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And so Satan came to him because he knew that he was wanting. And by the way, when Satan said, hey, why don't you look at these stones and why don't you make these stones into bread? You think about this, there was nowhere else to get food in the wilderness where they were. There wasn't even a McDonald's. There wasn't even a garden. They were in the wilderness. It was dry.

It was a desert. And literally Jesus was famished and he was weak. And I'm going to be honest with you, there's nothing sinful about eating bread. Except what Dr. Atkins says.

But other than that. There would be nothing inherent sinful about Jesus turning a stone into bread. There would be nothing sinful about that.

He was God. He has the right to do whatever he wants to do. And it didn't seem like an unreasonable request. And that is often how Satan comes at you. It sounds reasonable.

And it sounds like it makes sense. But he always has an agenda behind it. He looks at Jesus when he's weary, when he's weak. And he's wanting. Now why would Satan do this particular thing? If you are really the son of God, why don't you cast these stones and make them bread? Why was he saying that? Now listen to me.

I want you to get this. This was an occasion that he was trying to make Jesus question whether or not his father was really taking care of him. And his point was this. That if you are really the son of God, God would not do this to you. If you were really your father, why would he allow you to get in a situation where you are this weak and this hungry and provide you nothing to eat? You've got to understand that what Satan was trying to do was to tempt Jesus. He was trying to get Jesus to question his father's care. He was trying to get Jesus to question his father's word. He was trying to get Jesus to even literally think that I can't believe my father would get me out of condition.

Does that not sound familiar? How many times in your life you think if God is loving God and all that I've tried to do all these years, why would God let this happen in my life? And old Satan creeps up on your shoulder and he begins to make you doubt everything you've ever been taught from the word of God. Now Jesus makes a reply here. Notice this in verse 4. He says it is written.

By the way that was the reply he gave every time. He always used God's word. It is written. It is written. It is written. Listen, and by the way he wrote it. He wrote it. He can quote it. But it's amazing that even Jesus found it necessary to use God's word to respond.

But notice what he says. He says man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Now he said it is written.

Where is that written? This was a cross reference of Jesus to Deuteronomy chapter 8. Now if you're keeping notes you can write that passage down verses 1 through 3.

Now let me just read them to you. This is what Jesus was talking about. It had already been written. These promises had already been made.

Listen to this. All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do that ye may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers. Here we are the children of Israel and obviously God has made promise to them of the promised land. Verse 2 listen. And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness. In other words if God's taking care of you all the way from now he'll take care of you the rest of the way.

Listen to this. To humble thee and to prove thee. To know what was in thy heart whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no. And he humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger. Deuteronomy chapter 8. Now where is Jesus in Matthew chapter 4?

He is hungering. Deuteronomy chapter 8. Suffer thee to hunger to feed thee with man of which thou knewest not. Neither did thy fathers know that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

Dear friends there would have been nothing wrong or sinful about Jesus making us stone into bread but if he had it would have showed that he doubted his fathers word and if he had done that it would show that he was doubting his fathers care and if he had done that it would show that he was not dependent on the father. How many times do you and I we try to meet our needs ourselves instead of trusting the father to do it? What's really going on when you and I go ahead of God and we decide we're going to try to fix things in our life before he does? What is really going on is you and I are doubting his word and all the promises in it.

When God says I will supply every need according to his riches in Christ Jesus. When God makes promise after promise like that when you and I try to fix our problems ourselves it is nothing but temptation of Satan and we are literally letting him and everyone know that we doubt the fathers word we doubt the fathers care and we are not totally dependent upon him. Satan will always try to get you to doubt his word.

He even tried to get Jesus to doubt it and he wrote it. I can't tell you how many times talking to people at church sometimes come for counseling and different things and they say you know I'm getting to the point I'm beginning to doubt everything I've ever been taught. Why? Old Satan. Satan's tempting you. He's putting questions in your mind and you're beginning to doubt whether God's word is really true or whether it's really accurate or whether God's care is really sufficient for you. Dear friend look at me. His word is sufficient his care is sufficient and you can trust him.

I want you to notice number two. Satan will tempt you to alter the will of God. He'll tempt you to doubt the word of God and he will also tempt you to alter the will of God. Look at verse five. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city. How'd they get there?

