so Hard 72 Fearlessness 73 Aggressiveness of Love 74 For the Overcomers 75 A Call Out of the Glory 76 "Follow Me." 77 A Narrow Path 78 Pushing Bravely On 79 Overcoming Armour 80 Fighting Tactics: The Tempter's and Ours 81 Recognition Half the Fight 82 Two Lines of Approach 83 The Outworks 84 Attacking the Citadel 85 Obsession 86 Some Actual Experiences 87 "On the Ground of the Blood." 88 "The Sword of the Spirit" 89 The Wondrous Name 90 Fearless Cheer 91 The Tempter's Disguises and How to Detect Them 92 Working Under Cover 93 Hiding Behind Natural Desires 94 Hiding Behind Men 95 The Subtlest Yet 96 The "Angel-of-Light" Disguise 97 Good, or God's Will 98 The Jesus-Passion in Control 99 The "How" of Training 100 The "How" of Detection 101 Authority to Take Possession of What has Been Redeemed From the Enemy 102 A New Spelling 103 Five Facts 104 Authorised 105 Take Possession 106 Faith That Discerns 107 Power in the Name