RS2

• The three temptations by Satan in the wilderness were not the only temptations our Lord ever suffered on Earth
• Speaker: 'Quote'
• The first temptation

  1. Turning stones into bread

  2. Jesus quotes Deut. 8:3 to resist Satan’s temptation

  3. Jesus had the power to change the stones to bread but did not use His power selfishly

  4. Jesus refuses Satan’s challenge to Him to misuse His power to escape the pain of hunger, human weakness
• The three temptations of Christ

  • Matthew 4:1-11
  • Mark 1:12-13
  • Luke 4:1-13
• Jesus was tempted by the devil for forty days, but He was undoubtedly tempted at other times
• The first temptation concerns the lust of the flesh


  Our Lord is hungry, and the devil tempts Him to convert stones into bread
• Sins related to lust of the flesh

  • Adultery (sexual immorality)
  • Impurity
  • Lustful pleasures
  • Idolatry
  • Sorcery
  • Hostility
  • Quarreling
  • Jealousy
  • Outbursts of anger
  • Selfish ambition
  • Dissension
  • Division
  • Envy
  • Drunkenness
  • Wild parties
• The scripture of Matthew 4:1-11 tells about the events during Jesus’s temptation by Satan in the desert
• Israel's Exodus is called a baptism in I Corinthians 10:2
• Paul urges God’s people to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh (Romans 13:14)
• Romans 13:14 “Let the Lord Jesus Christ be as near to you as the clothes you wear. Then you won't try to satisfy your selfish desires”
• According to St. Paul, we were all by nature children of wrath, who once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind (Ephesians 2:3)
• Many wrongly conclude and teach that without sinful desire, there is no temptation
• The main point is how the Lord deals with temptation in the light of His humanity
• The lust of the flesh is part of worldliness, driven by the desire for worldly, selfish pleasures, which draw our hearts away from God and ultimately lead to death
• Three passages Jesus quotes come from three sins of Israel

  • Complaints about lack of food (Ex. 16)
  • Putting God to the test by expecting him to produce water from a rock
  • Worshiping a golden calf
• The 40 days of lent is observed as a time of fasting, prayer, penitence and almsgiving, in remembrance of these events
• First, we need to remember what Jesus said to His disciples at the Garden of Gethsemane, “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Matthew 26:41)
• The second temptation

  Throw yourself off pinnacle of temple
• They were tempted to be their own god


  When the serpent said they would be like God if they ate the fruit, this was the pride of life
• Throw yourself down because God will protect you


  Jesus knew that throwing Himself off the Temple would be a tempting or testing of God
• Romans 13:14: '“Let the Lord Jesus Christ be as near to you as the clothes you wear. Then you won't try to satisfy your selfish desires”'
• No shortcuts to glory for Jesus

  Jesus quotes Deut. 6:13 and says He will only worship God, no one else worthy of worship
• Jesus Victorious Over Temptation

  For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin
• The third temptation concerns the lust of the eyes


  Satan had some power to give Jesus world kingdoms with all their glory, but the Father would give Him all the nations after His death, resurrection, and ascension by doing the Father’s will
• Through His perfect obedience, Jesus became an obedient Son, perfect sacrifice for our sins and sympathetic heavenly high priest to intercede for us to the Father


  We can be encouraged to follow His example by hiding the Word in our hearts to more consistently resist temptation and do the Lord’s will
• The Third Temptation


  Satan offers Jesus all the kingdoms of the world and their glory if He falls down and worships him
• The Second Temptation

  The devil challenges Christ to throw Himself down from the pinnacle of the temple if He is the Son of God
• We need to be led and controlled by the Spirit in our prayers and actions


  Importantly, Paul urges God’s people to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh (Romans 13:14)
• Satan said you can have nations now without going to the cross

  Just worship me once and you can have the spoils without the battle
• What Jesus Enduring Temptations Means To Us

  Jesus was victorious over temptation, and we can draw near with confidence to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need
• Satan wants Jesus to prove the Father is with Him


  Jesus trusts that the Father is with Him and does not test Him
• The second temptation concerns the pride of life


  The devil uses a verse of Scripture (Psalm 91:11–12), but the Lord replies again with Scripture to the contrary, stating that it is wrong for Him to abuse His own powers
• EUTYCHIANISM or MONOPHYSITISM


  • Belief that Christ had only one nature: DIVINE, not man
  • Monophysitism because Christ had only one nature
• MODALISM

  • Mark 1:11
  • John 17:1
• APOLLINARISM


  • Mark 14:34
• Heresies on Jesus as Human and Divine


  • DOCETISM
  • MODALISM
  • ARIANISM
  • APOLLINARISM
  • NESTORIANISM
  • EUTYCHIANISM
• COUNCIL OF NICEA 325

  • Topic of discussion: Arian Controversy
  • Position: The Son was “begotten, not made” and is of the same substance as the Father
• ARIANISM

  • Denies the divinity of Christ
  • Maintained that the Son of God was not eternal but created by the Father
• DOCETISM

  • Teaches that Christ was Divine who appeared to be human
  • What people saw of Christ was a phantom, an illusion