The Wilderness | Temptation, Trials & Fighting Back with Truth (Ep. 13)

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The world is loud, truth feels confusing, and life has a way of making us forget what matters most.
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But through scripture, honest conversation, and real stories of faith, remember who the king is exists for one purpose.
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It's a reminder.
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The king is still on the throne.
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Hey everybody, welcome back to my mind just went completely blank.
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Yours ever do that?
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Completely blanked out for a second.
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What is your business?
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What who am I?
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Where am I?
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Where am I at You're not in Kansas anymore?
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No.
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Remember who the King is is the name of this podcast.
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Remember who the King is.
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Welcome to Remember Who the King is.
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Hey, we're just a bunch of guys getting together talking about the Bible.
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So Donnie's looking.
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What are you looking at, Donnie?
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Salem fan.
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It's okay.
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Let me tell you.
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Oh me.
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It's kind of hot in here.
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Welcome back to Remember Who the King is.
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We are having a crazy fun day, depending on how you look at it.
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Donnie wasn't having much fun before this.
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He was having some technological issues, but we got them figured out.
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So Donnie is um I don't know.
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There's that technology just seems to attack him sometimes.
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But we'll be thinking it does.
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It comes for me, you know.
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Technical stuff.
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I think it knows I don't like it, you know, and it just keeps trying to mess me up.
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It senses your fear, and it just comes up.
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Uh we're gonna have a good episode today where we're uh we're talking about Matthew chapter four, and uh we're talking about the temptation of Jesus.
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There's so many things that we can we can learn from this.
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I'm just excited to read uh have Donnie read it and then us talk about this story.
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This is it's crazy when you think about more technology attacking.
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It's just attacking everybody.
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Uh it's it's interesting when you think about the devil actually uh uh tempting Jesus, coming after Jesus.
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It's it's kind of mind-boggling to me.
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I mean, I know he comes after me, but it's it's interesting to watch how Jesus handles that.
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And so I'm I'm interested to go right into it, Donnie.
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Where are we at?
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Okay, we're in Matthew chapter four, and uh it's the temptation of Jesus.
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And like you were saying, Chad, this is a mysterious um and very important passage in the Bible, and I think uh it's something that as Christians we all need to be aware of and try to understand it.
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Okay, so the temptation of Jesus.
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Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil.
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For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry.
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During that time the devil came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.
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But Jesus told him, No, the scriptures say people do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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Then the devil took him to the holy city Jerusalem, to the highest point of the temple, and said, If you are the Son of God, jump off, for the scriptures say he will order his angels to protect you, and they will hold you up with their hands, so you won't even hurt your foot on a stone.
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And Jesus responded, The Scriptures also say you must not test the Lord your God.
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Next the devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
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I will give it all to you, he said, if you will kneel down and worship me.
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Get out of here, Satan, Jesus told him, for the scriptures say you must worship the Lord your God and serve him only.
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Then the devil went away and angels came and took care of Jesus.
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Like we were talking about, you know, it's uh sort of a hard thing to read this, particularly we know Jesus was without sin, right?
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And we also know that this occurred right after his baptism, where the Holy Spirit descended on him like a dove and said, This is my dearly beloved son with whom I'm well pleased.
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And then the next thing that happens, that same spirit takes Jesus into the wilderness to be uh tempted by the devil.
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And that's not how we think about, you know, sort of like, well, you know, the devil comes after you, you've done something you shouldn't be doing, but now we know Jesus didn't done anything wrong.
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So it's a very interesting thing to talk about.
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Mark, I know you like to do your research, so what'd you find out preparing for this?
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A lot of really, really good information as well as a lot of um similarities in numbers.
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And we've talked about numbers in the past, but uh so you know here Jesus gets actually cast out.
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In the Greek in the Greek word it's called a kbana, cast out, which is exactly the same word that Mark uses when Jesus would cast out demons of somebody else.
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But uh yeah, Mark uh 1, 12, 13, the spirit drove him into the wilderness.
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And um, you know, every answer that Jesus gave the devil was a direct quote from Deuteronomy.
