Dr. Kyle points out that man has three natural desires: (1) the desire
to enjoy things; (2) the desire to get things; (3) the desire to do
things.
These three cover the whole range of human desires. For the desire to
_enjoy_ things concerns everything that has to do with a man’s body.
The desire to _get_ things concerns everything that a man sees outside
of himself, the things that he can obtain in one way or another for
himself. The desire to _accomplish_ things includes everything that
goes out from the man to affect in one way or another that outside
world. Professor Kyle’s suggested definition of temptation is this:
“Temptation is the incitement of a natural desire to go beyond the
bound set by God.”
With this analysis before us, let us look into what happened when Satan
came to our first parents. Let it be remembered that none of these
three desires necessarily has to do with sin. Adam and Eve had these
desires before sin entered. Our Lord Jesus had these same natural human
desires.
Sin is doing something that God has told man not to do, or not doing
something that God has told him to do. Eve’s failure began, under
temptation, when she was willing to consider Satan’s questioning of
God’s word.