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Good morning everyone.

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My name is Jordan and today's scripture reading is from Luke 4, 1 through 13.

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It's page 886 and the Bible is in the back of the pews.

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I'll give you guys a few seconds if you want to find that.

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Page 886.

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Alright.

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Then Jesus left the Jordan full of the Holy Spirit and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days to be tempted by the devil.

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He ate nothing during those days and when they were over he was hungry.

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The devil said to him, If you are the son of God, tell the stone to become bread.

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But Jesus answered him, It is written, Man must not live on bread alone.

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So he took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

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The devil said to him, I will give you their splendor and all this authority because it has been given over to me.

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And I can give it to anyone I want.

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If you then will worship me, all will be yours.

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And Jesus answered him, It is written, worship the Lord your God and serve him only.

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So he took him to Jerusalem, had him stand on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, If you are the son of God, throw yourself down from here.

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For it is written, he will give you his angels orders concerning you to protect you.

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And they will support you with their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

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And Jesus answered him, It is said, Do not test the Lord your God.

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After the devil had finished every temptation, he departed him for a time.

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This is God's word.

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Well, I invite you, if you do have your Bibles, go ahead and turn to that passage in Luke, Chapter four.

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We will be hanging out there today along with a few passages I'll jump to.

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I'll let you know as we go along.

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But we have been in our series Ashes and Ashes, the glory of the gospel is this time and season we're in called Lent.

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And it leads us up to Holy Week, Good Friday and ultimately the resurrection of Christ at Easter.

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And it's a time for reflection.

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It's a time for us to feel the weight of our humanity.

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There were three kind of ways that we wanted to look at it.

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Three, three eyeglasses we wanted to look through as we looked and considered the scriptures over the last few weeks.

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And that that was first.

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We wanted to see the gravity of the fallen human condition.

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The gravity of the fallen condition of humanity in our sins.

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And then we wanted to see out of these scriptures and passages, number two, the goodness of the character of God.

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God is showing who he is.

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He's revealing who he is through these passages and through these themes.

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And we want to have our eyes to see the goodness of God's character.

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And then finally, the kind of rubric that we're looking at these scriptures through is the glory of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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How do we bring it home to the reality of what Christ did on our behalf?

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And so today we're going to look at a central text to the season of Lent.

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And that is the text of Jesus's temptation.

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If you've been with us here at Village for a while, we did cover the same story out of the book of Matthew last year.

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I believe we even covered this when we were at our church in the park, if I remember correctly.

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I remember sap dripping down on my head and all over my papers and everything.

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So I was tempted to run, to move.

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But this time we're going to look at Luke's version.

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And Luke's version is interesting.

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It has some very interesting context to it and some particular purposes behind the writing of it.

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We believe that Luke, inspired by the Holy Spirit, put to paper this passage and that it was formed in such a way

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to cue us into a few things.

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And some of those things we're going to explore this morning.

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And I'm looking forward to that.

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A couple of the themes, though, that we are cued into in Luke chapter four is who is Jesus, really?

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Who is Jesus and what is his purpose on earth?

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Luke, who was the author of this gospel at the beginning of the gospel of Luke, says this.

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He was, and this is one unique feature of Luke, is that it has this intro in it.

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And the intro says, many have undertaken to compile a narrative, this is Luke chapter one, verse one,

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about the events that have been fulfilled among us, just as the original eyewitnesses and servants of the word

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handed them down to us.

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So it also seemed good to me since I have carefully investigated everything from the very first

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to write to you in an orderly sequence, most honorable theophilists,

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so that you may know the certainty of the things about which you have been instructed.

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So Luke one starts with this context that Luke is writing a gospel, but he's writing for a person.

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A person has hired him, is what they suspect.

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He has been hired to go do an investigation to find out, are these stories true?

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Did this man, Jesus, really come?

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Did he really die?

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And so Luke went out, Luke was not a disciple who walked with Jesus on the earth as far as we know,

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but he was someone who went out and investigated the claims of Christianity.

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He spoke to the eyewitnesses.

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He may have met with Mary, the mother of Jesus, and asked her, what was it like?

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What did you hear?

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What did you see?

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Or his brothers, or those in different towns and cities?

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And he compiled all that together in this book to show not only the details,

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like an eyewitness account of the events, but to show their connection

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to the deeper roots of the faith in the Old Testament.

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And some of those connections that we see made here in Luke chapter four are,

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the first one is Adam and Jesus.

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Adam and Jesus.

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So Adam is what? The first man, right?

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The first one created.

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And he's created in the garden paradise by God.

