1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,680 This is City Post Church. We're about three things. 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:08,160 Build equipped and send. All under the Lordship of Jesus. 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,240 Christ. A small church plant in Fort 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,400 Worth, TX. Who decided to do things a 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,800 little differently? Adoramos Ayesu cristo. 6 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:18,920 I love City Post because of the people. 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:21,960 It's where I belong. We truly preach the Word. 8 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,680 I love City Post because of the community we've been able to 9 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:26,680 build. To do ministry like Jesus. 10 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:28,720 For light to push back. Darkness. 11 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:39,770 This is City Post podcast. I actually grew up in South. 12 00:00:39,770 --> 00:00:43,250 Florida, and not a Fort Worthian, but Fort Worth is 13 00:00:43,250 --> 00:00:46,290 home. That's right, the funk. 14 00:00:46,290 --> 00:00:49,730 I grew up in South Florida in Pompano Beach and we lived in an 15 00:00:49,730 --> 00:00:53,570 area called Margate and in Margate down the street from our 16 00:00:53,570 --> 00:00:57,370 home was a pond. Now as kids. 17 00:00:57,370 --> 00:00:59,120 It looked like a lake. We. 18 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:00,080 We. Called it a lake. 19 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,400 And it's funny, you go back now you're just like, that's it. 20 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,000 Like that's that's tiny. But as a child, you're like. 21 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,720 That thing is massive so me and my friends we would spend. 22 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:11,160 Our days outside. Going to the lake and we would 23 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,280 go fishing all the time. We would catch our own bait. 24 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:16,120 We'd get crawdads, we get. Shrimp. 25 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:18,200 We get little minnows. And we'd just. 26 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:20,080 Be out there fishing. But the thing that worked? 27 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:24,080 Best was bread, and with bread you could catch. 28 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:27,200 Brim and all that stuff, but there was one day in. 29 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,160 Particular where I really. Wanted to go to the. 30 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:33,240 Lake I was. Feeling it in my bones, I was, I 31 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:34,680 think I was like 10 or 11 years old. 32 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,440 I'm like, I'm going to the lake today and I want to go fishing. 33 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,880 So I go to my mom and I ask my mom, Mom, can I go to the lake? 34 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,760 And what does she tell me? No, your brother's not with you. 35 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:47,560 Dad's almost home. We're going to have dinner. 36 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:51,680 You cannot go to the lake now. I'm in a little bit of a 37 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:53,840 conundrum now. Because. 38 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,200 You ever see those cartoons where you. 39 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,760 Have like the devil. And an Angel talking on your 40 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,920 shoulders and. There was a little. 41 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:01,200 Bit of me that was like, man, Ricky. 42 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,080 Just go to lake. Nobody's going to know. 43 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,560 And then this one's like, listen to your mom, you should obey. 44 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,120 And so anyway. So what I did was. 45 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,039 I got my little McDonald's toolbox. 46 00:02:10,039 --> 00:02:13,240 I put my fishing can in there. I went to the kitchen and I got. 47 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:15,440 The butt of the bread. Because nobody pays attention to 48 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,160 it. And then I took it and I was 49 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:19,360 like, you know what? I could go. 50 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,240 To the lake, get a. Few minutes of fishing and run 51 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,320 back home and mom will never know. 52 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,000 So the mission was on. So I did all. 53 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,160 That and I snuck away when my mom was cooking dinner. 54 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,040 Went to the lake. Got to the dock. 55 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,280 I kept looking over my shoulder because this was scandalous. 56 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:39,520 I'm like disobeying my mom knowingly. 57 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:42,080 But I was like. But I got to get the fishing in 58 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:47,240 and as I'm fishing, no lie. I catch the biggest fish I've 59 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,840 ever. Seen in my life and that thing, 60 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,360 I pulled this brim out. It's about this big, and as a 61 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:58,480 kid you are now a superhero. Like this is what? 62 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,280 Legends are made of. Right, so I pull the. 63 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,520 Fish out and I'll people. Are like. 64 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:07,360 Gathering around me, if they had camera phones, it would be all. 65 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,920 Over, but it wasn't right. So people are like, wow, look at 66 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:13,480 that. Thing and I was so excited and 67 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,080 the one thing I thought of myself. 68 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,440 I got to go. Show my dad so I. 69 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:23,200 Take the fish. On the string with the line, I 70 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:28,400 leave everything there and I run home with my fish and I mean, I 71 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:32,160 am booking it. I'm so excited to show my dad 72 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:36,200 and I get there and my dad's at home and my mom's outside 73 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,720 waiting, but I'm not thinking about that. 74 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:42,320 'Cause I got the biggest. Fish I've ever seen in the 75 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:45,000 world. So I get there and I'm like, 76 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,440 Dad, look. At the size of this. 77 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:48,520 Thing and my mom's like, didn't I tell you not to? 78 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,560 Go look at the size of this thing. 79 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,720 You're grounded so no leg for the next like 2. 80 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,960 Weeks. And then we put it in the 81 00:03:57,960 --> 00:03:59,720 bucket. My dad made me go take it. 82 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:02,960 Back it'll take your happy. Butt back, throw it and you're 83 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:04,440 in trouble 'cause you didn't listen to your mom. 84 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,440 You know what's funny? Is was that one moment worth 85 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,920 losing out the next? Two or three weeks. 86 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:17,079 And honestly, no, it wasn't. Because now I can't go with my 87 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:21,079 friends, Now I'm stuck. And when we talk about 88 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:24,120 temptation in our lives, temptation. 