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Direct quote right out of the Bible.
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The book specifically is written about Israel's failure in that same wilderness.
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God had already spoken to Israel about those same failures in it and and what Israel could couldn't do in in forty years, Jesus did in forty days.
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There again, the number 40.
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So he was really not chosen to go into the wilderness, he was cast out despite being the Son of God, but uh he was sent there because of what he was becoming for us.
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And it's interesting to note on the 41st day Satan fled.
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So if you guys would allow me to expand on that just a moment.
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Yeah, go ahead.
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This will probably be all I have to say on this podcast, but it's a lie, so bear with me.
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So, all right, so 40 days, 40 nights, 40 years.
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Let's let's look at the significance of 40 for just a second, okay?
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So in the Bible it rained for 40 days and 40 nights.
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On the 41st day, the rain stopped.
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Moses committed murder and hid in the desert for 40 years.
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Year 41, he came out, and God called him to rescue Israel.
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So Moses went up to the mountains for 40 days, and on the 41st day, he received the Ten Commandments.
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The Israelites wandered in the in the wilderness for 40 years, and on year 41, they walked out into the promised land.
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Goliath taunted Israel for 40 days, and on the 41st day, David defeated him.
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Jonah preached a message of repentance to Nivea for 40 days, and on the 41st day, God stopped his plan to destroy them.
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After Jesus' resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples for 40 days.
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On the 41st day, he ascended into heaven.
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Wow.
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That's what I have to say about that.
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And and that's just kind of through the guidance that that the temptation of Jesus and and the numbering of current events uh led me to do a little bit more research, but I just found that astounding.
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And there there maybe are some other uh coincidences and or other um situations that that promote the 40, the 41.
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So hey, 41, don't ever give up after 40 days, because the 41st day could be, or the 41st year could be the could be the number, right?
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And and God said in Isaiah 49, 11, I will turn all my mountains into roads and my highways will be raised up, symbolizing God's removing obstacles and clearing a path to guide and to comfort his people.
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So here are a bunch of examples, biblical examples of that I came across in doing some research on this, and I just find that astounding.
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That's amazing.
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A lot.
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Lots of forties.
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And forty-ones.
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And forty-one's that's right.
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That's the time that it it releases or something happens or something transitions, yeah.
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Kind of makes you wonder what 2041 holds.
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Yeah.
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That's actually an interesting thought.
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That's right.
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Yeah, let's see.
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I just turned uh I just turned 42.
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I'm trying to remember 41.
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Actually, that's interesting that you said that.
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41 was a pretty big change.
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That's when we moved back to the mountains.
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Wow.
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Okay.
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Anyway, now you got me thinking.
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You got my mind going, Mark.
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I'm telling you.
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That's really interesting.
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I've never been thinking about it.
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Yeah, I've been thinking about it every day.
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The crazy thing is I've known those things.
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But I never thought about them together.
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I knew each of those in individual events, but I I've never thought about how many.
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Man, that's a lot.
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Yeah, this is an interesting passage.
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This really um this really sticks out in in my mind.
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There's certain little moments like when he um what what Jesus did when he was approached, what Satan said, what he did.
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Uh there's a moment in there that I was like, when you were reading it, Donnie, I read it again, and uh he says, um Let's see, let me go back.
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The devil took him to the holy city, Jerusalem, to the highest point, and said, If you're the son of God, jump off of it for the scriptures say.
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Uh so here he's he's tempting he's tempting him, and then Jesus responds, and then the devil continues to tempt him.
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He the temptation, I'm sure, I mean, you know, Jesus is perfect.
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I don't know that the temptation was affecting him, but he is he's literal quite literally tempting him, thinking for some reason Satan thinks maybe this will work somehow.
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I don't know.
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Maybe he just doesn't know how powerful Jesus is.
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But then then the uh where's the verse, where did you end?
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Eleven?
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Did you end on eleven, Donny?
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Yeah.
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Eleven, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, okay.