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And there he, along with Eve, are made to co-rule with God,

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all of God's creation under his counsel and wisdom.

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And they're given free reign to eat of the fruit of the garden,

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except for one tree, right?

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One command, one command in the garden.

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Don't eat of the tree of the knowledge of the good and evil.

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And so they're placed there.

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And they're given this opportunity, this vocation.

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And yet they are tempted by an evil one, an evil spirit, a serpent,

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who comes and says, did God really say?

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They get, he gets Adam and Eve to question God's goodness and God's word.

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And in a moment of temptation, they see that the fruit is good.

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And they reach out and they grab it and they take it for themselves,

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not honoring God or fearing him, but instead taking for themselves

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what has been forbidden of them.

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And in that moment, their eyes are open and they see their nakedness,

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and they fall from the state that they once were in.

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That's the first Adam, the first man.

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But then along comes Jesus.

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And Luke does something interesting right before the passage

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that we read this morning in Luke chapter four.

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He lists a genealogy.

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Oftentimes genealogies come at the beginning of the book.

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But he waited and then he lists a genealogy right after Jesus' baptism.

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And the genealogy begins first with Jesus.

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And then it works its way backward.

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And whereas the genealogy that's listed in the book of Matthew

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is intended to find ultimately Jesus' connection all the way back to Abraham,

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this genealogy keeps going further back.

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It goes further back, all the way back to Adam.

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And it shows Jesus is the representative of all of humanity.

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He lists out the case for the history of humanity, the history of humankind,

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and he traces Jesus all the way back to Adam.

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And what does it say of Adam?

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It says that Adam was the son of God.

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Everyone after was the son of their father.

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But Adam, where the genealogy ends, the son of God.

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Adam, a son of God.

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Well, doesn't that sound familiar with regard to Jesus?

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Jesus, the son of God.

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Because right before that is the baptism.

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And what happens at the baptism of Jesus?

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He goes into the waters at Jordan.

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And when he's coming up, what happens?

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The Holy Spirit descends on him in a physical appearance like a dove,

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and a voice comes from heaven and says,

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You are my beloved son.

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With you I am well pleased.

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You are my beloved son, son of God.

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Jesus, the son of God.

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Adam, born the son of God or created the son of God.

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And we have this Adam and Jesus interplay.

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From Jesus back to Adam, the whole of the history of the human race.

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We see from the first Adam to the last Adam.

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The first Adam to the second Adam, Jesus.

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Something else that we see though is Israel and Jesus.

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This comparison that Luke is trying to draw here.

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He's trying to say that not only is Jesus the new Adam,

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but Jesus is also the new Israel.

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In the book of Exodus chapter 4, 22, talking about the Exodus from Egypt.

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Exodus 4, 22 says this.

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Let me turn there really quick.

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Exodus 4, 22, the Lord instructed Moses,

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When you go down to Egypt, make sure you do before Pharaoh

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all the wonders that I have put within your power.

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But I will harden his heart so that he won't let the people go.

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And you will say this to Pharaoh, this is what the Lord says,

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Israel is my firstborn son.

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Israel is my firstborn son.

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I tell you, let my son go so that he may worship me.

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Israel is the son of God as well.

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Israel is considered in the Old Testament the son of God.

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We see that again reiterated in the book of Hosea.

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Hosea chapter 11, verse 1.

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When Israel was a child, I loved him.

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Out of Egypt I called my son.

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Israel was personified as if it was the child of God, the son of God.

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And we see again in Jesus, the son of God at his baptism.

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There was the first Israel and now there's the last Israel,

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the new Israel in Christ.

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There was the first Adam and now we have the new Adam in Christ

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and the last Adam in Christ.

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Israel was baptized in the Red Sea as they passed through the waters.

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It was like a baptism.

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That's what really baptism is all about,

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the imagery of going through the waters or passing through the waters.

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Israel was baptized as they went through

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and entered into 40 years in the wilderness.

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Jesus was baptized.

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The Holy Spirit came and he entered into 40 days in the wilderness.

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He is going to great lengths to show us the connection between Jesus

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and the fulfillment of all of humanity and his history

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and the fall and the answer to the fall

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as well as all of Israel's history in Christ, the new Israel, is fulfilled.

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He wants us to understand the connection that the text is about Jesus.

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And here we have to take a moment to think about this text

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because a lot of us approach the Bible this way.

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We hear something like Luke chapter 4.

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And the first thing we go is,

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what are my three points for how to tackle temptation?

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But Luke is going to such great lengths to tell us it's not actually about you.

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Luke chapter 4 is not about you.

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Luke chapter 4 is about Jesus.