89 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:28,600 Always ties. An empty reward to it at the 90 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,440 time. When temptation comes at you, it 91 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,560 always seems wonderful. It always seems like man I. 92 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,560 Could just get this thing. Right here and right now, 93 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,640 instant gratification and it it has this. 94 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,120 Reward. That is very, very. 95 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,040 Empty. It's an empty promise. 96 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,680 It's a reward without value. It's a. 97 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:49,720 It's a. It builds a bridge that leads. 98 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,920 To nowhere with streets of nothingness. 99 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,960 And at the moment in time, it sounds like a great idea. 100 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,440 It sounds like there's something I could be celebrated with, but 101 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:05,120 the consequences of falling into temptation far. 102 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:10,360 Outweigh the rewards of life. We're going to look at Matthew 103 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:15,040 chapter 4, and this is. Our last, our our last. 104 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,480 Teaching in this this fight. Club series. 105 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:20,880 It's fight this. Whole idea of fighting 106 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,520 temptation. Jesus is about to go to. 107 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:28,200 The wilderness and Satan is about to meet him out there and 108 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:29,440 Jesus. Is about to be tested. 109 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:33,440 With temptation and I believe. That Jesus gives us. 110 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,920 An outline he maps out how to fight temptation off. 111 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:42,280 And this is going to help us. Today, man, I love what? 112 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:44,400 Luther said. Martin Luther, if you read his. 113 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:45,520 Stuff, he says. Prayer. 114 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:50,000 Meditation and temptation are the three best instructors for a 115 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,200 gospel minister. Temptation comes for every 116 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,320 single person. It's not only for some people, 117 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:59,360 it's not for good. People listen. 118 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,640 It's for all. People, especially with 119 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:07,760 believers, all of us are tempted by something differently. 120 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:10,680 But the fact that. Of the matter is that we're all 121 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,400 tempted. So what does it look like? 122 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,920 To fight this thing off, we have to look at the example that 123 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,520 Jesus gives us. So before we read the text, I 124 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:22,640 got to set. This thing up. 125 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:27,480 Jesus just got baptized. By John the Baptist So after he 126 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:31,000 is immersed in the water, a dove comes down, lands on his 127 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,880 shoulder. God speaks from the heavens, so 128 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:39,560 this is my son. Who I truly love and right after 129 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:44,320 Jesus gets out of the water it. Says in verse 1 then. 130 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,720 Jesus was led by who? By the Spirit. 131 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:52,320 The Spirit. LED Jesus into the wilderness to 132 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:57,240 be tempted. By the devil, see what Jesus. 133 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,880 About to teach us now he he is identifying with humanity and 134 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:06,760 baptism and he's also going to do this in temptation but the 135 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,520 thing about. Christ is that he's. 136 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:11,720 Going to be tempted, but he's never going to sin. 137 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:13,760 He is the great example for us to look at. 138 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:17,160 Now the Holy Spirit. Now listen, the Holy Spirit 139 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,360 cannot tempt you. That's. 140 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:23,320 James chapter one, verse 13. The Holy Spirit might lead us 141 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:28,880 into a place where we are tempted, but it's not to prove 142 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:31,160 something to God. It's for God to prove. 143 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:35,440 Something to us and God might pull you into these. 144 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:38,880 These temptations pull you into these times, allow you to 145 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:43,240 experience it so that way you may rely on Him. 146 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:45,480 That way he could grow you that way. 147 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,840 He could teach you something. Now what's interesting? 148 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:53,320 Here is that Jesus is about to there's going to be like there's 149 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:55,360 there's two realities that he's about. 150 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,520 To walk into He just came out of the cooling waters of the 151 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:00,000 Jordan. And he's about to go. 152 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:05,480 To the barren wilderness, huge crowds, to solitude and silence. 153 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,480 He has a dove that. Rests on him with the Holy 154 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,320 Spirit. Now the Holy Spirit is going to 155 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,920 take him to the wilderness. He has the voice of the Father. 156 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:17,160 Calling him my beloved son. Now he has the hiss of Satan 157 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,960 trying to tempt him. He is anointed and now he's 158 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:21,360 attacked. There's water. 159 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:23,560 Baptism. Now there's fire of temptation. 160 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:25,880 The heavens open up. Now he's about to go walk. 161 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:29,560 Through hell. And many of our temptations 162 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:34,960 usually come out of a time when we have experienced Christ in an 163 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:39,360 amazing. Way you you learn about Jesus, 164 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,200 God does. Something here comes the enemy. 165 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,680 What? Are you going to do and I love 166 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:48,480 verse 2. I think verse 2 is the most. 167 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:53,240 Realist verse in all of. Scripture after fasting 40 days 168 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,480 and 40 night. He was hungry. 169 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:00,160 That's real. I get hungry after four hours. 170 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:05,720 So I'm saying 40 days and 40 nights. 