We don't know. We don't know if they walked or we don't know if Jesus and him just went there. Which they both have the ability to do by the way. If you remember as we were talking about angels and Satan and our Wednesday nights we talked about the fact that Satan can move anywhere in the world he wants to in an instant. The problem is he can't be everywhere at once like God is.

So he's limited. But Satan can move there and by the way Jesus is God. He could appear there in a matter of a second just like Satan could too. We don't know how they got there.

I like to just imagine just boom they were there. I don't know. But we know this in verse five that the devil took him. The devil led him.

In other words the devil said let's go here. And notice this he took him up into the holy city which was Jerusalem by the way. And seteth him on a pinnacle of the temple.

The highest part of the temple. Verse six. And saith unto him if thou be the son of God cast thyself down for it is written he shall give his angels charge concerning thee and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against the stone. Jesus said unto him it is written again thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Now Satan's getting a little nastier here.

He started easy. He started with the hundred dollar question and then he moved on to the five hundred dollar question. Satan takes Jesus to the temple the holy city Jerusalem and it's the temple in the holy city of Jerusalem. Now just think about this. Jesus takes them up there and he says if you'll just jump off the temple you know the Bible said that he's gonna give his angels charge concerning thee and they're gonna protect you and as you jump off that temple and they save you and literally you can just almost like glide or fly above everybody and you'll be safe and then now they'll know that you're God and all these things. Now you say well I don't really know if that would really be tempting preacher. Oh hold on wait a second.

Think about where he's at. They're on top of the temple. The religious crowd. The very crowd that always gave Jesus problems.

The religious hypocrites. The one that were trying to deny him. The ones that were saying he was not God. The ones that were saying he was a false prophet. The ones that were constantly following everything he did trying to find some way to snag him and to prove him wrong. Think of how tempting it would be at the temple where they were to finally in front of them show them he's God.

Think about this. What an opportunity to show these religious leaders that they were wrong and he was right. What an opportunity to turn all the haters into believers.

If everybody saw that they would think oh my goodness look at that. This guy jumps off the temple and angels hold him and bring him to safety. Of all places to put God right on top of the house of God. Of all places to tempt Jesus.

Right above the religious crowd. And dear friend I'm here to tell you it happens just about every service here at Kerwin Baptist Church. Satan tempts you right in God's house.

You say what do you mean? What does he tempt me to do? He tries to get you to tempt God and here's why. You say well you know what I'll live the way I want to. He still has to take me to heaven. Dear friends that is tempting God.

For you to say I can do what I want. Live like I want. If I decide I'm just going to jump off the temple it doesn't matter if it's the will of my father or not.

I'm going to do this so I can show everybody that I'm God. That's exactly what would happen if Jesus had done what he asked. And how many times does God convict our heart in church and we tell him I'm not going to go forward.

I'm not going to get this right. I'm going to keep doing what I want to do and you're still going to take me to heaven anyway. Dear friends I'm here to tell you what Satan did not.

He gave some truth in this statement and he left out a bunch of truth. What he did not say is that God has promised that when you are in the will of God. But the moment you jump out of the will of God protection is not promised. Now you might get it and you might not.

But it is not guaranteed or promised apart from the will of the father. Now listen to me. I want you to get this. Please listen to me.

Don't give up on me yet. God did not give us promises in his word so you and I could perform our will. God gave us promises to bank on while we're doing his will.

Satan was doing nothing but trying to get Jesus to perform his will instead of the will of the father. Now listen to me. It is wrong for you and I to try to use God's power to accomplish our plan. That is tempting God. It is saying God I'm going to do what I want to do but you're going to have to do what you told me you would do.

And dear friend look at me. No he doesn't. That's why Jesus said Satan thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Now listen to me. There are those who have been persuaded that Christ is willing to save you from your sins and there are some that actually believe also that he'll save you in your sins. I'm here to tell you the blood of Christ will save you from your sins. But he has no I'm trying to think of the word that I can best describe it to you. He has no thing applied to him where he has to follow a rule to let you sin and still to save you from that sin.

