1 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:15,100 Do you have the word of God in your hands this afternoon? 2 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:18,600 If you do meet me in the Gospel According to Mark chapter 1, 3 00:00:19,700 --> 00:00:29,200 beginning in verse 12 I was so eager this morning to Behold The 4 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,600 Glory of Jesus with you and we will do it. 5 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,500 Now as we read these two verses, which will be our Focus today as 6 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:41,800 a family and Mark 1. 12, we read in the word The spirit 7 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:47,700 immediately drove him out into the Wilderness and he was in the 8 00:00:47,700 --> 00:00:52,900 wilderness 40 days, being tempted by Satan and he was with 9 00:00:52,900 --> 00:00:58,300 the wild animals and the Angels were ministering to him. 10 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:03,100 Lori asked you from the bottom of our hearts. 11 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:09,400 Do a miracle in our hearts, help us see Christ. 12 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:11,900 Help us see the wisdom that he has for us. 13 00:01:11,900 --> 00:01:13,400 Help us see the glory that he alone. 14 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,700 Possesses Lord. Please bring us into a new 15 00:01:16,700 --> 00:01:20,000 revelation. Revelation that is not added to 16 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,800 this truth, but a revelation that is hidden because of our 17 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,500 flesh. Lord Open the Eyes of our hearts 18 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,500 so that we can see a facet of the beauty of the son of God. 19 00:01:30,700 --> 00:01:33,400 We play with you Lord in Jesus name. 20 00:01:33,900 --> 00:01:38,800 Amen. Generally speaking, when one 21 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:45,400 seeks to Endeavor to explore the famous 40-day, temptation of the 22 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,100 Lord. Jesus, Mark's account is usually 23 00:01:49,100 --> 00:01:54,200 not the primary reference for discussion and perhaps for the 24 00:01:54,200 --> 00:02:00,200 apparent reason that it is summarized in, but to versus his 25 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:05,600 report is much briefer than that of Matthew and Luke When you go 26 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,000 to Matthew and Luke, you see it much more elaborate 27 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,000 understanding of what took place at Lisa. 28 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:15,700 A snippet of what happened during that 40 day, test that 29 00:02:15,700 --> 00:02:18,100 the Lord Jesus endured and succeeded in. 30 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:23,100 Now, what's amazing is that as Mark summarizes it, there are 31 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:27,000 still so many similarities that all three of them share and 32 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,900 those similarities are things that the believer who loves the 33 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:33,400 word of God, who studies, the word of God are familiar with, 34 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,100 almost by heart. We all know that the Holy Spirit 35 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:43,000 and all accounts is the agent that leads Christ to be tempted 36 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,800 by the devil. We all know that it was a 40-day 37 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:53,800 trial and we also know that as Jesus comes into this, he leaves 38 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,800 to begin his public Ministry. And so, what we see here is 39 00:02:58,100 --> 00:03:02,900 though, it may seem like it is totally in line with the other 40 00:03:02,900 --> 00:03:06,200 accounts there are still differences. 41 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:09,800 Yes, even in these two verses there are things for us to be 42 00:03:09,808 --> 00:03:13,100 able to look at and say, what is, what is the Lord saying 43 00:03:13,100 --> 00:03:17,100 through marks narrative that he, that he might not be saying as 44 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:20,700 much in Matthew or in Luke and that should excite us. 45 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:24,400 Because there is no random detail in the word of God. 46 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:26,600 And that is certainly true with this. 47 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,800 So as we come to Endeavor to understand this familiar event, 48 00:03:32,300 --> 00:03:36,300 in the temptation of Jesus with a prayer, Ambition, we will 49 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:39,800 trust and see that. As we understand this, we will 50 00:03:39,900 --> 00:03:44,300 have a fresh love for him, a fresh adoration for the master. 51 00:03:44,900 --> 00:03:48,000 And so we come to verse 12 and notice this, the spirit 52 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,500 immediately drove him out. This was right after the 53 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:56,000 coronation of Jesus by physical manifestation of the Holy Spirit 54 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:59,700 and by an audible affirmation from the father in the heavens. 55 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,000 But from that to this, we hardly take a breath before the scene 56 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,300 quickly shifts. It's it just happens at such a 57 00:04:07,300 --> 00:04:09,800 rate in, which we're almost like, well, where are we here? 58 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:11,600 What just happened? And that is on purpose, 59 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,400 obviously. Matthew and Luke are 60 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:18,399 chronologically consistent with Mark, with this temptation 61 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:23,700 account in, that it happened after Jesus was baptized by 62 00:04:23,700 --> 00:04:27,100 John, that is the same. That is something that they all 63 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:32,100 share, but Mark has a different way of saying it, then, Matthew 64 00:04:32,100 --> 00:04:34,900 and Luke. Notice the language this, 65 00:04:35,900 --> 00:04:40,600 Immediately drove him out. You know what Matthew would say, 66 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:46,400 you know what, Luke would say that the Spirit Led Jesus out. 67 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:52,200 That is not the same when you come to that word drove in the 68 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,900 original. It is a very forceful one. 69 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,600 It is the actual word that is used in describing the 70 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,700 Deliverance that Jesus would bring upon those who are in 71 00:05:02,700 --> 00:05:06,300 bondage to Demons when he would cast those demons out when he 72 00:05:06,308 --> 00:05:09,800 would drive them out. It's the very same word Iqbal. 73 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:14,500 Oh it is very forceful, it's almost violent and yet the 74 00:05:14,500 --> 00:05:22,200 spirit of God wants to tell us That the spirit drove drove, the 75 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:27,600 Lord, Jesus Into the Wilderness now to understand that meaning, 76 00:05:28,100 --> 00:05:31,000 and then to see how it's used elsewhere, only to interpret 77 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,200 that Jesus was perhaps hesitant or reluctant or not willing to 78 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,200 go. And so the Holy Spirit almost 79 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:42,300 takes over and drags him into the Temptation. 80 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,600 Would be false would be a misunderstanding. 81 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,900 What we are learning here about, Jesus is the first thing in 82 00:05:50,900 --> 00:05:53,000 consideration of what, we're studying number one, the 83 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,000 submission of the Lord Jesus to the spirit. 84 00:05:56,300 --> 00:05:59,200 All this is really trying to say is that the influence of the 85 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:03,600 Holy Spirit was so great, over the life of the Lord, it was so 86 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,600 powerful. It was all-consuming and the 87 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:11,000 Lord, Jesus willfully, and joyfully submitted to the 88 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:17,100 leadership of the spirit. This one short word is a massive 89 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:22,000 statement into what the great humility of our savior. 