171 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,680 Jesus was fasting. The Spirit led him to the 172 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:12,600 wilderness to fast. Why he was about to. 173 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:16,480 Start begin his earthly ministry and when we look at. 174 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:18,840 Biblical. Fasting, Biblical fasting is 175 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:19,680 about. Food. 176 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,880 Now, I know we live in a culture where we like to fast from other 177 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,000 things. So we're like, man, I'm fasting 178 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,840 from chocolate, I'm fasting from Doctor Pepper, I'm fasting from 179 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:29,640 social media. Listen, those things are. 180 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:31,480 Great. It's a great way to reset your 181 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,160 life. But it's not biblical. 182 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:35,800 Biblical fasting is a fasting from food. 183 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:37,960 The best way? That I've heard it said. 184 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:42,760 Is that fasting is starving your body to fatten your spirit so. 185 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:44,160 Jesus is. Starving him. 186 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:48,800 He is seeking the father, he is fasting from food, and he's 187 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:54,000 getting to the end of his. Fast Moses was without food. 188 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,640 For in Mount Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights, we see that in 189 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:01,520 Deuteronomy Chapter 9 verse 9. Elijah Fasted. 190 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:06,920 This long as well in First Kings 19 verse 8. 40 days and. 40 191 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,560 nights seems like a a a period of testing in the scripture. 192 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:12,560 We see this in both the days of Noah. 193 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:16,560 We also see this as the. Israelites are in the wilderness 194 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:21,600 for 40 years, but here's the difference between all of them. 195 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,560 Jesus was the only. One to successfully do it 196 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:27,680 without breaking the promises of God. 197 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,480 Jesus did it without. Sinning. 198 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:35,800 Jesus did it without grumbling. Matthew points out that he's 199 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,720 going into a barren desert if you study the wilderness of 200 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,760 Judea. It was just that it was a. 201 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:42,680 Desert. It's hot. 202 00:10:42,680 --> 00:10:44,360 There's nothing that grows there. 203 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,560 He couldn't just find berries on the ground or streams of water. 204 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:50,560 It was a. Barren wilderness. 205 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:54,640 It was a barren desert and at the end of 40 days of not eating 206 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,400 anything. Your body, actually. 207 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:02,520 Enters into starvation. And I read this and I want us to 208 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,440 understand something about temptation, because there's two 209 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:08,280 things that's very like a common denominator. 210 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,880 There's a. Place and there's a condition 211 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,400 and what the tempter. Does, especially in our lives. 212 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:21,280 He's going to find you in a place of wilderness all. 213 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:25,240 Alone by yourself. There's always specific places. 214 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,240 That we have in our lives. There's. 215 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:31,760 Places that you and I get to emotionally, spiritually, 216 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:33,720 physically. Whatever that looks like for 217 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:34,360 you. Because we're all. 218 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:36,800 Different, but there's. Places that we get. 219 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:40,360 To in life, that temptation is most available. 220 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:43,320 To you. And then the condition that 221 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,320 you're in, for many of us, it's a place and a condition. 222 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:49,080 It's is I'm tired, it's I'm hurting. 223 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,880 I just had my heart broken. The temptation to go back to 224 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,520 that phone number in my phone is too strong. 225 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,200 The temptation to go back to that thing that I quit a long 226 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:04,120 time ago is pulling me in because I'm where I'm. 227 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:09,800 At Jesus was at a. Place where God told him. 228 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,200 To go. Into the wilderness and fast, 229 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:15,800 and he's at the point where he's almost done, and Satan is going 230 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:22,200 to tempt him to break that. And the whole goal of Satan is 231 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,360 to stop Jesus from getting to the cross. 232 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:28,040 It's been like that his whole entire story. 233 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:30,960 It is to stop Jesus. From going to the cross. 234 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,040 That's why we see the temptation here. 235 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,000 That's why they try to. Scourge him to. 236 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,920 Death. That's why Peter says. 237 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,760 Jesus, you cannot die. And Jesus looks at him, says 238 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:41,120 get. Away from me, Satan. 239 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:46,080 It's all about stopping Christ. From going to the cross the 240 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:48,040 enemy. Knows if he could stop Jesus 241 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,360 from getting to the cross, it'll stop the purposes of God. 242 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:56,360 And he can't forgive our sin. So there's. 243 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,880 A place, a location, there's a condition that hits us. 244 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:00,840 Here comes the tempter. Look at verse 3. 245 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:02,840 The tempter came to him and said. 246 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:04,280 If. You are the son of. 247 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:06,920 God tell these. Stones to become bread. 248 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:12,200 So verse 3, something I want you to notice, the tempter came. 249 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:17,560 So listen, it's not if you get tempted, it's when you get 250 00:13:17,560 --> 00:13:21,520 tempted, it's coming. For you listen, we get. 251 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:25,440 Tempted all the time. What's the temptation for? 252 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,040 Is it to make you look ridiculous and makes you look 253 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,080 dumb? No, the temptation. 254 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,880 Is to pull you away. From the calling and the. 255 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,880 Purposes that God has for your life and if you. 256 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:40,040 Fall into that temptation, then he's going to yank. 257 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:42,800 You away your faith. Is going to get weakened up. 258 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:46,160 That's what the enemy wants. It's not if, but it's when. 259 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,680 Listen, the tempter came and then I love what Satan does 260 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:51,800 here. Because he says if you. 261 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:57,480 Are the Son of God a better translation if you look at like 262 00:13:57,680 --> 00:14:01,560 the conditional like pronouns? Here it's since you are. 263 00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:05,000 The Son of God. What Satan is doing is Satan is 264 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,840 not challenging the deity of Christ. 