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Then so the fact that Satan is doing this to Jesus, I kind of turned it back on myself, and I thought, how many times have I thought the same thing for some reason?
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I know how powerful Jesus is and how how powerful God is, and I know how how in control he is, but how many times have I treated him as if I don't know that?
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You know what I mean?
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How many times have I treated him as if I don't know that he's in control?
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He is completely who he says he is, and and done things, and my actions not shown that.
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So I first I found it interesting trying to think through what do you guys think about this?
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Why did Satan, does Satan really not know how powerful Jesus is?
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Did do you think he really thought in his mind this might work?
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What are your thoughts on that?
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Because I find that interesting.
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Well, he's gonna come for him um every day of his life.
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He came for him, he came for him uh before he was born.
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I mean, you know, he was hunting him, right?
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I think was to me when I read this story, uh it really it kind of tells me who to who to who the players are in the ball game, right?
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You got Satan and you got Jesus, okay, and they're they are dynamically opposed to one another, okay?
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They're complete opposites.
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And you know, a lot of times, uh tell me what you guys think about this if you think.
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Number one, why do you think it was necessary for the spirit to lead Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil?
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I mean, why do you think that even had to happen?
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I mean, I mean, think about it.
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You know, it it it says very clearly Jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
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How does that apply to us?
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I mean, if if Satan's coming for Jesus, he came because he was a threat.
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I mean, see, Jesus is a threat to Satan.
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Satan comes for Jesus.
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God allowed it to happen.
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He allowed him to go in there.
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Well, how does that apply to us?
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I mean, should we be surprised when we're uh if you're if you're doing something for the church, I mean if you know if you're really working for the kingdom, don't think that devil ain't coming for you.
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And if he ain't coming for you, it's because he ain't worried about you.
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I mean, what do you think about that?
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I mean, think about it.
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Think I mean, this is a incredibly important passage.
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What do y'all think about that?
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Why did Jesus have to do that?
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Why did why did that have to happen?
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He ain't done nothing wrong.
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Well, why did what should we learn from that?
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I mean, why did he even have to go you know into the desert and obviously cast out, so to speak, or asked to go into the wilderness for forty days with nothing to eat.
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Yeah.
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That's what I'm saying.
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What's the significance of that other than, you know, like you said, he just gotten baptized.
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Right.
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And so he is led into a totally different direction than he had been accustomed to being in.
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And now he comes almost out of that on the fortieth fortieth day, I'm presuming, is when Satan approaches him.
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So he's he's if we had been out in the wilderness for forty days by ourselves, forty nights, uh, we probably would be hungry, tired, gone through a lot of emotional, psychological challenges, had plenty of time for reflection, had plenty of time for preparation, whether it was good or bad.
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Planning, plotting, how long is it gonna be before I, you know, I get out of here.
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Um so he was probably I guess Satan felt like maybe he was at his weakest moment after being in the wilderness for 40 days that he had a shot at talking him into one of these three things.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's why I asked that question a minute ago.
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I think this whole thing points to the fact that we know now, like Donnie, Donnie, like you said, he's he's been coming after him his whole life.
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And then this, I mean, it absolutely proves Satan does not, he absolutely does not know how powerful Jesus is.
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I don't think he believes that he is truly the Son of God.
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He can't.
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Because when you really know that, you know that there's no chance, you know, there's no chance of Jesus falling into temptation.
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There's no chance of that happening.
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It's uh it's kind of silly to think that.
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And there's another thing that Jesus says here that's so important to to us nowadays.
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He says, um, he says, uh, let's see, people don't really know.
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Oh, I went to the wrong.
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There we go.
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The scriptures also say you must not test the Lord your God.
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And I think instantly, how many even Christians say things that are kind of testing God?
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Like, well, Lord, if you'll do this, then I'll do this.
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God, if I know this is this is not what I want, but if you'll do this, I promise I'll serve you, or I'll promise I'll do this.
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And that's literally testing God.
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He is God Almighty.
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We are no one to say, if you'll do this, I'll do this.
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It's all, God, if that's what you will, that's what happens.
