Ours is a wilderness, not of desert and sand, but of internet, social media, partisan lies, and cultic allegiance to human leaders who know nothing of the richness a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ provided. 3 The tempter came to him and said, If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.
2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. The Church of the modern age could-and perhaps really should-take a page from Luke’s Gospel in the 4th chapter and re-consider how we have so sinfully embraced the very temptations we read of Jesus resisting. 1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted a by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights. Rather than find easy short cuts, earthly power and control, or seek the allure of the spectacle, Jesus calls for living out of the Word of God, unhindered allegiance to God, and unrelenting trust in God. Matthew 4: 1-11: Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. The answers Christ gives to his demonic tempter in the wilderness point to the higher reality of scripture, faith, and one’s relationship with Christ. Rather, when the church resorts to spectacle and show to win hearts, at best it excels in providing Christian entertainment but likely does not transform lives for Christ in substantive ways. Folks may have been awed and wowed by the wonder of the event, but such drama rarely cultivates meaningful faith. Jesus knew that one’s power over Satan is only wakened by the spectacle.
Jesus was led into the wilderness to be tempted full#
For Jesus to throw himself down from the Pinnacle of the Temple knowing full well that God would send angels to rescue him, the temptation was for the lure of the spectacle-literally a demonstrative demonstration of God’s cosmic powers.