265 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:12,520 Satan knows exactly. Who Jesus is how crazy that the 266 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,320 devil has better. Theology than most progressive 267 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:19,320 theologians. Satan knows who Jesus is. 268 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:21,320 He's not. Challenging his deity, he's 269 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:25,240 challenging for him to. Prove it. 270 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:29,320 He's. Calling him out on it almost 271 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:31,680 like tempting him. Isn't that what he's doing? 272 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:37,680 He's tempting Christ. And then he says, listen, I know 273 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:39,480 you're hungry. He knows the condition he's in. 274 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:41,440 He knows the location. He knows where he's. 275 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:44,160 At Hey. If you're hungry and you're 276 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:48,160 since you're the Son of God, go ahead and just take one of these 277 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:52,440 stones and make them bread. Simple shouldn't be that hard 278 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:56,280 for you to son to God. What Satan wanted him to do was 279 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:01,520 violate God's plan. It was about using the gifts of 280 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:08,480 God for selfish ambition. He wanted him to satisfy himself 281 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,200 by denying what God told him to do. 282 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:17,880 Pretty simple Jesus, use your miraculous powers, make some 283 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:23,920 food for yourself. But you see Philippians 27, it 284 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:31,400 says that Jesus even 100% in his humanity, 100% deity. 285 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:35,840 Says that he put the deity side away to. 286 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,280 Take on the very nature of a servant. 287 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:44,120 So what Jesus does? Here in verse 4 is interesting 288 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:47,160 because. He could have easily soccer. 289 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,960 Kicked Satan to another Galaxy, but he didn't do. 290 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:55,240 That he chose to fight off. Satan and inside of his humanity 291 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:59,440 as a man, so now he has to rely on the. 292 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,120 Power of God's. Word and His truth. 293 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:05,720 So what does Jesus do? Jesus hits back by quoting 294 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:07,520 scripture. Right, so. 295 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:11,200 Jesus answered, It is written, Man shall not live on bread 296 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,720 alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth. 297 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:19,440 Of God. What Jesus does here is that he 298 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,400 is. He's showing us, he's imitating 299 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,360 and he's identifying with us. So that way he's giving us a 300 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,840 blueprint on how to fight temptation ourselves. 301 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:33,560 And it starts with Scripture and he quotes Deuteronomy 8/3. 302 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:37,960 This is what it says. Deuteronomy 8/3 He humbled you, 303 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:43,360 causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which 304 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:48,160 neither you nor your ancestor had known to teach you that man 305 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:52,320 does not live live on bread alone, but on every. 306 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,280 Word. That comes from the mouth of. 307 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:58,560 God what Jesus is. Going to do here is that every 308 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:01,080 time Satan comes at him. He's using. 309 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,200 Scripture from when the Israelites were struggling out 310 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:07,240 in the desert, right? So he's using Deuteronomy. 311 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:10,800 Chapter 8 and he's like. Listen, I'm not. 312 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:14,359 I trust God. And what this scripture says 313 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:17,599 that Israel was. Questioning God because of their 314 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:19,400 condition. And what? 315 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,119 Jesus. Is saying he's like no, I'm not 316 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:26,119 questioning the father because we do not live on bread alone. 317 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:30,320 The word of God is. Worth more than bread, which we 318 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:33,120 see in the New Testament, which some we learned on Friday night. 319 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,240 Where Jesus says. I'm the bread of life. 320 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,320 Anybody who comes to me will not hunger ever again. 321 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:43,680 I will satisfy so if Jesus were to. 322 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,840 Fall into this? Oh, it would have been a mess. 323 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:48,440 It would. It would have. 324 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:50,680 It would have just. Turned his back on everything 325 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,560 that God had for him, but he didn't he uses. 326 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:56,840 The Word of God to. Fight off the enemy and. 327 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,200 What I love about this too is that Jesus. 328 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,920 Does not. Like silently disagree with. 329 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:06,480 Satan, he's not passive aggressive. 330 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,320 Here, he's not. Trying to find common ground. 331 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:11,760 No, he's like boom, absolutely not. 332 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:16,040 This is what God's Word says, and he shuns him away. 333 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,680 He shows that every. Word that proceeds from his 334 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,680 mouth should. Be of his of God. 335 00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:25,680 But then. Verse 5 The devil. 336 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,520 Took him to a holy. City so the devil like. 337 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:30,560 It's something y'all. I don't know if you've noticed, 338 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:31,840 the devil's pretty. Persistent. 339 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:35,000 It's not just going to be. Who? 340 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,560 I fought them off. I'm going to see him in four or 341 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:39,240 five years. No, it's a constant battle. 342 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,080 It's constant. The Devil. 