Spiritual Warfare - Jackie Hill Perry

you see how quick Jesus is he is not here to have a full discussion with the devil Jesus immediately says it is written Jesus quickly references the scriptures because he trusts them it is written on his heart he easily discerns Satan's LIE and knows how respond because I was prepared. Many Christians quickly give in to temptation primarily because they do not spend enough time in the word of God. They can easily remember everything else on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, except the word of truth, but Jesus. It depends on the word because it depends on God and she has prepared him for this fight Jesus says that man will not live on bread alone, what is he quoting?

The New Testament has not been written, so he is obviously quoting the Old Testament. He is referring to Deuteronomy verse 8:3. By the way, all his rebukes are from Deuteronomy when God's people were in the wilderness. see The Coincidence Moses was in the desert for the 40 years and is warning, encouraging and reminding Israel of the word of God and chapter 8 in particular mentions how in the desert God humbled them by letting them starve and then fed them with manna manna. a host similar to a bread that would fall from Heaven so that they would know one thing and then what is it that that man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes out of the mouth of the Lord I am not sure why Jesus I do not quote the entire verse, but his point is very clear.

Satan wants Jesus to believe that he needs bread to live. Jesus affirms the truth that bread is not what will keep him alive, but that it is God who will provide him with the bread that we give. Much credit to our food for feeding us or our jobs for providing for us or our homes or relationships for comforting us or our gifts for making room for us, which in a sense they do, but if God didn't want you to eat, you would. No, if God didn't want you to receive comfort, you wouldn't do it, if God didn't want you to have a platform to use your gifts, you wouldn't do it.

The reality of what these things provide is not ancient to the things themselves, but to the God who gave you. This is why we lose our minds when any of these things are threatened because we begin to truly believe that we needed them to live, move, and have our being and not God Himself. Jesus refuses to give in to such a lie, he trusts that his God will supply all his needs and that he will sustain him and that when the time comes for him to die he will know that it will not be because he died of hunger but because he put it in verse 5 and the devil He took me and I showed him all the kingdoms of the world and a moment of time and he said to you devil it was strange for you God I will give you all this Authority and its glory because it has been given to me and I will give it to who I will do it, if then I you adore, everything will be yours with this second Temptation.

Satan shows Jesus all the kingdoms of the world and what Luke describes as a moment in time, we know from Matthew that this temptation is taking place on the mountain, it seems. as if Jesus was being shown a visual vision or supernatural images of the kingdoms of the world in rapid succession like this before his eyes, which is very feasible, since Satan is a supernatural being, he is able to move in and out of dimensions that We have no idea of ​​seeing that he had access to the throne of God to accuse Job at one point and is now on a tangible physical mountain with Jesus.

Satan somehow holds up all these kingdoms before Jesus and says they have been given. for him and that he will be a nice little demon to give to Jesus the question to ask is if Satan is telling the truth. Has He been given authority over all the kingdoms of the world? The Scriptures say that Satan is the prince or ruler. of this world the god of this age and the prince of the power of the air I mean hearing the titles of Prince and God ascribed to Satan might seem to affirm what he is telling Jesus about himself but what we must understand is that he that he The Prince is over and God is over is all that is dark Evil false impious Impious unjust he is neither God nor Prince over the kingdoms of the world but he is the god of the people who occupy these kingdoms he is the god of each human being who is a slave to sin, one commentator said it this way, the name of God is given to Satan not because he has Divine attributes but because he actually has the homage of the people of this world as their God, as the being who was really worshiped and has his affections, so Satan was telling the truth partially, remember that Satan is a liar and a very good one, he will tell you a lie with a bit of truth, but he does, in fact he has a measure of power, but this power has nothing to do with it. he is all about having authority over the entire Kingdom, so he is lying to Jesus because the half-truth is not true at all.

The interesting thing about what Satan is offering, er, Jesus, is that the language he uses is similar to a prophecy about the son of man in Daniel. 7 I'm going to read it to you and I want you to pay attention to any words that sound familiar to The Temptation of Satan. I will give you some inflections so that you can notice them and contemplate with the Clouds Of Heaven One came like a son of man and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him and to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom so that all peoples Nations and tongues would serve him like this D Daniel is prophesying that one day the son of man will be given dominion and glory and a kingdom and here Satan is saying hey, even though I have it, I have all the authority and glory in my back pocket.

I just showed you that you can have it on one condition, worship me if Jesus gives in to what Satan is saying, there will be something about God that he has chosen not to believe or chosen not to believe what it is that Satan is tempting Jesus to distrust the dignity of God God how do I know this look at Jesus' response in verse 8 and Jesus answered him it is written Worship the Lord your God and him only you will serve, you know what the biggest difference between you and Jesus is that Jesus was not born in sin.