90 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:28,200 He relinquished any control in his life in his Humanity. 91 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:33,600 He surrendered any kind of authority in the sense that he 92 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,700 wanted to submit to God. And so the spirit and seeing 93 00:06:37,700 --> 00:06:42,100 that humility and hearing, that prayer does what he occupies the 94 00:06:42,100 --> 00:06:45,000 driver's seat of Jesus's life so to speak. 95 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,200 And what is so powerful about that? 96 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:52,700 I've often said, and I'll say it again that to be full of the. 97 00:06:52,700 --> 00:06:58,700 Holy spirit is not so much about us having more of him. 98 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,000 So as Believers, we're not saying, Holy Spirit, I want more 99 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,600 of you. When we say, I want to be filled 100 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,000 with the Holy Spirit what's actually happening. 101 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Is he's having more of us. To be full of the holy spirit is 102 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,600 not about us having more of him at, it's about him having more 103 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:19,100 of us. And that makes total sense when 104 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:23,700 you compare the activity of the spirit here in Jesus life and 105 00:07:23,700 --> 00:07:27,900 the experience that Jesus had in the same scene told elsewhere 106 00:07:27,900 --> 00:07:31,100 with the spirit because you know what Luke adds to this. 107 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:33,300 And this is what makes what makes studying the word of God. 108 00:07:33,300 --> 00:07:36,900 So exciting. What makes this so amazing is 109 00:07:36,900 --> 00:07:40,100 that Luke tells us in chapter 4 and verse 1. 110 00:07:40,100 --> 00:07:42,300 It says Too far. He's a neighbor so you can turn 111 00:07:42,300 --> 00:07:43,800 there in your Bibles to see it for yourself. 112 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:53,600 Look what Luke says in chapter 4 verse 1, And Jesus full. 113 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,800 Full of the Holy Spirit returned from the Jordan and was led by 114 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:03,300 the spirit in the wilderness. So so Luke says, Jesus was full 115 00:08:03,300 --> 00:08:06,400 of the Holy Spirit. Mark says that he was driven out 116 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,600 by the spirit. And when you bring these verses 117 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,700 together, you come to a conclusion and it is this that 118 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:14,700 the result of being full of the holy spirit is that we come 119 00:08:14,700 --> 00:08:16,500 under the rain of the Holy Spirit. 120 00:08:18,700 --> 00:08:22,100 And it's impossible to claim my brother and whom I love my 121 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:26,200 sister and whom I love to claim that we are filled with the Holy 122 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,700 Spirit. If there is no tangible evidence 123 00:08:28,700 --> 00:08:35,400 of his leadership, In our lives. And that is the great blessing 124 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:40,100 that awaits us as we obey the command in the word of God, that 125 00:08:40,100 --> 00:08:43,400 says seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit. 126 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:47,100 There is much to be known in that experience, an experience 127 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:50,800 that is available to all of us. Yes, we are all sealed a holy 128 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,200 spirit but it would be a false statement to say that we are all 129 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,100 equally filled with the Holy Spirit. 130 00:08:55,300 --> 00:08:58,300 In other words, we all have the Holy Spirit by faith. 131 00:08:58,300 --> 00:09:01,800 But the Holy Spirit having all of us in the same way is not 132 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,500 true though. It is the standard. 133 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:08,100 It is not the experience. Unfortunately of the collective 134 00:09:08,100 --> 00:09:13,400 body. The Holy Spirit here as he fills 135 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:15,500 a vessel. You know what? 136 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:18,600 We get, we inherit his prompting. 137 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,300 We know something of his persuasion, we know a protection 138 00:09:25,100 --> 00:09:27,300 and we know a power over the flesh. 139 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,600 When we say that the holy spirit is driving Jesus out. 140 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:33,600 And when we say that when we were filled with the holy spirit 141 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:35,900 that we know his influence, it's not like we become lifeless 142 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:39,900 puppets and we move and we speak unconsciously. 143 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:44,100 What happens is there's an enablement and enablement from 144 00:09:44,100 --> 00:09:46,900 the born-again hearts desire that wants to walk in the ways 145 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:48,500 of the Lord. And the Holy Spirit says I'm 146 00:09:48,508 --> 00:09:51,000 going to lift you up. Now, I'm a take you there. 147 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,700 I'm going to make it possible. And then what we experience 148 00:09:54,700 --> 00:09:59,200 there is that he begins to drive every part of our Lives into the 149 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,600 purposes of God for us. And so that looks like my 150 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,800 thoughts being influenced by the spirit, my tongue being driven 151 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,800 in a certain way, my reactions being overcome by the spirits 152 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:12,700 influence and not my flesh. The flesh doesn't have the 153 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:14,800 driver see anymore, the spirit does. 154 00:10:15,900 --> 00:10:20,000 And that's why. I know you love to fill your cup 155 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:25,400 of coffee every morning to get you going, but do you daily? 156 00:10:25,700 --> 00:10:28,400 Ask him, fill me with all these Spirit. 157 00:10:29,300 --> 00:10:31,800 Fill me with the Holy Spirit. I don't want to leave this room 158 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:36,700 empty. Again, that imagery helps but we 159 00:10:36,700 --> 00:10:39,200 would get the wrong idea to say that I'm 30% filled with the 160 00:10:39,208 --> 00:10:41,800 spirit and my brother over. There is 70% filled. 161 00:10:42,100 --> 00:10:44,900 That is not the case. The case is this, the Holy 162 00:10:44,900 --> 00:10:51,000 Spirit, having us controlling us influencing us and it is a real 163 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,700 thing. It is observable. 164 00:10:52,700 --> 00:10:56,000 It is tangible. You can almost step outside of 165 00:10:56,008 --> 00:10:59,100 yourself and say there is no way that if it wasn't for the spirit 166 00:10:59,100 --> 00:11:01,200 that I would have responded in the way that I responded to 167 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,700 that. This is what Christ purchased 168 00:11:04,700 --> 00:11:07,900 for you and I and Jesus is in humanity and his Humanity. 169 00:11:07,900 --> 00:11:11,800 Here is exemplifying that and as exciting as that sounds, we also 170 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:15,300 have to be realistic you and I can't move forward from verse 12 171 00:11:16,100 --> 00:11:21,500 without seeing the, the reality, the realistic reality of what a 172 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:24,900 life filled with the Holy Spirit, looks like what it means 173 00:11:24,900 --> 00:11:28,700 to be led by the Holy Spirit. We see the submission of Jesus 174 00:11:28,700 --> 00:11:31,200 to the spirit. And if we don't understand what 175 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:35,300 that entails, Then many of us are setting ourselves up for 176 00:11:35,300 --> 00:11:38,000 great disappointment and grief in the Christian experience. 