343 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:46,120 Took him to the holy city and had him stand at the highest 344 00:18:46,120 --> 00:18:49,880 point of the temple Man. If you read, there's a a Jewish 345 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:53,200 theologian named. Josephus, He says that the drop 346 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,560 of. The temple was about 450 feet to 347 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,800 the ground in the area of the Kidron Valley. 348 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,280 What Satan is going to ask him to do here in verse 6, he's 349 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:04,760 like, listen, if you're the Son of God, since you're the Son of 350 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:07,320 God, go ahead and throw yourself down. 351 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:12,440 Go and jump off because doesn't the Bible say that He will 352 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:16,320 command his angels concerning you and they will lift you up in 353 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:19,960 their hands so that you will not strike your foot against stone? 354 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,000 Look, look what Satan is is prompting. 355 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,640 Jesus with what? Satan is showing his appeal. 356 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:30,480 To the is the. Same thing that all of mankind 357 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:33,960 has. We want every we want. 358 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:37,120 God's approval. And we want God's approval in 359 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:40,400 front of everybody. We we don't just want his 360 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,120 approval. We want it publicly demonstrated 361 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:45,440 so that way the whole world can see. 362 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:52,840 That God is approving of me, He. Internalizes it, and what's even 363 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:58,240 crazier is that when Jesus tells him the first time he fights him 364 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:03,440 off with scripture, Satan comes back and Satan uses scripture to 365 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:06,240 try to tempt Christ. He quotes. 366 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:10,120 It, but he doesn't quote the whole thing Satan is reading. 367 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:13,200 What? Satan is quoting Psalms 91, 368 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:18,440 Psalms 91, verses 11, and. 12 So this is what. 369 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,360 The Psalm says the. Psalmist says for he will. 370 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:25,320 Command His angels concerning you to guard you in all of your. 371 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:29,640 Ways they will lift. You up in their hands, so you 372 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,000 will not strike your foot against stone. 373 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:36,000 What Satan does is that Satan quotes the scripture, but he 374 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,480 doesn't quote. The whole scripture. 375 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,000 And listen, Satan is using scripture. 376 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:46,360 To try to tempt the. Lord and listen, many of us fall 377 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:49,800 into that trap where somebody could easily throw out and 378 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,560 sprinkle out a verse thinking like man, they're. 379 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,000 They're pretty. They're pretty sharp. 380 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,000 Y'all better know what scripture says This song we always. 381 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,440 Talk. You better have your the word of 382 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:02,440 God with you to check whoever is. 383 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,200 Telling you something that is truthful. 384 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:11,080 Satan is giving half truths. Go ahead Jesus, if you do this 385 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,520 the. Angels are going to rescue you 386 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:18,520 in a spectacular fashion. You're going to enter into your 387 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:20,960 calling and into this Kingdom. You're going to jump down. 388 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:24,640 Angels are going to save you. And in the whole, everybody's 389 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:28,400 going to see this. I think of like like Marvel 390 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:32,400 movies like Iron Man or like. Thor as they like. 391 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,720 Jump from the Galaxy and land on Earth. 392 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,080 He's like lands with his first in the ground and and like. 393 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,520 Waves of dust go. Everywhere and everybody's like. 394 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,880 Whoa. He's going to destroy everybody. 395 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,920 I could almost see that's kind of the temptation that Jesus is 396 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:48,920 point. I mean Satan is pointing Jesus 397 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,120 to man. Show up and show. 398 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:52,960 Outlet the whole world know that you. 399 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:57,840 Are the Son of God. But what we see is that Jesus. 400 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:03,080 Doesn't come into town that way. He shows up in a donkey, humble 401 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:10,200 servant going to the cross. He's trying to get Satan's 402 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,600 trying to get Jesus to demonstrate his power. 403 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,960 Look how Jesus answers him. It is written in verse 7. 404 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:21,600 Do not. Put the Lord your God to the 405 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:26,120 test. Same verse as the Israelites are 406 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:29,320 in the wilderness. Deuteronomy 616. 407 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,640 That's what exactly what he's man, he's recalling. 408 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,440 When the Israelites had this. Experience in Manasseh and they 409 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:38,160 were grumbling to the Lord and they were they were angry with 410 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:41,080 Moses because they were demanding that Moses bring water 411 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,720 like they trust God like God didn't just. 412 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:50,240 Save you guys from slavery. So what he does is Jesus is. 413 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,360 Quoting do not put the Lord. Your God to the test. 414 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:59,520 Don't do that. So again, verse A the devil. 415 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:03,520 Took him to a very. High mountain to show him all 416 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,400 the kingdoms of the world in their splendor and say it's 417 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,720 crafty y'all. So the first thing is you 418 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:11,960 hungry? You're beat down, man. 419 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,160 Go make some bread. The second one, you know what 420 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,520 you're about to kick off this ministry, man. 421 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,360 Let the whole world know. Show them your power. 422 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:24,560 You're you're God, right? And now what does he do the 423 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:28,560 third time what Satan does? Is he offers Jesus a shortcut? 424 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,920 He says again, he took him to the high mountain, He showed him 425 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,640 all the kingdoms of the world and all their splendor. 426 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,440 And verse 9 he says. All this I will give to you, 427 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,880 Jesus, if you. Bow down and worship me. 428 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,320 I will give you everything if you become my #2. 