1 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,480 All right, good morning, Matthew. 2 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,320 Chapter 4 is where we're going to be this morning. 3 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:17,080 And I wanted to review just for a second what we've been through 4 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:19,960 so far. We are on our 4th mountain this 5 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:21,760 morning. Remember, we're in a series on 6 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:26,400 the mountains and valleys in the Bible and somebody, you don't 7 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,680 have to say it in the exact words that I did, but somebody 8 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:31,720 tell me what is the point of looking at the mountains in this 9 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,000 series? Does anybody remember why are we 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,080 looking at these mountains? We'll try the valleys. 11 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:40,880 Anybody remember why we're looking at valleys? 12 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,280 We haven't done those yet. Miss Taijuana. 13 00:00:55,530 --> 00:00:59,480 Yes, so, so we said we're going to look at the valleys, to look 14 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:01,560 at them as a place of instruction, right? 15 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:04,560 So perfect. But the mountains, we are 16 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,800 looking at these as a, as a, the whole point of them is to look 17 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,640 at them as a place of inspiration or encouragement for 18 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,880 us in our Christian lives. So remember the first, the first 19 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:16,640 one we looked at was Mount Moriah, the mountain of promise, 20 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:18,480 right? And we, and those, these are 21 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,080 positives. These mountains are, are 22 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,320 positives things that we can take in our lives and, and build 23 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,640 on them. The second one was the mountain 24 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,840 of precepts, which was the where the law was given right. 25 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:33,480 Last week we looked at mount the mount of prayer in Mount Carmel 26 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,840 with, with Elijah. And this morning we're going to 27 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:41,440 look at another mountain. It's not a specific mountain 28 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,520 because the Bible never actually tells us what mountain it is. 29 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,480 But we're going to look at the story of Matthew chapter 4 with 30 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,880 Jesus being tempted and and Satan takes him up on a high 31 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:55,440 mountain and shows him the the kingdoms of the world. 32 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:57,880 And so that is the mountain. We're going to call it the 33 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,480 mountain of proving this morning. 34 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,200 But we're going to talk about temptation a little bit. 35 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,200 And this one will this this lesson will be a little bit 36 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:07,000 different than maybe last week where we're it's very much 37 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,920 teaching and and encouraging. This is AI wouldn't say 38 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:15,360 preaching, but this is something we all deal with. 39 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:20,760 I think there are things that sometimes the pastor will preach 40 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:24,000 on and you say I've, I mean, I'm not perfect there, but I've got 41 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,360 that pretty much taken care of, whether it's doctrine or, or 42 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,560 certain things, you know, eternal security and some of 43 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,360 those things where you're like, yes, I believe that. 44 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,680 And I have no doubt that that that is settled in my mind. 45 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,480 But this temptation, you can have it settled, you can have it 46 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:41,040 conquered. And then the next day you're 47 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,280 going to fight it again and you're going to fight it again. 48 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,640 So this is something we all need, this temptation, this 49 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:50,080 lesson on temptation. So John, I would like you also 50 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,160 to turn to 1st John chapter 2. And this is a very familiar 51 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:58,080 passage, but we're going to read just one verse here in a second, 52 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:02,400 and then we'll be done with first John chapter 2 for the 53 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,040 rest of the lesson. But I want to take a quick look 54 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,720 at a verse there as it correlates to Matthew chapter 4. 55 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:11,920 So I'm going to read Matthew chapter 4 verses one through 11 56 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,840 and then we will get into this lesson. 57 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,560 So Matthew chapter 4, just hold your finger in first John 58 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,240 chapter 2 and we'll start in verse 1 of chapter 4. 59 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,640 Then was Jesus LED up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be 60 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:26,840 tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted 40 days 61 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,400 and 40 nights, he was afterward and hungered. 62 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,600 And when the tempter came to him, he said, if thou be the son 63 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,120 of God, command that these stones be made bread. 64 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,160 Now this is after 40 days of not eating. 65 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,120 If you're the Son of God, command that these stones be 66 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:43,640 made bread. But he answered and said, It is 67 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:46,520 written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word 68 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:48,120 that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 69 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,920 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth 70 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,920 him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be 71 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:56,760 the Son of God, cast thyself down. 72 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,800 For it is written, he shall give his angels charge concerning 73 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,320 thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any 74 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:04,440 time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 75 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,520 As a quick reference, does anybody know what he's referring 76 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:09,600 to there? Psalm 91. 77 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,320 Very good, all right #7 Jesus said unto him, It is written 78 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:15,720 again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. 