Feb. 11, 2025

Why Was Jesus Tempted

Why Was Jesus Tempted

A discussion about the temptation of Jesus.

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A discussion about the temptation of Jesus.

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective.

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This is the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central.

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Good morning everyone, it is what day is it? It

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is Tuesday, February the eleventh, twenty twenty five. It is

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currently eleven thirty two am Central time, and I'm coming

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to you live from the Theology Central studio located right

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here in Abilene, Texas. I'm laughing not because I forgot

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temporarily what day of the week it was. I was

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laughing because I typically when we go live, I hit

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the music, I hit the intro, and I usually pick

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up my iPad because I'll say good morning, good afternoon,

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I'll give you the date, i give you all of

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that information, tell you I'm coming to you live and

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all of that. But I usually pick up my iPad

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because then I can look at you know, good good

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morning everyone. It is Tuesday, February the eleventh, twenty twenty five,

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currently eleven thirty three am. And I just have the

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iPad right there to see the date and the time,

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and just to make sure I get everything accurate. And

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I always give the date and time because then once

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this is uploaded, people six months from now, eight months

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from now, a year from now. If they find that episode,

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they have kind of a date reference when it was

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being recorded, when it was live, They have some kind

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of historical context to what I'm talking about. So today,

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when I got ready to pick up the iPad, all

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of a sudden it would not pick up. And I'm

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trying to talk and I'll all to heaven and the

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cord that's plugged into the computer was wrapped around it

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and it was cut in between the iPad and the case,

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and I was like, oh.

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I kept almost dropping the iPad. I'm like, what is

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wrong here? What is going on?

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And then things started falling everywhere, So yes, I almost

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want to start over.

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Good morning everyone.

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It is Tuesday, February the eleventh, twenty twenty five.

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It is currently eleven.

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Thirty four am Central time, and I am coming to

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you live from the very unprofessional Theology Central Studio located

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right here in Abilene, Texas. I hope you're having a

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good day. I should ask you this question.

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Did you go to Chapel service today? Did you? Did you?

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Was it Bob Jones? Was that ambassador Baptist College? I

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don't remember the other one. I'm talking about all of

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the chapel services that broadcast live on the Sermon's two

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point zero app the sermon Audio website. If you keep

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if you pay close attention to the webcast section, you'll

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see this morning, there was I think two three going on,

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and I got ready to tune into the Bob Jones

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Chapel Service, thinking it was just starting, and while it

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was actually ending, it was the closing song.

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It was the closing hymn. I'm like, okay, well I

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missed it. Now.

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Yesterday I told everyone I was going to tell on you.

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For missing Well I missed it today.

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So before you can even tell on me, I'm telling

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I missed it Chapel service.

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Okay, So I saw that it's already been.

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Uploaded, so I may you know, I may have to

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go back and listen to some of it, but yes,

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I try to anything that comes from a Bible college.

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Those are the ones seminaries and Bible colleges. I love

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listening to anything coming from those because that's training equipping

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the next generation of Christians. I like to hear what

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they're being taught. I like to hear what's being covered.

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Now with Bob Jones, they have a chapel a seminary chapel,

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which I mentioned yesterday.

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I think that one's.

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Far more in depth and better than the general chapel service,

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which sometimes can be You're like, uh, come on, these

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are college kids.

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We can dig in a little more.

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But then it also maybe, well's chapel service. They already have,

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you know, classes and everything. So I mean, we could

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get into a what should be accomplished in a chapel

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service or not so, but I like keeping up with

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all of those. I told everyone that you know every

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Bible college and seminary on the sermons two.

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Point oh app you should follow.

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And as the broadcaster so that you'll always have their

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new content in.

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Your feed and the feed tab.

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And I also, of course, anytime there's a conference, I

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like to keep up with all the conferences as well.

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Because you know that shows.

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I like to see what the theme is for these conferences,

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especially if it's conferences people are paying, you know, fifty

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one hundred dollars to get inside of to hear the word.

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Of God preached.

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Well, I want to know what people pay fifty one

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hundred dollars to hear, so are two hundred to three

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hundred whatever? I mean some of these conferences charge a

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pretty a good amount of money for people to get

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in to hear the Bible preach, so I'm always fascinated

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by that.

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I could I could go in my full blown rant

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on all of that.

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But yeah, so I didn't make it this morning, but

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I can say this before the chapel services started, before

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all of them started broadcasting live on the sermon's two

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point oh app I was looking around listening to things,

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and I stumbled upon a devotional message this morning. It

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was about fifteen minutes long, and I was like, okay,

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this is interesting. The first part I thought was really

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really good. The first part I was like, this is good.

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I could do something with this. So I spent a

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good portion this morning expanding it, kind of adding to it.

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But the second part brought up some issues that I'm like,

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oh boy, I don't know about this. So I think

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what we're going to do. I think what I'm going

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to do today is I want to at least talk

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about the first part of this devotional message, and then

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tomorrow we'll talk about I don't think i'll broadcast later today.

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Maybe if I do, we'll talk about the second part.

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Because both parts here are very important. All right, And

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basically it will come down to really two questions, right,

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why was Jesus tempted? And how did he overcome the temptation?