429 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,600 You still get the. Perks of the number one. 430 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,640 Your name is not assigned to it though. 431 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:53,840 I. Will give you everything you ask 432 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:54,960 for. You don't have to go to the. 433 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,960 Cross you don't have to suffer for these people. 434 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:01,040 You could just ignore. What your father says, I will 435 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,320 give you. Everything and it sounds 436 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:11,320 wonderful, but no, because temptation usually breeds 437 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:15,280 rewards that are empty. It's not going to happen. 438 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,240 And what we know about saying is that right now. 439 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,320 We're he's. Operating in Satan's domain. 440 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,760 Jesus is very aware of who he's. Talking to, we know. 441 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,480 That scripture tells us. Satan is the ruler of the world. 442 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,000 That's John 1231. Satan is the God. 443 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,320 Of the Sage Little G. Right, Second Corinthians 4/4. 444 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:37,800 Right, the whole world. Lies in his power. 445 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,080 That's first John 5/19. He illustrates this in Daniel 446 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,520 chapter 10, verse 13. Like we see all through 447 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,320 scripture. That Satan is not in hell right 448 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:48,920 now. That's coming in the Book of 449 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,680 Revelation when Christ comes. Back same will be casted. 450 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:56,400 Away and held forevermore. But right now he is the Prince 451 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,040 of this world and he does what he wants. 452 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,680 God is allowing him in his sovereignty to do it. 453 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:07,320 And Jesus recognizes this. And I love what Jesus does. 454 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,240 Almost like Jesus gets fed up with him. 455 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,360 He says Jesus. Said to him, away from me, 456 00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:15,200 Satan, for it is written. Worship the Lord your God. 457 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:20,560 And serve him. Only Jesus is sighting, and he's 458 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:25,000 paraphrasing Deuteronomy 613 through 14. 459 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:32,720 As the Israelites are. Experiencing all these things 460 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:36,400 that are happening to them in the wilderness, Jesus continues 461 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,280 to use that text to push Satan away. 462 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:44,040 But he's not like with the he's not like them because he 463 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,640 withstands the temptation. He doesn't fall into it. 464 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:50,760 Which is where we could. Learn and I love verse 11. 465 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:57,360 Then the devil left him, and the angels came and attended Christ. 466 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,800 The only other time we see this is in when Jesus in the Garden 467 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:06,600 of Gethsemane after he prays. And he's. 468 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,120 Bleeding out of his pores, the angels come and attend to him. 469 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,520 I don't know what that looked like, but when you look at this 470 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:19,400 story in Luke Chapter 11. It says that the devil had. 471 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:25,600 Finished all this tempting and he left him until an opportune 472 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:29,680 time. What's saying is saying is like, 473 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,720 man, I'm going to. Wait until the. 474 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,600 Right time to come at you and we're going to do this again. 475 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,440 So. What do we know about 476 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,200 temptation? There's three things that that 477 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,720 Jesus tempts us or that Satan tempts us with. 478 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,320 That we all go through. We see it in first John chapter 479 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,840 2. It is the lust of the eyes, the 480 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,680 the lust of the flesh. And the pride of life? 481 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:58,600 Break it down a little bit more easier. 482 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:02,720 What are we tempted with? Physical appetite, personal gain 483 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,000 and power. All of the temptations. 484 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,120 The common denominator of temptation is. 485 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:11,280 This right here SO. What am I? 486 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,840 What is my appetite looking for physically? 487 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:20,240 If I struggle with lust. The opportune time to be tempted 488 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,800 is when I am alone in my room with my phone. 489 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:30,400 If I struggle with alcohol, the opportune time to be tempted is 490 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:34,440 when I had a long day at work and that temptation comes in. 491 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,680 Like man, you know what, you had a long week, go ahead and go 492 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,680 get. Yourself a pack you deserve. 493 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:44,160 It I know I struggle with it, then why am I falling into? 494 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:48,240 That stuff because of. The condition and the location. 495 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:53,080 Because it appeals to the the physical appetite that we have. 496 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:58,680 Then personal gain, then power. Genesis chapter 3 we see the 497 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,080 temptation that Satan brings to Adam and Eve. 498 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:06,800 You may eat of the tree. Genesis 1 I mean 3-1 personal 499 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,160 gain. You will not die. 500 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,920 Power you will be like God. Same thing, we just. 501 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:16,600 Saw Matthew 4, You may eat by changing stones into bread. 502 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,080 Physical appetite, personal gain. 503 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:22,800 You will not hurt your foot if you jump off this thing. 504 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:24,320 Power. I will. 505 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:28,240 Give you all the kingdoms of the world first, John. 506 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,160 Lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, pride of life. 507 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:36,640 So if temptation is constantly coming at us, the question is 508 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,800 how do we? Fight this so before we close. 509 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,480 I'm just going to give you 3. Quick, Three quick ways that we 510 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:43,800 could fight. Temptation. 