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Luke chapter 4 is about what he was able to do

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in the face of all of humanity's failures.

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Luke chapter 4 is about elevating Christ higher than any one of us, high above.

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And so we ought to first begin by approaching, is there practical information here? Yes.

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Is there an example to follow? Yes.

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But not in our own strength.

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Not in our own strength.

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Every king of Israel failed when tempted.

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Every single one of them.

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When tempted with power or prestige or idolatry, they failed.

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You and I are not that much different in and of ourselves.

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Let's dive into the words of the text though.

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Luke chapter 4, we'll look at verse 1 and 2.

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The first thing we should take note of is that

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that Jesus was led by the Spirit to the wilderness

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to be tempted.

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And therein disrupts a little bit of the narrative

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if your mind has formed around the narrative,

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this idea that Jesus went there

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and he subjected himself to prayer and fasting

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and he became weak and then temptation was thrust upon him

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to see how he would respond.

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Jesus was led by the Spirit to the wilderness

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in order to be tempted.

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He had just been filled with the Holy Spirit

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at the baptism and now he's led by the Spirit out.

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And here the author, Luke, is trying to make a connection

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back to the book of Deuteronomy chapter eight

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where the people of Israel were led out of slavery.

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And in Deuteronomy chapter eight verse two,

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it says, remember, looking back at their exodus from Egypt,

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remember this, that the Lord your God led you

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on the entire journey these 40 years in the wilderness

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so that he might humble you and test you

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to know what was in your heart,

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whether or not you would keep his commands.

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So the people of Israel were led out of Egypt

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and into the wilderness for 40 years by God to test them

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to see if they would keep his commands.

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And we see Jesus being led by the Spirit again

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out into the wilderness for 40 days.

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For us, you and I, temptation usually comes to us.

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You know, it comes out of nowhere.

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It comes with a fleeting glance or something that pops up

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or we don't know how to react to it

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and we sit there for a moment and we debate

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and then our desires start to well up

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and then James talks about our desires

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and it gives birth to sin and then sin to death, right?

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And we're drawn into this temptation.

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We're drawn into this temptation.

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We can't stop it.

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It's a flood.

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It takes us and it runs us through the wringer

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and on the other end we're defeated

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because we gave in.

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We fell into that temptation.

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Jesus didn't go out haphazardly

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to just accidentally fall into temptation.

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He's led into the wilderness by the Spirit

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because he went out there for a different reason.

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He went out there to overcome it.

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He went out there in the power of the Holy Spirit

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to face down the evil temptation

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that every one of us has failed in the face of

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and to stand up against it and to watch it fall once for all.

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He didn't go out there as a weakling.

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He went out there with the power of the Holy Spirit

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to do what we could never do.

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He went out there to kick its butt.

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That's the first thing we need to see

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as he's led out there, but then let's talk

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about the temptation.

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So temptation number one, verse chapter two.

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He ate nothing during these days

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and when they were over, he was hungry.

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The devil said to him, if you are the son of God,

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tell these stones to become bread.

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But Jesus answered him, it is written,

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man must not live on bread alone.

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Jesus hungry after 40 days of fasting and praying,

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we would be hungry too.

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We would be tempted.

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if we're so quick to jump to making our,

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inserting ourselves into the story,

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is Jesus was tempted with turning rocks into bread.

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How many of you can turn rocks into bread?

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Yeah, Jordan, okay.

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Talk afterwards.

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Jesus was tempted with something he could do,

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something he knew he could do.

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It's no temptation to tempt me into something

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that I'm incapable of doing.

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I am never tempted to hijack a fighter pilot,

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you know, fighter jet, and go for a joyride.

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Never, I wouldn't know what to do.

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I wouldn't make it off the runway.

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I'd explode, I'd die, I'm not tempted.

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You could never tempt me to do that.

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Jesus was tempted to turn bread,

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to turn rocks into bread or stones into bread,

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because he was capable of doing it.

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He could do it.

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He could do it, he could use his power

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to feed himself bread from these stones.

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also faced a temptation over food, huh?

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Jesus, the last Adam, a similar temptation as the first Adam,

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standing face to face, hunger.

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Will you use your power to reach out

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and take these stones and turn them into bread?

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So that you can feed yourself.

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What is the response?

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What does Jesus say to this first temptation?

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He says, man must not live on bread alone.

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And again, the author is drawing us back

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through all of this discourse back to the people of Israel.

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These are the words of Christ,

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and he's pointing us back to Israel

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in Deuteronomy chapter eight.

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Deuteronomy chapter eight, verse one.