79 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,480 Again the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, 80 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:21,120 and this is where we get our mountain from. 81 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,680 Doesn't tell us where it is. And show with him all the 82 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,160 kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, and saith unto 83 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:29,840 him, All these things will I give thee, if thou will fall 84 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:32,840 down and worship me, then say Jesus unto him, get thee. 85 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:34,920 Hence Satan. For it is written, Thou shalt 86 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,720 worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 87 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,480 Then the devil leaveth him, and behold, angels came and 88 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:43,480 ministered unto him. What we're going to look at this 89 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,480 morning is not so much that we are going to look at this, this 90 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:52,080 temptation of Jesus, but more so how he gave us an example of how 91 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:56,000 to conquer this temptation and how to conquer Satan in a time 92 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,520 of temptation, and what exactly Jesus did. 93 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:02,280 And also a little bit of the fact that I don't want to get 94 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:06,960 ahead of myself, but temptation is not a bad thing that that is 95 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,040 not the sin. Jesus was tempted and we know he 96 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,480 was without sin. So the temptation is not the 97 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:14,480 sin. Falling to the temptation is 98 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,560 sin. So when, when I think sometimes 99 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,960 we get really discouraged, why am I constantly facing this 100 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:23,720 temptation? That's not the, that's not the 101 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:25,560 problem. That's part of humanity. 102 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,840 The problem is when we fall to this, to that sin. 103 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,560 And I'll, and I'll explain a little bit more of that here in 104 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,840 a second. But these three temptations, we 105 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:37,920 have three very specific temptations here, but you got to 106 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:43,560 you got to see in chapter 4 verse one, Jesus was led up of 107 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,840 the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 108 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:51,320 And then he fasts for 40 days. Mark actually tells us that he 109 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:54,800 was tempted for those 40 days. These last three are just a 110 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,200 culmination of the temptation. But for 40 days Satan was in the 111 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,760 wilderness with him tempting him all forty of those days. 112 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:07,520 And so, but these last three flip to John first John chapter 113 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:13,440 2 and in verse 16 we see that exactly what we are told here in 114 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:17,080 first John about the love of the world and temptation. 115 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:21,600 Jesus faces all three of them in in Matthew chapter 4 and 116 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:25,000 conquers all three of them. And and therefore is a perfect 117 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,080 example of to us of how to conquer any temptation we come 118 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:33,320 across, but also that that it is possible. 119 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,560 Yes, Jesus was God, but he was also 100% man. 120 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,840 And so when he is fighting these temptations, he's not doing it 121 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:44,720 as God with all power. He's doing it as a man who just 122 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:48,440 went 40 days without eating and then is tempted of Satan and is 123 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,920 still able to overcome them. And the key here is Matthew 124 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:55,040 chapter 4 was led up of the Spirit. 125 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:56,720 He's in the spirit when he's doing this. 126 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,040 That's key. And we'll look at that here in 127 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,560 just a second. But first, John chapter 2 and 128 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:03,760 verse 15 says love not the world, neither the things that 129 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:06,160 are in the world. If any man love the world, the 130 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,120 love of the Father is not in him. 131 00:07:08,280 --> 00:07:11,920 And what is in the world for all that is in the world, the lust 132 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,560 of the flesh. And we see that with Jesus being 133 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:16,640 tempted to make those stones turn into bread. 134 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:20,840 That's the very fleshly temptation when you've gone 40 135 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,360 days without eating. So he, he's tempted with the 136 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,440 lust of the flesh and he overcomes that. 137 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:27,800 Then second one, the lust of the eyes. 138 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,240 He's taken up into this high mountain and shown the kingdoms 139 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,800 of the world and, and his eyes, he sees it as a man and he 140 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,040 overcomes that temptation to the lust of the eyes. 141 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,040 And then third, the pride of life. 142 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:44,040 He's taken up onto the pinnacle of the temple and and said, 143 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,360 basically, you know, prove, prove that you're God by 144 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,320 throwing yourself down and your angels will catch you. 145 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:51,120 And he overcomes that temptation as well. 146 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,520 So I wanted to take a quick look at that is, you know, any 147 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:58,920 temptation we come across, we can kind of categorize it into 148 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,840 first John chapter 2 and say it's the lust of the eyes, that 149 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:03,560 the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. 150 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,480 And Jesus faced exactly those same things and then overcame 151 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:09,920 them. And Hebrews chapter 4 verse 15 152 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,160 tells us that he was in all points tempted like as we are, 153 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,640 yet without sin. And so he, he overcame all these 154 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:20,160 temptations that we are going to face in our lives. 155 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:22,920 And we have this example of Jesus Christ doing it and I 156 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:24,920 overcoming them. And I think that's really the 157 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:27,080 reason God puts him in this position. 158 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,600 Same thing with the baptism of Jesus Christ, which we see 1 159 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,559 chapter before. And in chapter 3, he is baptized 160 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:35,760 and then the Holy Spirit comes on him. 161 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:38,960 But it's a, it's an example of, of what we are supposed to do in 162 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,320 our Christian lives. So let's pray and then we'll get 163 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,520 right into God this lesson. Father, thank you for this day 164 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:46,800 you've given us. Thank you for another 165 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:48,240 opportunity we have to open your word. 166 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,080 God, I pray as we look at this lesson this morning. 