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Now I can pray for things, but I think that's such an important thing that Jesus says.
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You must not test the Lord your God.
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And I think how many times in my life that I've thought thoughts like that in my head.
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Um, something else about this, you know, there's a scripture verse I I can't think of exactly which one it is, but it says, you know, we have a we have a great counselor, high priest, who has been tested in every way, just as we have, right?
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Yeah, that's a scripture verse.
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You know, and Jesus, he's when we're suffering, I think I think, tell me what y'all think about it.
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When we're suffering sometimes, if you've ever been in the wilderness, I can tell you you don't want to be there, okay?
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You do not want to be there, you want to get out of there as fast as you can.
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You do not want to be there.
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And uh, you know, Jesus is there, right?
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He's in there.
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He he ain't done nothing bad to get there.
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He is in there and he is suffering.
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You know, to me, one thing to take away from this is that when we're suffering, he knows what it's like.
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He's suffering in this situation.
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I can tell you this was bad.
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I don't know exactly what happened, like we're talking about, but can I mean the idea that Jesus and he suffers his whole life?
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I mean, from the rest of Matthew until the crucifixion, I mean, he's got one, there ain't nothing in there easy that he's gonna have happen.
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I mean, nothing.
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And the farther we read and think about what's happened already.
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You know, Herod, he was trying to kill him.
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You know, they had to flee to Egypt.
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They have all this stuff going on.
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Mary and Joseph, they they got tremendous trials.
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What do y'all think about this?
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It almost makes me think that we shouldn't be surprised when we're suffering, maybe.
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And there are people around us suffering everywhere we go.
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We may not know why exactly.
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But um I don't I don't know.
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It's a far it's a long way from the prosperity gospel.
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What do you what do you think about that, Chad?
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You know, being in the church.
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What we're reading about today is this this is tough.
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I mean, it's a tough thing.
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Well, I think a lot of people don't they don't they only look at one perspective or they have one thought in their mind when they go to the scripture, but we have to remember Jesus is fully God and fully human in this.
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He is He is God and He is human.
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So we have to look at both sides of that.
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Like you said, Donnie, he's suffering, and people are like, well, how's he suffering?
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He's God.
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Well, he's uh he's fully human there too.
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He is he is a human.
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He's suffering, he feels emotions, he feels the same things we feel, he feels the pain, uh, he feels loneliness, he feels the same things that we go through.
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And so I think that is an important part what you said, Donnie, that we we can understand that Jesus as a human in that moment went through the same things that we're going to experience, some of the same things.
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Of course, he went through a lot more, and so that we we can look at that example and we can understand, and it's amazing to know that someone that was living back then and human, you can still have a relationship with him now, and you can know him who has already the son of suffering, you can know the son of suffering, the person who's already gone through it, and he is the one that sticketh closer than a brother.
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That's what the scripture says.
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So I think that's so important to remember.
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Yes, Jesus is God, but he's also fully human, and so he feels all the same feels that we that we do.
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And it's so it's so cool to know that you can you can have that relationship and you can still talk to him and he still communicates with you.
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I think that's that's a very important part of this whole story um to understand.
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Yeah, that's good.
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Well uh and you know it's it's a it's a good role model for um for Jesus being human, as you said at that time.
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But it's also uh an act of great faith because we don't always know where the spirit's gonna lead us.
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Right?
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Mm-hmm.
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And life can take on a totally new meaning when we allow the spirit to drive us.
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And Jesus was a perfect example in in a human form to exert and exemplify faith and understanding and commitment and He says it in 10.
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Get out of here, Satan.
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For the scriptures' sake.
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You must worship the Lord your God.
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Bottom line.
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Yeah.
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Mark, you just said something really interesting.
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You said I didn't even I didn't even think about this.
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You said that Jesus, you're talking about uh being led by the Spirit.
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So Jesus was literally, if Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, and God Almighty knew that he was going to be tested and tempted by the devil, we should not be surprised.
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We shouldn't say, oh, this must not be where I'm supposed to be, because there's things, darts coming at me, the devil's tempting me.