Listen to me. He'll save us from our sins and give us salvation. But you determined to do wrong. He has no reason that he has to protect you. By the way if you think about it once you've been saved he already has protected you. And for us to determine I'm going to do what I want to do and God's going to have to do what he already said in his word that is tempting God. And teenagers I want you to understand something. You go mess around and you do what you want in your life and you go party and you go do things and then you say God you're supposed to give me the wife or the husband that I need for my life and God you're supposed to bless me and God you're supposed to do that.

No he's not. You do what you want to do you take the consequences. Don't you tempt God and think that God somehow is obligated to do something for you because of his word. God's word was given so that we could do his will with promises not so that we could sin with his guarantee. Listen to me.

Notice something that I found very encouraging. Look at verse 6. Satan looks to Jesus and he says this if thou be the son of God notice this cast thyself down.

I don't know if you understood this I was reading it and read it and I was like whoa listen to me what a guarantee. Satan is limited on what he can do. He couldn't push Jesus off.

He can't push you off a building. Look at me listen James teaches us that all of us listen often times we are tempted we are drawn away of our own lust and enticed. That means this that Satan can't entice us but he can't make us do anything. If Jesus was going to sin Jesus had to do it himself.

And often times you say well listen I just can't help it but Satan made me. He didn't make you do anything. He can't. He's limited.

Jesus is all powerful. Dear friend he can entice you but don't hurt yourself. Don't jump off the temple on your own. He can't make you do that. That's a decision you make. Dear friend Satan is limited in his power and he can tempt and he's got some nasty things he'll do and he'll play with your mind and he'll play with your emotions and he'll come at you when you're weak and you're weary and you're wanting and he'll do all that stuff but I'm here to tell you look at me you got to understand you can still say no because he can't make you.

He doesn't have that power. I guess I was the only one that was excited about that. You know why a lot of us aren't excited about that because that means it's our fault. We can't blame anybody. Well mama made this. Well it's because of my family and they did this and so that's caused this in my life. Family doesn't make you do anything. Satan doesn't make you do anything.

It's our decision. Oh God if you would clean the church up and clean this old pastor up and we would realize that you know what I don't have to do what Satan tempts me to do and I don't have to do what he's enticed me to do. Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. Dear friends Satan will always try to get you to do your own will instead of the will of the father. Jesus said hey let me tell you something Satan you get away from me he says this thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Number three we're almost done. We find here now remember this is Satan's efforts.

This is everything that he tried. Number three Satan will tempt you to neglect your worship of God. That always happens by the way. Bad things happen in people's life.

What do they do? They get out of church and quit their worship. But now notice what he tries. Look at verse eight. Again the devil taketh him into an exceeding high mountain. Now they're in location number three. They go from the wilderness to the temple and now they're on top of the high mountain and there's probably three or four mountains that different people believe it was and I'm not even going to say it because I don't know.

You can try to work on that yourself if you want to try to figure it out. We're not told exactly where. There's some good ideas where but we don't know for sure.

Notice what it is. And by the way if God wanted us, if it's something we had to know he'd have told us. Everybody wants to spend so much time figuring out things that Jesus didn't tell us.

Why don't we work on obeying what he did tell us? That'll keep us busy till he comes right? Alright.

That's just a little pet peeve of mine. Anyway okay. Verse eight. Again the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them. Now that is one picture show. He shows him all the kingdoms. Look at me.

Now get this. We're talking kingdoms that weren't even discovered yet. We're talking places that nobody had ever been. He shows them all the kingdoms. Notice this. And the glory of them. He made them beautiful. Verse nine. And saith unto him all these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Now you say preacher why? Satan couldn't have been more blunt there. You just worship me. Now we know Jesus isn't going to do that preacher.

Now hold on. When Satan showed him all the kingdoms and the glory of them, why would that be so tempting to Jesus? Why was he there on earth to begin with? Because he loved them. He loved them so much that he left a perfect heaven and came to sin cursed earth simply to be a perfect lamb to die for our sins.

And how tempting would it be that maybe I could go ahead and get all this kingdom and the glory and not have to suffer for it. Thank you for listening today. We hope you received a blessing from our broadcast. The Kirtland Baptist Church is located at 4520 Old Hollow Road in Kernersville, North Carolina. You can also contact us by phone at 336-993-5192 or via the web at KerwinBaptistChurch.com. Enjoy our services live and all our media on our website and church app. Thank you for listening to the Kerwin Baptist Church Today. God bless you.