Jesus did not come into this world under the rule of his God because he has always known and loved the true God perfectly, he was and is God in the flesh, so he is capable of experiencing temptation but will never give in, so maybe Satan thought he could do to Jesus what he has been doing to us since the beginning of time, which is deceive. making us believe that he could give us something that he doesn't have. He has done it when he deceived you into believing that a sinful relationship would bring you joy or when you thought that unforgiveness could ease your pain or perhaps you could identify with him lying that you will get away with serving two masters, that as long as you are one good person, you really don't have to repent because God is a god of love and grace, not anger or judgment, if this describes what you have believed. as rational ways of living your life are lies that you have believed from Satan himself, he has offered you something that does not belong to him so that you lose what you have always needed, which is God.

Only God can heal your pain, the sin of unforgiveness can never be done. That is why God is the source, as First Corinthians says, of all consolation. It is not the hypocrisy of the Human Being, it is not the way to life but to death, it is only the dedicated person who will know what it really means to be free when we live as slaves for sin we live under the Dominion of Satan himself you don't have to work hard six 66 to be a devil worshiper just move forward through life rejecting God's command to repent and believe and you have already done so in Matthew 28 after Jesus was resurrected he tells them to his disciples that all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to him before he begins his ministry Satan says he will give Jesus authority over the kingdoms after his body is complete L Ministry Jesus says he has it we know Since Jesus did not end the Temptation, then what did He have to do to obtain this Authority?

After all, between Temptation and exaltation Isaiah 53 was suffering, surely he bore our sorrows and bore our sorrows, but we consider him wounded by God. and Afflicted but he was pierced for our transgressions he was crushed for our iniquities upon him it was the punishment that brought us peace and with his wounds we are healed Satan would have preferred Jesus to obtain his authority through Disobedience he would have preferred Jesus to take the easy way out but God was too valuable for Jesus to skip the cross before getting his crown Philippians 2:8 says and when he was found in human form he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death even death on the cross, therefore God has exalted to the highest. him and gave him the name that is above every name so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth the authority and the glory and the dominion that Jesus was going to obtain only came to through obedience obedience to the father Jesus had come to do the will of his father and that meant that he was here to serve him to worship him as he has been doing in all eternity why because no one else is worthy to be like him who is more deserving Glory that he who can most say that by him all things were created and for him no one but the Lord of hosts the Alpha and the Omega the beginning and the end do not let satan deceive you into believing that a created thing is worthy of another one.

Glory that the one who created sin will never ever give you what he promises, you will worship the Lord your God and you will only serve him verse 9 and he took him to Jerusalem, placed him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, yes, since you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. from here below because it is written he will order his angels to guard you and in their hands they will hold you so that you do not stumble with your foot against the stone Satan is relentless. First he wanted Jesus to turn stones into bread then he wanted Jesus to worship him now he wants Jesus jumping from the top of the temple is getting more and more unpleasant I guess that's to be expected of the demons um now they've moved from the desert to the temple in Jerusalem this is the temple that the people of Israel actually thought much of he was first built by Solomon, then destroyed and then rebuilt animal sacrifices were made atonement for sin was made in a nutshell, this temperament was the temple was a center of religious life and this is where Satan wants Jesus to jump from this moment .

Satan backs up his temptation with the Scriptures he quotes from Psalm 91. It is a Psalm of confidence. Maybe he's tired. You know Jesus answers him with Scripture, so he needs to do it. Remind Jesus that he also knows the Scriptures and that he will use them when it best suits his purposes. He says to Jesus, since you are the Son of God. You seem to trust God so much that you keep using the Bible to dictate how to respond. For me, so I have a little encouragement for you to jump out of the temple and show people who you really are because God has said in His word, the word, the word that you really believe, that He will command His angels about you, They won't let you die, Jesus.

That is if you trust God enough to prove that his word is true. So, John, if there has ever been a time when I feel this temptation is relevant, it is now that Satan is still using and twisting the Scriptures in such a way that he deceives people and it is their fault. It is not about Satan, but about us because Romans 1 says that we suppress the truth because of our own unrighteousness and that we are the ones who will accumulate teachers to satisfy our own passion. We as human beings are prone to deception because we like what it offers, but we don't choose deception after deception St.

We don't even give it those kinds of names, we call it the Prosperity Gospel, we say things like, you know, God turned the water in wine, so drunkenness is not really a problem. I am free in Christ or Ephesians 5 says that women are to submit to their husbands, that means abuse is allowed or here is my favorite, the Bible says that God is love, so surely each person should be able to love whoever they want to love , there are millions of people enslaved by sin not because they do not read the Bible but because they made its contents mean something it does not mean.

