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Introduction
Illustration:
In a time before smartphones and Gps’
Uncle Danny Shortcut
My dad would give him directions to go somewhere...
Nicholas Cruz 19 years old
But he always had a shortcut
That got us to the same place far later than
This was me, a lot of the time, when it came to repairing…really most things I try to repair myself...
This was me, a lot of the time, when it came to repairing…really most things I try to repair myself...
I’ll figure it out...
Only to now have 3 new things broken but the original problem was fixed…right?
Or I drop a wrench deep into a space I
Hid among the students
Transition
How many of you have been in a situation where the more you put your hands on something the more it seems to fall apart?
The more you “fix it” the more you seem to break it...
I wonder if this can be a picture of our life choices at times
We think the way that is narrow, the path that we follow Jesus on...
Only to see that
Seems to be far too difficult only to learn it causes us to take uncle danny shortcuts through life.
Went to Walmart and got a drink at Subway
Sat down at Mcdonalds
Transition
Who hasn’t been told an easier way out...
Temptation is a draw toward something we ought not to do… a seduction...
When we look at the pains we experience and the
Where is God when we consider
We know oftentimes there is pain involved
Maybe pain of failure
Transition to text
This morning we will be looking at the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness
And after seeing the pains and horrors of something like what took place in Florida this week
I can really understand why Thomas Manton…a English Puritan from the 1600s described this scene as combat
Jesus and the Devil...
The Lord Jesus Christ was pleased to submit himself to an extraordinary combat with the tempter, for our good.
Jesus and the devil
The seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent
Let’s go there together
Turn with me to page 658
He is led out by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness in order to be tempted
the Holy Spirit, as described in Mark’s gospel says he was thrust out or thrown into the desert by the Holy Spirit
vs. 3: Since you are God…tell these stones to become bread”
the message of the tempter:
Wouldn’t it be easier…to just
Wouldn’t it be easier…to do it yourself?
Wouldn’t it be easier to use the divine power that you have to make something to nourish yourself
This is the kind of messiah, the kind of savior they were expecting.
One who could deliver them from the oppression of the Romans...
Depend on no one and beat our enemy!
He wouldn’t need to depend on anyone…even God
Think about it…the eternal word of God…who was one with the father in eternity past
The one who brought the world into existence:
you see, All that we see depends on someone or something else...
I depended on my parents to bring me into existence AND to sustain me through childhood
The universe itself depends on something to bring it into existence...
?kalam?
whatever begins to exist has a cause
the universe began to exist
The universe has a cause:
That cause is timeless, spaceless, immaterial, immeasurable powerful…and depends on no one!
But Him…God…depends on no one!
But we know that Jesus would, in some way that is beyond our ability to grasp, decided this equality with God not something to hold tightly too
He who depended on no one depended on many…In his life…So that many can depend on him…in his death
So many can depend on him…in his death
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Application
When it comes to this temptation in our lives...Isn’t it tempting to think that our greatest need is to eat
or our greatest need is to work
Or have money or things?
Or a family
And since we say these are needs
Than we think..
Wouldn’t it be quicker and easier to just make that the focus of everything I have rather than God himself?
Or our greatest need is to build a family?
Don’t fall for it…it’s an uncle danny shortcut
Isn’t it true the most you focus on these things…or the lack of these things…the more of it you need?
It’s important to work…It’s even good to wo
Look at Jesus’ response in vs. 4
But are these the most important things...
Jesus quotes from
Since I need these things...
This entire scene is a way in which Jesus is victorious through the wilderness unlike the Israelites...
So the idea is not that we don’t eat…
It’s that our greatest hunger is Jesus!
And here emerges the theme for this year again...
HE IS BETTER!
To take contr
You see if Jesus did this he would no longer be tempted as we are
He is better!
Wouldn’t it be easier…to do it yourself?
Transition
Then he is taken to the holy City
Wouldn’t it be easier…To hear what you want?
He quotes from but leaves out a key phrase
“In all your ways”
Is it God’s way to show off the power that he has or is it his way to go through the meek and the mild?
You see at the end of the temptation the angels came (vs.
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Application
I think this is an obvious temptation of reading the word of God to fill in the blanks of our ideas
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