511 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,080 Based out of the text of what Jesus shows us. 512 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,600 So when the tempter comes. At us if I'm a follower of 513 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,040 Christ. And the tempter comes at us. 514 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:59,240 Number one is that I the way that I effectively resist 515 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:04,760 temptation is by countering it. I I counter Saints. 516 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,440 Lies with the word of God, period. 517 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,880 What we see that Jesus does Jesus. 518 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,800 When he is countered with temptation. 519 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,400 He. Doesn't that's going to sound 520 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,400 bad, But he doesn't just fall on the floor. 521 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,280 He doesn't weep. He doesn't. 522 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,240 Cry. He doesn't pray. 523 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,640 What does he do? He quotes the word of God. 524 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,680 And listen, the more you know. The word of. 525 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,400 God, the more ready you're going to be when temptation comes your 526 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,360 way, the less you know. The word of God. 527 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,800 The more acceptable you're going to be when temptation comes your 528 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,040 way. Many of us think about why do I 529 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:44,160 always? Fall. 530 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,920 Why do I always struggle? Why do you always not read your 531 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:53,120 Bible? Guys, it's all about using God's 532 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,240 Word. And listen, if we're ignorant in 533 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,920 the Word of God, then we are going to be poorly equipped. 534 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,520 When temptation comes our way, we're going to find ourselves. 535 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,280 Back at. Square 1 and what? 536 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:09,320 Jesus does is as. Soon as Satan pulls up on him. 537 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,880 He starts to quote scripture. Now, I know some of us are 538 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,880 thinking, man, Ricky, but I ain't that smart. 539 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,120 It's hard for me to remember things. 540 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,520 Yeah, but you know all the lyrics from Taylor Swift songs 541 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:28,640 or Selena, you know, rap lyrics. You guys, you. 542 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,120 Could remember things if you want to and I always. 543 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:33,640 Try to tell people too, like if you. 544 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,440 Have a hard time remembering things? 545 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,400 Summarize it. It's like if. 546 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,480 Satan's coming at you and you're just like, I don't know, like I 547 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,360 feel like this temptation. You could easily. 548 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,920 Summarize stories in the Bible like you know what now? 549 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,280 Like there was this. Guy, that was. 550 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,360 Blind and Jesus healed him, and everybody was coming at him, and 551 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:56,760 they were like. Who did? 552 00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,600 This he's like, I don't know, but I all I know is that I was 553 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,720 once blind, but now I see. Listen, you just start like 554 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,480 summarizing scripture. You start talking to about. 555 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,840 Scripture you just start. Throwing it out there and the 556 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,520 enemy runs. He has to because the word of 557 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,400 God is. Powerful Ephesians 6 Paul talks. 558 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,080 About the Word of God. As being a double edged sword, 559 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,920 it's a weapon not just of defense but of offense. 560 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,720 So when the enemy comes at you and you're feeling like all down 561 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,000 on yourself, your mind is like you're just in a bad. 562 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,720 Place you better. Take that thing out. 563 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:38,080 Start just slicing. You better take God's Word out 564 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,960 and you just start talking. To yourself about it, you pray, 565 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,960 you ask God to give you a. Revelation of His word Like 566 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:46,680 Lord, I know. You've called me to something 567 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,480 better than this. Lord, I know. 568 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,520 For a fact that light has. No business being with darkness. 569 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:58,160 Get me away from this place, and when you start using Scripture 570 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,120 and you start quoting the word of God, you're going to start 571 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,400 seeing a change. In how you battle. 572 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,480 Temptation, you're not going to fall into it as much. 573 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,080 You're actually going to start fighting it. 574 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:12,480 So number one, you got to highlight it. 575 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,800 You bring light. Of God's truth. 576 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,120 And you shine it on. The devil's lies. 577 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:20,600 But number? Two, we have to. 578 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,640 Learn that not everyone who. Quotes Scripture. 579 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,480 Or not everyone who quotes. God Word is of God. 580 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,080 Be careful. What? 581 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:33,920 Satan does the second time around. 582 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,720 Satan. Quotes God's word. 583 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,520 He just leaves a little bit out of it. 584 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:39,640 He takes it. Watch this. 585 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:44,080 He takes it out of context. You know, there's a lot of. 586 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,000 Wacky stuff that. Happens in our world. 587 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,480 I've seen scripture used for many things. 588 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,960 There's been political landscapes where they use. 589 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,040 Scripture to get. Voters, y'all remember the 590 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:05,600 rapture came there's been slave masters who have kept people 591 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,120 enslaved because of scripture. There's been cult leaders who 592 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:13,800 use scripture. There's been mass shootings 593 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,120 where people left manifestos and they. 594 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:20,520 Quoted Scripture. There's been millions of people 595 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,720 have been murdered. Because they use scripture, 596 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,040 Colts have used it to hold. People's attention and listen 597 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,920 Scripture is used in a improper way and it doesn't. 598 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,040 Show the way of Christ? Well, Ricky, how do I know? 599 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:40,080 Because it doesn't show Jesus. We've got to be careful. 