167 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:54,560 God, this is something that every one of us deals with every 168 00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:56,600 single day, the temptation of Satan. 169 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:00,480 He's hard at work 24 hours a day tempting your people. 170 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:04,480 And God, I just pray that we would learn through your example 171 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:09,880 of of your son here with in Matthew chapter 4 that we can't 172 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:12,160 overcome it, but we must do it your way. 173 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,120 We must do it as we LED of the Holy Spirit and filled with the 174 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:17,800 Holy Spirit and God. We can't overcome these things. 175 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,040 And I pray that you'd just encourage us with this this 176 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,440 morning in Jesus name, I pray, Amen. 177 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:25,000 All right, so first of all, we're going to look at the two 178 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,920 people involved in this temptation. 179 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:31,120 First one is obviously the Son of God, but look at Matthew 180 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,160 chapter 3 here. You should be right there in 181 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,080 verse 16, probably the same page. 182 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,760 Well, we have the Son of God is the first person involved in 183 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:40,560 this temptation, Jesus Christ himself. 184 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:44,880 But when he gets ready to be a part of this temptation or, or 185 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:49,080 or be faced with this temptation, look in verse 16 of 186 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:52,040 chapter 3. And Jesus when he was baptized, 187 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,440 went up straight way out of the water and lo, the heavens were 188 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:58,200 opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a 189 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:00,960 dove and light lighting upon him. 190 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:05,360 He was filled with the Spirit of God before he faces this 191 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,720 temptation. And you know, I, I think often 192 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:14,440 we, we go out into our day. In fact, I know we do this 193 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,520 because I do this. We go out into our day ready to 194 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,560 face Satan and the world with without the power of the Holy 195 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:23,200 Spirit in our lives. Now we have the Holy Spirit 196 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:27,720 living in us, but we go without the power of the Holy Spirit and 197 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,360 we try to face Satan ourselves and it's impossible. 198 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:35,040 And and that's a whole every one of these is lessons that we 199 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,400 could expound on a lot, but it's impossible to go without them. 200 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,640 We must be filled with the Holy Spirit. 201 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:44,280 But the second thing I want to look at is is in chapter 4 and 202 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:49,640 let's see is it verse one. Yes, Jesus was led up of the 203 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:53,520 Spirit into the wilderness for what purpose to be tempted of 204 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:55,920 the devil. This was a divine appointment. 205 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:01,000 Jesus was was getting ready to go have with Satan to be tempted 206 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:03,160 and the Holy Spirit led him into that. 207 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,800 And that's why I what I just started a few minutes ago with 208 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,160 saying the temptation is not the problem. 209 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,280 God uses temptation to strengthen us. 210 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:16,440 God uses and by temptation I don't mean trials, I mean 211 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:21,000 temptation to strengthen us. You know, when you go to the 212 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,720 gym, you don't start with £400 on the bench press, right? 213 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,600 You won't even be able to push it off the, off the, off the bar 214 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,880 or off the, the stand. But if you start with lighter 215 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:36,120 weights, your muscles grow accustomed to that, to that 216 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,160 weight being pushed up and they get strengthened. 217 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,240 It's the same way in our spiritual life. 218 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:45,640 We we the Holy Spirit leads us into temptation that he knows we 219 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:50,640 are strong enough to win so that we build our strength and and 220 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:53,000 maybe build our confidence a little bit in the fact that we 221 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,000 can actually overcome Satan here and there. 222 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,680 But the Holy Spirit leads us. He says that very, very clearly 223 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:03,080 in verse one that Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted 224 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:05,520 of the devil. So he sends him into this 225 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:07,760 temptation. So that's the first person we 226 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:09,520 see. And then we see secondly, the 227 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,200 the that Satan was the second person involved in this 228 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,520 temptation. And you know, we have Matthew 229 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,800 and Luke record this story and they call him the devil in verse 230 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:25,360 one there to be tempted of the devil, but Mark actually says to 231 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:29,480 be tempted of Satan. And so same exact story, same 232 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,680 exact scenario. But I think it's important 233 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:33,520 because we have the two meanings there. 234 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,480 Satan is our adversary. That's what that's what Mark is 235 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,400 saying. And Mark and Luke tell us that 236 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:42,240 the devil, which it's the devil, which means accuser. 237 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:46,440 So neither one of them is good, but it's just saying that Satan 238 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,360 is a he's a slanderer. He's an accuser of the brethren. 239 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:53,960 He is our adversary. I heard a story one time guy had 240 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,640 just gotten saved and I think my grandpa was telling me this and 241 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:00,360 him and this other guy had gotten saved at similar times. 242 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:04,320 And they heard a heard a message that had just been preached 243 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:07,520 within the last week or so that Satan is our adversary. 244 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,160 And the preacher just preached and preached. 245 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,800 And this, this guy came walking in the next service and he said, 246 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:14,720 my grandpa's name is Joe, Brother Joe. 247 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:18,360 Satan is my advocate and he's a adversary. 248 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:24,600 Anyway, Satan is our adversary. And I hope that we hate Satan 249 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,960 with the, with the hatred that he deserves. 