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Monday, January 15, 2007
.: Temptation of Jesus :.
Luke4: 4" Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone.' "
Luke 4:8 "Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve him only"
Luke 4:12 "Jesus answered, "It says: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test"
These 3 veres are also mentioned in the old testiment as well.
Deut8:3 "He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD."
Deut 6:13 "Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name."
Deut 6:16 "Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah."
Hence it is amazing how even in the times of Moses where God already started reminding his people of the temptations that Satan can being to us and the addtitude that we should take, just as how Jesus answered Satan when he was tempted by him.
Jesus was tempted in 3 ways:
1) Tempted by miracle: turn stones into bread
2) Tempted to test the word: Throw yourself off the temple
3)Tempted by religion and power: It's all yours, Jesus; just bow down and worship me.
Jesus was tempted in every way we are tempted, exceot for one thing, He did not sin.
Three things which I caught from this passage is that
1) The devils comes when challlenges sets in, but God will overcome the test
2) The devil comes when our focus of worship is on others, but God ask us to only serve Him
3) The devil temps us when we are in need, but God tells us to trust and depend in Him
Personally, the temptations of the devil is so real and each day we have to make our stand in the Lord and be firm, if not we will definitely be prone to be falling into his traps. It was also ow man in the first place sin, due to the temptations of the devil upon Eve!
“Lead us not into temptation,” Jesus taught His disciples to pray. God doesn’t tempt anyone. That’s the devil’s doing. He does test, as He did Abraham. And He’s promised never to test you beyond what you are able to bear, and in Christ you are able to bear much more than you may even think you are able. That’s the “secret” the apostle Paul learned when he wrote, “I can do all things through Him who gives me strength.” In our temptations, we are never alone. Christ is with us, by our side. And He’s the One who was tempted for us and did not sin.
Recently the challenges that I face just seem to have hit me flat to the ground. I can choose to stay there and admit defeat in the hands of SATan, but yet I can also choose to believe that God will overcome, and raise up and use God's hands against the hands of SATan!