Conflict Resolution and Solution

resolution is a decion but a solution is an answer to the problem.

He was led by the Spirit of God. After you recieve an impartation there will often be a temptation to test the impartation.

Just before the temptation comes he was getting baptized.

Prior to this voices from Heaven were speaking this is my beloved son who I am well pleased john3:17

It was Augustine who said : Here then we have the Trinity presented in a clear way: the Father in the voice, the Son in the man, the Holy Spirit in the dove.

Manlio Simonetti, ed., Matthew 1–13, Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2001), 54.

This is the Temptation of Adam reversed.

When satan came to the first Adam he came and he led him to sin by his flesh. 1 john2:16

“For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.”

Gen 3:5

“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

However Jesus does not fight the Devil in the Flesh but he fights with a Fast.

Fasting, Submiting to the Spirit of God gives me Strength to overcome Conflict, Satan and temptation.

Agree with thine adversary quickly

” Who is this “adversary”? If the devil; we have been delivered from him already. What a price was given for us that we might be redeemed from him!

“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love.”

Augustine of Hippo, “Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament,” in Saint Augustin: Sermon on the Mount, Harmony of the Gospels, Homilies on the Gospels, ed. Philip Schaff, trans. R. G. MacMullen, vol. 6, A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, First Series (New York: Christian Literature Company, 1888), 442.

Augustine of Hippo, “Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament,” in Saint Augustin: Sermon on the Mount, Harmony of the Gospels, Homilies on the Gospels, ed. Philip Schaff, trans. R. G. MacMullen, vol. 6, A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, First Series (New York: Christian Literature Company, 1888), 442.

What then have we to do with that “adversary,” that is, with the word of God? “Agree with him.” For thou knowest not when “the way” may be ended. When “the way” is ended, there remain “the judge,” and “the officer,” and “the prison.” But if thou maintain a good will to “thine adversary,” and “agree with him;” instead of a “judge,” shalt thou find a father, instead of a cruel “officer,” an Angel taking thee away into Abraham’s bosom, instead of a “prison,” paradise. How rapidly hast thou changed all things “in the way,” because thou hast “agreed with thine adversary”!

Augustine of Hippo, “Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament,” in Saint Augustin: Sermon on the Mount, Harmony of the Gospels, Homilies on the Gospels, ed. Philip Schaff, trans. R. G. MacMullen, vol. 6, A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, First Series (New York: Christian Literature Company, 1888), 443.