250 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,640 And I hope we teach our children to hate Satan with the hatred 251 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:34,840 that he deserves. You know, movies and things like 252 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:39,280 that. They, I don't know what the 253 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:44,440 right word is, but they, they, they desensitize us to the fact 254 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,760 of who Satan actually is. You know, even with, with, and 255 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,320 me and brother Matt have talked about some of this, but video 256 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,840 games and things like that where you know, the, the killing and 257 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:58,320 just the wicked, the evil is, is we desensitize to it because 258 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:02,120 it's so normalized. I hope we would ever forget how 259 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,440 evil Satan actually is. He is here tempting the very Son 260 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:10,480 of God to try to take him down. And that leads us into our next 261 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:15,480 point, the place actually I'm going to go to. 262 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:17,600 Yeah, we'll go to the place of the temptation. 263 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,080 But, but I think it's, it goes without saying, we'll get with 264 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:24,240 get to this in a second that Satan is tempting the very Son 265 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,880 of God. And it had some massive 266 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,320 implications. Had the Son of God fall into 267 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,160 this temptation, he could not have been the savior of the 268 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:33,400 world. That would have been the end of 269 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,240 that. So he's going after God himself. 270 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:38,360 How much more do you think he'll go after us? 271 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:44,320 You know, we yeah, absolutely. We we are much easier targets 272 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:48,360 for one. But for two, God has work for us 273 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,560 to do. He has people for us to lead to 274 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:54,520 Christ. He has children for us to raise 275 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:57,920 for Christ. He has, you know, ministries for 276 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:01,200 us to be a part of. And if he can get us to fall and 277 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:06,160 be, I wouldn't say useless, but but very much hinder our use for 278 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:08,360 Christ, then he's going to do that. 279 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,600 That is his job. His purpose is to accuse the 280 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,720 brethren, to slam to the brethren and to and to make us 281 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:16,680 fall. So the place of this temptation 282 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:21,120 then first I want to look here in, in, in, in verse 1 of 283 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,240 chapter 4. I keep turning the page and then 284 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,680 I lose my spot, verse 1 of chapter 4. 285 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,600 But the first place of temptation is that it was, it 286 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:33,160 was a remote place. And this is where this is where 287 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:34,680 I'm talking about. We're going to talk a little bit 288 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:38,000 about temptation more than we are going to talk about. 289 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:42,000 This is more more teaching or, or preaching than it was just a 290 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,640 lesson like last week talking about Mount Carmel. 291 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:53,040 Because temptation will occur when we are alone and isolated. 292 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:56,280 And, and he says that in verse 2. 293 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,760 And when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, he was afterward 294 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:02,120 and hungered. And when the tempter came to 295 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,480 him, he said, if thou be the Son of God, command that these 296 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:08,240 stones be made bread. Jesus is out in the wilderness 297 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:09,080 here. He's alone. 298 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:13,000 He'd been alone for 40 days and 40 nights and he's alone. 299 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,600 He's isolated. And here comes Satan. 300 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:20,840 And you know, while I was studying for this, not only will 301 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:25,240 he get us when we're alone, you know, in our home alone or 302 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:28,080 whatever else, but he also gets us when we're, when we're 303 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,040 mentally alone. Remember, remember Elijah last 304 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:33,640 week said I'm the only prophet of God left. 305 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,600 So in his mind, he is, he's yes, he's got people around, but he's 306 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,840 isolated in his and mentally in his stand for God. 307 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,760 And I think that's also when Satan comes to us, You know, we 308 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:48,480 hear things preached in, in this church here that we go out and 309 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,200 maybe see other churches or see, you know, other Christians and 310 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,240 we go, are we the only one still taking a stand on this? 311 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:58,120 And then Satan says, exactly why are you still taking that stand? 312 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:00,680 Nobody else is. What's the point? 313 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:05,720 And that's a temptation of Satan when we when we think we're 314 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:10,440 isolated as as far as walking with God and taking a stand for 315 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:14,240 God, he comes after us. And that's a whole we could talk 316 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,079 more about that. But he was in a remote place. 317 00:17:16,079 --> 00:17:17,760 He was also in a religious place. 318 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:22,720 And I think this goes without saying, but in verse, let's see 319 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:26,960 verse 5. Then the devil taketh him up 320 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,760 into the holy city, and setting him on the pinnacle of the 321 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:33,560 temple, and say unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast 322 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:35,840 thyself down. For it is written, he shall give 323 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,280 his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they 324 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:40,880 shall bear thee up less than any time thou dash thy foot against 325 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,080 a stone. But he takes him into the on to 326 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:45,760 the pinnacle of the temple, and tempts him there. 327 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,960 And this, this is a good point as well, though. 328 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,640 But Satan will tempt us right in a religious place. 