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Why was Jesus tempted? How did he overcome the temptation? Now,

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when I listened to this, the why part was fascinating,

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and I'm like, Okay, I can agree to a whole

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lot of this. Right, this is really good. I can

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do something with this. The how I became a little

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problematic in my estimation because it was basically, well, this

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is how Jesus overcame temptation. And the implication was if

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I'll simply do what Jesus did, then I can overcome

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all temptation, which I guess means I know that they

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would not say it means this, but the implication would be, well,

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if I can do simply what Jesus did, well, then

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I can overcome all temptation, meaning then I should never sin.

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But we know I'm going to continue to sin. So

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can I simply do?

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Was was it meant to demonstrate?

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I mean, we take the temptation of Jesus sometimes and

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act like again, it's not descriptive, it's prescriptive. And all

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I have to do is do what Jesus did, and

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I can overcome temptation.

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But there is a huge difference.

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He was God in the flesh. He was God incarnate. Now,

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what some people do is try to separate the deity

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and the humanity so much that well, when Jesus was tempted,

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there was no deity part, you know, played in it.

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It was just in his humanity. And he overcome temptation

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true completely as a man, not separate from his deity.

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And I and I as a man, you as a

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human human being, man, woman.

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Girl, doesn't matter.

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We all we have to do is follow the template

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and then we can overcome temptation. And there, I We're

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we're gonna have to get into a very deep.

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Discussion about that.

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I've got some I've got some issues and if you're not,

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I know, to have some issues. If you're not careful,

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you can actually start falling into some chrystological errors there

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if you're not careful in how you handle that.

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So I think we have to be careful.

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So before we get to the how, let's get to

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why was Jesus tempted?

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And here's what we're going to do.

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I'm going to play a little bit of the devotional

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that I heard, I would challenge you to when you listen,

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carefully write down the name of it. You may want

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to go follow them on the sermon's two point zero

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app or the sermon audio homepage.

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You may want to follow them. I think they do this.

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Maybe they may do this every day, these fifteen minute devotionals,

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which can be very beneficial when you don't have a

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lot of time.

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And I want you to at least listen to it.

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And you know it is from a Presbyterian Church, so

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obviously they would believe in infant baptism.

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And typically, as we've.

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Heard and reviewing sermons on Isaiah forty through Isaiah fifty five,

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if it comes from a Presbyterian church, you can almost

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inevitably know how they're going to handle Old Testament passages. Magically,

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the church is going to appear, We're going to be

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inserted into the text, and Israel tends to get moved out.

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We would have some criticisms there, but the way they

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handled this first part about why Jesus was tempted, I

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thought they do a really good job bring up some

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very and good points. So we're going to focus on

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that with the how he overcame. It's the implications that

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people draw from how He overcame that we have to discuss.

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I want to get to today. Why was Jesus tempted?

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Let's talk about it, and we're going to do so

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by listening to what I heard early this morning.

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I think it was around five am. Here it is.

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Good morning, and welcome to walking with Jesus in the Gospels.

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I'm Pastor Jason van Bemmel from Forest Hill Presbyterian Church.

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It's our second day of week two and we're in

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Matthew chapter four, taking a look at the temptation of

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Jesus right after he was baptized by John and the

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River Jordan, which you looked at yesterday. He's driven out

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into the wilderness to be tempted. Let's ask God's help

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as we turned this part of his word today. Heavenly Father,

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please speak to us through Matthew four. Please help us

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to see what you would have us learn from the

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temptations of Jesus and the way that he overcame the devil.

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We pray this in his name. Amen.

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Now you know all you know what I'm going to say.

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I say this every single time, and look I do

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the same thing.

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I fall into the same.

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Trap, all right, if, in fact, if you'll go listen

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to my closing prayers on Sunday morning. I think it

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was specifically the second hour closing prayer, because as soon

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as I got in the car, I almost.

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Like to started hitting myself in the head.

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You do the same thing you complain about. Listen, ladies

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and gentlemen. I don't know how many times I can

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say this, Pastors, Christians, Christian podcasters. When we pray in

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regards to preaching, teaching, and studying the Bible, we have

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this tendency to basically pray like, God, help me see

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the truth, Show me the truth, help me understand the truth,

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like as if God is going to be involved and

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helping us understand, helping us learning, helping us get it.

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And all I can say to you two thousand years

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of church history and we don't agree on literally anything.

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So if God is helping, he's obviously helping Baptists come

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to a different conclusion the Presbyterians and Presbyterians to come

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to different conclusions in Church of Christ and Church of

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Christ in different conclusions than Charismatics and Charismatics different and

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sometimes even within one group Baptist Lutherans. I mean, there's

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just disagreement, disagreement. Nobody agrees on baptism, nobody agrees on repentance,

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nobody agrees on salvation, nobody agrees literally on anything. In fact,

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even in this devotional, see he's praying that God helps him,

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that God helps it. Well, if God's helping him, then

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can I disagree with anything?

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He says? Well, what if God is helping me?