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We see these words, but in the context of these words,

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it's important, whenever the script of the Bible

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drops in a passage, particularly in the New Testament,

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and we see one line, one verse.

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As good Bible readers, you make note of that verse,

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you find out where it is in the Old Testament,

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and you read the whole context.

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Because the author was shorthanding something.

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He was dropping a little clue there,

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a little Easter egg for you to go

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and spend some time meditating on God's word

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from where it came from.

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And so Deuteronomy chapter eight says,

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begins with this, carefully follow every command

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I am giving you today.

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Well, we could meditate on that one for weeks right there.

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Carefully follow every command I am giving you today

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so that you may live and increase,

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and may enter and take possession of the land

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the Lord swore to your ancestors.

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Remember that the Lord your God

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led you on the entire journey those 40 years

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in the wilderness so that he might humble you

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and test you to know what was in your heart,

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whether or not you would keep his commands.

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He humbled you by letting you go hungry,

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then he gave you manna to eat,

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which you and your ancestors had not known,

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so that you might learn that man does not live

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on bread alone, but on every word that comes

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from the mouth of the Lord, so that you might learn,

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so that you might know.

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And so Jesus responds with Deuteronomy chapter eight,

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and the question here in this temptation for us

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as we're sitting here and we're reading,

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and we are reading ourselves into it,

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we're going, is he gonna give, is he gonna cave?

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Will Jesus use the power that he has,

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or will he feast on God's word alone?

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C.S. Lewis in his, the screw tape letters,

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there's one demonic force talking to the other

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about us and their temptation of us,

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says it is funny how mortals always picture us

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as putting things into their minds.

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In reality, our best work is by keeping those things out.

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Keep the word of God out of your mind.

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You won't live according to the word of God,

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you won't trust in the sustenance of God's word,

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you'll fail.

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Keep you away from the Bible, keep you away from study,

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keep you away from learning, keep you away from church,

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you'll fail.

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You don't have to put plant ideas in your mind,

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it just keeps things out.

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The question is, will Jesus rely on his power,

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or will he rely on his word?

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40 days, hungry.

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Man, I'd be hungry.

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I'd be dreaming about everything.

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I'd be dreaming about Chick-fil-A and In-N-Out,

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I'd be dreaming about all of it.

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I wouldn't be turning the rocks into bread.

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But man, the temptation, setting in,

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the temptation, setting in.

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And what does Jesus respond with?

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He responds with the word of God.

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He says, no, man is not supposed to live on bread alone,

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but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.

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He stands on God's word.

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Again, you wouldn't even, in the Luke narrative,

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you wouldn't even know the rest of that scripture

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unless you go and study it, unless you go and meditate on it.

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So that's an important point.

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Go meditate on God's word.

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Notice that the devil doesn't tempt

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with any sort of blatant evil deed.

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Go murder that guy.

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Go steal that thing.

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No, no, all it involves is,

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can I get you to no longer fear, love, or trust God?

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In other words, can I get you to break the first commandment?

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Can I get you to break the first commandment?

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If I can get you to break the first commandment,

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because all of those are first commandment issues,

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if I can get you to break that one,

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you've broken the whole law,

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because you've broken the greatest.

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If you don't trust God, if you don't fear God,

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if you don't love God more than everything else,

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he wins.

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So he tempts us to get us to take our eyes off of God,

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to get us to take our eyes off of trusting God,

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and to put it on ourselves.

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And that's what he's trying to say.

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Look at yourself, look how hungry you are.

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He did this with Adam and Eve.

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Oh, don't you want wisdom and knowledge?

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God's trying to keep something from you.

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He's not good, he's trying to hide something from you.

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Get your eyes off of him and get it on your need.

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Meet your need, fulfill your need.

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And Jesus says, no, I'll stand on the word of God,

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and I'll speak it.

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Jesus didn't employ any divine power

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to withstand this temptation.

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You know, he didn't, wah, and then, you know,

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force field, shield, or anything like that, you know?

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It's like, no.

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The full of the Holy Spirit,

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he stood on the word of God, as it.

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That's important, it's important,

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because when it does come to apply to us,

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we need to remember that.

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The second temptation out of verse five.

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The second temptation, verse five through eight.

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So he took him up and showed him

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all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

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The devil said to him, I will give you their splendor,

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and there is all this authority,

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because it has been given over to me,

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and I will give it to anyone I want.

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If you will then, if you then will worship me,

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all will be yours.

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If you will worship me, all will be yours.

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Again, that slimy serpent in the garden,

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you will be like God.

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If you simply take and disobey, you will be like God.