329 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:56,200 He doesn't care. In fact, I think we let our 330 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,920 guard downs when we're at church, we let our guard downs 331 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:01,600 guards down. When we're in Bible college, we 332 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:04,320 let our guard down. We're in a Christian School and 333 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:07,000 Satan goes perfect. Now I can get them. 334 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,240 They're guards down. They think they're protected by 335 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,800 everything around them. And, and you know, for one, 336 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:15,840 religion won't protect us. So the fact of just being on the 337 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:19,280 temple was not going to be any kind of protection for, for the 338 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:21,560 Son of God. And just being in church doesn't 339 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,840 protect us. And, and I think this is where 340 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,160 I'm saying every one of us deals with, with temptation every 341 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,120 single day. There's nobody here that can 342 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:32,520 say, I don't know who he's talking to there. 343 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:36,760 But they need it. We all need this because just 344 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:39,920 about the time we think we've got it taken care of, Satan 345 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,120 comes after us. That's where he wants us when 346 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:45,360 our guard is down, you know, when we're at church, when we're 347 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:49,160 in in college, when we're at a Christian camp, that's when 348 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:53,320 often Satan will attack there. He doesn't care when he takes 349 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,080 you down as long as he does. And that's his goal. 350 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,480 And again, I hope that we understand. 351 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:04,040 I hope not understand. I hope that we hate Satan with 352 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,520 with just AI wouldn't even say a righteous hatred. 353 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:09,960 I don't think there's anything wrong with really truly hating 354 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:14,200 Satan because of what he for one, what he tried to do to 355 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:18,280 Jesus Christ to destroy that plan that God had for us, but 356 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,120 also what he wants to do in our lives. 357 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:24,040 But thirdly, it was a resplendent place. 358 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:26,560 And these aren't my points. So they're all alliterated. 359 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,800 But but he takes him into this high mountain. 360 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:34,360 And I mean, this is a beautiful scene that that Christ is 361 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:37,480 looking at the kingdoms of the world are before his eyes. 362 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:42,120 And but you got to remember the first, the very first temptation 363 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:44,480 from Satan happened in the Garden of Eden with two perfect 364 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:49,400 people. And so we have to be aware and 365 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,800 careful that when we're on on the hive, on a mountain 366 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,480 spiritually, or where when we, when things seem to be going 367 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:59,760 very well, Satan, that's when Satan attacks because our guard 368 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:00,960 is down. All right. 369 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:02,640 So those are the places of temptation. 370 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,920 And now I want to look quickly at the period or the timing of 371 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:08,960 this temptation. It was logical timing. 372 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,120 Matthew chapter 3, turn the page back. 373 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:15,280 Matthew chapter 3. I'm going to read verses 13. 374 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:20,320 Through 17 because what happened here is Satan and we kind of 375 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:24,360 just touched on it, but Satan attacks Christ at a very logical 376 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:28,720 time. He has just had a great blessing 377 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,440 in his life. He's just had the whole he's 378 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:35,040 been baptized, and had the Holy Spirit descend like a dove on 379 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:38,920 him for the work of his earthly ministry to begin. 380 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:43,760 And so verse 13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan 381 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:47,640 unto John to be baptized of him. But John forbade him, saying, I 382 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,240 have need to be baptized of thee, and cometh out of me. 383 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,880 And Jesus answering, said unto him, Suffer it to be so now, for 384 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:56,240 thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. 385 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,280 Then he suffered him. And Jesus, when he was baptized, 386 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,840 went up straight way out of the water and lo, the heavens were 387 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,480 opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a 388 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:09,160 dove and lighting upon him. And and so Jesus has this very 389 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:12,000 high spiritual moment high in his life. 390 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:16,840 And then here comes Satan, the next verse to to attack him. 391 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:23,680 Now it also goes, it needs to be pointed out here that not only 392 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:27,560 when we're when we've had a spiritual, a high spiritual 393 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:30,520 moment in our life, but when we're about to do something for 394 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,360 God. What, what, what more motivation 395 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:37,280 does Satan have than when somebody is really starting to, 396 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,120 to walk with God and really starting to grow to knock the 397 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:42,600 knock their legs out from under them. 398 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,640 He's got to stop them. And that's what happens here. 399 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,960 Jesus is getting ready. He just got, has the Holy Spirit 400 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,520 descend on him and he's getting ready to start his earthly 401 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,760 ministry and Satan comes after him. 402 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:57,840 And so it's, it's something for us to be reminded of. 403 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,680 He's going to try to detour us in our service and the best way 404 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,560 he can do that is getting us to fall and again, first John 405 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,800 chapter 2 verse 16 through through our eyes, through our 406 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:11,720 flesh, through our pride. You know, I don't think and it's 407 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:16,720 not my place to say, but I don't know that we we preach on pride 408 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:21,960 enough. I think that well, first of all, 409 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,560 these six scenes of the Lord hate ye 7 are abomination unto 410 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:26,560 him. What's the first one? 411 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,360 Proud. Look, he hates pride, but we we 412 00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:32,880 don't talk about it. And I think that is probably 413 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,520 most of our downfall. That's the reason we don't 414 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:39,520 listen when we're instructed. That's the reason we can't be. 415 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,760 We don't change. That's the reason we hide our 416 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,320 children when they're having problems instead of taking them 417 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,920 to where they they can get help because of our pride. 