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Well, if God is helping me and I come to

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a different conclusion, it just logically falls apart. I just

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believe God has given us his word and a written form,

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the Word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit, and

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then it's our job to read it and understand it,

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utilizing the basic skills and the basic techniques that we

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would use to interpret anything, whether it's literature, whether it's

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a textbook, we have to use those interpretive skills and principles.

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I know people say, well, that just makes it very academic.

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the spiritual part is, because if God is involved in

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helping me understand, we should have it. There should be

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one denomination and one commentary, okay, because it would be

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all from God.

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So I understand it's so natural to do. I will

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do the same thing.

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You know, the Lord help us do this, help me

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figure this out, and I'll be like, what am I doing?

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I guess some say, was there anything wrong with praying

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the way? I guess not.

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your interpretation was given to you by God, well then

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it becomes almost an infallible interpretation. So yeah, but I

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just have to mention that because I run into the

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same problem. I fall into the same trip. We've almost been.

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It's ingrained in our brain. It's like, this is what

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you say, but I have issues. Let's get to this.

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The temptation of Jesus, Well, he's gonna break it down.

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Here we go Matthew four. Then Jesus was led by

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the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

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And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry,

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and the tempter came and said, to him, if you

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are the son of God, command these stones to become

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loaves of bread. But he answered, it is written man

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shall not live by bread alone, but by every word

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that comes from the mouth of God. Then the devil

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took him to the Holy City and set him on

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the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, if

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you are the son of God, throw yourself down, for

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it is written he will command his angels concerning you,

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and on their hands they will bear you up lest

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you strike your foot against a stone. Jesus said to

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him again, it is written you shall not put the

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Lord your God to the test. Again, the devil took

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him to a very high mountain and showed him all

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the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he

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said to him, all these I will give you if

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you will fall down and worship me. Then Jesus said

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to him, be gone, Satan, for it is written you

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shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall

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you serve. Then the devil left him, and behold, angels

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came and reministering to him. So why was Jesus tempted

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and how did he overcome? Those are our questions for today. Well.

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Immediately after Jesus was baptized by John and was consecrated

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and anointed by the Holy Spirit as our Messiah, He's

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led by the Spirit into the desert wilderness where he

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fasted for forty days and was tempted by the devil.

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Okay, so the two questions are why was Jesus tempted?

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from an interpretive hermeneutical perspective, is this, do we read

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the Temptation of Jesus as descriptive or do we read

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it as prescriptive?

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Almost every church you have ever attended.

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listened to on the Temptation of Jesus almost immediately looks

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at it from a prescriptive perspective.

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This is how Jesus was tempted.

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This is the prescription for you, for me, and how

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we can overcome temptation.

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We can be like Jesus.

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is as prescriptive as everyone makes it out to be.

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I think it's more descriptive. And I think the reason

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we know it's descriptive is when we start answering the

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question why was Jesus tempted? We see the very descriptive

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nature of this. It's very descriptive. It's describing what Jesus

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did and the significance of that for us is important,

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all right, So he wants to answer these two questions.

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As I've already pointed out, we're gonna focus on simply

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the why today.

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Right the why I'm gonna let you give.

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I'm gonna let you hear him give the three reasons

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why Jesus was tempted.

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And then I will expand on each one.

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Here we go. That is a rough start to a ministry.

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There's so much we could discuss about jesus temptation, but

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right now, let's focus on two questions. Why was he

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tempted and how did he overcome? Jesus was tempted in

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our place as our savior for three main reasons. First,

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so he could fulfill all righteousness for us and earn

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a perfect human righteousness.

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For us, all right.

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Number one, to fulfill all righteousness on behalf of believers.

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To fulfill all righteousness, so he could provide in a

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sense of a righteousness to us. To fulfill all righteousness

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on behalf of believers. Now, as soon as I heard that,

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I was like, yes, yes, all right, I love this now.

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Immediately that tells me, wait a minute, this is more

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descriptive than prescriptive. Right, that's not prescribing what I need

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to do in order to become righteous. This is showing

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me what Christ did in order to fulfill all righteousness

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in my place for me. All right, this goes right

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to imputed righteousness. Right, this goes to so well, we're

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going to expand on this. I don't want to expand

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on it now, but.

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Just write that first one down.

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Jesus was tempted to fulfill all righteousness on behalf of believers.

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Just say, on behalf of us, right, Jesus he did

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this to fulfill all righteousness on behalf of us. Right.

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Now, Let's see what the second reason is.

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Second of all, so he could suffer while tempted and

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become a merciful and sympathetic high priest for us, all.

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Right, Reason number two to become a merciful and sympathetic

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high priest for an order for him to be sympathetic,

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and order for him to have on some understanding. He

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was tempted in all points as we are, yet without sin.

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He understands he has experienced temptation, so he can be

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a merciful and sympathetic high priest. And we can look

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at Hebrews four for some supporting scripture for that, and

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we will expand on each one of these. What was

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the first reason Jesus was tempted to fulfill all righteousness

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on behalf of believers? Number two to become a merciful

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and sympathetic high priest. What is the third reason Jesus

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was tempted?

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head of a new humanity that would be redeemed in him.

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the head of a redeemed humanity. Adam fell, He did not.