177 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,500 What do I mean by that? When Jesus according to Luke was 178 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:47,100 full The Holy Spirit. And according to Mark when he 179 00:11:47,100 --> 00:11:51,300 was driven by the Holy Spirit, here's our understanding 180 00:11:52,300 --> 00:11:56,500 majority, at least when I'm when I'm seeking for this Spirit lead 181 00:11:56,500 --> 00:11:58,500 life when I'm seeking to be full. 182 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,300 What we imagine is we are going to just progress from one 183 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:08,100 Blissful experience to the next. Along the lines of what Jesus 184 00:12:08,100 --> 00:12:11,100 knew at his baptism. Oh, Open Heavens. 185 00:12:12,300 --> 00:12:15,700 And manifestations, Supernatural, manifestations, 186 00:12:16,100 --> 00:12:18,200 great. Sensations of the father's, 187 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,300 affirmation and affection for us. 188 00:12:20,300 --> 00:12:24,100 And God is willing to do that. And there are times where we are 189 00:12:24,100 --> 00:12:27,300 caught up with him in a very special way if he chooses to 190 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:31,000 manifest himself in such a way. But what happened, when the Holy 191 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:37,600 Spirit descended Upon Jesus? He was driven out into the where 192 00:12:39,100 --> 00:12:43,100 Wilderness. That's where the Holy Spirit 193 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:45,600 took him. That is the direction of the 194 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,600 Holy Spirit In Jesus life before his public Ministry. 195 00:12:49,500 --> 00:12:54,200 And the Wilderness was nothing like what Jesus experienced at 196 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:59,500 his baptism. Someone observed wisely when he 197 00:12:59,500 --> 00:13:03,100 said that, a life of obedience will remove all unnecessary 198 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:07,500 trials and tribulations in life. The sorrow that your sin and my 199 00:13:07,500 --> 00:13:12,100 sin and Disobedience will bring walking in the path of obedience 200 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:16,300 eliminates. The unnecessary trials in life, 201 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:17,700 yet. Let me say this. 202 00:13:17,700 --> 00:13:21,400 At the same time, we have to know that a life of obedience of 203 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:25,300 being led by the spirit. Asher's us appointments with 204 00:13:25,300 --> 00:13:31,200 necessary, trials and tests. Life. and I know a lot of people 205 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:38,400 who don't understand that, The spirit drove Jesus Into the 206 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:43,100 Wilderness left to ourselves. We would not dare to step foot 207 00:13:43,100 --> 00:13:46,900 into such an environment. Or such a season. 208 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,700 What was in the wilderness? A unique test for our Lord? 209 00:13:50,700 --> 00:13:52,700 Yes. But let's be specific. 210 00:13:52,700 --> 00:13:57,400 There were solitude There was baroness. 211 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:04,200 It was difficult Terrain. It like provision it lacked, the 212 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:08,200 care of other humans. Other people there are real 213 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,100 dangers. There there are, there was 214 00:14:10,100 --> 00:14:13,300 hostility, there are threats at the baptism. 215 00:14:13,300 --> 00:14:16,500 The voice of the father was booming loud and in the 216 00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:18,200 wilderness. What was Amplified? 217 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:26,200 The voice of Satan. And this is where the spirit was 218 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:31,500 leading Jesus. This is where God wanted him to 219 00:14:31,500 --> 00:14:35,600 go and when we dare to believe any differently for our own 220 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:40,000 lives. Do not be surprised that in your 221 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,800 pursuit of being a vessel for the spirit of God, that you find 222 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:47,200 yourself in long periods of pressure, that will test your 223 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,000 trust in God. And how you really rely on his 224 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:56,100 word But, for what reason, I mean, this is, if this is what 225 00:14:56,100 --> 00:14:57,900 it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit, I don't know, I 226 00:14:57,900 --> 00:15:01,800 think I'm not interested. Who wants to go in a Wilderness 227 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:06,900 with the Devil? Who wants to go and be tested? 228 00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:13,800 But that's what the flesh says. Be comforted to know that our 229 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:16,800 God is Not sadistic. You know what that means that he 230 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,100 takes, Pleasure and Pain and torturing us. 231 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:23,700 He doesn't toy with your life. He's not Reckless with your 232 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:25,800 future. He's not uncalculated. 233 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,500 He is perfectly in righteously intentional. 234 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,800 With every single step that you take. 235 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:39,500 He is orchestrating it and you will know a a journey and a 236 00:15:39,500 --> 00:15:43,600 security in that Journey when you live a life led by the Holy 237 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:45,700 Spirit which brings me to the second observation. 238 00:15:45,700 --> 00:15:48,600 The first one was the submission of Jesus to the spirit which is 239 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,200 awesome. But consider with me the 240 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:56,100 security in the spirits leading. Look at Mark again and verse 12 241 00:15:56,100 --> 00:16:00,700 and verse 13. Jesus completed this Mission 242 00:16:00,700 --> 00:16:04,600 without abandoning his post without evacuating prematurely. 243 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,700 And what's so fascinating is when you go to Matthew and Luke, 244 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:10,600 you see this drawn-out encounter with Satan, right? 245 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:13,500 We are all familiar with that the back and forth that goes on 246 00:16:13,500 --> 00:16:16,600 that battle between the devil and our Lord. 247 00:16:16,700 --> 00:16:18,800 But when you come to this, it almost skips. 248 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:20,400 All of that. It's almost as though. 249 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,600 Mark, just wants us to see who and what happened to Jesus, 250 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:27,900 right before the Temptation, and what happened right after He 251 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:31,800 just wants to just kind of skip over it very quickly and that's 252 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,000 not because he doesn't think it's important but even in the 253 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,100 brevity of it, it speaks of what he wants us to see and what you 254 00:16:38,100 --> 00:16:40,700 are left with. As we come to these two verses 255 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:43,700 is this simple thought Jesus succeeded? 256 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,700 He succeeded in his suffering that he experienced in this 257 00:16:48,700 --> 00:16:52,400 Wilderness. He completed it, he passed. 258 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:59,400 And that is so crucial to understand because we would come 259 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,100 to this and we asked ourselves, what we asked with the baptism. 260 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:06,000 But why, why did the spirit have to drive Jesus out? 261 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,300 Why did he have to be tempted for 40 days? 262 00:17:08,700 --> 00:17:10,900 What was it? That that because Matthew says 263 00:17:10,900 --> 00:17:15,200 he went in there to be tempted by the devil for that purpose. 