418 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,560 It's the reason that we don't read our Bibles. 419 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,840 I know better. It's the reason we don't pray. 420 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,080 I'm fine. We're proud and I'm preaching to 421 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:03,880 myself or talking to myself. We are proud and Satan wants to, 422 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:09,840 to, to take that pride and help us fall with that pride. 423 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,480 But then it was a it was a lengthy time and we see in in 424 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,280 Luke chapter 4. I told you that you don't have 425 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,240 to turn there, but I'll read it. Luke chapter 4, verse 2. 426 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,160 This is a is a direct comparison to this story. 427 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:25,680 He says being 40 days tempted of the devil, and in those days did 428 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,040 he eat nothing, and when they were ended he afterward 429 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,880 hungered. So Matthew tells us that he was 430 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,480 in the wilderness 40 days. Luke tells us he was tempted for 431 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,840 all forty of those days in in the wilderness by Satan. 432 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:43,040 And the point here is that Satan will over and over and over and 433 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,480 over bring the same temptation, the same temptation. 434 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:47,880 You may win, you may win, you may win. 435 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,080 And he's going to keep on bringing it, bringing it because 436 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:51,880 he wears us down with that temptation. 437 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,840 And that's what happened with Christ here was he he tempted 438 00:23:54,840 --> 00:24:00,520 him for a long time. And but fourthly, I want to talk 439 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,760 about this. This is the exciting part, is 440 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,840 the purpose of this temptation. And the first purpose was a very 441 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:11,520 satanic, satanic purpose. And we see that in in verse. 442 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,040 Well, in the first part of that, and I won't read it because 443 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,840 we've already read it a few times, but if Satan could get 444 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,160 Jesus Christ to fall, the salvation of mankind would have 445 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,800 been finished. Remember, and I've said this 446 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,360 before, but I used to, you know, sometimes in, in sharing the 447 00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:31,360 Gospel, we will say, you know, man was created in the garden. 448 00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:35,080 There's Adam and Eve, and then and then they fall and then God 449 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,040 said, wow, I've got to do something to, you know, to 450 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,080 redeem them. That is not the case. 451 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,360 Before the foundations of the world, this plan was in place. 452 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,080 There is no Plan B. This is the plan. 453 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,720 And so if Satan can get Christ to fall, I mean, I don't think, 454 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,000 you know, we read through this story and it's, you know, it's 455 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,240 a, it's a well known story. We learned it in Sunday school 456 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,720 and everything else. But I don't think we realized 457 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,560 the, the impact of falling to this temptation. 458 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,360 If Christ had fallen, salvation of mankind was finished. 459 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:10,720 It is a satanic purpose here in this temptation, but it was also 460 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:17,480 a sovereign purpose. Remember in verse one, Jesus was 461 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,560 led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the 462 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:23,480 devil. I think it's very interesting 463 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:30,160 that what we see in verse 11 of chapter 4, then after he, he, 464 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,560 he, he, he is victorious in this temptation. 465 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,680 He uses God's word to to defeat Satan. 466 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:42,000 And then he says, then the devil left him and behold, his angels 467 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:48,280 came and administered unto him. But God himself, the Holy Spirit 468 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,080 leads Christ into this temptation. 469 00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:53,640 He defeats Satan and Satan leaves. 470 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,200 There's a sovereign purpose here. 471 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:59,520 I think that I don't, I don't think I know because the Bible 472 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:05,440 says that Jesus Christ had to overcome this temptation to, to 473 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,600 prove that he was the sinless Son of God. 474 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,880 What's the point in saying he's sinless if you never face 475 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,320 temptation? Well, of course you're sinless. 476 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,120 You never had a problem. You know it. 477 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:22,080 It's kind of like a, a, you know, a kid that grows up with a 478 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,360 silver spoon in his mouth and says, yeah, look at it. 479 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:27,160 Look at all the wealth I have. Well, there's you were given 480 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,080 that you didn't do anything to get that. 481 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:33,240 It'd be the same way if Christ was Yep, I'm he was sinless, but 482 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,520 never faced A temptation. This was important that he faced 483 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:41,720 this temptation to prove that he was the sinless son of God who 484 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,400 became man and had power over the wicked one. 485 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:49,360 Even as a man, he was sinless. So it's a, it was a sovereign 486 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:52,320 purpose here as well, even though Satan was trying to 487 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:57,240 destroy our salvation and our redemption, it needed it needed 488 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,360 to happen. And then lastly, and we've got 489 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:03,000 just a few minutes left, but I want to this is where we can 490 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,760 apply this really practically to our own lives. 491 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:10,440 And that is Christ's prevailing in this temptation. 492 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:19,320 And Matthew chapter 4, verses 8 and 9 is, is where this is 493 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:23,880 important. And again, the devil taketh 494 00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:27,320 verse 8, taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain and 495 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:31,080 showeth him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them. 496 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,640 This is what this is where I want. 497 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,560 And we, we know these things. This is not a this is not new, 498 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:43,400 but it's a great reminder that so often through our eyes, Satan 499 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:49,320 destroys our life. Think about think about this in, 500 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:54,560 in, in examples we have in the Bible, Eve Bible says Genesis 501 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,240 chapter 3 and I'll just read a few of these verses. 