Sermon Overview
This week our guest speaker Greg Pickle takes us through Jesus’s temptation by Satan in the wilderness from Luke 4. By resisting the devil’s temptations, Jesus demonstrates that He is both the object of our faith and the example of our faith.
- The First Temptation: Considering Only Material Needs (4:2-4)
- The devil’s instruction: Turn the stones to bread (vs. 3)
- Jesus’s response: Trust in God and His Word (vs. 4)
- The Second Temptation: The Wrong Path to Glory (4:5-8)
- The devil’s temptation: The kingdoms of the world (vs. 5-7)
- Jesus’s response: Not reasoning with Satan, but obeying God (vs. 8)
- The Third Temptation: Putting God to the Test (4:9-13)
- The devil’s challenge: God would rescue His Son (vs. 9-11)
- The substance of his challenge: prove You’re God’s Son
- The problem with his challenge
- Wrongly applying the Bible
- Putting God to the test
- Uncontrolled deductions from Scripture
- Jesus’s response (vs. 12)
- His wise answer
- His true faith
- The devil’s challenge: God would rescue His Son (vs. 9-11)