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The story of Jesus temptation is more than a story that teaches us how to overcome the temptation to sin.
It is the story that sin has been overcome.
Today’s text provides help for the believer’s journey in sanctification.
However, it’s primary purpose is to help the believer to understand what was necessary for his salvation.
Jesus temptation parallels the temptation of our first parents; Adam and Eve.
Jesus temptation also parallels the temptation of God’s chosen people; Israel.
In order to reverse the curse of sin Jesus must overcome where we were overcame.
LOOK AT THE LOCATION
THE COMPARISON
Literally, a place not inhabited by human beings.
As such, it came to be considered the natural habitation of demons (Matt.
12:43; Luke 8:29).
The word does not necessarily imply a bleak, desert area, only one not inhabited by human beings.
By far the majority of biblical references are to the wilderness of Sinai in which the Israelites wandered for 40 years.
At least three significant theological ideas became associated with that wilderness: covenant, miraculous provision, and judgment.
Israel, God’s firstborn son, was overcome by temptation in the wilderness.
Jesus, the only begotten Son of the Father, overcame temptation in the wilderness.
The desert location again recalls the wanderings of the Israelites in the wilderness.
Jesus will succeed as the true representative and fulfillment of Israel where Israel had failed . . .
God the Father referred to Israel as his Son . . .
In Exodus God sends a deliver to bring His “son” out of Egyptian bondage.
In Matthew God sends a deliver to Egypt to bring his people out of bondage.
We see this story in
The angel’s warning is fulfilled in Matthew 2:16;18.
Herod becomes enraged and begins to murder all children under two years of age because the wise men did not return with Jesus location.
Why flee to Egypt?
The New Testament says that this all happened in Christ, who is Himself the new Israel, and who makes all who trust in Him alone, ethnic Jew and Gentile alike, into true Israelites.
This is the point that Matthew makes when he says
This passage is fulfilled in Christ’s return with His parents to Nazareth from Egypt.
Jesus repeats the history of Israel in His own person.
He fulfills Hosea’s text because He is the true, faithful Son of God who perfectly lives out the calling first given to old covenant Israel.
THE CONTRAST
The first Adam was tempted in a perfect environment while the second Adam, Jesus, was tempted in a perilous environment.
LISTEN TO THE LANGUAGE
THE PARALLELS
Interesting parallels emerge between Jesus’ three temptations and those of Eve and Adam in the garden
Three phrases “good for food,” “pleasing to the eye,” “desirable for gaining wisdom”.
Both of these triads seem to parallel John’s epitome of human temptation:
All temptations fall into one of these categories the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life.
Furthering the parallel language of temptation Israel, God’s son, failed in all three of aforementioned temptation.
Jesus, in the wilderness, these same three categories of temptation.
Jesus, however, replies by quoting from the book of Deuteronomy.
In fact, for each of the three temptations he will refute the devil with Scripture, always from Deuteronomy, continuing the link with the Israelites’ desert experience.
In this instance the text he cites originally underscored God’s provision of manna as an alternative to the Israelites’ reliance on their own abilities to feed themselves.
THE POINT
The second Adam restores us in the same the first Adam was destroyed.
Our humanity was lost by the first Adam being over come by the tempter; so it must be recovered by the second Adam overcoming the tempter.
Satan must lose his prisoners in the same way that he caught them.
Christ must do what Adam could not do.
The Son of God assumed the nature of man to conquer Satan in the nature that was originally conquered.
Christ won the victory in our nature so that it can be received by individual person’s.
Adam was overcome by sin before he had any offspring.
Christ overcome sin before He began to call disciples.
In the temptation Satan is attempting to short circuit God’s plan of salvation.
Jesus proves himself to be the Son of God by not acting like previous “son’s of God”.
Previous “son’s” proved their need for the true Son by being disobedient.
The true Son proved His sonship through obedience.
Jesus did not condescend to condemn the world but to conquer the one who leads humanity into condemnation.
BE LIFTED BY LOVE
Jesus knows our weakness and has experience all our temptations, yet without sin.
He endured this journey so that when we fail in our weakness he can expiate our sin.
He endured this journey so that we can escape our sin.
He endured this journey so that we can enjoy our Savior.
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