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\nMatthew 4:2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, \u201cIf you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.\u201d But he answered, \u201cIt is written, \u201c\u2018Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.\u2019\u201d Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, \u201cIf you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, \u201c\u2018He will command his angels concerning you,\u2019 and \u201c\u2018On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.\u2019\u201d Jesus said to him, \u201cAgain it is written, You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.\u2019\u201d Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, \u201cAll these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.\u201d Then Jesus said to him, \u201cBe gone, Satan! For it is written, \u201c\u2018You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.\u2019\u201d Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
When the tempter (Satan) came and the circumstances that preceded the temptation of Jesus is something we should make a special note of. Jesus had just engaged in an act of obedience to His Father, He had been shown to be the Son of God, He was filled with the Holy Spirit, He was separated from crowds or people. Scripture does not tell us the happenings during these forty days when Jesus separated Himself, went into the wilderness, and fasted forty days and nights. It was at the end of the special time with God, He was tempted.\u00a0 <\/span>This is very important. When we have determined and committed to serving God when we have separated ourselves from earthly passions when we seek and desire leading by the Holy Spirit when we have set our heart, mind, and soul on things above when we are intentionally choosing to honor and glorify Jesus Christ in all we say, think, and do, it is in this deep-rooted and holy committed humble surrender that the tempter will come at us hard. We will be tempted with pride, lust, greed, anger, fear, power, self-reliance, self-worth, self-importance, etc\u2026\u2026. Paul tells us that Satan is like a roaring lion seeking to destroy our communion, commitment, worship, and our witness to Jesus Christ. I fear that satan does not have to tempt far too many Christians today.\u00a0 <\/span>They are already following after the lusts and passions of this world and need no tempting because they so easily give in to their sinful nature due to their complacent commitment to humbly surrendering, following, obeying, studying, trusting, and relying on and to Jesus Christ. This is so sad. It is sad and disappointing that far too many can\u2019t even discern temptation from either self or satan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
We honor and glorify Jesus Christ when we are daily deeply grounded and rooted in His Word and are able to discern and fight against temptation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Matthew 4:2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, \u201cIf you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.\u201d But he answered, \u201cIt is written, \u201c\u2018Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that … Continue reading “30.h. “And the tempter came””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[475,15484,2421,2691,15483,1363,6308,530,76,5614,165,15482,1570,9395,219,8,224,2668,10820,980],"class_list":["post-133216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-angels","tag-be-gone-satan","tag-bread","tag-devil","tag-fall-down-and-worship-me","tag-fasting","tag-give-you","tag-glory","tag-god","tag-holy-city","tag-jesus","tag-kingdoms-of-the-world","tag-lord-your-god","tag-ministering","tag-moses","tag-serve","tag-son-of-god","tag-stone","tag-tempter","tag-test"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133219,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133216\/revisions\/133219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}