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His Temptation - Milestones with the Master - Matthew 4:1-11 | Warren Wiersbe Sermons | Warren Wiersbe | YouTubeToText
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This content explores Jesus' temptation in the wilderness as a model for Christian victory over temptation, emphasizing the importance of understanding one's position in Christ, recognizing Satan's tactics, and utilizing God-given resources.
we open the word of God to Matthew CH
4 reading the first 11 verses the
account of the temptation of our Lord Jesus
Jesus
Christ during these evening messages
we're looking at the
Milestones with the master his birth his
baptism and now his temptation the Lord
willing our next message will deal with the
the
Transfiguration why was Jesus
transfigured and what does it mean to us
today Matthew 4 notice the first word in
the chapter
then meaning immediately after this
tremendous experience of
baptism then was Jesus led up by the
spirit Into the Wilderness to be tested
or tempted by the
devil and when he had fasted 40 days and
40 nights he was afterward hung
hungry and when the tempter came to him
he said if thou be the Son of
God command that these Stones be made
bread but he answered and said it is
written man shall not live by bread
alone but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of
God then the devil taketh him up into
the holy city and Seth him on a pinnacle
of the
temple and Seth to him if thou be the
Son of God cast thyself down for it is
written he shall give his angels charge
concerning thee and in their hands they
shall bear thee up lest at any time thou
Dash thy foot against a stone Jesus said
unto him it is written
again Thou shalt not put the Lord thy
God to the test Thou shalt not tempt the
Lord thy
God again the devil taketh him up into
an exceeding high mountain and showeth
him all the kingdoms of the world and
the glory of them and Seth unto him all
these things will I give
thee if thou will fall down and worship
me then sayth Jesus unto
him be gone
Satan for it is written Thou shalt
Worship the Lord thy God and him only
shalt thou
serve then the devil leaveth him and beh
old Angels
Came and ministered unto
him all of us are interested in victory over
over
Temptation perhaps someone is here just
now who looks back over the past
week with shame and disgust and
discouragement because you gave in to a
Temptation or if you had a week of
victory at least you know you were tempted
tempted
and none of us enjoys being tempted but
we know that temptation is a part of the
Christian Life for one thing Temptation builds
builds
character the only way to have spiritual
muscles is to exercise them and you
can't exercise your muscles
resting there cannot be victories without
without
battles and you're not going to have
battles without Temptations and so
Temptation builds character from God 's
point of view Temptation ought to bring
out the best in us that which he has put
into us from the devil's point of view
Temptation brings out the worst in us
that which belongs to our first birth
not our second birth of course
Temptation when we get victory over it brings
brings
reward blessed is he that endureth
Temptation for he shall receive the
Crown of Life and God has a reward for
those who endure Temptation and get
victory even our lord Jesus was
ministered to by the Angels when three
times he got victory over Satan of
course if we yield to Temptation it
means not reward but regret and remorse
and discipline from the hand of our loving
loving
father I think most of all enduring
Temptation and getting victory over
Temptation brings glory to God this is
the thing we want more than anything
else totally apart from any reward or
even the building of character which is
a wonderful thing we want to glorify God
and when we get victory over the tempter
it it advances the cause of Christ and
it brings glory to God now you may say
well my little life that I live can't
mean much to the cause of Christ oh yes it
it
can if you're saved and you're a part of
the body of Christ if one member becomes
weak and infected it affects all the
members and your victory
helps to advance the cause of Christ and
so all of us are interested in
Temptation now what is
Temptation well temptation is simply an
opportunity to satisfy a legitimate
need in a wrong
way for example it's not a sin to be
hungry hunger is a sinless infirmity of the
the
flesh but to satisfy that hunger outside
the will of God that's sin and so
temptation is an opportunity to meet a
legitimate need in an illegitimate way
there's nothing wrong with passing an
examination that's a legitimate thing
but to cheat to pass an examination
that's sin there's nothing wrong with
getting a promotion but to lie and
push and politic to get a promotion
that's wrong so temptation of it self is
not sinful it is not a sin to be tempted
our Lord was tempted and yet he was
sinless it is a sin to yield to
Temptation a temptation is simply an
opportunity to satisfy a legitimate need
in a wrong way outside the will of God
you see we were created with certain basic
basic
needs we have needs for food and eating
is a legitimate thing gluttony is sin