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No, no, no.
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If Jesus was led by the Spirit into a situation that where there was hardship, we will be too.
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100%.
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Guaranteed.
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So that's a that's great.
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That's a really good uh little lesson there.
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I think too, if you think about it from what like where we're talking now, right?
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Okay, you know, Jesus obviously is perfect.
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You know, he he's perfect, he knows everything.
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I kind of wonder if he knew what Satan was going to do to him, or if he just was led out there and knowing.
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You know, we don't know.
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We'll never know the answer to that.
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But what a great point.
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And I think for people who are suffering, and look, I've suffered.
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I can promise you, I still do from time to time.
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We all suffer.
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If anybody says they didn't suffer, then I can't imagine that life.
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But anyway, isn't it maybe encouraging to realize that, hey, you know, I can feel that devil coming for me.
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He's bringing every, he's throwing everything he's got at me right now.
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And he did it to Jesus because Jesus was a threat.
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Now, you know, you know, the and I tell me what y'all think about this.
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As a believer, the more we we seek to serve the Lord, and the more we want to grow in our faith.
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Shouldn't we be prepared?
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I mean, after reading this, it's almost like you should be prepared for it.
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It's a it's it's almost and Jesus, he quotes these scriptures because he's prepared.
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He knows the Bible, he knows the scripture.
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Well, if we don't know the scripture and we don't know this story and we don't know nothing about it, and stuff starts going crazy, we, you know, particularly if we're a new believer, we might think, well, what in the world?
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What have I done, you know, to deserve this?
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Jesus didn't deserve this, but it happened to him.
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How do y'all how do y'all think that applies to life as a as a Christian who who's out there trying to grow on our faith?
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Well, I mean, Jesus, again, I said this earlier and I kind of maybe blew through it, but we'll certainly invite our viewing, listening audience to go to Deuteronomy where you know Jesus gave direct quotes from Deuteronomy.
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So he already knew what was in the book of Deuteronomy and the book.
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And for him to reference Deuteronomy, there's a place where we can go if we're feeling overwhelmed or we're feeling tested.
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And keep in mind Satan didn't just try him once, he tried him three times, thinking that, well, maybe there's a you know, front door's locked, let's go around to the back door.
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Back door's locked, well, let's try a window.
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So he's looking to try to get in any way he can to tempt Jesus.
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So I I think that's a that's a it's a wonderful lesson.
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It's a wonderful lesson if if you know if we understand what Jesus went through and we're discussing it, and we have a a really good faith and spiritual understanding as to a why this happened, and B how did Jesus handle this, then that's just more fuel for our fire to stay committed, you know?
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It's it's great information.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, if someone can live if someone is living a life where they have no hardship, no temptation, and they call themselves a believer, there's some big question marks there.
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You should you should really be questioning because if you are doing anything worthwhile for Jesus, uh there are going to be hardships, there are gonna be temptation, you know.
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Absolutely, a thousand percent.
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So that's a that's a challenge.
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It's not just your yeah, and it's not just your actions, it could even be your thoughts.
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So yeah.
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Well, I think like like we're talking about, you know, there are people out there listening to this, right, or watching it, and uh like like we talked about before, we just three guys.
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We just three guys up here, you know, talking through this, but there, you know, there's probably a lot of people who need to hear this story because maybe they're really struggling.
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And uh, I mean, I can think of plenty of people that I know right now that are wonderful people who are experiencing some really hard things.
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And and I think to me, you know, it you know, a lot of times in the Bible it was sort of like, you know, kind of like in the book of Job, you know, his friends are like, hey, what'd you do?
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You know, you done something for this to come on you, right?
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You've done you done something for this to come on you, but sometimes maybe the something we've done that really brings hardship from the devil is the fact that we're doing something really good or aspiring to, and he comes at us as a threat trying to take us out.
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And I think, how do y'all tell me what y'all feel about it?
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I feel like when we see people suffering, we should, whenever we can, drop everything and try to help them out because we don't know.
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Yeah, and Jesus in this situation, he's alone.
