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Mar 2024
19m 14s

POP 403 - The Temptation of Jesus

Tony Ingrassia
About this episode

Jesus was fully God, and fully human, both at the same time.

Jesus, as a human being, lived in this broken and fallen world.

And in his humanity, Jesus experienced temptation just like us.

Because of this, we have a Savior who understands us.

When Jesus was in the wilderness he fasted for 40 days.

At the end of the fast he was hungry, and the devil came to him to tempt hm.

The devil tempted his to "turn these stones into bread".

Or said another way, the essence of the temtptation was for Jesus to take care of the legitimate needs of his physical body in his own way.

As if the devil was saying, "You're hungry Jesus, so do what you need to do to take care of yourself!"

And in much the same way, the enemy often comes to us and tempts us to take care of the legitimate needs of our own physical body in our own way.

In this sense, the urge for a man to satisfy his legitimate sexual needs through the use of pronography is a similar temptation to "turn these stones into bread".

Jesus set the example for us.

Jesus was a man, and Jesus was tempted, but Jesus also resisted those temptations.

The bible then tells us that we can also resist the temptations that come to us, because God will not allow us to be tempted beyond that which we can bear.

You have the Lord in your heart and life if you're a Christ beleiver, and you can overcome temptations just like Jesus did!

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