![]() At such times the devil may come to us with all kinds of reasons why we, under the circumstances, are entitled to obtain what We may be hungering for some gratification that God has withheldįrom us, according to His sovereign plan and purpose for our lives. The devil will often bring temptation to us in times like these, when we are more vulnerable. They will be harsh and barren places in life where we will be tempted to transgress God’s word as a way out of our painful and trying conditions, just as Jesus also Our “wildernesses”, or the places and circumstances in which our faith is tested, will take different forms and manifest Not in his power to give them, because as God’s word tells us in Psalm 24:1: “ The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, The world, and those who dwell in it.”Īs believers, there will be times in our lives when we will be led, as Jesus was, by the Spirit of the Lord into a “wilderness” of our own difficult and tryingĬircumstances, where we also will be tempted to transgress God’s word. Though the devil promised Jesus the kingdoms of the world in this third temptation, they were not his to give, and it was Worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.’” (Matthew 4:10). Again, Jesus met the devil’s temptation with Scripture, this time from Deuteronomy 6:13 when He said: “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall Hand, it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’” (Matthew 4:7).įinally in his third temptation, the devil used a false promise, an outright lie, to tempt Jesus when he promised to give Him all of the kingdoms of the world if Jesus answered this second temptation of the devil, this time citing Deuteronomy 6:16: “On the other Will bear You up, so that you will not strike Your foot against a stone.” (Psalm 91:11-12). ![]() Really is the Son of God, then He should throw Himself down off of the high place where they were, because the Scripture says: “He will command his angels concerning You, and on their hands they In his second temptation, the devil cleverly tried to use Scripture himself in an attempt to justify his challenge to Jesus. Scripture passage from Deuteronomy 8:3, when He said: “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’” (Matthew 4:4). Jesus responded to this first temptation with a First he said to Jesus that if He really is the Son of God, then He should command the stones before Him to become bread. The devil’s first two temptations are a type of brazen and arrogant challenge in which he is essentially saying to Jesus that if He really is the Son of God, then Scriptures in an attempt to coerce Him into transgressing the word of God. After He had fasted forty days and nights, He was hungry, and this is when the tempter came to Him with his deceptions, which included twisting the meaning of ![]() The Scripture tells us that Jesus was led by the Spirit of God into the wilderness In Matthew 4:1-11 we find the account of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |