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*The Temptations of Christ*
*Luke 4:1-13*
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When the Union-Pacific railroad was under construction, an elabo­rate trestle bridge was built over a certain large canyon in the West as part of the plan to connect St. Louis and California.
Before it was open for commercial use, the construction engineer wanted to test its strength.
He loaded a train with extra cars and equipment to double its normal payload.
The train was driven out to the middle of the bridge, where it was to remain for an entire day.
One worker complained, "Are you trying to break this bridge?"
"No," said the engineer.
"I'm trying to prove that the bridge is unbreakable."
v    Engineering principle
Ø     A load in motion is half of what it is at rest
§        Thus the engineer was putting 4x the load on the bridge to test it!
v    And that is exactly the principle at work in our text today…
Ø     *READ 1 & 2*
v    We must remember that these temptations occurred right after Jesus’ baptism
Ø     Directly after His confirmation of who He is
§        Revealing to the public what only Mary, Joseph and a few family members only knew
·        That Jesus was God incarnate
v    *RQ: And what does the Holy Spirit do following this declaration?*
Ø     The same thing that engineer did…
§        Proves that Jesus is unbreakable
·        Leads Jesus into the desert to be tested with an extraordinarily heavy load
¨     Into the desert
¨     40 days
¨     No food - Fasting & hungry
¨     Tempted by Satan himself!!
§        The Holy Spirit was putting the full load onto Jesus to prove that He was strong
 
v    And Satan tempts Jesus in three ways
Ø     The first we see in verses 3-4 (*READ*)
 
v    *Temptation #1 ~~ Temptation of Self-Reliance*
Ø     I’d like us first to *Look* at how Satan tempts Jesus
§        With food
·        We must realize what Luke is doing here
¨     We have 2 genealogies in the New Testament
Ø     Matthew’s Goes back to Abraham
Ø     Luke’s goes back to Adam
 
Ø     Luke is setting up Jesus as the second Adam
§        That’s the point Paul makes in Romans 5:12-21
·        *Rom 5:19*
¨      /For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous/
Ø     *Jesus came to accomplish what Adam could not!*
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v    And the same temptation was given to Jesus as was Adam
Ø     The temptation in the Garden those many years ago was…
§        *Do you believe that God really cares for you?
Do you trust God’s plan?
Is God providing for you, really?*
·        The serpent in the garden caused Eve to doubt what God said about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
¨     /God doesn’t really care for you…He is withholding from you!/
¨     /Take, eat, it is all right/
¨     /You have to feed yourself, God will not provide/
§        And that is what Satan tempts Jesus with too
·        /Your hungry, You haven’t eaten in 40 days/
·        /Does God really care about you?/
·        /Seems like He has left you/
·        /He hasn’t provided for you/
¨     Tell this stone to become bread.
Ø     Boy what a temptation that must have been
§        They say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach
·        And that is just what Satan is trying to get at…Jesus’ heart
¨     And turn it away from His heavenly Father
Ø     You see…
§        To turn that stone into bread and eat would have been an admission that God does not provide
§        *It would have been as act of faithlessness*
·        But Jesus resisted the temptation by relying on God and trusting that God will provide in due time
Ø     What a lesson for us!
§        When we do not get what we want
·        When we do not have what others do (the Joneses)
¨     That is when Satan comes and tempts us in the same way
Ø     /Does God really care about you?/
Ø     /Seems like He has left you/
Ø     /He hasn’t provided for you/
Ø     /He hasn’t given you what you want!/
Ø     But we must realize what Jesus did
§        Man does not live by bread alone!
We have to look at how Jesus was tempted and also…
Ø     *Listen* to what Satan says…
§        “*IF* you are the son of God”
·        Look also @ V. 9
¨     Twice Satan begins his tempting by questioning who Christ is
Ø     And this right after God the Father confirmed who he is in *3:22*
§        “You are my son, whom I love, with you I am well pleased”
 
Ø     Satan tempts us in the same way
§        He wants us to doubt who we are
·        *Eph 1:5* says that we are adopted sons and daughters of God
¨     Yet Satan whispers in our ears all the time
Ø     /If you are a Christian, why do you continue to sin/
Ø     /Are you really sure that you are saved?/
Ø     /Have you lost your salvation?/
Ø     We cannot listen to Satan’s lies as he tries to plant doubt in our minds as to our salvation
§        We must stand on the Word of God
·        And Reply as Jesus did
¨     Dt 8:3 ~~ Man does not live by bread alone, *but on every word that comes from the mouth of God*
Ø     And the Word tells us that we are sons and daughters of Christ!
§        *Jn 10:28* ~~ Whom I have in my hand no man can pluck out!
 
v    But Satan does not give up yet…
Ø     Satan then tempts Jesus a second time
§        *READ 4:5-8*
 
v    *Temptation #2 ~~ Temptation of False Worship*
Ø     Satan knew Jesus’ mission
§        To bring the kingdom of God to earth
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