264 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,400 And again, we might scratch our heads and wonder what is the 265 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,800 purpose behind? This was it to make manifest the 266 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:22,900 purity of Christ. You better believe it. 267 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:28,200 Was it to Showcase his power over the devil over all 268 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,200 temptation. Absolutely. 269 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:36,600 But there's more, if Jesus identified with you and I as 270 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:41,300 sinners in his baptism, then surely Jesus identifies with our 271 00:17:41,300 --> 00:17:47,700 Temptations in the wilderness. He identifies with our 272 00:17:47,700 --> 00:17:52,800 Temptations in this. Heightened extreme face off with 273 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:57,000 the tempter himself. And that is something so 274 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,100 crucial. Because you see, as Jesus, 275 00:18:00,100 --> 00:18:03,800 walked in solitude in that Wilderness and that lifeless 276 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:09,700 desert, something was gained something happened in his 277 00:18:09,700 --> 00:18:13,200 Humanity. That is why the scriptures 278 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:19,000 unashamedly tells us about Jesus, in regards to his 279 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:23,200 temptation and how it translates to how you and I relate to him 280 00:18:23,900 --> 00:18:31,200 Hebrews 2:18. For because he himself has 281 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:36,300 suffered. When tempted, he is able to help 282 00:18:36,300 --> 00:18:42,000 those who are being tempted. Now, we know, and this is 283 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,200 important, that there is nothing in Jesus, that would cause him 284 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:46,100 to be tempted. That's you. 285 00:18:46,108 --> 00:18:48,300 And I because we inherited something from Adam that 286 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:51,900 corruption but that does not negate or diminish, the 287 00:18:51,900 --> 00:18:55,300 intensity of the Temptation though, it was outside of him. 288 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,500 How can Jesus suffer with a sinless nature when it comes to 289 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:05,500 Temptation the same way you? And I, when we are walking in 290 00:19:05,500 --> 00:19:08,800 the spirit, when we were walking in Holiness when we are, when we 291 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,300 are in fellowship with the Lord, Not suffer in the presence of 292 00:19:12,300 --> 00:19:16,400 evil. Doesn't that take your heart? 293 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:20,200 Doesn't that tear you apart? And the Soul, when you go out 294 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:22,800 with your family, to some sports game, or whatever it is and you 295 00:19:22,808 --> 00:19:26,800 hear people, blaspheming the name of Jesus, doesn't that send 296 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:30,300 a shiver down your spine when you see all the wickedness that 297 00:19:30,300 --> 00:19:32,800 is being propagated to our children. 298 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:34,400 Does it? Not do something to you? 299 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:37,100 How much more the one who is without sin? 300 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:44,900 How much more the Holy One? Who suffered when tempted. 301 00:19:45,500 --> 00:19:50,200 And what I want to say in light of this is that the Lord did not 302 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:56,000 come into this world merely to be our substitute for sin. 303 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:58,800 That is the climax that is the mission. 304 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,500 Yes. But not merely to be our 305 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:04,600 substitute for sin. He also became our sympathizer 306 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:10,500 in temptation. Sympathizer in Temptation, he 307 00:20:10,500 --> 00:20:13,400 suffered. And in his suffering, there is 308 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:18,500 something of a sympathy. The Temptations here during 309 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:20,600 those 40 days. Ensures us that we can approach. 310 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,400 A God who is experiencing overcame, what what may seem to 311 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,700 overwhelm Us in the moment. This will mean a lot to those 312 00:20:27,700 --> 00:20:33,900 who know the Great War for Holiness and christlikeness, you 313 00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:37,100 know what this means. The Lord the king of glory. 314 00:20:37,100 --> 00:20:43,500 The resurrected one, he feels for you and me, he feels for you 315 00:20:43,500 --> 00:20:46,400 and me. His heart is connected to us. 316 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:53,200 You can relate because there is a shared experience and I don't 317 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,500 know if we understand that the depth of that implication. 318 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,300 But I hope I hope you get an idea of it because I'm sure you. 319 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:03,600 Yes, you at one point in your life, in dire need of help, felt 320 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:07,300 this natural pull to. Go to those who, you know, have 321 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:13,000 shared your suffering. You feel as though you can go to 322 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:17,400 them, go to her because you heard you need to speak to mrs. 323 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,400 So-and-so or brother so-and-so, because they went through 324 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,700 something very similar and they came through. 325 00:21:22,700 --> 00:21:27,200 And so you find yourself coming to those people, and unloading 326 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:31,000 your heart and bearing your heart more naturally because you 327 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:36,200 realize that their counsel will be cushioned with a Grace. 328 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:43,500 And with a patients and with surgical advice because they'd 329 00:21:43,500 --> 00:21:50,900 been through it, they know they felt the fire themselves and so 330 00:21:50,900 --> 00:21:52,700 that's what that's why you go to them. 331 00:21:52,700 --> 00:21:54,900 And and your little bit more hesitant to go to somebody who 332 00:21:54,900 --> 00:21:58,000 might not have that experience. Because there's a concern that 333 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,300 they may not know what to say to you are at worse. 334 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:03,300 Be even indifferent to your suffering because they can't 335 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:07,100 understand why this is so crushing to you. 336 00:22:08,100 --> 00:22:11,000 There's almost like this glass window between you and them and 337 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,800 there's no touch there, there's no heart to heart there. 338 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,800 And here's what we know. The Lord Jesus himself can help 339 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,100 us because he can relate to us in all things because he was, he 340 00:22:23,100 --> 00:22:28,700 was tempted in all ways. What that means is I can come 341 00:22:28,700 --> 00:22:32,400 limping into the presence of Jesus Christ. 342 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:38,600 I can come broken smashed shattered. 343 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:42,800 Barely able to keep myself up and I can communicate though. 344 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,800 In reverence yes. But also freely in my suffering 345 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:50,300 because I have an awareness that he patiently. 346 00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:54,200 Here's me. Because he endured. 347 00:22:55,200 --> 00:23:01,100 All things. So I'm not speaking to a god 348 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:05,200 that looks and he's so distant. This distant deity. 349 00:23:05,900 --> 00:23:09,900 I says okay come on, let's go here but one who actually 350 00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:15,300 inhabits the Brokenness of his people and he sits close and he 351 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:17,700 now only gives me his listening ear. 352 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:23,100 He then now provides the precise, wisdom and counsel and 353 00:23:23,100 --> 00:23:30,400 power, so that I can overcome and like he did He's so 354 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,200 attractive. He's so wonderful. 355 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:40,000 And and the spirit as glorious as I truth, it's not the main 356 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,500 point of what I'm trying to communicate. 357 00:23:41,500 --> 00:23:44,800 Because what I want to say is that it was the spirit who led 358 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:50,600 Christ to suffer in this way. And in doing so he could be a 359 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:56,600 sympathizer with us. And that is just one aspect to 360 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,200 why he was tempted. And what does that mean for us? 361 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:03,900 Surely the spirit as he leads us as he guides us, what may be 362 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:10,900 unpleasant what may be a season with wild and strange people you 363 00:24:10,908 --> 00:24:14,800 know what I'm talking about? No just do ministry a little 364 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,200 longer. Serve got a little bit longer 365 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:23,700 and sometimes even leading us into while we're obeying. 366 00:24:24,900 --> 00:24:31,000 Threats. and slander, and Can all these strange things that 367 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,300 are not warranted? That don't make sense. 368 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,000 And am I here? Because of Disobedience? 369 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:42,200 Be careful. Jesus was perfect and the spirit 370 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,600 perfectly led him into such a thing. 371 00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:52,800 A Wilderness with wild animals. In a vicious devil for what? 372 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,400 For the same aim with the Masters so that incoming out of 373 00:24:57,408 --> 00:24:59,600 it, you would inherit something sweet. 374 00:25:00,900 --> 00:25:03,000 And that you would gain something sacred. 375 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,700 In such a way, that others will be blessed by it. 376 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,600 The spirit, that's the security in his leadership. 377 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:20,500 I have no reason to be afraid. It doesn't make sense Jesus, 378 00:25:20,500 --> 00:25:25,200 just obey Jesus, just finished, humbling himself in the presence 379 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:29,600 of a crowd before God. And he was showered with the 380 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,800 spirit and he was given affirmation. 381 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,800 And immediately you're brought into such a thing. 382 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,700 Do you believe for a moment that a Spirit Led Life Is void of 383 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:42,500 Temptation? Is void of challenge. 384 00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:51,300 Is void of danger. And hostility and problems. 385 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,100 Not the unnecessary ones but necessary ones. 386 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,400 And that is what we see with Jesus here. 387 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,800 And that should encourage us as we seek to live in obedience to 388 00:26:00,808 --> 00:26:03,400 him. I can trust his leadership. 389 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:06,900 No matter. What is around me or, who is 390 00:26:06,900 --> 00:26:10,300 around me? The security in the spirits 391 00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:15,100 leadership of may also add the standard of service to God the 392 00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:18,300 submission of Jesus, to the spirit, makes you want to 393 00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:22,500 worship Him. The security of the spirits 394 00:26:22,500 --> 00:26:27,900 leadership and makes you safe, feel safe, knowing that the 395 00:26:27,900 --> 00:26:31,100 spirit will never lead you to something that is without profit 396 00:26:31,700 --> 00:26:33,600 even when it comes with the great problems. 397 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,500 But there is also an example here by Jesus, there's a 398 00:26:36,500 --> 00:26:40,400 standard of service to God. What do I mean by that? 399 00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:45,900 When we understand the timing of Jesus Temptation here, it's good 400 00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:49,400 to know that it was right before his public Ministry. 401 00:26:50,100 --> 00:26:53,600 It was right before he would go out into Galilee and he would 402 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,100 begin preaching and doing great signs and wonders. 403 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,300 And when you go to look for, again, look with me in verse 14 404 00:27:01,300 --> 00:27:13,200 and notice what we are told. And Jesus returned after the 405 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:18,700 Temptation in the power. In the power of the spirit to 406 00:27:18,700 --> 00:27:21,200 Galilee, you come back to Mark and what do you read? 407 00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:24,900 Or read a verse 14. Now after John was arrested in 408 00:27:24,900 --> 00:27:27,500 chapter 1 verse 14. Jesus came into Galilee, 409 00:27:27,500 --> 00:27:30,500 proclaiming the gospel. Luke wants to make us know that 410 00:27:30,500 --> 00:27:35,800 he came also in power and Power. You know what I find amazing is 411 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,400 that the spirit of God that We Came Upon Jesus didn't make him 412 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:39,900 go into public ministry, right away. 413 00:27:41,700 --> 00:27:45,400 And I think this is a great great reminder. 414 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,500 For those who are aspiring Servants of God, please pay 415 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:50,600 attention to what I'm about to say. 416 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,500 Because I think, I think this is one of the reasons why there is 417 00:27:53,508 --> 00:27:56,000 so much powerlessness in Christendom in the West. 418 00:27:57,700 --> 00:27:59,300 You may disagree with me, but that's okay. 419 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,000 If any aspiring servant of God desires to be effective 420 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,900 publicly, is that you the know this, he first must know victory 421 00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:15,900 over Temptation privately. If any aspiring servant of God 422 00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:18,100 wants to be effective for Christ publicly. 423 00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:22,200 He first must know, Triumph and victory over Temptation 424 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:26,800 privately. The church. 425 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,600 Can I expect to make an impact on the world? 426 00:28:30,700 --> 00:28:35,000 When she is flirting and Sleeping With the Devil behind 427 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,700 the scenes. It's not going to happen. 428 00:28:41,300 --> 00:28:44,300 Jesus came into Galilee with power because he resisted 429 00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:47,000 Temptation when no one was looking. 430 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,900 David killed Goliath. But what was he doing before? 431 00:28:51,900 --> 00:28:54,600 When no one was looking, he was killing bears and lions. 432 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,100 And we will not see great advancements. 433 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:05,200 We will now know great blessings of the spirit of God as the body 434 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,800 of Jesus Christ. If we cannot do the first and 435 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:15,100 most important thing and that is saying no to unholiness and no 436 00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:21,800 to evil. when we are, when we are not in sight of the world to 437 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:28,000 see And I make that case from the example of Our Lord, that 438 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:33,000 there is a correlation listen to powerful Ministry. 