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Announcements
March 27 after service will be our first potluck.
Baptism date to be set for April, if you would like to be baptized please see Pastor John after service.
Women’s Fellowship April 2, noon, here at the church.
(Tea and a light lunch).
Are there any other announcements?
Introduction
Good morning and welcome to FCC, where we worship God in Spirit and in Truth, one verse at a time, one book at a time.
We finished chapter 3 last week, so let us open our Bibles to:
Read Matthew 4:1-11
Prayer
Review>> A Look Back
Over the past few weeks we have been in Matthew 3 and we learned that there was 400 years of silence in Israel.
Israel had not heard the prophetic voice of the Lord because of their constant disobedience.
BUT GOD, who is rich in mercy and wishes not one should perish but that all should come to repentance and everlasting life sends JOHN the Baptist.
I think it is clear that the baptist denomination started here.
JUST KIDDING!
When John comes on the scene, the first words God spoke were repent!
And we know that this is the Greek word metanoia, that means a change of heart, a change of mind, and a change of direction.
One scholar said that this word means, “GET CONVERTED!”
I would like to add the word transformation or to be made holy.
We turn from sin to holiness church all the days of our lives!
John confronts the religious leaders with mercy and love.
He was a truth teller church because he knew the way they were headed was not good!
Then John baptizes Jesus, not because he needed the baptism of repentance, but because he wanted to set an example and fulfill all righteousness.
When Jesus came up out of the water, the Holy Spirit came upon him to empower him for ministry.
And then the Father says, “This is my Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
Does God say this about us?
Is he well pleased with our words, thoughts, and deeds?
If we could ask God to place all of our words, thoughts, and deeds up here on the screen, would he be well pleased with us corporately or individually?
It is importnat for us to not neglect the first word of this text:
THEN, this is an adverb that mean immediately or soon afterward.
The question we would ask would be, “ Soon after what?”
Jesus was baptized and the Father affirmed his ministry or blessed the SON, then guess what?
Satan shows up immediately.
We see here heaven and hell collide.
One minute Jesus is being blessed by the Father, the next minute he is being tempted by the devil in battle.
It is often true that after the blessings come the battles.
On the heels of His baptism, the Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness, where He would encounter the enemy.
Sir Isaac Newtons 3rd Law of Motion, Every Action has an Equal & Opposite Reaction.
Action, end of ch.3 heaven was opened.
Reaction, start of ch.4 hell opens.
It seems like every action of God, there’s a reaction from the devil.
Fact of life...nothing promotes the reaction of the devil, more than the action of one’s proximity to God.
The closer you are to God, the more battle you will do with the devil church!
To qualify this happened immediately, let us look at:
So Jesus, who is the Son of God is baptized and then led into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
One of the great truths of life, from which even the Son of God was not exempt on earth, is that after every victory comes temptation.
God’s Word warns, “Let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall” (1 Cor.
10:12).
When we have just succeeded in something important, we are invariably tempted to think that we made the accomplishment in our own power and that it is rightfully and permanently ours.
When we are most exhilarated with success we are also most vulnerable to pride—and to failure.
Illustration
In one of my high school football games we were ahead by some fifty points in the fourth quarter, and the coach was letting everyone play.
We were on about the five-yard line, and a touchdown was certain.
The coach decided to let a fourth-string runningback carry the ball, so that he could have at least one touchdown to his credit before he graduated the next spring.
He easily ran through the hole the line opened up for him, and he scored.
As the crowd cheered he turned to wave, but kept running.
He hit the goal post and was knocked cold.
He was so carried away with his triumph that he completely lost his perspective and his sense of reality.
Consequently his victory was short-lived.
At other times success causes us to feel invincible and to let down our guard, and when testings come we are not prepared for them.
In the contest between Elijah and the 450 prophets of Baal on Mt.
Carmel, the Lord gave dramatic and miraculous evidence that He was the true God and that Elijah was His true prophet.
First He sent fire from heaven to consume the sacrifices and wood that Elijah had soaked with water.
Then, in answer to the prophet’s prayer, He sent rain to drought-stricken Judah (1 Kings 18:16–46).
But within less than a day Elijah was in despair and asked the Lord to take his life.
After being courageous and immovable before the 450 false prophets, he shriveled before the threats of Jezebel (19:1–4).
From the height of victory he quickly fell into deep despair.
No sooner had Israel been delivered from Egypt than Pharaoh came pursuing her with his army.
No sooner had Hezekiah left the Passover then Sennacherib came against him.
No sooner had Paul received an abundance of revelations than he was assaulted with temptations.
Jesus was led by the Spirit church, into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
Tempted- peirazo (pi-rad'-zo) – to try, make trial of, test: for the purpose of ascertaining his quality, to try or test one’s faith by enticement to sin; to solicit to sin.
The verb “to be tempted” describes continuous action because Jesus was tempted constantly during the forty days.
The word “tempted” means “to put to the test to see what good or evil, strengths or weaknesses, exist in a person.”
The Spirit compelled Jesus into the wilderness where God put Jesus to the test—not to see if Jesus was ready, but to show that he was ready for his mission.
Satan, however, had other plans; he hoped to thwart Jesus’ mission by tempting Jesus to do evil.
Satan tried to get Jesus to declare his kingship prematurely.
One of Satan’s most common scriptural names is the devil, from diabolos, which means accuser or slanderer.
Among the many other names given him are: the ruler of this world (John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11),
the prince of the power of the air (Eph.
2:2),
the god of this world (2 Cor.
4:4), t
he serpent of old and the deceiver of the whole world (Rev.
12:9),
Abaddon and Apollyon, both of which mean “destroyer” (Rev.
9:11),
and the tempter, as seen in the next verse of our text (Matt.
4:3; cf. 1 Thess.
3:5).
The wilderness of Judea was barren and desolate, so let us not think of being up in our mountains where there is lush forests and creek beds.
I believe that the Lord allowed Jesus to be led to the wilderness for two reasons church:
To reveal who Jesus was, that he was the Son of God!
To identify with us!
Church,No matter what sin you’re struggling with, no matter what temptation seems to attack you constantly, Jesus is a merciful High Priest who prays for you effectively because He feels with you sympathetically.
He is not shocked by your sin, for according to Hebrews 4:15, He has been tempted in all points as we are—and “all” in Greek means all.
As our compassionate High Priest, Jesus says, “I understand why you are so critical or negative, lustful or cynical, hateful or vengeful, lazy or slothful.”
He understands because He was tempted in all points as we are—yet without sin.
He became like us that He might relate to us, and be strength for us in time of temptation.
After forty days in the wilderness seeking His Father and denying His flesh, Jesus was hungry.
Physiologists tell us that when one fasts for that length of time, he loses his appetite completely.
His hunger returns only when he is on the verge of death.
Therefore, at this point, in His fortieth day, Jesus was literally starving to death.
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