Remember Who You Are: Sons of God in Temptation

Instead, he responds each time by quoting the scripture. It is written, man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. Verse four, In response to Satan's muddying the waters and injecting confusion or attempting to, Jesus declares that the clear word of God, what he heard at his baptism and what he has read in the word in the bible, that is what he is standing on. He is standing on the promises. [00:36:52] (31 seconds)  #standingonthepromises

And Colossians one twenty tells us what that accomplished. That through Christ, God did reconcile to himself all things whether in heaven or on earth making peace, cause he's a peacemaker, making peace through the blood of the cross. Christ, the true and eternal son came as the great peacemaker, accomplishing a cosmic restoration where we had screwed stuff up through his perfect life, his sacrificial death, his glorious resurrection, and that begins the great reversal of the devastating consequences of the fall and the corruption brought by sin. [00:43:22] (42 seconds)  #peacemakerinChrist

No, you'll be like God. You'll know good and evil. That means you can make the big decisions for yourself. You'll be able to rely on your own judgment, follow your own heart. You won't need him anymore. You can make your own way for yourself. You see what's happening here. This is huge. When he tempts them to eat from the forbidden fruit, what he's promising the woman and the man who's apparently just standing there this whole time, is that they can be their own gods. [00:32:47] (37 seconds)  #dontbecomeyourowngod

When I was a college student, back at LSU, I was involved in a couple of campus ministries, one of them was the Baptist ministry, and my freshman year I was in this little discipleship group with some other young men and one of the things that we did or attempted to do together was memorize scripture. And the very first verse we memorized probably the most successfully because it was the one we repeated every week was Psalm a 119 verse 11, Which says, I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. [00:37:23] (31 seconds)  #hiddenwordinheart

The Christian spiritual writer Richard Foster, I I love Richard Foster, He says, more than any other spiritual discipline, fasting reveals the things that control us. Sometimes you don't realize how much something is actually controlling you until you try to do without it, and then you find like, oh my gosh, I can't, or it's really hard. [00:46:00] (22 seconds)  #fastingrevealscontrol

He's the the one perfectly true human being. He's the one human being who actually lives the way God intended mankind to be. He actually bears the image of God in a way that no one else does perfectly. So where Adam failed in the garden, where Israel failed in the wilderness, Jesus Christ, the living summation of Israel, the new Adam, Jesus Christ is perfectly faithful in the face of every temptation. [00:42:03] (30 seconds)  #Jesusperfectimage

That is what it looks like to be the son of God and to do the work of the son of God in this world. Christ trusted the word of the father, and he accomplished his calling remembering who he was and what he was about, even though it meant, and he knew it meant, a cross. [00:44:04] (21 seconds)  #sonofGodthroughcross

This is what it looks like to do son of God stuff in the world. And Jesus Christ is gonna be faithful to the father even to the very painful end. Despite every temptation to turn away, Philippians two eight tells us that he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. [00:42:58] (24 seconds)  #mistrustvsfaith