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Jan 23, 2024 · The idea that Jesus was intentionally directed by the Spirit of God into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil is a theologically challenging concept. Yet that is precisely what the Gospels indicate: “Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil” (Matthew 4:1; cp. Mark 1:12–13; Luke 4:1–2).
- Forty Years
Ten of the spies had a bad report: “We can’t attack those...
- Forty Years
Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness - Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of ...
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Proponents on both sides of the peccability/impeccability debate wrestle with the fact that Christ’s humanity does not exist in a vacuum; it is rather forever united to his divine person by the power of the Spirit (cf. Luke 1:35; Philippians 2:6–7). As Michael Canham puts it, “The difference between the peccability and impeccability positions essen...
To grasp the mysterious reality that the impeccable Christ endured a full battery of temptations in this fallen world, we must understand something of the complex nature of temptation itself. Limitations of space prevent a full examination in this article of the types, conditions, circumstances, and degrees of temptation.18It will suffice to explor...
Any treatment of the temptations endured by the incarnate Christ must reckon with the fact that “mystery is the lifeblood of dogmatics.”30 The union of the eternal Son of God with a finite human nature confronts readers of Scripture with the relentless incomprehensibility of God. That the God-man voluntarily experienced the greatest of temptations ...
Oct 14, 2024 · Jesus’ sympathy with our weaknesses is comforting. When we are tempted, Jesus is near to help us. The “grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16, ESV) is extended to us because Jesus was tempted, yet without sin. The sinlessness of Christ also assures us of His righteousness, which was imputed to us when we placed our faith in Him.
Oct 14, 2024 · The three temptations by Satan in the wilderness were not the only temptations our Lord ever suffered on Earth. We read in Luke 4:2 that He was tempted by the devil for forty days, but He was undoubtedly tempted at other times (Luke 4:13; Matthew 16:21–23; Luke 22:42), and yet in all this He was without sin or compromise.
to be tempted of the devil: thus his temptations are distinguished from Divine temptations, such as Abraham had, Genesis 22:1; and by tempted here is meant solicited, or moved to sin, in which sense God tempteth no man, Jam 1:13. The general notion of tempting is, making a trial; God makes a trial of his people for the proof and manifestation of their gracious habit.
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God’s plan to establish His Kingdom on earth categorically depended on Jesus’ living a completely perfect life and resisting temptation (Hebrews 4:15). Jesus had to succeed where Adam failed. That’s why those 40 days of temptation were so critical. Jesus literally carried the fate of the entire world on His shoulders.
