Luke 4
Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness
1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2 where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.3 The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread."
4 Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone.'
5 The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. 6 And he said to him, "I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. 7 If you worship me, it will all be yours."
8 Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.'
9 The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down from here. 10 For it is written:
"'He will command his angels concerning you
to guard you carefully;
11 they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
12 Jesus answered, "It is said: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.
13 When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.
Jesus Rejected at Nazareth
14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside.-------------------------------------------------
Our sermon this Sunday was on the above the verses. One thing that I took from the sermon was the fact that we get upset and complain about our daily struggles and the ups and downs that life brings us. We ask God how He could allow us to go through such things and if He were a good God, He would never let anything bad happen to us if He loved us...right? Wrong! What we view as bad is nothing compared to what Jesus went through during His life on earth. He was mocked, falsely accused, homeless, ridiculed, beaten and tortured on a cross...and He was God's SON!!! Jesus suffered in HIS life so that we would have the opportunity to spend all eternity with Him in Heaven! That really had me thinking. I have no right to complain about my life and my circumstances when I think about everything that Jesus went through for me. I think that if we can all keep the thought of Jesus and His suffering in our minds, our bad days might not seem so bad and our good days will feel even more like blessings from God!
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