Tzadock Dock

An enemy takes a position against yours, but when God Himself takes a position, to take a position opposing it is to destroy ones own self. Therefore, an enemy of our soul would like to seduce mankind into taking a position contrary to what position is taken by God. This, by nature, would subject the soul to damnation and stress because as surely as God is for truth, He is against lies. So the enemy would sell people lies, wrapping them seductively, promising that by agreeing with these things, some thing then withheld from them [by the Gift of God] would now become accessible [by the law of works].

Every temptation aims to make us think that we're imperfect, because it's only mission is to enslave people to a false obligation to the law, which is a system devoted to the improvement or maintenance of our desired conditions by some personal execution of our human will. Temptation often strikes by implying a personal obligation to some dissatisfied claim on us, and it sells the idea of our personal fulfillment coming [notice the future tense] as a result of satisfying that claim, performing some duty, or accomplishing some act sold as needful for our continued participation in the benefits of our association with what it affords us (though it never affords our innocence) and they approach us as if what were desired were NOT already given freely, but is something that somehow must now be striven for and acquired by way of own personal accomplishment. Temptation stands for total ignorance of what God said about us in Jesus. 

This desire to set oneself apart from their natural parents & authorities definition of them is already eclipsed by God's endorsement of our greater identity as His Sons and His putting to death any remnant of the old identity in the Death He died on our behalf in the name of Jesus!

Right now, I think the coolest verse is Romans 8:32. Consider the logic of this calculation:
"He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?"

The biggest and smallest temptation alike has only to do with our feeling indebted or obliged to someone as a result of a failure on our part to perform our part of some a previously agreed upon, likely unspoken, complementary action. Like the covenant system of the old testament where the failure of one party to satisfy it's promise nullifies the entire relation, or a worldly-marriage where one spouses lack of faithfulness nullifies the integrity of the entire marriage union, our having been seduced into believing ourselves so low so as to deserve a fragile relationship in which our continued right-standing would depend on the continued worthiness of our own actions and behaviors.

How exhausting! Understandable in servant/master relationships, or even in most child/adult relationships, but inexcusable in the context of mature adult relationship of the order of the kind God invites us into with Himself by the person of His Son. 

So the appeal of every temptation was broken by the reveal of the revelation, and the revelation of God held nothing back. He exposed Himself to us, holding nothing back, and He gave us the eyes to see and the comprehension to fully grasp the fullness of who He is, all by the Grace already given us by Him through Jesus Christ. So as far the temptations of the enemies of God in the world are concerned, though the size scale or frequency matters not as regardless of the image, every temptation bears the same revealing character, You think they have the right to hinder your joy simply because they believe they're owed something? Does it hinder YOUR right to joy when YOU'RE owed something? No Way! Jesus paid every debt on behalf of all mankind!

So is there any right for us to truly have joy for as long as someone out there believes you owe them something? In the fact of adversity, where would the authority of your enjoyment come from? Whatever the source, it must not be backing the claim of the one who considers you in debt, because how could an authority who considers you indebted to someone accomplish joy's sense of accomplishment in you? That would be impossible. 

The truth is, the only thing out there backing any idea of your owing anything, failing to meet any obligation or lacking anything in any way is a human person's changeable personal beliefs, and the changing of their beliefs would be subject to your perfect performance of a law of works neither they nor their fathers could satisfy, which is the very law of works the death of Jesus satisfied on behalf of all mankind as a gift, a gift which any seeking debt of you clearly has no part in.

So tell me, what does anyone's personal beliefs about what's owed have to do with your personally God Given rights? Whatever He gives is backed by His authority and He's subject to no will apart from loving His beloved son. And finally, isn't our right to joy God Given and isn't it impossible to owe anything to the God who sustains everything?