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Israel failed, he did not. He He does what well,

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nobody else could. Adam couldn't. Israel couldn't. Nobody could. He

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does what nobody else is cants do. Now he becomes

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the head of a redeemed humanity who are redeemed not

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because of what we do or try to do, or

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can't do or shouldn't do, but what he did. All right,

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I'll him just talk just a little bit more. He's

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getting ready to get into the how, and that's immediately

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where we're going to stop, because I do not want

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to get into that now, because we've got a lot

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of questions about this. But this right here just demonstrates

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to see, the entire temptation is descriptive. It's describing what

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Jesus did. Now we can learn from that, and it

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has major implications on us. But I don't think it's

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prescribing us the way that we can while we can

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be just like.

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Jesus and never sin. Well, now that's yeah.

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I think there's whole lot of issues with that perspective.

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any more about those three things. I think he almost

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immediately transitions into the how. Let's see if he says

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any more here.

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Jesus had to fulfill the righteous requirements of the law

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to the fullest extent, which required him to face trials

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just like we do. He was tempted in every way,

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just as we are, and yet without sin. Hebrews four

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fifteen says in doing so he earned a perfect righteousness.

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He entered into our trials and our suffering. He passed

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a more severe test than Adam failed, thus fixing Adam's

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fall by reversing the curse of the Garden of Eden.

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was fully man Jesus overcame Satan's temptation by reliance on

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the Holy Spirit.

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Okay, now he's getting into the how. He's getting into

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the how.

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Notice he immediately when he goes into the how, he

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immediately focuses.

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On jesus humanity.

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Jesus was fully man, didn't mention his deity, goes fully

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into that.

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And then how did he do it by relying?

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He relied on this and relied on this. All I

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have to do and my full humanity is rely on that.

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did not have a sinful nature. All right, So we're

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already getting into the how. Oh see, there's so much

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I want to think about. Let's get into the why here,

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all right?

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Why was Jesus tipt it? Well, Number one, let's go back.

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We're going to expand each one of these to fulfill

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all righteousness on behalf of believers, To fulfill all righteousness

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on behalf of belief, are.

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On behalf of us.

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One of the primary reasons I think this is important

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that Jesus was tempted was to fulfill all righteousness living

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in complete obedience to God's law on behalf of his people.

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When whenever we talk about Jesus fulfilling all righteousness, he

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lived in complete obedience to God's law. He fulfilled the

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law perfectly, He completed it perfectly. And this is completely unlike,

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completely opposite to Adam, completely opposite and different than Israel,

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completely opposite and different.

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Than all of humanity. All of us we fail.

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No one of us, no, not one of us, can

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fulfill all righteousness. None of us can live in complete

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obedience to God's law, whether before salvation or after salvation.

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We can't do it.

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But Jesus fully obeyed God in every single way, earning

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a perfect righteousness that would be imputed to anyone who believes.

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When you believe in Christ, that perfect obedience, that fulfilling

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of the law, the fulfilling of all righteousness, is imputed,

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accredited to your account. In practice you're sinning, and practice

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you're not fulfilling the law. In practice you're disobeying. In

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your position, that righteousness is accredited to your account. See when,

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I when when when you read the Temptation of Jesus,

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it's almost like, okay, look, look when we read about

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God's law way back here in the Bible, and all

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we have seen since Adam and Eve has sinned. We

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have seen failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure.

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Sin, sin, sins and sins, and sins and sin.

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We have seen the law of God, and all we

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have seen is disobedience to that law.

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Over and over and over and over and over again.

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Even amongst Israel, even.

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Among mean the supposedly godly, we constantly see failure. Now,

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finally Jesus steps on the scene and right, oh, here

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we go, here we go. Okay, Jesus, we got to

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have someone to help us out here. No one can

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fulfill this law. Everyone has failed. Come on, here we go.

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We're in Matthew four. This, Come on, come on, Jesus.

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We need you to do it because no.

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And then Jesus fulfills it perfectly. And then that perfection

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and that perfect obedience is the accredited to me by

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faith so in Christ. And this is always crazy when

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people say, well, this proves that you're saying if you

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do this, this will prove that you're saved, or if

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you do this, it will prove that you're saved.

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What are you talking about?

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My actions don't prove my salvation. The actions of Christ

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prove my salvation because by putting my faith in Him,

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his obedience is imputed to my account. So if you

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say I have to do this, or I have to

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do this, or I can't do this in order to

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prove that I'm saved, I'm like, well, in Christ, I've.

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Done all of those things and not done all of

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those things. So you can't give me a test.

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Jesus and I get a passing grade. In fact, I

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get perfection because his perfection is accredited to my account. Therefore,

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you can't throw anything in my face. They say, well,

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I don't think you're safe because you did this or

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you did that. No, my salvation is not based on

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what I do or don't do. That's the whole point

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of imputed righteousness. If you don't like the concept of

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imputed righteousness, return back to Roman Catholicism because they teach

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infused righteousness, which is sadly what many non Catholics basically

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practice in their theology. Jesus came as the fulfillment of

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the law and the prophets. We see this in I

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think Matthew five seventeen the Sermon on the Mount, he says,

478
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think not that I've come to destroy the Law or

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the prophets.

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I am not come to destroy.

