John 3:14

[billcu1]

I have read that John 3:14 is effective in times of temptation. Does anyone know anything about this scripture?

Bill

 

[SaintPatrick333]

I’ve not heard that claim made though I would believe it simply because its the Word of God. I imagine reading “any” Scripture can help with temptations of all kinds. I’d still like to see the specifics though if anyone else has some ideas?

 

[SteveLy]

The reference in John 3:14-15 “14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but[a] have eternal life.”

John references a story from Numbers 21:5-9 "5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread.” 6 So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died. 7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord that He take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived. "

Not sure how these pertain to temptation, unless the sin one is tempted to commit is a mortal sin which will bring death.

 

[animalis]

I’d still like to see the specifics though if anyone else…

“Such a battle and such a victory become possible only through prayer. It is by his prayer that Jesus vanquishes the tempter” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2849) A slow prayerful Our Father in mediation of the petitions within, a vehicle of the virtue of Hope: “for indeed we find in these (the petitions) the sum of all the good things which we must hope for…” (CCC 17) “And every one who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.” (1 Jn 3:3)

Now, if we commit ourselves to the Rosary, the crown recommended by our Church in which we pray the prayer of the Our Father, we will conform our heart to love the petitions of the Our Father thereby we make dearest sense when we request to enjoy God’s presence. Yet, even though we expect to enjoy God, we also mature to love sufferings (even the inability to mediate) over consolation, but yet we hold a firm trust in the Church with our lives to be commited to God and to be protected from our sins. As S. Paul says, “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.” (Rom 8:2)

Here is link with insight on the life I talk about
escrivaworks.org/book/christ_is_passing_by/point/134

 

[animalis]

“Such a battle and such a victory become possible only through prayer. It is by his prayer that Jesus vanquishes the tempter” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2849)

Not that I expect any doubt with the quote from the Catechism, I came across another quote from S. Augustine, who testifies to Sacred Tradition,

“it is certainly with a view to resisting the devil and his fleeing from us that we say when we pray, ‘Lead us not into temptation’ (Mt 6:13) to the same end also (in view) are we warned by our Captain, exhorting us as soilders in the words: ‘Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation’ (Mk 14:38)” (S. Augustine, Nature and Grace, Ch. 68)

from newadvent.org/fathers/1503.htm