439 00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:40,800 And private holiness. Consider the example of Jesus, 440 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:46,900 he came into the Wilderness triumphed over the devil and 441 00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:52,100 then he went out and was able to minister and bless those who are 442 00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:57,700 oppressed by the devil. You can imagine how there can be 443 00:29:57,700 --> 00:30:01,900 a series of messages just from combining the Temptation 444 00:30:01,900 --> 00:30:04,800 accounts from Matthew Mark and Luke, but we will focus on just 445 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,800 what is presented before us. Today, when you come to verse 13 446 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,300 of Mark, what do you see? He was in the wilderness forty 447 00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:13,900 days, we know that being tempted by Satan, that it seems to be 448 00:30:13,900 --> 00:30:17,500 common knowledge and then we read at the end and Angels were 449 00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:19,200 ministering to him. Matthew says the same thing, 450 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,800 Mark doesn't at the end of the Temptation, when he did succeed 451 00:30:22,900 --> 00:30:27,800 and Satan left, Until another opportune time, God sent 452 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:32,600 servants, Heavenly beings to come and to minister unto Jesus. 453 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:36,500 Now, the nature of the ministry is unknown, but it could very 454 00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:39,400 likely be that, these Angels Came seeing. 455 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,300 Their glorious savior wrapped in flesh, who also knew the 456 00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:46,700 limitations of the flesh. He was hungry, he was thirsty, 457 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,800 he was weary and it's very likely. 458 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,100 I just like a weary. Elijah in the wilderness of his 459 00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:53,600 day, the Angels Came to feed him. 460 00:30:54,900 --> 00:30:56,800 To encourage him with their presence. 461 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,200 And that is mentioned so that you and I are reminded of the 462 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:05,900 humanity of Jesus Christ. He didn't bulldoze through the 463 00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:10,500 desert necessarily. With Glory. 464 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:16,600 He went in as a man depended upon the holy spirit and he knew 465 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,400 how exhausting it was. He knew how draining it was and 466 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,200 then I can relate to him in that and he can relate to me. 467 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,400 And so even in my obedience and yours when we come out and we 468 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,700 were exhausted and dress, we he can he understands he doesn't 469 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:34,000 look as a come on, what kind of serving are you get up? 470 00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:37,600 Nothing of the sort. And so the humanity of Jesus 471 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,000 here, highlighted but there's something that Mark says that 472 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,200 Loop is Mentioned neither. There's Matthew. 473 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,500 It seems to be an insignificant detail, seems to be unimportant, 474 00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:50,700 it seems to just maybe put some color to the scene. 475 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:57,900 And it is this and he was with the wild animals. 476 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,200 He was with the Wild and Luke doesn't say that. 477 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,500 Matthew doesn't want to mention it. 478 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,600 But Mark wants to let us know that when Jesus went into that 479 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,100 desert. He was surrounded. 480 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,300 By Wild. Animals. 481 00:32:22,100 --> 00:32:25,000 Why? Why does that matter? 482 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,700 I think it's much deeper than just knowing another layer to 483 00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:36,200 the potential potential danger, while he was traveling through 484 00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:40,500 that Wasteland. When you put the other pieces 485 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:44,000 and these two verses together, perhaps the light bulb will go 486 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:49,100 off, here it is. Animals. 487 00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:57,200 Satan. Temptation. 488 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:03,400 Animals. Satan. 489 00:33:05,100 --> 00:33:09,800 Temptation. I believe what we're seeing 490 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,200 here. Are the elements that were 491 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,300 present in the world described by the word of God before the 492 00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:20,800 fall? With a much different setting of 493 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,600 course. Right before the encounter 494 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:29,000 between Satan, and our first parents, Adam was in a luscious 495 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:37,200 Lively Paradise like Garden. Not a wasteland, not a desert 496 00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:41,800 now where there was danger and death, and he was also with 497 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:47,500 animals, not wild, beasts, but tamed beasts, approachable 498 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:55,400 friendly. Ones that presented no threat of 499 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,300 any kind of danger. There is no fear there in 500 00:33:57,300 --> 00:34:01,400 relation to these animals. But even though Adam was in a 501 00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:04,500 more favorable and ideal environment, when it came to 502 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:10,300 Satan tempting him in that atmosphere, he failed He failed. 503 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,800 Collaterally. He failed you and I are still 504 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,000 experiencing the consequences of that. 505 00:34:18,300 --> 00:34:23,000 But then comes Jesus. Who is led by the spirit Into 506 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:25,500 the Wilderness and while traveling he's surrounded with 507 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:30,400 the looming danger of the threats of animals that are no 508 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,600 longer tamed but are by Nature aggressive. 509 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,199 And there is a limitation there between how much you can 510 00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:42,100 actually relate to these beasts. And there is no Garden. 511 00:34:42,100 --> 00:34:46,400 There is no glorious Rivers. There is no abundance of trees 512 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:55,100 is just dust and dirt and death. And it seems as though Mark is 513 00:34:55,100 --> 00:35:00,200 trying to communicate this. The conditions that Jesus was in 514 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:05,400 were far less favorable than what Adam was experiencing but 515 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,700 he still was able to triumph over Satan. 516 00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:16,100 He still was able to resist and conquer the lies of the evil 517 00:35:16,100 --> 00:35:23,300 one. and the point, the point is this, it's not just for a clever 518 00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:31,900 connection, massive implication, Massive implication and you only 519 00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:34,100 really understand it. When you understand one of the 520 00:35:34,100 --> 00:35:38,200 titles that Jesus was given by the Apostle Paul and I'll just 521 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,300 read it to you. Hold it as a reference for 522 00:35:40,300 --> 00:35:45,300 another time and First Corinthians 15:45 listen to how 523 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:51,100 Paul in this in this really in his essay, a trying to explain 524 00:35:52,100 --> 00:35:55,000 and prove the resurrection. He goes back and forth between 525 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:59,600 Adam and Christ and he says in First Corinthians 15:45 thus it 526 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:04,200 is written the first man. Adam became a living being the 527 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:08,600 last Adam. The last I saw the last human 528 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,200 being who's going to exist the last item is Christ. 