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He he's alone in the wilderness.
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You know, Satan will come from us, he'll try to separate us, he'll try to isolate us, and you know, and he's gonna he's gonna come for us as believers.
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I I think it's just such a I don't know.
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I think to me when I read this, it makes me have m even more compassion for people that are having a tough time.
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Well, what do y'all what do y'all think about that?
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Yeah, I agree with you.
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I've seen the same thing.
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I have seen some of the most, um, in my opinion, the most, if you want to call them Christian, but just good, just good people.
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People that would would do anything for anybody, people who uh who love, who love on people, go through the worst times.
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And uh we had we had a lady, this is this is probably 15 years ago.
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We had a lady uh at uh at our church, actually it was the pastor, it was the wife, the pastor's wife, and she got cancer, and this lay this is the lady that anybody that knew her thought of.
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She just spread kindness everywhere she went.
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She knew everybody in town.
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She loved everybody.
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She would help homeless people, she'd help anybody.
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And to see her go through something like that, like you said, Donnie, it just makes you wanna it makes you want to drop everything and do anything that you can for them.
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Sometimes you can't really do much because, you know, it's a it's a health battle or something.
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But just like you said, good people, good people go through things.
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And I think it's just like to me, it reminds me of the attack on uh on Job.
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When Job's d the devil the devil went to God, God said, You just you can't tuck you can't touch him, but do whatever you want, because he's you know, he's faithful.
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And the devil took everything he had.
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He went through horrible, horrible suffering and anguish.
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His family was gone, everything he owned was gone.
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And so good people go through things.
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It's the way it way the way it happens now.
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The devil will come after people, and I think sometimes God knows that person is my faithful servant, they will they'll stay faithful.
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That we've read or will be reading.
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Um but then there's examples right around us, right, in our communities.
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So my next door neighbor just in the last three weeks was out cutting his grass and had a seizure and fell out on the ground, and they rushed him to the hospital, and they then later took him to Greenville and he had a a mass, he had a tumor on his brain.
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So just yesterday he was after surgery, and they think they got it all, they brought him home.
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But where I'm going with this is the outpour of love in the village of people wanting to help and praying and wanting to be there and wanting to do whatever they could to assist the family in making their life a little bit easier understanding what they were going through.
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If you're an outsider even looking in and you're not in the village, so to speak, you still feel the compassion and you and you still see and feel the love that that people are wanting to give and provide and and promote, and you can't help but but want to pray for someone that's been sometimes I feel like life is kind of like playing a card game, you know.
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Everybody gets dealt four or five cards, right, at the same time, and you put all the cards together and you open them up and go, hmm.
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That's really not a hand I can play with, or I've got some decent cards in there, or you know, a couple of wild cards, but it's it's is it a hand that I can play?
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Well, sometimes we get dealt cards, whether it's a health card or a financial card, or whether it's uh have an accident card, or or if you're married, you have a you know, the spouse card is is in there also, and you look at that hand and you go, Well, you know, there's always the option to block.
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It might get you through, it might get you by until you can draw another card, and then you've got a hand that you can play with.
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So we we get challenges.
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We get all different kinds of cards in life, right?
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And and how we choose to play those cards, or how we choose to work with those those situations help or or have a car accident, or you get in a car and you try to start the car and the battery won't is dead, and you know these are many and and major extremes, but you know, how do we respond to that?
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If we're in the book and in the Bible and in the word, then we have examples that we can can go by that show us and tell us how to handle those sort of things.
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Yeah.
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Unexpected.
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Absolutely.
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And there's so many the the hard part with this is there's so much online now uh in social media, there's so many people that, even if they're not a pastor, there's so many people that are trying to s to spread that if you are not being so overly blessed and you're healthy and everything in life is perfect, then then you must not be in God's will.
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You must not be doing what God wants you to do.
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And this shows it's exactly not true.
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That is not true that even the most faithful people uh go through things in hard times.
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And like you said, Donnie, that's the prosperity gospel.
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You know, if you're not blessed with all the money and the health and the everything perfect in life, then something must be wrong.