502 00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:00,680 Genesis chapter 3 verse 6 when the woman saw the fruit. 503 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,240 And then we have akin Joshua Chapter 7, verse 21. 504 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,120 And you can probably think of many more examples. 505 00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:10,360 I was thinking about this as I was driving this morning and, 506 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,320 and I have thought of many more examples. 507 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:18,400 You have Samson when he saw all the women of of of all I can 508 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,120 think of is the Philippines, the Philistines when he saw the 509 00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:23,360 women that were of the Philistines. 510 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,080 His his eyes are what made him fall. 511 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,920 But we do have akin Joshua Chapter 7, verse 21. 512 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:33,680 When I saw the goodly Babylonish garment, I couldn't help myself. 513 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:39,160 I had David in second Samuel Chapter 11. 514 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:44,120 He saw a woman and actually that's what it says with Sam 515 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,000 Samson when he saw a woman of Timnath. 516 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:56,120 Our eyes are are a really a door to to temptation and our eyes 517 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,120 are a great thing. I'm not saying you know, the 518 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,560 Bible does say if your eye offends you, plug it out. 519 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,080 It's better to go into heaven with one eye than that. 520 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,000 Then it makes you fall. And I think he was making a 521 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,600 point there of be careful what your eyes are seeing. 522 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,080 And, you know, I think sometimes we really, we really get on our 523 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,200 kids. You make sure you're careful 524 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,080 what you're looking at. But we don't do it to our our 525 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,560 own selves. You know, when, especially when 526 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,480 we're when we're by ourselves or whatever. 527 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:25,320 And this goes for men and women because the lust of the flesh is 528 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:29,880 not just, you know, lusting after another woman or whatever 529 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,320 else. Sometimes we lust after things. 530 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,800 I got to have that. I will do whatever it takes to 531 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,520 to get that. I will, you know, and I hate to 532 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,400 harp on this, but I will. I'll forsake my, my ministries. 533 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,640 I'll forsake my raising my kids. I've got to have that because we 534 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,040 see with our eyes things that we must have. 535 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,400 And that's the that's the the lust of the eyes. 536 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:59,320 And Satan uses that. He is not foolish with what 537 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:03,320 draws men. He he knows what makes men fall. 538 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,320 And he better than anybody else, knows the pride that's in our 539 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,320 hearts. That's what kicked him out, got 540 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,320 him kicked out of heaven. Pride. 541 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,840 I will be like the most high and think about what we do in in our 542 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,240 own life. Sometimes I'll decide what I'm 543 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,480 going to do. I've said that to Emma before, 544 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:21,800 you know, So, Dad, we should, I'll decide. 545 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,520 I'll decide what we do. It's kind of as a joke, but we 546 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:28,600 do it for real in our lives. You know, God leads us towards 547 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,440 something. I'll decide I don't want to do 548 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,160 that. That's the pride in our hearts 549 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:38,840 and Satan capitalizes on that every time he he's wise, he's 550 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,920 not all knowing, but he's wise. He's been at it a long time. 551 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:46,400 But lastly, we got to just a couple minutes the triumphing of 552 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,240 Jesus Christ in this temptation. And this is the exciting part. 553 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,840 And verse 11. Then the devil leave him, 554 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:57,040 leaveth him and behold, angels came and ministered unto him. 555 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,640 How did how did Christ, how was he victorious in this 556 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,320 temptation? How, what did he do that made 557 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,680 him victorious? Just resist, resist. 558 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:11,400 Bible says that in Ephesians, have you resisted unto blood the 559 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,560 word of God. That's what he that's what he 560 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,560 went to. You see that three times and and 561 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,080 who knows how many times he did it in the 40 days in the 562 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,760 wilderness. Probably every time he was 563 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:23,280 tempted because that's what we see here. 564 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:28,840 But in verse verse 4, he says, turn these stones into bread. 565 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,080 But he answered and said, it is written, man shall not live by 566 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,320 bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth 567 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,320 of God. Then the devil takes him into 568 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,560 the holy city on the pinnacle of the temple, and he says, if thou 569 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,160 be the son of the Son of God cast out, which is interesting 570 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:43,640 that Satan knows the word of God too. 571 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,600 He quotes Psalm 91, it's written, they'll catch you. 572 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,120 But Jesus uses the word of God. Again, verse 7, Jesus said unto 573 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,880 him, it is written, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. 574 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,560 Again, the devil takes him into exceeding high mountain and 575 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:02,200 Jesus says, get the hint, Satan. Third time it is written, thou 576 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,320 shalt worship the Lord thy God in him alone. 577 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,440 Him only shalt thou serve. And I think the important point 578 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,680 here is you cannot remember. The Holy Spirit has a couple 579 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:14,360 jobs, but one of his jobs is to bring to to remembrance the 580 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,680 things we've learned, right? You can't bring to remembrance 581 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,320 something that you haven't read, that you haven't memorized, that 582 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,160 you haven't studied. There's nothing to bring to 583 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:27,360 membrance remembrance. I'm, I'm, I'm shorthanding there 584 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:31,200 in, in my speech to remembrance. He can't bring it if you haven't 585 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,960 learned it. And you know, it's like in 586 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:37,240 school, the teacher, you know, we never went over this. 587 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:38,440 Yeah. You weren't listening. 