481
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But to fulfill, for verily asking to you, till heaven

482
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and earth passed one jot or one tittle, shall and

483
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no whys pass from the Law till all be fulfilled.

484
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Christ fulfilled it. All. Whoever therefore shall break.

485
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One of these least commandments shall teach men, so he

486
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shall be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven.

487
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We can't even break the smallest commandment, but Jesus fulfilled

488
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them all. Jesus came as a fulfillment of the Law

489
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and the prophets, meaning he had to obey all of

490
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God's commandments flawlessly. His obedience and the temptation was necessary

491
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that he could offer our righteousness, not just free from sin.

492
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But actively perfect and complete.

493
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It's not just that Jesus didn't sin, No, it's his

494
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obedience that is we in Christ.

495
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We have all of our sins paid for and washed away.

496
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But then we have the.

497
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Perfect obedience, an active righteousness accredited to my account.

498
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So I stand in.

499
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Christ before God as this, as if I'm actively in

500
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obedience to every single law, to every letter of the law. Now,

501
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unlike Israel who failed in the wilderness. When Israel was

502
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in the wilderness, they failed, Jesus goes into the wilderness

503
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and he succeeds. He obeys. Remember, Israel was given the

504
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law and failed. Jesus goes into the wilderness and obeys

505
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the law. And then after this temptation, what does he do.

506
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He begins to teach, really expounds the very law, because.

507
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He is obedient to all of it.

508
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That's why he says immediately after Matthew five seventeen, whosoever

509
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therefore shall break one of these least commandments and shall

510
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teach man, so he shall be called the least in

511
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the Kingdom of Heaven. But whosoever shall do and teach

512
00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:17.839
them the same shall be called great in the Kingdom

513
00:28:17.839 --> 00:28:20.920
of Heaven. Well, who's the only one who keeps them Jesus,

514
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He's the one who keeps them right. So what's the

515
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first reason Jesus was tempted to fulfill all righteousness on.

516
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Behalf of believers?

517
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All right, we have Matthew five seventeen. Do not think

518
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that I have come to abolish the law or prophets.

519
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I've not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them

520
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Tewod Corinthians five twenty one. For our sake, He made

521
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him to be sin, who knew no sin, so that

522
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in him we might become the righteousness of God. It

523
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is in him that we become righteous, not in action.

524
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In our position, we are declared to be that which

525
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we are not.

526
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Romans five eighteen through nineteen.

527
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Therefore, as one trespass led to the condemnation for all men,

528
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so one act of righteousness leads to justification in life

529
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for all men. For by one man's disobedience, the many

530
00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:16.799
were made sinners. So by the one man's obedience, the

531
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many will be made righteous. We are made righteous by

532
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his obedience.

533
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We are not made.

534
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Righteous in practice and action. We are made righteous in

535
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our position. It's imputed, it's not infused. Hebrews five, verses

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eight through nine. Although he was a son, he learned

537
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obedience through.

538
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If I can read correctly here.

539
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Although Hebrews five eight through nine, although he was a son,

540
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he learned obedience through what he suffered, and being made perfect,

541
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he became the source of eternal salvation to all who

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obey him.

543
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Jesus.

544
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Obedience and resisting temptation was part of his active righteousness,

545
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which is accredited to all believers, making them righteous before God.

546
00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:04.279
We made righteous before God by belief in Christ and

547
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an imputed righteousness. Why was Jesus tempted to fulfill all

548
00:30:09.799 --> 00:30:13.799
righteousness on behalf of believers? What's the second reason? Jesus

549
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was tempted to become a merciful and sympathetic high priest.

550
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:21.680
Jesus experience of temptation allows him to relate to humanity

551
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and our struggles, making him a compassionate and understanding high priest.

552
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He suffered in a sense and temptation. It was absolutely

553
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necessary that he could sympathize.

554
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With human weakness.

555
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Jesus experienced the full weight of human temptation, yet without sin.

556
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We see that in Hebrews four fifteen. This was just

557
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not for philological purposes, but for relational and pastoral reasons,

558
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so that believers can trust in him as our intercessor.

559
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We know he can make interest, and we know we

560
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have an advocate because he understands that we have been tempted,

561
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and he knows that he was without it. But he

562
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understands that we are constantly failing and falling short.

563
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The fact that Jesus was tempted but did not sin.

564
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Possibly can at least give us the idea at least

565
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Hebrews Force seems to indicate this that he understands to

566
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some level our struggles. He has some understanding in a

567
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deeper way about this whole problem of temptation. Now he

568
00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:45.079
did not sin, but at least gone he went through

569
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the process to some level of the at least being tempted.

570
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You think about it this way.

571
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As a high priest, Jesus does not just offer a sacrifice,

572
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He himself is the sacrifice. He intercedes for believers based

573
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on firsthand knowledge of their weakness, or at least firsthand

574
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knowledge of temptation. And we have a number of scriptures

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here that we can look at Hebrews two seventeen through eighteen. Therefore,

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he had to be made like his brothers in every respect,

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so that he might become a merciful and faithful high

578
00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:26.200
priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for

579
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the sins of the people. For because he himself has

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suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who

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are being tempted Hebrews four fifteen through sixteen. We do

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not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize

583
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with our weakness, but one who in every respect has

584
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been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us, thin,

585
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with confidence, draw near to the throne of Grace, that

586
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we may receive mercy and find grace in time of need.

