Temptation
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· 4 viewsOne of the first experience that Jesus had upon starting his public ministry is the fasting and temptation in the wilderness. What can we, mere mortals learn from this experience fo Jesus?
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How to Have Victory Over Temptation.
How to Have Victory Over Temptation.
Temptation
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Context...
Just finished Baptism
Led by Spirit
Led by Spirit
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
Baptism
does not protect you
Spirit Leading into Temptation?
Spirit Leading into Temptation?
God does not tempt
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
Why would the spirit
lead him here?
Mark more emphatic
The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.
Spirit drove him
to wilderness
not to temptation
Yes, temptation awaits
God knows.
How do prepare?
1. Fasting
1. Fasting
And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
Key defense
against temptation:
FASTING!
Tempted whole time:
The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.
Tempted the whole time
fasting whole time.
He was Hungry
He was Hungry
And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
Hungry
Hangry
Do not recommend
fasting for 40
Angels helped them.
Why 40 days?
Elijah Fasted
Moses Fasted
Nineveh Judgment
Spies in Canaan
Flood Rain
Symbol
God’s Power
Fasting typically
makes stronger
Spiritually.
Verses about fasting
In Tune with God
In Tune with God
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
God Spoke to them..
And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
2. Repentance or Surrender
2. Repentance or Surrender
(Humility)
Joel 2:12 (ESV)
“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
Like Nineveh
And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
3. Clear Mind
3. Clear Mind
“Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.
After 3 years...
And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.
Simple food
Wisdom
4. Special Prayer
4. Special Prayer
“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”
Power of fasting...
lost discipline
in our culture.
Fasting is good
But...
Limits to it...
40 days!!!
Don’t recommend...
Angels helped them...
Satan comes at
weakest point...
Opportune time
Opportune time
At end of temptations
Jesus wins
Satan loses
Satan leaves
Key words...
Luke 4:13 (ESV)
And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time.
Opportune time
Satan is not finished
He will be back
When?
Opportune time
He comes to us
the same way.
Tools Against Temptation
Fasting
Second tool:
2. Limit the Opportune Times
2. Limit the Opportune Times
There is always moments
you know when
he comes knocking.
Find ways to decrease
your openness to attack.
1st Temptation
1st Temptation
And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”
Few key ideas
Many temptations
for Jesus
“If”
“If You Are the Son of God”
“If You Are the Son of God”
What is say?
prove it.
How?
Use supernatural power
for your own good.
Rock to bread?
Rock to bread?
IDK about you,
Not a temptation
I struggle with.
Don’t have power
to do that...
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Tempted like us.
Temped unlike us...
Temped to fail
use your power...
for yourself...
Tools Against Temptation
Fasting
Limit Opportune Times
Jesus responds
3rd key.
3. “It is Written”
3. “It is Written”
But he answered, “It is written,
“ ‘Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”
Every temptation
Jesus answers:
“It Is Written”
Power in Word
Devotions
Study it
Memorize it
sword of spirit
use it
Tools Against Temptation
Fasting
Limit Opportune Times
It Is Written
2nd Temptation
2nd Temptation
Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written,
“ ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’
and
“ ‘On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.’ ”
What is the temptation here?
Jump!
Jump!
Once again:
“If you are the son of God”
Satan continues
use your power
This one different
we could be
tempted by this idea.
Presumption.
come back to that.
Look what Satan does...
Satan goes to church
Satan goes to church
Satan knows scripture!!!
Saw Jesus weapon
Scripture
Used against Him...
Quotes two verses...
twisted
misquoted
Quote whole passage
Psalm 91:1–12 (ESV)
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler
and from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with his pinions,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
You will not fear the terror of the night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.
A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
You will only look with your eyes
and see the recompense of the wicked.
Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place—
the Most High, who is my refuge—
no evil shall be allowed to befall you,
no plague come near your tent.
For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways.
On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.
Does it teach:
jump off building?
Leaves out part
of the verse:
“to guard you in all your ways”
Teaching?
Jesus protect you
in all your ways.
Throughout day.
throughout life.
Jumping from building...
Not part of package!!!
Just because someone
has a verse,
does not make
them correct.
Requirement,
know your word.
Satan will use
it against you.
If you don’t know it.
can’t see through lies...
False teachings.
Presumption
Presumption
Back to Presumption.
How does satan use
presumption today?
Jesus answer:
Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ”
Scripture again.
applicable text.
Don’t test God.
Premeditated Sin
Premeditated Sin
God will forgive you.
Really?
If you survive it…?
3rd Temptation
3rd Temptation
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”
Observations
Satan doesn’t get tired.
Always new ideas.
Tools Against Temptation
Fasting
Limit Opportune Times
It Is Written
Fourth key:
4. Understand How Temptation Works.
4. Understand How Temptation Works.
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
Desire with us.
Jesus knew
prophecies about king
who he could be
should be
human desire
to be king...
He WAS king
Jesus was tempted.
wasn’t a play.
He could have failed.
Orientation
Orientation
people constantly asking me
Same-sex attraction.
Orientation is Temptation.
All humans have
broken orientation
all oriented toward sin.
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
Desire is in us!!!
We are all broken
Oriented wrongly.
Orientation is not sin
Orientation is temptation.
We all have choice
will a practice
this temptation
Or choose
deny my orientation
deny my desire
choose Christ’s will.
Back to Christ’s Temptation
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”
Luke reads
slightly different:
and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will.
Whose Authority?
Whose Authority?
“to you I will give all this authority”
Whose was it?
Satan says
it is his
and
“It has been delivered to me”
Adam and Eve lost it.
Job walking to and fro
Have the World
Gain the Whole World
Gain the Whole World
Jesus said:
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
Temptation here:
gain whole world.
have it all.
What must he do
to have world?
Satan said:
“Fall down and worship me”
Christians do that today.
Interesting
verse about
gain world
lose soul
Read in context:
Cost of discipleship.
And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul?
Cost of discipleship?
What doe it cost
to be follower
of Jesus?
Everything
you life.
Yet surprise
if you give it
to Jesus
get life back.
Give it to Satan
lose it all.
Tools Against Temptation
Fasting
Limit Opportune Times
It Is Written
Understand How Temptation Works
Jesus had enough.
Next words:
5th tool...
5. Be Gone Satan
5. Be Gone Satan
Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written,
“ ‘You shall worship the Lord your God
and him only shall you serve.’ ”
“It is written”
AGAIN
Want to be successful
spend time in word!
Be Gone
Leave
You have not power here.
I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
By God’s grace
though his power.
You can say,
Be Gone, Satan!
Be Gone, Satan!
Conclusion
Conclusion
Temptation are tough
we are all broken
Satan is coming for us.
Appeal
Appeal
By God’s grace
Through His power
Be an overcomer
Like Jesus
Use the Tools:
Tools Against Temptation
Fasting
Limit Opportune Times
It Is Written
Understand How Temptation Works
Be Gone Satan