529 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:15,200 The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 530 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:22,500 Jesus is known as the last item. What's the connection? 531 00:36:22,500 --> 00:36:27,900 Why is the spirit of God wanting us to relate Adam and Christ? 532 00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:32,300 What do they share? I think the main thing that they 533 00:36:32,300 --> 00:36:38,200 share is that they had both a representative role in humanity. 534 00:36:40,500 --> 00:36:45,000 They both shared a representative role in humanity. 535 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,200 Meaning, what? Adam is your father and mine in 536 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:52,400 the flesh. Being the first man created. 537 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:56,000 He, the theological term is the federal head of mankind. 538 00:36:57,300 --> 00:37:00,800 The federal head of mankind and because he's the federal head, 539 00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:03,700 the decisions that he makes whatever consequences come 540 00:37:03,700 --> 00:37:07,600 about, we share in them. That is why you and I are born 541 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:11,000 into this world with corruption. That is why your precious little 542 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,000 child? Does it need to be taught how to 543 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,500 lie. Does it need to be taught? 544 00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:17,200 Not to bite John it. And he knows how to bite Johnny. 545 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,700 You got to tell him not to bite. Johnny, you got a time to tell 546 00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:22,800 the truth. You gotta tell him not to be 547 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,500 selfish. That is all because of our 548 00:37:26,500 --> 00:37:32,300 representative in the flesh Adam and yet a man who is outside of 549 00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:38,200 the curse Christ entering into our world seeking to be a new 550 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:42,500 head seeking to be a new representative wants to create a 551 00:37:42,508 --> 00:37:45,500 new people who experience. The blessing. 552 00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:50,900 Not the consequence of his obedience You and I are 553 00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:55,200 suffering of the Disobedience because of our first father, and 554 00:37:55,200 --> 00:38:00,000 Adam, and Jesus comes in untainted by Adamson, so that he 555 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,600 can walk as a representative for Humanity. 556 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:07,100 And those who would come to faith in him would be linked to 557 00:38:07,100 --> 00:38:09,300 him. And then know the blessings that 558 00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:12,500 he brings as the one who stands in our place. 559 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:18,000 I hope that makes sense. God so loved us. 560 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:22,500 Listen, he came into our broken world to rescue us from being in 561 00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:26,700 Adam and remaining in Adam and I'm paying for the consequences 562 00:38:26,700 --> 00:38:31,400 of being an atom by opening a way so that you and I can be in 563 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:37,300 Christ and hide in Christ and be linked to Christ. 564 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,200 And to experience the glories that Christ made possible for 565 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,000 us. So you don't you and I don't 566 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:45,900 share in the consequences of Adam anymore. 567 00:38:45,900 --> 00:38:52,500 Who failed in the garden. You and I enjoy the blessings of 568 00:38:52,500 --> 00:38:56,400 The Obedience of Jesus. Yes, on the cross, but also in 569 00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:04,100 the wilderness, You and I are not going to pay for failing. 570 00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:07,400 For failing to resist temptation. 571 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:11,700 You and I inherit Christ, Perfection over every kind of 572 00:39:11,707 --> 00:39:16,800 Temptation that came his way. And that is why Jesus being with 573 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:20,100 the wild animals is so significant because he was 574 00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:24,800 reversing the curse. That Adam brought into the world 575 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,100 that didn't just affect us who are created in the image of God. 576 00:39:27,100 --> 00:39:31,400 But affected even the animal kingdom and nature itself. 577 00:39:33,100 --> 00:39:36,800 And so he seeking to heal it. The things that have been 578 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:41,200 fractured because of Adam and now he comes in and he right 579 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,600 from the beginning is already ceiling. 580 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,500 As we read this. He's already sealing the victory 581 00:39:47,500 --> 00:39:51,100 by overcoming Satan and only is going to bring it into full 582 00:39:51,100 --> 00:39:55,400 effect at the cross. By saying I overcame what man 583 00:39:55,400 --> 00:40:02,700 failed to do and the full effect of this reversal is not yet, 584 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:07,100 it's not yet, it's to come and even Isaiah hundreds of years 585 00:40:07,100 --> 00:40:09,300 before Christ gives us a little glimpse into it. 586 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,600 You know, the verse the United Isaiah 11:6, the wolf shall 587 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:17,600 dwell with the lamb. And the leopard shall lie down 588 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,700 with the young goat and the calf, and The Lion, and the 589 00:40:20,700 --> 00:40:23,500 fattened, calf together. And a little child shall lead 590 00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:26,900 them. A little child shall lead them. 591 00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:31,600 Some would say this is allegorical very difficult to 592 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:35,800 make the case. I see a universal redemption in 593 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,700 Jesus Christ, that's what it is. He's not just coming to save us. 594 00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:42,400 He's coming to bring a new heavens and a new Earth. 595 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,300 He's coming to restore everything. 596 00:40:44,300 --> 00:40:46,900 Everything that has been tainted by sin, everything that Adam 597 00:40:46,900 --> 00:40:50,300 messed up. He's going to come and clean up 598 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,400 and restore and renew. So that everywhere you look in 599 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,300 that Millennial Reign and everywhere you look in that 600 00:40:57,300 --> 00:41:01,900 Eternal age, you will see. Christ is a strong savior. 601 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:03,700 He saved. Yes, us. 602 00:41:03,700 --> 00:41:07,700 But he saved the universe all things. 603 00:41:09,900 --> 00:41:13,900 And he is giving us a glimpse of that Victory as he comes in 604 00:41:13,900 --> 00:41:17,800 these two verses to show off. I overcame what Adam could not 605 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,400 overcome, even though the surrounding environment was not 606 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:26,400 in my favor, I'm still able To obey the father. 