587
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And I think that grace and mercy is we come

588
00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:56.039
to Him and Tom in need, because we're going to

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00:32:56.119 --> 00:32:58.440
fall in our temptation, and we're going to need his

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00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:06.480
sacrifice and his forgiveness. All right, First, John two to one.

591
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I got a number of scriptures here, my little children.

592
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I'm writing these things to you that you may not sin.

593
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But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with

594
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the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous. Jesus was tempted. He

595
00:33:18.440 --> 00:33:22.039
understands human weaknesses, not just in a theoretical sense, but

596
00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:25.960
an experiential sense to some level, making him the perfect

597
00:33:26.039 --> 00:33:31.440
advocate and the perfect intercessor. So why did Jesus Why

598
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was he tempted number one to fulfill all righteousness for

599
00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:38.880
on behalf of believers, and number two to become a

600
00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:40.880
merciful and sympathetic high priest.

601
00:33:41.119 --> 00:33:44.759
How about number three?

602
00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:49.640
He was tempted to succeed where Adam fell and become

603
00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:54.519
the new atom. Jesus temptation was a deliberate reenactment of

604
00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:58.039
Adam's failure in the Garden of Eden, the difference, but

605
00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:02.720
with a completely different outcome. Adam well, he fell, he

606
00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:06.720
gave in, He caved to temptation. He brought sin into

607
00:34:06.759 --> 00:34:10.440
the world, but Jesus resisted and secured the foundation for

608
00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:15.440
a new redeemed humanity. And Genesis three, Adam and Eve

609
00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:18.599
failed when tempted by Satan, bringing sin, death, and separation

610
00:34:18.679 --> 00:34:21.639
from God into the world. Jesus, the second Atom, faced

611
00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:25.400
temptation in a harsher environment, the wilderness, rather than paradise,

612
00:34:25.559 --> 00:34:28.840
and he overcame. One was in a garden with everything,

613
00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:33.000
Jesus was in a wilderness without food for forty days.

614
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So one is fasted for forty days, the other one

615
00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:40.360
was in a garden with everything. It's a complete stark

616
00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:43.800
contrast between the two. Again, I don't think this is

617
00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:48.280
being prescriptive. It's describing what Jesus did and their specific

618
00:34:48.320 --> 00:34:52.880
philological and biblical reasons for setting this up. And remember

619
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the spirits, the one who led him here. This was

620
00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:58.719
God's plan for this to happen. It is a direct

621
00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:05.639
contrast of what happened in the garden, but in every

622
00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:10.320
way opposite. Jesus victory in the wilderness, in a sense,

623
00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:14.239
reverses the effects of adam sin and inaugurates a new humanity.

624
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All right, So we are now saved, and we are

625
00:35:18.119 --> 00:35:19.440
saved by his obedience.

626
00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:20.840
We are in him.

627
00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:28.559
Just as adams disobedience was imputed to all his descendants,

628
00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:32.360
christ obedience is imputed to all who belonged to him

629
00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:38.559
by faith. Some scriptures Romans five twelveth through nineteen. For

630
00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:41.719
as by the one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners,

631
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so by the one man's obedience, the many will be

632
00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:48.719
made righteous. That's Romans five twelve through nineteen one Corinthians fifteen.

633
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This is thus, it is written. The first man, Adam,

634
00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:54.840
became a living being. The last atom became a life

635
00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:57.320
giving spirit. But it is not the spirit that is

636
00:35:57.480 --> 00:36:00.079
that is first, but the natural, then the spiritual. The

637
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:02.039
first man was from the earth, a man of dust.

638
00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:06.119
The second man is from heaven. A contrast between Adam

639
00:36:06.199 --> 00:36:10.960
and Christ. Genesis three one through six. Adam's failure when

640
00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:15.000
tempted by Satan Luke four one through thirteen, Jesus' success

641
00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:21.079
and resisting Satan's contrasting Adam's failure Philippians two, verses eight

642
00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:23.760
through nine, and being found in human form. He humbled

643
00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:26.639
himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even

644
00:36:26.679 --> 00:36:29.599
the death on the cross. Therefore, God has highly exalted

645
00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:32.480
him and bestowed on him the name that is above

646
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:38.599
every name. Through through his perfect obedience, Jesus became the

647
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head of a new humanity, reversing the curse and securing the.

648
00:36:41.639 --> 00:36:48.199
Redemption of all who trust in him. There are the

649
00:36:48.320 --> 00:36:52.000
three reasons why Jesus was tempted. Let me go through

650
00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:52.639
those again.

651
00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:58.079
Number one, he was tempted to fulfill all righteousness on

652
00:36:58.159 --> 00:37:01.760
behalf of on behalf of Us. Number two, to become

653
00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:03.719
a merciful and sympathetic high priest.

654
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Number three, to succeed where Adam fell and become the

655
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new Adam.