there is a a need for the satisfaction
of love people want to be needed and
loved there's a desire in our hearts to
succeed but all of these things are
opportunities for the
tempter to lead us to satisfy these
needs in the wrong
way now in this particular passage
Matthew chapter 4: 1-1 our Lord is facing
facing
Satan the devil the accuser the
slanderer the enemy the
adversary as you know you and I face
Temptation on three fronts the World the
Flesh and the
devil the world wants to entice us the
flesh wants to lead us
astray the devil of course wants to lead
us out of the will of God now I'm going
to make a statement that at first may
shock some of you but I believe it's
scripturally true want to a person first
becomes a Christian he fights tremendous
battles with the world and the
flesh then as he grows in the Lord and
learns to get victory over the world and
the flesh that's when the devil starts
to move in now the devil can use the
world and the devil can use the flesh
but may I say
this The Temptations that we Face from
Satan are on a different level
from The Temptations of the world and
the Flesh in fact there are some
Christians who have so yielded to the
world and the flesh the devil doesn't
have to pay much attention to them they
are tempting
themselves they are leading themselves
astray when Satan came to face the Lord
Jesus Christ there in the
wilderness he brought to the Lord Jesus
the kind of a battle
that I wonder if many of us have really
faced you see it doesn't take much for
us to sin Satan doesn't have to bring
all of his armies against most of
us uh we have a way of being so weak and
giving in our lord Jesus was not
attracted by the
world our lord Jesus was not infected In the
the
Flesh there was nothing in him that
could succumb to fleshly
appetites when Satan came to face the
Lord Jesus Christ he was working if you
excuse the term on a much higher level
this is why my friend as you grow in the
Lord you fight more difficult battles
you're not just fighting the appetites
of the flesh or the Ambitions of the
world you're fighting the attacks of the
devil and you come and say Pastor what
in the world is going on in my life I've
never faced this kind of thing before
and my first response is
congratulations it's wonderful that you
have graduated out of the
ABCs of Christian
conflict Satan realizes now that your
Christian life is so important and so
strategic he's got to fight you on a
higher level that's what he does here so
our thinking tonight is not going to be in
in
kindergarten I want you to ask the Holy
Spirit of God to Quicken my mind and
your mind so that we might Garner from these
these
verses the help that we
need now as I read this
passage I see that there are three Basic
Temptation essential number
one we must realize our position in
now someone may look at me at this point
and say what in the world are you
talking about my position in Jesus
Christ exactly
that you see when the Lord Jesus Christ
came into the Wilderness to face the
tempter and he fasted for 40 days and 40
nights and he had just come up from that
baptism experience with the holy spirit
of God coming upon him with the father
speaking to him and saying this is my
beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased
this is the setting in the background of
all of this now when the Lord Jesus
Christ came into the Wilderness he was
fulfilling three Old Testament
types that describ to us our position in
Jesus Christ let me say that again I
don't want you to miss it when our Lord
came Into the
Wilderness he was the last
Adam when our Lord came into the
Wilderness he was
Joshua when our Lord came into the
Wilderness he was
David you see these three men in the Old
Testament Adam Joshua David are all
identified with this experience let's
take them one by one Adam 1 Corinthians
15: 45 tells us that Jesus Christ is the
last Adam the first man
Adam was from the earth the last Adam
was from heaven now Adam was the head of
the old
creation and as such he was
tested Jesus Christ is the head of the
the new creation he's the last Adam the
head of a whole new
Humanity if you're saved tonight you are
in Jesus Christ and you are in a whole new
creation Now the picture here is one of
contrast the first Adam from the earth
the last Adam from Heaven the first Adam
tested in a beautiful
paradise the last Adam tested in a lonely
lonely
Wilderness the first Adam completely
surrounded by all the blessings of God
available to him the last Adam
failed he had everything going for him
and he failed the last Adam succeeded he
had everything going against him and he
succeeded the first Adam was a
thief and was cast out of
paradise the last Adam ultimately turned
to a thief and said today you'll be with
me in
Paradise now when Jesus Christ faced
Satan in the wilderness it was the last
Adam facing the old serpent who had
tempted the first
Adam but this time the news report was
Victory and when Jesus Christ won that
Victory he established himself as the
last Adam the head of a new creation
when he climaxed that Victory on the
cross and then took that Victory up to
heaven he established a whole new
Humanity the body of Christ
you've heard me say this many times when
you were born the first time you were
born in Adam a
loser when you were born the second time
you were born into Jesus Christ a
winner now if you face Satan's
Temptations on your
own you'll
fail there's nothing that the old Adam
gave you that'll ever help you succeed
oh the spirit is willing but the flesh is
is
weak it's only what we have in the new
creation and so you dare not face Satan
in your first
birth you've got to face Satan and
identify yourself with Jesus Christ in
the new creation that's why I say the
first essential for victory is to
realize your position in Christ and say
to Satan you are talking to one who is
in the new creation I am in Jesus Christ
he has ascended far above all
principalities and powers and every name
that is named and he has defeated
you this is what the theologians call
identification with
Christ when Pastor Smith and I were at
the nrb convention in Washington DC I
had ducked into my room to get some
material to duck out again and punched
on the television just to see what was
going on in
Congress and Hubert Humphrey was on the
screen I may have told you this and they
were interviewing some of the
appointments for the new Administration
and I was just there long enough to hear
Senator Humphrey make a profound
statement he said this to the
appointy where you sit referring to
Congress where you sit determines how you
you
stand and I was all alone in my room but
I said hooray Hubert
Humphrey I'll use that in a
sermon but it's true where you sit
determines how you stand if you're
sitting in death row you'll stand one
way if you're sitting behind that desk
in the Oval Office you'll stand another
way now we are in Jesus Christ seated in
Christ ascended in Christ that's the way
we Face the wicked one now the second
type was that of
Joshua remember now years and years
before the nation of Israel led by
Joshua had come into the Jordan River
come out of the Jordan River from the
Wilderness to enter into their
inheritance they had experienced death
bar and Resurrection to get into their
inheritance Jesus Christ had just gone
in to the Jordan River he had experience
death burial and Resurrection then he
goes into the Wilderness to do what to
claim The
Inheritance Israel led by Joshua came
out of the Wilderness to enter into
their inheritance and God gave it to
them Jesus Christ came into the
Wilderness to defeat Satan to claim his
inheritance in other words when Satan
tempts us we do not face him as those
who are losers we have entered into our
spiritual inheritance through our Joshua Jesus
Jesus
Christ now to some of you this means
nothing because you have no spiritual
concept of what it means to have an
inheritance in Christ then you ought to read
read
Ephesians just saturate yourself with
Ephesians 6th chapter read it and read
it and read it and realize that you have
been blessed with all spiritual
blessings in the Heavenly places in
Christ Jesus and Satan can't offer you
anything what's he going to offer
you in Jesus Christ you have died to the old
old
life the Wilderness is behind you in
Jesus Christ you've been raised to walk
in newness of life in Jesus Christ
you've entered into your inheritance
Jesus is our Joshua jehoshua Jehovah is
salvation he has led us through the
Jordan into our inheritance what can the
devil offer
you when you've got all spiritual
blessings in Christ and everything else
that you'll ever
need you see for Satan to come and tempt
a Believer is like a um Clark Street
Street
hobo going up to the president of the
bank and saying I got something I want
to give you what could he ever give him
and so we realize our position in Christ
we're in the new
creation we are in our
inheritance now David was also
there David is a type of our Lord Jesus
Christ they were both born in Bethlehem
both were rejected by their
Brethren both were uh
David was chased he was not slain but
they would like to have killed him Jesus
was but the interesting thing about
David is one day he stepped out into the
Wilderness and there was a
giant and for 40
days that big mouth giant had been
challenging the army of
Israel and so David which means Beloved
the good old Hebrew name Beloved this is
my beloved Son
David steps up he gets five
Stones he chooses one of them and he
slings it at that giant he stuns him
down he falls and then David takes the
Giant's sword and cuts off his head
David met the Giant in the wilderness
and defeated
him now our Lord Jesus Christ
beloved steps into the Wilderness and
Meets the Giant of GI sence Satan he too
has five
Stones Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers and
and
Deuteronomy you know where he got
them Hebrews chapter
10 I Delight to do thy will oh God thy
law is within my heart our Lord didn't
carry a strong concordance with him in the
the
wilderness he didn't have a little
scripture Memory package
when he came into this
world sacrifice and offering wouldest
thou not a body hast thou prepared me I
Delight to do thy will oh my God thy law
is within my heart he had five smooth
Stones Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers
Deuteronomy he chose one of them
Deuteronomy and let the enemy have it in
other words we are in the New Creation
that's Adam we are in in our
inheritance that's Joshua we are in the
place of Victory we are in his kingdom
God used David to establish the kingdom
now my Christian friend when you face
the devil don't let him fool you into
thinking you're working from a position
of defeat we are working from a position
of Victory we're in the new creation we
are in The Inheritance we are in the Kingdom
Kingdom
you know Paul got a hold of this I'm
thankful Paul did I've been reading over
in Colossians I want to do a series of
sermons on Colossians sometime it's one
of the most dangerous books in the New
Testament people don't really believe it
Colossians chapter
1 verse 12 giving thanks unto the father
who has made us fit to be partakers of
the inheritance of the Saints in light
who has delivered us from the power of
darkness and has has translated us into
the kingdom of his dear son there it is
over in Chapter 2 of Colossians and
verse 15 and having spoiled
principalities and Powers he made a show
of them openly triumphing over them in
it in the cross that's what David did
David made a show of Goliath publicly he
made a fool out of
him so when Satan comes to tempt you you
must realize your position in Christ you
are in the New Creation don't send the
old Adam to answer the door send the
last Adam to answer the
door you're in the inheritance say Satan
what can you give me anything you've got
I've got
better we are already in the Kingdom not
the millennial Kingdom obviously we are
in his spiritual Kingdom and he has
delivered us from the power of Darkness
he's translated us into the kingdom of
his dear son the reason we fail is we
don't really believe what our position
is in
Christ now there's a second
essential not only must we realize our
position in Christ but we must recognize Satan's
Satan's
tactics and once again oil the Machinery
of your soul
because what I'm going to feed into the
computer will take some time
for understanding and
meditation we must recognize Satan's
tactics now what are his tactics number
one he wants to
break your fellowship with the
father now just look at this situation
in Matthew chapter
4 our lord Jesus had been
baptized he entered into the waters when
he came came up out of the waters the
Holy Spirit came down like a dove and
the father spoke and said this is my
beloved Son in whom I'm well
pleased now in that
baptism three crises
occurred think with me now number one
Jesus said to John the Baptist baptized
me John the Baptist said oh I have need
to be baptized of you and Jesus said
permit it to be so now for in this
manner death burial and Resurrection we
God the Father God the son God the Holy
Spirit we are going to fulfill all
righteousness the baptism of Jesus
Christ was an Evidence a picture an
illustration of what he came to do he
came to experience death burial and
Resurrection to bring about
righteousness in other words his baptism
was a declaration of his call I have
come I've been sent by the father we are
going together to bring about
righteousness crisis number two the Holy
Spirit came down and from that point on
the holy spirit of God is going to guide
and Empower our Lord Jesus Christ now he
was conceived of the Holy Spirit he was
filled with the Holy Spirit this was not
the first occasion for the Holy Spirit
to uh have contact with the Lord Jesus
obviously for he was the perfect son of
of God but he was beginning now his
public Ministry and it's as though the
spirit of God is saying all right let's
remember now together we are going to do
this crisis number three the father
spoke and assured him of his love now
here are three important factors the
work that he had to do the spirit who
was going to guide him in this work the
will of God the work of God the will of
God and in the Assurance of the love of
God this is my beloved Son do you know
my friend that
nowhere in the four gospels does God
call anybody else
beloved but when you get to the Book of
Romans and the church Epistles he starts
calling the Saints
beloved accepted in the Beloved you see
when you're in Christ you're in the
Beloved and so you're
beloved now what was Satan trying to do
he wanted to break the Lord Jesus
relationship with the father think with
me now
the father had said this is my beloved
Son what did Satan say he loves
you I heard 40 days ago from Heaven that
he loves you how come you're
hungry has the devil ever said that to
you how do you know God loves
you you know God loves you because the
word of God tells you how did Jesus know
God loved him by
circumstances the circum cumstances were
against him by feeling he was
hungry how did Jesus know that his
father loved him the father said so in
the word how do you know God loves you
all you say things are going so great
just wait till
Tuesday this is where the devil trips up the
the
Saints oh God loves me I can feel it in
my heart then you have one of those
black days when you feel like you
haven't even got a
heart oh I know God loves me things are
going so well and then the rug is pulled
out from under you and you start to
topple and
fall that's where Saints get bitter they
say I'm through with the Lord and I'm
through with the church I'm through with
