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This is Bible Project Podcast and this year we're reading through the Sermon on the Mount. I'm John Collins and with me as co-host Michelle Jones. Hi Michelle

Hi Michelle.

Hi John, the Sermon on the Mount is a large collection of the teachings of Jesus and right at the center of this collection is a prayer that Jesus taught his followers to pray.

It's short, only 12 lines, and for the last four weeks we've been going

over it line by line. We've made it to the last two lines of the Lord's prayer.

If you grew up with this prayer, you might know the King James translation where the last lines begin

lead us not into temptation. Wait is God in the habit of leading people into

temptation?

That's Tim Mackie.

This word temptation in English, at least for me

in my generation of American English,

that's a really negative set of associations.

You know, there are moments in life that are going to be hard.

Moments where we will face the perceived limits of our self-control, moments where we'll find

out what we really believe to be true.

In these moments you could say, I'm feeling tempted to choose evil.

But the point of these moments

in the

of testing and the Hebrew Bible is full of stories of God

allowing sometimes even orchestrating tests.

This is a great example of how a little line of Jesus has deep roots in the Hebrew Bible.

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