607 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,500 And that obedience is transferred to you. 608 00:41:30,300 --> 00:41:33,600 I want to end by saying this, our culture is trying to create 609 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:38,100 all these categories. Of how humans can identify 610 00:41:38,100 --> 00:41:40,800 themselves and it's getting weirder by the week. 611 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:48,500 I can't keep up with this stuff. And here's what I want to tell 612 00:41:48,500 --> 00:41:51,500 you today, I don't care what PhD says, what? 613 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,000 I don't care, what university teaches, what I don't care what 614 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:00,600 anybody in the white house, has to say, God's house has a word, 615 00:42:01,100 --> 00:42:04,100 and this is what I want to tell you, no matter what Humanity 616 00:42:04,100 --> 00:42:07,600 creates in terms of categories, no matter how kind of what kind 617 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,800 of race ideology and narrative is being presented. 618 00:42:10,900 --> 00:42:16,800 The Bible draws a simple line Of where Humanity falls into and 619 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,700 it's your choice, you're either in Adam or you're in Christ. 620 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,700 As one preacher said it, you're either dead in sin or you're 621 00:42:25,700 --> 00:42:28,800 dead to sin. That's it. 622 00:42:28,900 --> 00:42:33,200 Nothing else. You're either in Adam or you're 623 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:34,700 in Christ? Where are you? 624 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:41,700 Where are you today? Have you been transferred from 625 00:42:41,700 --> 00:42:44,500 the domain of Darkness into the kingdom of his light? 626 00:42:46,500 --> 00:42:51,300 Have you been driven from conviction into the loving arms 627 00:42:51,300 --> 00:42:54,600 of a savior to say I no longer want to be under the headship of 628 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,900 Adam, I must come and make you my Lord. 629 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,200 I want to be covered by your righteousness. 630 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:05,800 I want to be restored. I want to know this renewal save 631 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:07,900 me. Renew me. 632 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:13,400 Have you done that? I want to let you know that 633 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:14,900 today. It can all change. 634 00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:20,100 It can all change by decision of humility, to say hi. 635 00:43:20,100 --> 00:43:24,000 No, I know that Jesus Christ is not my Lord. 636 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,500 I know that I have not crowned him my savior. 637 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,100 I have not fully understood the legal implications of what he 638 00:43:31,100 --> 00:43:34,000 did while walking in this world and dying on that cross. 639 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,900 But now I know, I know what it means for me and I know that he 640 00:43:38,900 --> 00:43:44,100 bids me to come so that I would know that his obedience is Mine 641 00:43:44,100 --> 00:43:47,800 by faith. That's what you have to do. 642 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,900 That's what you have to understand because until then I 643 00:43:50,908 --> 00:43:52,800 don't care what kind of money you have. 644 00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:55,700 I don't care how smart you think you are. 645 00:43:56,100 --> 00:43:58,500 I don't care what kind of future you're trying to build for 646 00:43:58,500 --> 00:44:06,300 yourself. Satan owns you Satan owns you. 647 00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,200 You're a slave to sin, aren't you? 648 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:16,100 You can't shake it off. No matter how much you pump into 649 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,000 self-will and selfish ambition you fall, don't you? 650 00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,900 It's because you have a merciless Master over your life, 651 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:30,300 that's why. And there is a Merciful Savior 652 00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:33,700 who wants to rescue you and deliver you. 653 00:44:34,900 --> 00:44:39,100 And not just be your substitute listen to this for your sin but 654 00:44:39,100 --> 00:44:42,600 that as you become the Redeemed by faith, he becomes your 655 00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:46,800 sympathizer in Temptation. So that as you walk in this life 656 00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:50,100 and you with a brand new heart filled with the Holy Spirit 657 00:44:50,100 --> 00:44:53,500 desire to live for him and you fall and Temptation seemed so 658 00:44:53,500 --> 00:44:56,000 strong and the tide seems to be pulling you. 659 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:57,900 Almost sweeping you off your feet. 660 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,900 You come to the master who saved you say, help me again and he's 661 00:45:01,900 --> 00:45:05,700 there to help you again. And if you do fall, you come to 662 00:45:05,700 --> 00:45:08,400 seek forgiveness. He forgives you, he doesn't kick 663 00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,400 you out. But he binds up your wounds and 664 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,700 he heals you. He restores you. 665 00:45:14,900 --> 00:45:17,700 And he is for you. This is who I present to you 666 00:45:17,700 --> 00:45:21,300 today. The Glorious Majestic 667 00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:25,300 infinitely, Beautiful. Jesus Christ of Nazareth who was 668 00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,400 risen from the dead. Can be your savior today. 669 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:32,600 Make him your savior today. There is no other in Jesus name, 670 00:45:32,900 --> 00:45:49,900 let's pray. Father, thank you. 671 00:45:49,900 --> 00:45:53,700 That Jesus Christ identifies with our temptation. 672 00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:56,800 Thank you. That we have a high priest who 673 00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:03,500 is sympathetic, whose heart feels for us, who knows exactly 674 00:46:03,500 --> 00:46:06,900 what to prescribe to us, because he has been through it himself. 675 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,500 For we ask that you would receive worship worship, not 676 00:46:12,500 --> 00:46:16,700 just in song, but by your grace worship to say, no to Temptation 677 00:46:16,700 --> 00:46:20,100 that, that itself would be worship as your word says, that 678 00:46:20,100 --> 00:46:23,300 our body should be a Living Sacrifice acceptable, worship 679 00:46:23,300 --> 00:46:26,300 unto you Lord. May we see the fight against 680 00:46:26,300 --> 00:46:30,800 temptation as an opportunity to exalt Christ in our know, in our 681 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:35,400 rejection and our Triumph by your power and Lord, we pray by 682 00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,100 your mercy that we would be a powerful. 683 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:43,500 For group of Believers because in private, you've helped us 684 00:46:43,500 --> 00:46:46,900 overcome sin. So that in public, there is no, 685 00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:51,500 there is no Authority lost because of hypocrisy, there is 686 00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:54,300 no grievance of the holy spirit so that he will not work in and 687 00:46:54,300 --> 00:46:57,800 through US, Lord, we want all that he has, we wanted to take 688 00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:03,400 the driver's seat of Maranatha, Bible Church, And Lord not just 689 00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,900 in our meetings but in our lives and our families and our 690 00:47:06,900 --> 00:47:10,700 relationship with others. Lord, we want your leadership. 691 00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:17,600 We thank you for the head of the church, Jesus Christ, we thank 692 00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,500 you that in him. We have life in him, we have 693 00:47:20,500 --> 00:47:24,600 reward in him. We have eternal life. 694 00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:30,400 Thank you that you've rescued us from from Adams Race and brought 695 00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:36,600 us into. The securing provision as a 696 00:47:36,607 --> 00:47:38,600 child of God. We worship you. 697 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:42,500 We want to just magnify you for giving us a taste of your glory. 698 00:47:42,900 --> 00:47:45,100 In these two verses in Jesus name we pray. 699 00:47:45,500 --> 00:47:47,300 Amen. Can we stand and Worship the 700 00:47:47,300 --> 00:47:47,700 Lord?