656
00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:13.360
Become the head now of a redeemed humanity that in

657
00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:20.000
him can be declared perfect righteous and obedience. Jesus temptation, then,

658
00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:24.679
is not just some isolated event. It was a necessary

659
00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:26.639
part to fulfill all righteousness.

660
00:37:26.639 --> 00:37:30.039
See when people say why did Jesus come, he came

661
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:32.840
to die no, no, no, no no. He came to

662
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fulfill the law. He came to If if all he

663
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did was just come.

664
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To die, then then you've missed the whole point. You

665
00:37:41.039 --> 00:37:43.800
don't need someone just to die for your sins. You've

666
00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:46.480
got to have someone who will obey the law for you,

667
00:37:46.679 --> 00:37:49.599
because even if Jesus dies and pays for your sins,

668
00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:54.519
you still would not have the righteousness that God demands.

669
00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:56.559
You can't just have your sins paid for.

670
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You need a perfect, active obedience accredited to your account.

671
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And Jesus didn't give you that because he kept the

672
00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:11.480
law perfectly. He came to fulfill all righteousness. He came

673
00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:16.199
to obey, He came to pay. He obeyed so that

674
00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:18.960
that obedience can be mine, And he paid for.

675
00:38:18.960 --> 00:38:20.360
All of my disobedience.

676
00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:28.559
It was a necessary part of his mission to fulfill

677
00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:31.519
all righteousness, become a merciful high priests, and establish a

678
00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:36.039
redeem humanity. Each aspect of victory directly impacts us. His

679
00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:41.760
righteousness is credited to us, right, that's our justification. He

680
00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:45.760
understands their struggles, so we have a compassionate advocate. That's

681
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:48.039
good to know, because you know why, you know why

682
00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:50.519
we need someone who can understand. You know why we

683
00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:53.320
need an intercessor. You know why we need an advocate.

684
00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:55.679
You know why we need to be able to approach

685
00:38:55.760 --> 00:38:58.079
the throne of grace. You know why we need mercy.

686
00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:00.760
You know why we need grace because he keeps sinning

687
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and he inaugurates a new redeem humanity. We're no longer

688
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:10.360
under Adam's curse. We are in the second atom, and

689
00:39:10.440 --> 00:39:13.800
we have been freed from the curse. Now we have

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00:39:13.920 --> 00:39:21.519
eternal life. Those are the reasons he came. All of

691
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that is descriptive. It's describing everything he did. Now there

692
00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:28.840
is a part that's a applicable to us, but it's

693
00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:30.760
not prescribing something I do.

694
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It's describing everything he did.

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So what we have a tendency to do then is

696
00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:39.320
we say, okay, here's why he came, and we may

697
00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:42.239
even approach that in a descriptive way. Then when it

698
00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:45.159
gets to how he overcame, then we're like, oh, now

699
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:46.239
that's prescribing.

700
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:48.320
If if all.

701
00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:51.559
Jesus needed to do was say, hey, guys, this is

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how you can just obey the law perfectly, he would

703
00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:58.599
have just shown us how to do it. Jesus could

704
00:39:58.639 --> 00:40:02.960
give us five million examples of every single way he

705
00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:05.559
did not sin and how he overcome every sin.

706
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And you will never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever ever.

707
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Ever be able to replicate it, to follow it. You

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00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:17.239
will never be able to because the difference between Jesus

709
00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:19.280
and you, well there's two major differences.

710
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He's God in the.

711
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Flesh, and second, he did not have a sinful nature.

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You are a fallen human being. You're not God, you're

713
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not deity, you are a sinful man. Well, I'll just

714
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:33.599
recite scripture, and then that's how it's always done.

715
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See, this is why you need a memorize scripture.

716
00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:40.000
Whenever Jesus, whenever Satan knocks on your door, you just

717
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respond with scripture.

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You just quote scripture. If you'll just quote scripture, No.

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I need scripture to remind me that Christ has died

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and paid for me and whenever, and the scripture show

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me my sin and drives me to Christ and the

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imputed righteousness. But it's always taught like, hey, all you

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gonna do is do it Jesus and you won't sin. Well,

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if that's the case, then there would be no sin

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in Christianity for two thousand years. And we know that's

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not the case, it's describing the fact that Jesus came to.

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He came army stated this way.

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Jesus was tempted, as it's described, to accomplish the things

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I've outlined, and the text just.

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Describes how he did not sin.

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I don't think it's prescribing some new formula for me

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not to It's giving me the assurance. See, he did

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fulfill all righteousness because he didn't sin.

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He is a.

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Merciful high priest because he was tempted yet without sin.

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Yes, he is the new Adam.

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He is the head of a new humanity because in

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him that obedience is mine. All the whole text is

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showing us that he was tempted and he did not sin.

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We turn it into a formula for hey, follow these

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five things and you will not sin. You know how

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many times this formula has been taught and people keep sinning, Well,

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just do what Matthew for says, Well, I'm doing it.

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Well, why do you keep sinning? Well, I don't know.

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Maybe because I'm not God in the flesh.

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Maybe because I have a sinful nature that Jesus did

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not have. Remember the whole virgin birth thing. We always

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make it prescriptive. I think it's descriptive.