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The devil attempts with something that is promised,

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he's tempting Jesus here with something

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that is promised by God to the faithful king,

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to the faithful Messiah.

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If you remember back in Psalm chapter two,

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Psalm chapter two, there's a promise made to the king,

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or the faithful king of Psalm chapter two.

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And here's what that promise is in verse seven of Psalm two.

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I will declare the Lord's decree.

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He said to me, you are my son.

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Today I have become your father.

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Ask of me and I will make the nations your inheritance,

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and the ends of the earth your possessions.

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I will give you the nations of the world,

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and the ends of the earth will be your possession,

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because you are faithful.

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This is your inheritance as the faithful one,

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the faithful king.

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It's yours already, it's yours through your faithfulness.

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And Satan comes and says, oh, let's circumvent that,

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let's go around that, let's not go that way.

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I got another way.

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You can avoid all of the faithfulness,

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you can avoid the cross, you can avoid the suffering,

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you can avoid the obedience, just bow down to me,

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and I'll give it all to you right now.

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Don't ever take anything from Satan.

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If he offers to give you,

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don't ever take anything from Satan.

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Talk about strings attached.

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Oh my goodness.

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If he says, I will give, you say no, thank you.

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Pass.

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He says, I'll give you what is really your inheritance

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from your faithfulness.

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I'll give it to you now if you simply bow down.

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And how does Jesus respond?

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Jesus responds by saying,

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it is written, worship the Lord your God,

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and serve him only.

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We're gonna be good Bible students

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and go back to that hyperlink.

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So Deuteronomy chapter six,

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because there's more in there that we need to see.

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Deuteronomy chapter six,

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and we'll just read verse 10 through 15.

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When the Lord your God brings you into the land

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he swore to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

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that he would give you a land with large, beautiful cities

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that you did not build.

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Houses full of every good thing

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that you did not fill them with.

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Sisters that you did not dig,

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and vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.

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And when you eat and are satisfied,

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you guys remember the garden, right?

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That was God's creation.

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He planted it.

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He put it all there.

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They enjoyed the favor of it.

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And he's saying to the people of Israel in Deuteronomy,

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00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,040
when you enter the land,

502
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:45,840
and you enter cities that are already built,

503
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,640
and gardens that are already planted,

504
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:52,120
and you began to feast and eat on them and are satisfied,

505
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,400
verse 12, be careful not to forget the Lord.

506
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,400
Be careful not to forget the Lord who brought you

507
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:04,400
out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

508
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:05,880
Fear the Lord your God,

509
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,400
worship him and take your oaths in his name.

510
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,040
Do not follow other gods,

511
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:12,600
the gods of the people around you.

512
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,200
For the Lord your God who is among you is a jealous God.

513
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,040
Otherwise the Lord your God will become angry with you

514
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,480
and obliterate you from the face of the earth.

515
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,320
Be careful not to forget.

516
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,080
That word forget is a pretty strong word.

517
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:39,080
It's an active choice to put out of mind.

518
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,680
Be careful not to actively remove from your mind

519
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,800
and your heart the remembrance and the reality

520
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,920
of what God has done on your behalf.

521
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,240
Again it's a first commandment issue.

522
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:55,040
Don't displace God from his rightful place in your life.

523
00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:00,360
If you do that you've broken every law, every command.

524
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:02,920
Don't forget God.

525
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,880
And in light of that, Jesus says,

526
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,280
worship the Lord your God and serve him only.

527
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,440
And that leads to the final temptation.

528
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:16,080
When Satan takes Jesus up to Jerusalem

529
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:20,280
and he stands on what is called the Pinnacle of the Temple

530
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,960
and it would be a place of prominence

531
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:28,960
where maybe others might see or witness a miraculous event.

532
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,200
Or if it's a different location on the Temple Mount

533
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,040
then it's one where the Lord your God

534
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:37,920
it's one where you stand on the corner

535
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,720
and if you leapt off it would be into a valley down below

536
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,600
that goes way deep and it would just be

537
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,240
an extraordinary thing to see as you leapt off

538
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:50,000
and thousands upon thousands of angels rescued you.

539
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,000
So he takes him up and Satan tries in this temptation

540
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,160
one more technique, one more tactic

541
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,920
and that is now Satan is going to quote scripture.

542
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,680
He is gonna quote scripture back at Jesus.

543
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,480
He tries his hand at it

544
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,480
and so he quotes from Psalm 91.

