Tonight we study the question, Why Does God Let Satan Tempt us, or as Thomas Watson puts it in this next section of his teaching through the sixth petition of the Lord's Prayer (And Lead Us Not into Temptation but Deliver Us from Evil), "Why does God suffer his saints to be buffeted by Satan's temptations?" The short answers are: 1) to test our sincerity, love, and courage; 2) to keep us from pride; 3) to be more fit to comfort others in the same distress; and 4) to make us long more for heaven. We were also pointed to the very pastoral Westminster Confession of Faith 5:5 on God's providential use of our temptations and sins.
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Pastor Grant Van Leuven accepted the call to the Puritan Reformed Presbyterian Church (PRPC) in June of 2010, and moved with his family to San Diego at the end of August to begin serving the saints here. He was ordained and installed as pastor by the Session of the PRPC on...