Satan Satan is using a trusted Psalm to tempt Jesus into unbelief. What exactly do you want Jesus to stop believing in? God then I believe that he does not want Jesus to believe that God is faithful that is how I came to that conclusion by listening carefully to Jesus' response. I believe the scriptures he uses to rebuke Satan expose the lie that Satan is trying to conceive the verse. 12 and Jesus answered him, it is said You shall not put the Lord your God to the test. I used to think Jesus was responding like my mom did when she said, "You need to watch your mouth and watch who you talk to." um, it's more or less like this, but not exactly this answer comes from Deuteronomy 6 when Moses tells the people of Israel not to test God like they did in Exodus 17, what happened was that the people of Israel had been released. from slavery to the Egyptians, they came to a point in the desert where they were thirsty and they began to talk madly to Moses and therefore to God and said: why did you take us out of Egypt to kill us with thirst?

Then Moses prayed. and God responded by giving them water from a rock the end of the story N says this pleaselisten to what Moses says and calls the name of the place Massa y maraba because of the quarrel of the people of Israel and because he tested the Lord by saying whether the Lord among us or not God had freed them from slavery and promised to deliver them to a land flowing with milk and honey and they are accusing God of releasing them for the sole purpose of killing them and Moses says that is the same as saying that God is not with us in other words to test God is to doubt him with an accusing heart that says will he really do what does it say it will do?

Will he really fulfill his promise? Will it really be him? good to us will it really deliver us will it really protect us will it really provide for us will it really sustain us or not? When Satan told Jesus to jump from the temple, he wanted Jesus to believe that this was the way he would be glorified and seen as the true Son of God by his people, but if Jesus obeyed, he would have committed suicide. The thing about Satan is that Satan didn't care if Jesus died, he cared if Jesus died according to God's will, if Jesus died the way God wanted. for it to happen every Power that the devil thought he had would be completely disarmed God had already determined that the Son of God would be exalted but it would come through a body beaten on a Roman cross even though the ministry before him was not going to be easy and He trusted in the will of God Jesus cannot test his Lord because he knows that his Lord is not a man that he should not lie nor should the son of man repent of what he said he would do.

Jesus knows that his God is faithful, so because he can and will command his angels about him, he will go to that cross because they can hold him up from hitting him. his foot against the stone he will trust in his faithfulness the faithfulness of his God the scriptures that Satan thought he could use to destroy the Son of God contain the promises that sustained the Son of God I love the Bible listen to the Church Satan is after your faith in God Every day there will be circumstances and trials that will arise in your life in which you will be tempted to test God and I ask you to trust in his faithfulness those trials are refining you they are working together for your good so that you can grow in the image and knowledge of Your creator Satan wants you to believe that the Christian life is easy, he wants you to leave your cross and take up your flesh instead of the other way around, but when you trust in the faithfulness of God, when you trust and believe that he is your protector and your provider and your comforter and your healer and your peace and your refuge does not mean that it will be easy but it means that you will have joy tells us the beginning of the psalm that Satan quoted this I think he omitted it on purpose says he who dwells in the shelter of the highest will dwell in the shadow of the Almighty I will say to the Lord my refuge and my strength my God in whom I trust I am so I am glad that Jesus trusted in God because we can do it too verse 13 and when the devil finished each Temptation he departed from him until the opportune time Do you know why does this matter?

You've probably heard this story so much that it no longer surprises you. but this is huge with the first Adam. Satan was able to tempt and succeed through Adam's offspring. He was able to work his sinful nature for his purposes through adultery, lust, murder, rape and pride, even though God had consistently revealed himself as worthy of his affections. His people always found themselves kneeling at the feet of idols to obtain something that only God had in himself. God had commanded and every living person at one time or another had failed to obey, but here for the first time in history there is a man on Earth. who obeyed all Satan wanted Jesus to prove his sun through sin but Jesus proves him through his sinlessness and because of this he was able to be the sacrifice that all of us who have broken God's law needed he was qualified to take on our sin and his judgment in his because he was truly blameless and spotless and the perfect Lamb of God, the lamb that was slain for all the times we have taken Satan's word, all the times we refused to endure temptation. , all the times we have tried and doubted God all the times we have worshiped idols and when his work was finished he said it was finished, he gave up his life and rose again three days later crushing the head of the Serpent once and for all as God He said he would in Genesis.

Satan has no power if you turn from your sins, yes people at a Christian conference, if you turn from your sins and put your trust in Jesus, you will receive the power of the Holy Spirit and he will help you resist just as he did if you had If you already have the Holy Spirit, I beg you, do not be discouraged, resistance is difficult, it becomes exhausting, but remember that you have a great high priest who has been there and done what he is working in and through his church to strengthen and sanctify you. Don't isolate yourself because you are struggling too much, he took pity on you and is interceding for you and has a throne of grace that invites you to come and receive help when you need it.

This is crucial to understand because how you respond to temptation will affect your ministry. I know you are here to learn and be equipped, but Satan wants your faith and if he sees that your faith is weak, he can weaken the faith of all your disciples as you walk to the end of the road. The day you have two options, believe that the word of God is true or simply take Satan in his place, let us pray God.