545
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:14,360
Psalm 91 and he says,

546
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,600
if you are the son of God, in Luke chapter four,

547
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,000
if you are the son of God, throw yourself down from here

548
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,120
for it is written and he's quoting from Psalm 91,

549
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,600
he will give his angels orders concerning you

550
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,320
to protect you and they will support you with their hands

551
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,920
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

552
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:39,480
If you hold your finger there

553
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,120
and you turn back to Psalm 91,

554
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,520
you'll see a few things in verse 11 through 13

555
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:45,360
that stand out.

556
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,480
The first thing is Satan in quoting his scripture,

557
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:49,560
he twists it.

558
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:55,440
In fact, he leaves out in a very, very important part

559
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,200
in the very first verse.

560
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:58,640
This is what Satan says, he says,

561
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,720
he will give his angels orders concerning you

562
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:02,800
to protect you.

563
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,080
But if you turn over to Psalm 91

564
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:08,680
and you read verse 11, it says,

565
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,320
for he will give his angels orders concerning you

566
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:15,320
to protect you in all your ways.

567
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,760
Now you and I reading in all your ways, we go,

568
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,880
oh, that's whatever I wanna do, right?

569
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,240
Whatever I do, God's gonna protect me.

570
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:26,360
No.

571
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,080
No, it's already been established that the way

572
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,160
that they are to walk is the way of God,

573
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:33,520
the way of his word.

574
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,720
His word is a lamp to their feet and a light to their path.

575
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,960
And so when it says in all your ways,

576
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,480
it's all your ways as you are obediently following God.

577
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,960
As you're obediently trusting in his word,

578
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,360
he will protect you.

579
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,080
It's not a blanket statement no matter what you do.

580
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,920
It's about being in his word, standing on his word,

581
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,120
and living according to his word.

582
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,440
And if you would do that, he will protect you.

583
00:32:58,360 --> 00:32:59,920
He will stand with you.

584
00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:02,120
But Satan leaves that out because Satan knows

585
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:03,920
that Jesus is here on a mission.

586
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,680
And if he stays in the way of God,

587
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,680
then it's going to be right through the evil one.

588
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:14,680
And he's trying to get him instead to fail.

589
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:19,400
But it continues, he says, he quotes verse 12 just fine.

590
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,800
They will support you with their hands

591
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:25,640
so that you will not strike your foot against the stone.

592
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,600
But then he stops.

593
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:28,600
Satan stops right there.

594
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,640
And do you know what the next verse says?

595
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,960
You know what the next verse in Psalm 91 says?

596
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,880
What is gonna be the result of all of this?

597
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,280
Verse 13 of Psalm 91.

598
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,880
You will tread on the lion and on the cobra.

599
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,720
You will trample the young lion and the serpent.

600
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:50,560
Oops.

601
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,440
Satan grabbing for his scripture,

602
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,400
grabs the double-edged sword of the word,

603
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,760
of the word of truth, and cuts himself on it.

604
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,880
The very next line, as we go back and we look at it,

605
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:07,240
we go, oh my gosh, he will protect you in all your ways.

606
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:08,640
He will not let your foot hit,

607
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:12,120
strike so that you can crush the head of Satan.

608
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,200
You can crush the head of the serpent.

609
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:15,720
Again, this is another hyperlink.

610
00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:17,520
You've gotta go back to Genesis.

611
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,240
And the promise that one from the woman

612
00:34:20,240 --> 00:34:22,720
would crush the head of the serpent.

613
00:34:22,720 --> 00:34:26,120
And this is a promise to him that if you walk in God's ways,

614
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:27,760
he will protect you.

615
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,920
If you stay in his word and you walk according to his word,

616
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,880
all kinds of things can come against you,

617
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,120
but in the end, the serpent will be crushed.

618
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:35,960
Amen.

619
00:34:38,240 --> 00:34:41,280
Satan tries his hand at twisting scripture,

620
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,360
and Jesus responds by saying,

621
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:49,360
do not test the Lord your God.

622
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,880
Do not test the Lord your God.

623
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,880
And the final scripture I'm gonna reference back to

624
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:58,800
for that one is Deuteronomy chapter six,

625
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:00,280
verse 16 through 19.

626
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,040
Remember I said that Jesus is the new Israel.

627
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,280
He's recapitulating or reliving out the

628
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:09,160
the

629
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:10,480
the

630
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:11,320
the

631
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,800
the life of the Israelites in their failures

632
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,080
in the wilderness.

633
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,280
And where they failed, he's succeeding in the wilderness.

634
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:23,080
He's standing on point for point where they failed.

635
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,840
He's standing on God's word and he's succeeding.

636
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,920
He is the new Israel.

637
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:31,200
And he is the faithful Israel.

