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Matthew 4:1–3 · BSB
4:1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
4:2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
4:3 The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public domain. Sermons may quote another translation.
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…first act of sin. But the battle takes place in the mind. I would point you to that great temptation of Christ that opens up the New Testament inMatthew chapter 4. And what you find is we have the same tempter with the same tactics, do we not? He is he not there planting seeds and suggestions and saying,…
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…and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Wonderful invitation, isn't it? And we find it all over, go inMatthew chapter 4, and look at another place where he invites people to follow him. It's the apostles, of those he will make apostles. And here's what we read in…
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…is greater than the one. His enemies, the demons that would come against us. And if you're familiar with the entirety of Matthew's gospel here inMatthew chapter 4as Jesus begins his public ministry, he calls us to repentance and then he reminds us that the kingdom of God has come near. And that's biblical…
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…the beginning, from his birth, he was, as Paul said, was seen by angels. Now he was also attended by angels after he was tempted in the desert,Matthew chapter 4. You know, the devil fled from it and he was cared for by angels. Angels also appeared in the tomb at the resurrection. And we see throughout…
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…them and ignores them and treats them as outcasts, I don't see them, I accept them. I love these are my people. He says, all of this right after inMatthew chapter 4, we're told he's going out and he's proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven on earth is made up of these people. And…
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…happen in my life, things happen in your life. You need to repent. Some of us need to repent every every day. Amen. Repentance. Now, we've got toMatthew chapter 4. I know you don't have it in your on the notes, sister, but I have it in my Bible. Amen. Matthew chapter 4, and some of you are familiar. You're…
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…this week's worship set each day. And uh it's just a refreshing thing, so empowering. Now, I'd like to ask you if you would open your Bibles toMatthew chapter 4. I got a lot I want to share with you. This is the message that I really feel like God has for all of North Palm at this time, this season. And I…
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…the strategy of the enemy, it gives you a strength you didn't even know you had. Because Jesus, the devil tried to play the same trick on him. InMatthew chapter 4, when Jesus was fasting and praying, the enemy came to him and said, Hey, eat this. Your life will be good. Hey, he took him to the top, he said,…
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…if you understand what Peter is tempting Jesus to. Because it's the same thing to which Satan tempted himself to Jesus back in the desert again inMatthew chapter 4. So if you've got a Bible open your lap, you're the type that scribbles in the margins again, Matthew chapter 4, 8 to 10. Here's the situation.…
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…Now we have given these four movements a particular language. We didn't invent them though, because we see them throughout the Bible. And inMatthew chapter 4, we see one place where they share off. This is the story of when Jesus calls his very first disciples. It's the beginning of his public ministry…
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…you that that that conviction is demonstrated uh in outward action. Uh, when I what do you mean when I say it's the first word of the gospel? InMatthew chapter 4, best we can tell, when Jesus starts his public ministry, this is his first thing he says. It says, From that time Jesus began to preach, saying,…
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…born. And his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. There's a parallel passage to our scripture inMatthew chapter 4, found in Luke chapter 4. And I guess I should have warned you to keep your finger there in Isaiah because we're coming back in just a minute. But…
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…authority by getting it in an instant. And that's what Satan always wants to do. You see the thing that God wants. Here it is in a moment. That'sMatthew chapter 4, when Jesus is brought before the temptation to the exceeding high mountain. Satan's offer, the third offer is, hey, just bow down and worship me…
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…time when he set up a church to worship Jesus, he was multiple times attacked and imprisoned. The costly call but he still obeyed. Now we read inMatthew chapter 4about the disciples. Their call from Jesus came at a cost, didn't it? To follow Jesus means he must come first and remember the response of the…
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…identity and it will move into their behaviors which happen to just uh doom humanity for a period of time. Uh but we see that if you continue on inMatthew chapter 4that this is true as well that when Jesus is baptized and we see the spirit of God descends on him like a dove and the father's voice speaks over…
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…different than a sexual sin. It could be hate. It could be envy. It could be a host of other things. When Satan came to Jesus in the desert inMatthew chapter 4-1, he used some of these tactics. It says in Matthew 4 -1, when Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.…
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…Praying in Jesus' name is life-changing in every sense of the word. Jesus understood this. The quintessential passage on this is Jesus himself inMatthew chapter 4. This is as near the beginning of his public ministry, before he really went out and launched his public ministry. You remember, tells us in…
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…we are designed to be in uh fellowship with other people, and actually, iron sharpens iron, doesn't it? So I'm gonna go straight into it. This isMatthew 4, verse 1 to 11. So I'm gonna read it and then we'll we'll pick it apart a bit and then I'm gonna read it again. Okay, then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the…
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…them and kill them. That would be awkward. To help us build something that matters. And what was the bait? Well, I mean, all of that happens inMatthew chapter 4. In Matthew chapter 5, I think we learn what the bait is. Matthew chapter 5 is the beginning of Jesus' most famous, most concentrated sermon, the…
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…plays in our fight against sin. If you remember in Ephesians chapter 6, Paul refers to the Word of God as the sword of the Spirit, and we looked inMatthew chapter 4and how Jesus defeated the temptations of the enemy with the Word of God, and we recognized the importance of biblical meditation, allowing the…
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