588 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,320 We went over it. If you, you have the word of 589 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,680 God, if you don't read it, you don't study it, you don't 590 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,400 memorize it. And then you get into 591 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,760 temptation. You've got nothing to fight 592 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,120 Satan with. You're not going to fight him 593 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,760 with your own flesh. We see how that goes. 594 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:57,760 You have to have the word of God in your hearts, in our hearts to 595 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,440 fight Satan with. That is the thing that we can 596 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,920 fight with. We have the sword of the Spirit 597 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,040 and we have the word of God and that's what we fight with. 598 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:12,320 Without those things, we are in in serious, serious trouble. 599 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:17,600 And thank God that that Jesus knew knew his word. 600 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,240 It is written, it is written, it is written. 601 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:25,680 You know, it even says that Michael, when he rebukes, he, he 602 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,280 rebukes him in the name of the Lord. 603 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:31,680 He doesn't rebuke him on his own because Satan is we, he's 604 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,840 powerful and I don't think we respect him for the power that 605 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:37,840 he has. It's not all powerful, but he's 606 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,720 powerful, he's wise, he's knowing. 607 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,840 And and we we play with him like he's some kind of, you know, 608 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,240 little little kid. You know, when that little kids 609 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,320 trying to beat you up and you just, you know, hold them by 610 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,200 their face or whatever, get off of me, That's not Satan. 611 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,360 Satan is powerful. In fact, he can almost do that 612 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,920 to us. Thankfully we have God on our 613 00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:03,440 side to fight for us, but we fight with the word of God. 614 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:07,720 I'm going to close with this with this paragraph. 615 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:09,920 This is a quote. I don't have who it's from, but 616 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:11,560 I liked it. And they will be finished. 617 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,239 The battle was over, but the campaign would continue. 618 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:19,040 Satan never yields an inch of battleground until he must. 619 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,960 When utterly defeated, the Christian should pray. 620 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:24,800 When oppressed on all sides, he should pray even more. 621 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,840 But when conscious of glorious triumph, triumph, the Saints 622 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:32,120 should pray most of all, for then his danger is greatest. 623 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,440 It is well to remember that Satan's vacations are always 624 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,440 short. We see that in verse 11. 625 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,239 Then the devil leaves him, and behold, the angels came and 626 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:43,320 ministered unto him. You think in his whole next 3 627 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,480 1/2 years of ministry he was never tempted again. 628 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:47,880 Oh, Satan was back. He was back. 629 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:49,400 I mean, even in the Garden of Gethsemane. 630 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:53,040 We see if he can, if this cup can pass from me, please let it 631 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,880 nevertheless not my will. That's a temptation from Satan 632 00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:01,240 on Christ. He, he wanted this temptation or 633 00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:05,480 this, this, this pain and this agony of separation from the 634 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:06,920 Father that he was about to go through. 635 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:11,720 Let it pass if you can. Satan was tempting him even at 636 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:15,720 that hour for the salvation of all of mankind to to not happen 637 00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:20,600 if if it's possible. And anyways, it is well to 638 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:24,080 remember when you have a victory that Satan's vacations are 639 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:25,800 always short. And I hope we see lots of 640 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:27,640 victories. I hope we see a lot of those in 641 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:29,560 our lives. But remember, he'll be back 642 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,520 tomorrow or later today. He'll be back. 643 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:37,000 And so remember this Matthew chapter 4. 644 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,240 We've got to go back to the word of God to fight Satan and we can 645 00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:43,880 win, but we've got to constantly be on guard and constantly 646 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,320 fighting and when we lose, get back up. 647 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,680 When we win, be ready for the next one. 648 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,880 All right, let's pray and we'll be finished. 649 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,000 Father, I thank you for this day you've given us thank you for 650 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:58,280 your people that I thank you for everyone here in this that's 651 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,000 here today. God, I just pray that you'd help 652 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:05,880 us to really hate Satan the way that he should be hated that he 653 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,560 he tried to take away the salvation that you gave to us. 654 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,480 That I pray that we would never dabble with with the sin that he 655 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,200 presents. Pray that you'd help us to 656 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,960 protect our eyes, protect our hearts, protect our our minds. 657 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,000 And God, I pray that we would just crush pride at every chance 658 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,760 we get. As hard as that is God, I, I 659 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,680 believe we're made-up of pride. That's, that's what we are not. 660 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,480 But I pray that we would crush it when we can and rely on you 661 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,160 and your Holy Spirit and the word of God to help us in this 662 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,920 in times of temptation. Pray that you bless this next 663 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:37,440 hour. Be with pastor as he preaches. 664 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,680 Fill him with your, your power and the words that you need us 665 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,080 to hear in Jesus name, I pray, Amen. 666 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:44,400 And we're dismissed.