638
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,120
In Deuteronomy chapter six,

639
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:36,720
reading in verse 16,

640
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:39,160
says,

641
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:40,400
says,

642
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:45,400
do not test the Lord your God as you tested him at Massa.

643
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,000
Carefully observe the commands of the Lord your God,

644
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,200
the decrees and statues he has commanded you.

645
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,800
Do what is right and what is good in the Lord's sight

646
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,600
so that you may prosper and so that you may enter

647
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,000
and possess the good land the Lord your God

648
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,800
swore to your ancestors

649
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,520
by driving out all your enemies before you

650
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,080
as the Lord has said.

651
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,080
Says, do what's right. He says,

652
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:12,480
don't test the Lord your God as you did in Massa.

653
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,360
Well, Massa is referring back to Exodus chapter 17.

654
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:17,680
You don't need to turn there.

655
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:21,480
But during the Exodus, in Exodus chapter 17,

656
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,800
the Israelite community left the wilderness of sin

657
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,560
moving from one place to the next according to God's command

658
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,600
and they camped at a certain place

659
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:33,760
and they went to Moses and said,

660
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,920
man, we are thirsty, give us some water.

661
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:43,080
And Moses said, why are you complaining to me?

662
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,800
Why are you testing the Lord?

663
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,280
In other words, is not God out here with us?

664
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:51,720
Is he not leading us?

665
00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:55,200
Does he not love us and care for us according to our needs

666
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:56,840
according to his time?

667
00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,720
Why are you pushing it?

668
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:02,880
Why are you pushing it?

669
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,880
Why are you complaining and grumbling against the God

670
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:07,520
who has led us thus far?

671
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,440
And the people thirsted for water

672
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,800
and they grumbled against Moses and they said,

673
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,320
why did you ever bring us out of Egypt where we were slaves

674
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,000
and having to work really hard and getting whipped

675
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,760
and getting beaten and killed?

676
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,160
Why did you ever bring us out of Egypt to kill us

677
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,000
and our children and our livestock with thirst?

678
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,040
And then Moses cried out to the Lord,

679
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,360
what shall I do with these people?

680
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,760
In a little while, they're going to stone me.

681
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:35,480
The Lord answered Moses, go on ahead of the people

682
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,480
and take some of the elders of Israel with you.

683
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,920
Take the staff that you struck the Nile with

684
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:41,560
in your hand and go.

685
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:43,520
I am going to stand there in front of you

686
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,120
on the rock of Horeb.

687
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,960
When you hit the rock, water will come out of it

688
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,680
and the people will drink.

689
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:53,200
Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel

690
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,560
and he named that place Masa and Meribah

691
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,480
because the Israelites complained

692
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,160
because they tested the Lord

693
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:01,800
and what was the test?

694
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,040
The test was this.

695
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:07,040
They tested the Lord saying, is the Lord among us or not?

696
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,320
Is the Lord among us or not?

697
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:18,200
The question for Jesus in temptation three is,

698
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,400
is the Lord among him or not?

699
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:25,400
Is he full of the Spirit of God or will again

700
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,720
he rely on his own strength and his own miraculous power

701
00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:31,800
and Jesus says to this test, yes, I know my mission

702
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,160
and I know my purpose and I know my God

703
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:36,960
and God will sustain me at all the right moments,

704
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,960
at all the right points, even to death,

705
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:41,400
he will sustain me.

706
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,440
Consider that, Jesus went faithfully to death.

707
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,400
Now for us, death is final.

708
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,160
We have this finality to it, right?

709
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,400
If I die, there's no tomorrow.

710
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,520
Jesus went faithfully to death believing that

711
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,680
at the moment of God's will,

712
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:02,680
he would rescue him and so he passed through death

713
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,480
and God rescued him from death

714
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,720
and therein is a hope of resurrection that you and I have.

715
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:14,760
Chad Bird, a scholar, says this way of this scripture,

716
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,320
Jesus, as the son of the Father,

717
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,920
the last Adam and the man Israel,

718
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,160
undid the failures of our fathers

719
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,720
in paradise and in the wilderness

720
00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:29,520
by remaining steadfast and faithful to his Father,

721
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:33,920
thereby winning victory over all the forces of evil.

722
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,520
Jesus did all of this

723
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:45,120
and it's important as I close up that we remember,

724
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:46,720
this is not about us.

725
00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:50,120
It's so easy to fall into the trap to think,

726
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:53,520
okay, what am I supposed to do now?

727
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,520
You're supposed to glory in that.

728
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,320
We're supposed to be strangely warmed within

729
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:03,320
over the fact that what we could never do, he did.