God's people I'm
through Satan says I got another
one you see he wants you to believe God
doesn't love you and he'll use
circumstances to do it how did Jesus
know God loved him the word of God told
him how do you know God loves you the
you now the devil wants us to break our
relationship with the father and each of
these temptations that he brought had
something to do with our Lord's
relationship to the
father um oh the spirit of God is
guiding you
why don't you jump off and see what God will
will
do see don't don't live by faith live by
chance oh so you're going to bring
righteousness in ah but if you do that
you have to go to a cross why don't you
just fall down and worship me that'll
take care of
it by the way the Greek verb there means
just to do it once just worship me once
not all the rest of your life just just
do it once how many times people have
heard Satan say that just do it once
he wants to break your relationship with
the father and so he attacks the word of
God now some of you think I'm a fanatic
and in this respect I am if you mean by
a fanatic an Enthusiast I'm a fanatic
I'm a fanatic for the word of
God quite frankly I get a little bit
disturbed when I find the saints of God
having time for everything but the word
of God what are Satan's tactics number
one he wants to break your relationship
with a father he doesn't love you he
won't guide you he won't take care of
you he's asking you to do a hard thing
go to the Cross I've got an easier
word Satan loves to attack the word
because this is your only connection
with the father well you say I have the
Holy Spirit yes we'll talk about that
and the Lord's up in heaven that's right
but this is what gives you your
connection Jesus said the words that I
speak they are spirit and they are light
and so if I neglect the word of
me now Satan knows how to use
circumstances he's no
dumbbell our lord Jesus had just
experienced a tremendous Mountaintop
experience Heaven had opened God the
father had spoken the Spirit came down a
then right after that the battle begins
I've noticed in my Bible that many
times after the
Mountaintop comes the valley somebody
here tonight is floating on cloud n
spiritually oh you're saying I've
arrived now boy this is wonderful watch
out because Satan is just waiting now
our Lord didn't make that mistake he was
ready for the devil when he
came essential number one we must
realize our position in Christ essential
number two we must recognize Satan's
tactics he wants to break your
fellowship with the father he does this
by using the
word he attacks the word of God oh if
God loves you why are you hungry he
takes away from the word of God when he
quoted Psalm 91 he left out some of it
then he substitutes his own lie oh he
says Fall Down and Worship me you see
God the father had promised all the
kingdoms of the world to God the son
read Psalm
2 read Psalm
22 God the father had said to God the
son because of your death on the cross
your Resurrection you will one day bring
righteousness to the world and I will
give you the kingdoms of this world
Satan said oh I got a better offer for
you now here's the way he attacks the
word first he questions the word oh oh
God loves you you're hungry then he
denies the word jump off and see if God
will keep his promise and then he
substitutes his own
lie Fall Down and Worship me by the way
there's nothing new about that he did
the same thing to
Eve when he came to Eve first he
questioned the word ye hath God said
then he denied the word you shall not
surely die and then he substituted his
own lie the day that you eat you'll be
as God have you ever fallen for
that I
have when he's caught me at that moment
when I really wasn't recognizing what he's
he's
doing and I've paid for it I wouldn't
tell you that except you've done the same
same
thing there's a third
essential we must realize the resources
that God gives to us and utilize
them now there are three of
them there are three tremendous
spiritual resources that you can use
when you fight the devil you know what
they are they're right here in the
passage number
one the spirit of
God the indwelling spirit of God then
was Jesus led up by the spirit Into the
Wilderness I was reading one of the
commentaries on this passage and the
commentator made a long to-do about the
fact that when Jesus went into the
Wilderness he was alone he wasn't alone
he wasn't oh there were no humans there
with him but he wasn't alone the spirit
was with
him the Blessed third person of the
Trinity was there and God gave the
spirit to Jesus Christ without
measure filled with the Holy Spirit now
devil as you read through the gospels
you discover that it was in the power of
the Holy spirit that Jesus Christ fought
the devil you're in Matthew CH 4 just
turn a few pages to Matthew
12 our Lord cast a demon out and they
Satan and the Lord answered them in
verse 26 of Matthew 12 if Satan cast out
Satan he's divided against himself how
then shall his kingdom stand Satan's got
a kingdom and if I by beel above that's
one of the names for Satan cast out
demons by whom do your sons cast them
out therefore they shall be your judges
but if I cast out demons by the spirit of
of