600 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,320 That people are not just using scripture. 601 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:49,680 To sell stuff, or to get votes, or to like other people, or to 602 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,000 try to get people to like you be. 603 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,880 Careful men and and Peter. He talks about false prophets. 604 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,040 And how they were using God's word to get some money. 605 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,280 Out of you. So what do we got to do? 606 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,680 We. Better know His word, and we 607 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,440 better know it correctly, and we better know it. 608 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:10,560 Right, so that. Way when you hear scripture 609 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:14,639 being improperly used. You're able to. 610 00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:19,679 Stand up and be like, no, that's not it, man. 611 00:34:19,679 --> 00:34:25,960 I've had people pray and prophecy and try to push me down 612 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:28,639 and I'm looking at them like, Nah, this ain't it. 613 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,480 And they tried using God's word over my life and I'm like, Nope, 614 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,320 that's not it either. There's something off. 615 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,120 There's something wrong with the Spirit here. 616 00:34:39,159 --> 00:34:41,840 And I would have known that unless I knew his word. 617 00:34:43,679 --> 00:34:45,960 So. We've got to know God's Word and 618 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,560 be ready when somebody. Else tries to use it. 619 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,280 For something other than pointing. 620 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,280 You to Christ. So not everyone who? 621 00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:03,360 Quotes God's word is of God be. Careful, know your word. 622 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,680 So you're able to use. It and then the last thing and 623 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,120 we'll close here. Be aware. 624 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,560 Stay late. I mean stay. 625 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,640 Be aware. Stay alert and pay attention. 626 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:16,720 How do you say the same thing three times? 627 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,080 Just like that. You're not smart, you're dumb. 628 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:25,200 You make bad decisions, guys. We have. 629 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,720 Got to have a. Spiritual awareness in our lives 630 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,680 that we know that something is a temptation. 631 00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:36,200 How do I do that, Rick? How do I? 632 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:40,640 Have an A spiritual awareness to know that when things are coming 633 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,120 at me, I know that it's not of God. 634 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,440 Like I I've read the Bible. I have. 635 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:49,320 Scripture, it's just so how do I know the way that you're going 636 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,680 to end up knowing the more intimacy. 637 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,600 That you have with Christ. Everything in this world looks 638 00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:01,080 strangely dim the more I know Jesus. 639 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:05,440 The closer I get to Jesus. The more I read His word, the 640 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:09,720 more I pray, the more I stay connected to the vine. 641 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,920 When things come my way that don't belong, it's going to be 642 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,440 easier for me to identify what doesn't belong. 643 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,560 How do I identify what doesn't belong? 644 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:24,760 Because I know what belongs. The way that you test. 645 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:32,160 If you know that I have a real $100 bill, I don't flood myself 646 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,360 looking at fake $100 bills. I look at the real ones. 647 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:40,240 So when a fake one comes my way, I am able to identify it. 648 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,960 It's the same thing with anything in this life that 649 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:45,640 you're trying to prove if it's real or not. 650 00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:50,000 You don't focus on the fake, you focus on the real ones. 651 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,400 So how do I know how? Do I stay alert? 652 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,960 You got to be connected to Christ, intimacy with Christ, 653 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,440 knowing. Christ, it builds your 654 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,000 spiritual. Awareness When something shows 655 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,440 up in your life, you're going to be like, this sounds so good, 656 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,240 it's pleasing. Oh man, I might like it for a 657 00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:11,880 season. It's a quick reward, but you 658 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:17,240 know it's not from him. And how do we know that this 659 00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:19,480 thing could be trusted? Because Jesus. 660 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,080 Hebrews 415 for we do not have a high. 661 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,920 Priest. Who is unable to emphasize? 662 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:27,600 With our. Weakness. 663 00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:31,520 But we have one who has been tempted in. 664 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:35,160 Every way, just as we are yet He. 665 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,640 Did not sin. Jesus went through it. 666 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:40,640 He was tempted just like you and I. 667 00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:44,040 The only difference is that He never sinned. 668 00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:47,760 So whenever we need to learn how to fight our temptation, we 669 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,640 don't go to books. I don't go to podcast, I go to 670 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:52,560 the word of God. Because he's the only one that 671 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,800 did it, right? He's the only one that did it. 672 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:59,400 We serve a God who knows. Exactly what you're going. 673 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:03,680 Through temptation is hard. The attack of the enemy is hard. 674 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:05,600 I'm not going to deny it. It is. 675 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,120 Listen, I get tempted with stuff all the time where I just want 676 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:12,560 to fall into it. But I have to stay in His word. 677 00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,240 Sometimes I just say stuff out loud in my car. 678 00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:17,040 Go for a walk. I just talk to God. 679 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,600 Just start quoting stuff. Why? 680 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,360 That's the one way that you. Resist the devil, use this word, 681 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:28,040 use it correctly, and be. Alert by staying close. 682 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,960 To Christ, we pray for us. So Jesus, we love you.