The Spirit of
God led Jesus, the Son of God, to the wilderness to be tempted by the devil, to
be tempted just like us.
Challenge
#1
God “rained down
bread from heaven” [i] to
feed the children of Israel when they were hungry in the wilderness. Jesus was
hungry in the wilderness.
Shouldn’t
God’s Son make bread from stones?
Shouldn’t the Creator feed us when we are hungry?
Challenge
#2
Psalm 91
promises that no evil would befall the one who made God his dwelling place. The
angels “will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot
against a stone.”[ii] Satan
brought Jesus to the highest point of the temple and told him to throw himself
down.
Wouldn’t people
believe Jesus was God’s Son if God kept him safe?
If he wants us to believe in him, shouldn’t the Creator kept us safe?
Challenge
#3
The children of Israel had a choice: “If serving the Lord
seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will
serve.”[iii]
If Jesus didn’t like God’s way, he could choose Satan’s.
If Jesus
bowed down and worshiped Satan, Satan would give him all the kingdoms of the
world.
If the Creator doesn’t fulfill our desires, we’ll go elsewhere.
According to
Jesus, these three challenges are not valid reasons for rejecting the Creator
and refusing to serve and worship him. Jesus can sympathize with our weaknesses,
he “has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.”[iv]
From the album “Redemption”
this video is scrolling playback of a song based on Matthew 4:1-11.
Kathy
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[i] Exodus 16:3-4 Exodus 16 | NIV Bible | YouVersion
[ii] Psalms 91 | NIV Bible | YouVersion
[iii] Joshua 24:15 Joshua 24 | NIV Bible | YouVersion
[iv] Hebrews 4:15 Hebrews 4 | NIV Bible | YouVersion
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