God then the kingdom of God is come unto
you what's he
saying oh this is so important the first
word Jesus spoke to the devil was not
God it was
man if if thou be the Son of God since
you are the Son of God turn these stones
into bread use your divine power to
satisfy your own needs and Jesus
answered and said
man not God man now hear this the Lord
Jesus Christ defeated Satan using the
same spiritual resources any man or
woman can use I've had people say to me
now Pastor don't tell me about Matthew 4
that was God I mean he was the sinless
Son of God he was perfect you can't
expect me to defeat Satan when I'm not
sinless and perfect but Jesus didn't say
hey satan I'm coming to you as God he said
said
man you you like to use that as an
excuse don't you I do too well Lord you
can't expect me to do any better I'm
just a
man God says I know that I know things
you don't even
know but Jesus didn't face Satan as God
he used the same Divine resources that
you and I can use and the first one was
the indwelling spirit of God it was
through the power of the holy spirit
because he used secondly the inspired
word of God and the word of God is the
sword of the spirit when the holy spirit
of God fills us then the spirit of God
can take the word of God which is the
sword of the spirit and we can fight
fight the
devil let me tell you one way you can
know when you're filled with the Holy
Spirit you find scripture coming to your
heart and mind in a remarkable computerized
computerized
way when you find yourself in a
situation and you've yielded to the Holy
Spirit the Holy Spirit brings the word
that's his job he's the great reminder
he shall teach you all things he shall
bring to your reme what I've taught you
he won't remind you what you haven't
learned don't expect the devil to teach
you something you've never studied the
the Holy Spirit to teach you something
you've never studied to defeat the Devil
no the holy spirit of God reminds us and
when you're filled with the spirit one
of the evidences among others is your
mind and heart become like a spiritual
computer and the word of God just comes
to you that's what happened to the Lord
Jesus in Ephesians 6 Paul said says now
you want to defeat the Devil here's how
to do it put on the armor and then take
the sword of the spirit which is the
word of God now Jesus chose to use
Deuteronomy I must confess to you I've
not memorized too many verses out of
Deuteronomy Deuteronomy was was Jesus
favorite book he quoted from Deuteronomy
more than any other Old Testament book
and yet I must confess to you I have
never really used Deuteronomy to fight
the devil but Jesus did I should too
and Satan said to him turn these stones
into bread and Jesus quoted from
Deuteronomy and said man shall not live
by bread
alone but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God in other words
Satan was saying hey separate the
spiritual from the physical I mean live
your physical life and separate it from
your spiritual life Jesus said oh no I'd
rather be hungry in the will of God then
fall out of the will of God but a man's
got to live who said whoever said a man
had to live
course it say in the Bible that a person
has to
live we're better off dying in the will
of God than living out of the will of
God and so Jesus just took the sword of
the spirit and used it on Satan now the
devil says okay two can play at that
game so he quotes scripture you notice
that he says it is
written don't ever pit your Bible memory
work against his it is written he shall
give his angels charge concerning thee
and in their hands they shall bear thee
up lest at any time thou Dash thy foot
against a stone of course the devil's
such a shrewd one he he
misquoted Psalm 91 says he shall give
his angels charge over thee to keep thee
in all thy
ways when the child of God is in the
will of God he has the protection of God
but don't you tempt
God you know what Jesus did the most
important word in verse 7 is
again Jesus said to him it is written written
written
again you see our Lord had said up here
man shall live by every word you know if
you just take verses out of their
setting you can prove anything every one
of the false Cults is based on
scripture many of the messes that
Christians have gotten into they can
find bible verses to back it up you know
why they don't see all of the scripture
and my Lord says again it is written
you've got to balance scripture with
scripture that's what separates the men
from the
boys an infant Christian doesn't know
how to balance scripture with
scripture and so our Lord uses the sword
once again then Satan says well let's go
up and I'll show you all the kingdoms
and he shows them all the kingdoms did
you ever notice that geography is
no guarantee of
victory in the wilderness turn stones
into Bread on top of the temple jump off
on a high mountain getting closer to
Heaven here's all the
kingdoms geography has nothing to do
with it I have faced some of the worst
Temptations from Satan I've ever faced
while sitting in my study praying over
and studying the word of
God and I've had some of the greatest
victories in my life in areas where
you'd think Satan was really in
control geography has nothing to do with
