The Devil went down to Jordan
SBS: Invite your friends to church for Easter. Thanks for all the cards.
Intro: The Devil is just like Santa, he’s your dad. C. S. Lewis-2 problems, not believing in him and believing in him too much.
EVERY CHRISTIAN SHOULD REALIZE THAT TEMPTATION IS ALL A PART OF GOD’S PERFECT PLAN
v. 1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the deviL-
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*. God plans the TIME.
Right after the baptism end of ch. 3
After fasting for 40 days v. 2 We must not be functional Gnostics-Jesus was fully human, he was hungry.
- two God plans the METHOD “to be tempted by the Devil” what is this temptation? Satan tempts Jesus to gain the benifits of the messiah without the suffering of the messiah. He is the new Adam and the new Israel. Reymond points out Christ is the new Adam because he does not see equality with God as something to be grasped Phil. 2:6 at, Adam did. Adam failed under the best circumstances, Christ suceeds under the worst. Christ is the new Israel, because of the 40, the bread, many other things that show us that this is the new and perfect Israel.
Personal Relationship-Stones into bread v 3- “If” could be translated “since”not a sin and Jesus eventualy makes food for 5,000 Matt 14:21. the Deut. quote links Israel WE LIKE ISRAEL SHOULD DEPEND UPON GOD TO MEET OUR NEEDS-TITHE
National Responsibility-Make the angels save to you v. 5 “pinnacle of the temple -likely about 450 feet high. angels minister at the end of the passage, v. 11. Christ could have called 12 Legions of angels (26:53
Universal Reality- takes him to a mountain Bow down and worship me v. 8- Jesus will eventually have all the kingdoms of the world bowing down to him. Satan offers him a short cut Romans 14:11 11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God
God plans the ANSWER- Jesus always uses the Scripture. Jesus and his work, God and his word are the anwser to the snare of the tempter. It Has Been Written Finally as a result of this Satan leaves in v. 11
Hebrews 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
1 Corinthians 10:13 13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Whinchester House- Sarah whose
At a friend’s suggestion, Sarah sought help from a spiritist. During the session, the medium said, “Your husband is here. He says there is a curse on your family which took his life and that of your child. It is a curse that has resulted from the terrible weapon created by the Winchester family. Thousands of persons have died because of it and their spirits are now seeking vengeance.” Sarah was told that she, too, would soon die unless she sold out in New Haven and moved west. She would be guided by her husband who would tell her where to stop and build a house. “You must build a home for yourself and for the spirits who have fallen from this terrible weapon. You can never stop building the house. If you continue building, you will live. Stop and you will die.”
Your life can either be a house inhabited by Christ or it can be a house of mazes because you have listend to the evil one rather than the Christ.
Sarah sold her home in New Haven, moved west with her boundless fortune, and finally reached a spot near San Jose where she found a seventeen-room house under construction on 162 acres of land. She purchased the house, tossed away the plans, and started building whatever she chose. For thirty-six years her workers built and rebuilt, altered and changed and constructed and demolished one section of the house after another. The sounds of hammers and saws sounded day and night. Railway cars brought in supplies, and every morning Sarah met with her foreman to sketch out new rooms. Rooms were added to rooms, wings were added to wings, levels were turned into towers and peaks. Staircases led nowhere. Doors opened to nothing. Closets opened to blank walls. Hallways doubled back upon themselves. The house became a vast, expensive maze, designed to confuse the evil spirits that tormented her.
Sarah Winchester depleted her fortune by building and rebuilding, remodeling and renovating her vast, confusing, sprawling, unplanned mansion. She believed that as long as she continued building, she would stay alive. But she didn’t. On the night of September 4, 1922, after a conference session with the spirits in the séance room, Sarah went to her bedroom and died in her sleep at age eighty-three.
Robert Browning’s famous poem, the Pied Piper of Hamelin, was based on a story centuries old. Hamelin, a little German town in the duchy of Brunswick, was overrun with rats. Every home was full of rats, as were the shops and streets. According to Browning,
They fought the dogs, and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cook’s own ladles.
An odd-looking stranger entered town, promising to rid the town of rats for the sum of one hundred guilders. He was quickly hired, and, pulling a small flute from his pocket, he began to play a shrill tune. As he played, the rats came tumbling out of the houses and shops. As the piper played, he marched toward the river and the rats followed him in an ever-increasing mass until they were all led into the River Weser and drowned.
But the mayor refused to keep his end of the bargain, not wanting to pay the guilders.
Without a word, the piper left the mayor’s office, took out his flute, and began playing a different song. This time, the sound wasn’t shrill, but sweet and low and dreamy. Instantly, the children of Hamelin came tumbling out of the houses and shops and schools, and, to the horror of the onlookers, they followed the piper to a mountain which opened up as though it were a door and all the children—one hundred thirty of them—trooped inside and were never seen again.
All but one little boy who was lame on one foot. Unable to keep up, he escaped the fate of the others and later told them what he heard. The pipers tune, he said, was about a land where all things were beautiful, the people were good, the rivers were clear, the flowers were brighter, and the sky was brilliant. In this land, dogs ran faster, bees didn’t sting, horses flew with eagle’s wings, and no one was ever sick.
Its lure was virtually irresistible, and with this sweet, subtle, soft delusion the piper led the crowd toward their doom.