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I think that when and especially sometimes in Sunday School,

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we teach kids like.

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If we'll just do what Jesus did, you will you'll

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be a good little boy and girl and you'll never sin. No,

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Jesus did it, because you're not a good little boy

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and girl, and you're going to sin and you're going

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to fall short.

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But I've got good news for you.

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Jesus obeyed where you do not faith in him, his

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obedience becomes yours. So you get to stand before God

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declared to be a good little boy and a good

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little girl, even though we all know you're not because

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you're not, just like your teacher is not good, your

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pastor is not good, your mom and dad is not good.

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Because there is none that do with good, no, not one.

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I know that ruins a lot of Sunday School lessons.

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And I'm sorry, but we'll get to the howl part.

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I know I'm kind of giving it away, but we'll

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get to the.

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Howl part next time.

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So what were the three reasons? What were the three

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reasons that Jesus was timpted? What are the three reasons?

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I'm asking it like I'm waiting for someone in the

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congregation to answer to fulfill all righteousness on our behalf,

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so that he could be a merciful and sympathetic high priest.

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And we need a merciful and sympathetic high priest. We

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need a merciful, sympathetic high priest who will intercede for

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us and will be our advocate because we're.

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To keep sinning. And number three, so that.

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He could succeed where Adam felled and become basically the

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new Atom and the head of those of us who

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are now redeemed in Him. Just as we all become

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sinners and Adam. Think of it this way, we all

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become righteous. We all become obedience in the new Atom,

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in the second Atom in Christ. Not it, we become

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obedient and righteous, and what we do, we become obedient.

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And righteousness, because that is just like.

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Adam's guilt is imputed to you, and you're guilty in

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Adam without you ever doing anything. You never even had

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to do anything. You were already guilty. Well, in Christ,

789
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you never have to do anything, and you're already obedient

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and righteous in Christ. Because that's the whole doctrine of imputation,

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which for some weird reason. This was a key argument

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against the Roman Catholic Church, where they believed in infused

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and we argued for imputed, and then all of these

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years later it's like, we almost want to go back

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to Roman Catholicism.

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Why was Jesus tempted?

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How would you have answered the question prior to this broadcast?

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Now you know what I'm gonna say, Hey, when you

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go to church, do you have church Wednesday? Walk around

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and ask people why was Jesus tempted?

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What answers did they get?

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Is your church doing some Valentine's banquet or something? Well,

803
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while everyone's you know, talking about whatever they do at

804
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Valentine's banquets, could you say, hey, why was Jesus tempted?

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Right now?

806
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I will not recommend that if you're out on a

807
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date on Valentine's Night with your spouse, you say, hey,

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why was Jesus tempted? Okay, may kind of ruin the

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romantic mood, but it is a good theological discussion to

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have maybe prior to that and Sunday when you go

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to church, Hey, guys, I got a question, why was

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Jesus tempted? And see what they say. I'll just be

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curious what answers you're going to get. And if you

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answered this differently than those three way those three things,

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what would you what would what have been your reason?

816
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A lot of people say to serve as an example

817
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for us, to show us how we can overcome sin.

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That's almost Preachers may not always start there, but that

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almost all of their sermons in there.

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He was tempted to show us how we can overcome sin. No,

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he he did it because we can't overcome sin. And

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that's the whole point. He had to do it for us. Oh,

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the whole point. All right, there we go.

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So I didn't make it to chapel, so you can

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go tell on me. But I see I did listen

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to something, all right, I didn't listen something. Now currently

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on the sermons two point oh wow, hand on, let

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me look here, I.

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Do want on.

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I don't know when this was posted Bob Jones University.

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They posted a message called healthy frustration, healthy frustration. I

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want to know what healthy frustration is. I need to

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know what healthy frustration is. When when is it healthy

834
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for me to be frustrated? I need to know that? Okay,

835
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So I want to go listen to that. I have

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it queued up. It's only twenty two minutes long.

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I do want to.

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Listen to that. But hang on, let's go here. I'm

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going to go wait, go to home. There are currently

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three broadcasts happening. One of us is US, the other

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one is let's see. We have a church in Michigan

842
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and a church in Tennessee. So those are currently on.

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So the chapel services appear to all be over. So

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did you go to chapel today? If you didn't, why not?

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What were you doing? What were you doing? Okay, right

846
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there you go, but look for help.

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It's a staff pick. Actually, it's one of the staff picks.

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If you look at the homepage of the sermon's two

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point oh app it's the number first staff pick healthy frustration.

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It's had two hundred and ninety seven people watch it.

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I want to go listen to that one. How can

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is there a frustration that's healthy for me? I need

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to know what it is because I want that frustrating. Okay,

854
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but no, I am curious on that when I do

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need to listen to that.

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All right, thanks for tuning in.

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Now you know the three I think good reasons why

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Jesus was tempted, and we'll have to talk about the

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how next time, which is probably going to lead to

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unhealthy frustration on my part, because I get real, I'm

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not so in line with how most Christians approach this.

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I think they I don't think it's prescriptive. I think

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it's descriptive.

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I really do.

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But all right, we'll have that hermoneutical argument next time.

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Thanks for listening, God bless