it it's the
heart Satan says here are all the
kingdoms and once again the sword comes
out he quotes from Deuteronomy 6:13 Thou
shalt Worship the Lord thy God and him
only shalt thou serve and Satan said I
didn't say anything about service I just
asked for worship and Jesus said
whatever you worship you
serve you worship money you'll serve
money you worship the devil you'll serve
the devil the indwelling spirit of God
the inspired word of God now there's a
third resource that we have and I must
Jesus didn't have this resource that we
have he was making it possible the
interceding Son of God do you know why
Jesus was tempted among other things
that he might know exactly what you're going
going
through he knows what we're going
through when you're discouraged and
Satan comes and says hey pull some kind
of a
trick why don't you take a shortcut why
should you be
crucified you can come to him and say
Lord do you ever feel like this he says
yes I felt like that don't get the idea
that Satan finished all the Temptations
at that point and our Lord was never
tempted again these three Temptations
cover each area of testing but our Lord
faced Temptations all during his Earthly
life he said to his disciples you are
those who have been with me in my
Temptations we better look quickly at a
couple of verses in Hebrews just to
encourage us as we go our way Hebrews chap
chap
2 verses 16 through
18 for verily he took not on him the
nature of angels but he took on him the
Seed of Abraham he came as a Jew
wherefore in all things it behooved him
to be made like his Brethren why that he
might be a merciful and faithful high
priest in things paining to God to make
reconciliation or propitiation for the
sins of the people now look at Verse 18
for in that he himself hath suffered
being tempted he is able to help those
that are tempted and you turn the page
over to Hebrews chapter 4 how many times
we've had to look at verses 15 and 16
for we have not an high priest who
cannot be touched with the feeling of
our infirmities but was in all All
Points tempted like as we are yet
without sin Let Us therefore come boldly
not timidly under the throne of grace
that we may obtain mercy and find Grace
to help in the time of need that little
greek Construction in the time of need
is um an idiomatic expression in the
nick of time to find Grace to help in
the nick of
time you see you want to store up your
grace for next Thursday oh boy next
Thursday I'm going through something
don't store it up it won't be there God
gives you the grace when you need it and
so when we're tempted we can come to the
interceding Son of God and we can say oh
thou blessed Lord Jesus you know what
I'm going through you've been through
this furnace you've been through this
battle and he says I know just how you
feel and I know how much you can take
and I'm going to give you the grace and
these then I think are the essentials
for victory over the devil victory over
the Flesh and the world that's something
else but when the Devil comes and even
uses the Bible to try to lead you
astray here's how we face him we realize
our position in Christ in the New
Creation in The Inheritance in the
Kingdom we recognize his tactics he
wants to break our fellowship with the
father and he does it through the word
God doesn't love you God won't care for
you God's asking too much of
you and we must utilize the resources
God gives to us the indwelling spirit of
God the inspired word of
God the interceding Son of
God in other words if we fail it's not God's
God's
fault if we fail it's our own fault we choose
choose
not to lay hold of all that God has for
us which leads me to conclude with this
brief but important word you don't get
ready to fight the devil when he jumps at
at
you always be
prepared we don't have time when that
Temptation comes to pause for 3 hours of
prayer we don't have time to get out our
concordance and find a
verse every hour of the day we are
preparing for that time when he assaults
us he's waiting for that time he's
watching for that time when we think
we're the
strongest and then that battle comes
which means be
prepared know the word of
God put it in your
heart Thy word have I hid in my heart
that I might not sin against thee be
yielded to the Holy Spirit and keep
contact with your intercessor your
wonderful high priest in heaven than
when Satan comes with all of his diabolical
diabolical
subtleties you won't be
victory gracious father we're thankful
that in Jesus Christ we already have
Victory forgive us when we have desired defeat
defeat
forgive us when we have disgraced your
name and denied you of
Glory help us father to grow in our
discernment to know when the old serpent
is about to
attack may we so know our Bibles and be
so filled with the spirit and so prayed
up that we'll recognize when he's
working oh father I pray that you'll
help those of us who are part of this
Moody Church family to have victory over s
s
Lord if someone here tonight is defeated
help that one to claim victory in Christ
if someone here is unsaved speak to that
heart May that one come to believe and
be born into the family of God I pray in
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