730
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,720
We're supposed to see the truth of the gospel

731
00:40:05,720 --> 00:40:09,720
and the fact that where we failed to obey, he obeyed.

732
00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:11,120
Where we fell to temptation,

733
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,920
can you guys remember a time when you fell to temptation?

734
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:18,120
This week, on your way here, since you've been here,

735
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:19,120
when you looked across the way

736
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:20,520
and you had that feeling in your heart

737
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,320
toward your brother or sister,

738
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,120
can you remember a time when you were tempted into sin

739
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:26,720
and you could not resist?

740
00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:31,920
He resisted.

741
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,920
You and I don't know the depths, honestly, on most days.

742
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,720
We don't know what it means to endure temptation

743
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,120
because we give in so quickly,

744
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,320
we don't know what the full weight of it is.

745
00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:47,520
We've never got to the point on our own strength

746
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,520
to get all the way through it.

747
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:50,920
So we don't know what that's like

748
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:53,920
because every time we get into it on our own strength,

749
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:55,120
we give in.

750
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,720
And that's the point, we always will give in

751
00:40:57,720 --> 00:40:59,520
in our own strength, always.

752
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,320
But if there's anything to look at Christ

753
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,520
and to glory in him and what he did

754
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,520
and then to go, how do we live this way?

755
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,920
It's to see that he stood on the word of God,

756
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,520
he was firmly planted in the word of God

757
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:16,720
and he lived and trusted that God was with him.

758
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:19,720
And therefore, he could stand through every temptation

759
00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:21,120
no matter what.

760
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,720
And he's the only one, he's the first,

761
00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:29,720
who went there, stood in the face of evil and temptation,

762
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,320
and the temptation left.

763
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,120
He didn't leave, he didn't run.

764
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:36,920
The temptation, the tempter left.

765
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:39,920
The tempter left his presence.

766
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:41,920
You and I, we give in.

767
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,720
He stands firm.

768
00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:47,320
And it's our giving in to the temptations of sin

769
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,120
that mean that we are lawbreakers.

770
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,520
We're lawbreakers and therefore guilty

771
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,320
before a perfect and holy God.

772
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,920
But he was perfect in his obedience,

773
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:00,520
standing on God's word.

774
00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:04,520
And therein, I said earlier,

775
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,320
one of the keys to understanding the application

776
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,520
is to remember that from his baptism

777
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,720
full of the Holy Spirit, Jesus went in

778
00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:13,520
to face down temptation.

779
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,720
If you are in Christ,

780
00:42:15,720 --> 00:42:18,120
you receive the Holy Spirit.

781
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:19,720
You are filled with the Holy Spirit,

782
00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:22,520
and the same power that was at work within Christ

783
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:26,120
is working in you to change your desires

784
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:28,320
and to will and to work according to his good plan

785
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:29,920
and purposes within you.

786
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,520
And that means when you face temptation,

787
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,720
you do not have to stand on your strength alone.

788
00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:38,520
But you can stand upon the strength of God himself

789
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:40,120
in the Holy Spirit within you

790
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:41,920
and on the truth of his word,

791
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,320
and you can face down any temptation in this life

792
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:45,520
and overcome it.

793
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,320
You could never do that on your own.

794
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:49,120
Don't try it.

795
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:50,920
We spent too many years trying it,

796
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,520
but instead, stand upon the truth of his word

797
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,120
and upon the reality that God is with you

798
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:57,520
if you are in Christ.

799
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:01,520
And therefore, any temptation before you can fall.

800
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,320
You do not have to give in.

801
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,320
You do not have to give in.

802
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,120
Don't give in so easily.

803
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:07,920
Hold firm.

804
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:09,520
This is why the Bible has so many instructions

805
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,520
in the New Testament, to stand steady, to hold firm,

806
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:14,120
to stay strong in the face of it,

807
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,120
because the Spirit within you will get you through it,

808
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,120
will lead you through the temptation

809
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:23,120
if you hold steady according to his word,

810
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,920
in his word, living according to it.

811
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:28,520
We are called

812
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:32,720
to live according to the Spirit

813
00:43:32,720 --> 00:43:33,720
and according to his word.

814
00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:37,120
And the message that Luke is communicating to us

815
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:43,920
is look what Christ has done for you.

816
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:47,420
Look how he facedown temptation.

817
00:43:47,420 --> 00:43:48,920
Live in Christ.

818
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,620
And you too, by his power and his strength,

819
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:54,620
can face down temptation.

820
00:43:54,620 --> 00:44:17,120
Let's pray.