QUESTIONS.--1. Why do we pray this petition? 2. What do we mean by it? 3. If we are in earnest in praying it, what will we not do? 4. In what sense does God tempt? 5. Who tempts us to sin? 6. What do we pray against these enemies? 7. How does the devil tempt us? the world? our own flesh? 8. How do they try to deceive us? 9. Into what do they try to mislead us? 10. How long must we fight against these enemies? 11. If we fall, what should we do? 12. How may we overcome these foes? 13. When only shall we be completely victorious over them? SCRIPTURE VERSES.--Prov. 1:10. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Rom. 8:7. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Matt. 7:13, 14. Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. I Tim. 6:12. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. I Cor. 10:12. Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. READING.--Peter denying the Lord, Luke 22:54-62; or, The Temptation of Jesus, Matt. 4:1-11. CHAPTER XXXI. THE SEVENTH PETITION. But deliver us from evil. _What is meant by this Petition?_ We pray in this petition, as in a summary, that our heavenly Father would deliver us from ail manner of evil, whether it affect the body or the soul, property or character, and at last, when the hour of death shall arrive, grant us a happy end, and graciously take us from this world of sorrow to Himself in heaven. * * * * * As in the sixth Petition we pray to be preserved from sinning, so in this seventh Petition we pray to be delivered from all the evil which has come upon our race as a consequence of sin.[10] But this petition comes last, because we should be more anxious to be delivered from the sin itself, than from the evil results which follow upon it. [Footnote 10: There is a very close connection between the last two petitions, marked by the word "But." "Temptation will not cease until deliverance from evil [and from the evil one] has come; and again, when deliverance from evil has come, temptation will cease to assail us."--Luekrs.] WE PRAY IN PETITION AS IN A SUMMARY. All the petitions which precede it are included in this last one. THAT OUR HEAVENLY FATHER WOULD DELIVER US FROM ALL MANNER OF EVIL:-- I. IN THIS WORLD. WHETHER IT AFFECT THE BODY,--sickness, pain, hunger, thirst, destitution, OR THE SOUL,--sin, impenitence, unbelief, sorrow, anxiety, care, despondency, insanity, and the like, PROPERTY,--poverty, want, famine, fire, flood, wars, riots, etc., OR CHARACTER,--disgrace, slander, and the like.