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But that's just absolutely not true.
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You know, uh Mark said so as I was listening to it, you know, talk about your neighbor and what's going on over there, Mark, you know, um, how important it is and how um inspiring it is when we see people rally around someone who's suffering, you know.
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And if uh you've ever been out there alone in the wilderness, like I'm sure that man felt alone when he fell out in his yard and he's over there facing a big surgery.
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I've had a big surgery.
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I'll tell you that's a lonely place because you don't know what's gonna happen.
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It's it is completely out of your hands.
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And you know, when uh when we as Christians step up and try to help people who are suffering, I think it's really interesting.
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Tell me, tell me what y'all think.
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You know, the last verse said, then the devil went away and angels came and took care of Jesus.
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Now, like we've talked about, Jesus is all powerful.
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I mean He He created the universe, but he was in such a strait that the angels had to come and take care of him.
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You know, are we like angels when we step in when that person is down and out and uh when nobody else will do it, you know, or we come in there and uh we, you know, is that a to me that's an opportunity.
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I just sort of feel like reading this right here, like we've talked about so far, it's such an example of what we should be doing.
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I mean, yes, it's about what happened to Jesus, but if if if he ain't too good to suffer and we see somebody suffering, we certainly don't need to be judging them.
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Like, why are they suffering?
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Why did that happen?
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Oh, they should have done this, oh they should have done that.
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You know, you don't we don't know what somebody's got going on, but it's tough when you're alone like that.
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Well what do y'all what do y'all think about that?
00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:57.039
I'm thinking while you're talking, and and I'm thinking, you know, if you're not living your life for God and Jesus, then in essence, aren't we all in a wilderness?
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Yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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Aren't we all in a wilderness that that exposes us to everything?
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The good, the bad, the evil, the We're all in a in our own wilderness, so to speak.
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And even if we are living our life for God, Satan's still gonna try to come in there and mess up and mess up an ongoing positive connection and and relationship.
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Especially, especially if you're living a life for God, yeah.
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Because then you're you are you are the person that's gonna make an impact and a difference.
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And he doesn't want that.
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You're the bullseye.
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Yeah, you're exactly 100%.
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I know.
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I guess I just sort of think about it, you know, like we're talking about, like you were saying, Chad, the prosperity gospel, oh, you know, give this and get a blessing, oh, you know, everything, if everything ain't perfect.
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You done, you done something.
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I mean, you know, it's your you're you know, the blame game.
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And I tell you, when you're in the wilderness, tell me what y'all think about that, because we've all talked about it.
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We've all been there a little bit, right?
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We've been there one time or another.
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When you're there in the wilderness, the last thing you need is somebody pointing fingers at you.
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You know, and I I think about I guess I just think about this and it just in in like social media, you know, I'm not a you know, I'm not really a big, you know, on social media, I don't know that much about it, but you know, what would they wrote about Jesus right now?
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Hey, Jesus is in the wilderness.
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He being tested by the devil.
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I mean how much empathy you think people get today when they when they find themselves in the wilderness?
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Um I think a lot of them.
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They're being attacked by the devil.
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Yeah, that perspective from the outside gets skewed and they start to make that person a bad person because they are in a situation.
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And I think it ha that happens a lot, I think.
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I people are pointing fingers at people, and um, you know, in my mind, I'm like, you could be there just as easily.
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:06.480
Any of us could be there just as easily.
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Yeah.
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So yeah.
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Well this is this is um this is a good uh a good story, I think that we should you there's so much information here that we broke down.
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I think we've been on for what, 38 minutes uh for this these few verses, but it's so impactful to see Jesus handle uh Satan directly and see him handle temptation and to look at it from the perspective that Jesus is God, Jesus is human, Jesus is feeling all these things.
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And like you said, Donnie, I love the thing that we kind of ended with that the rally point.
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You showed that you the last verse says that uh the angels what does it say exactly, Donnie?
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You have that in front of us uh then the devil went away and angels came and took care of Jesus.
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Yeah, that's the rally point.
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And if we if the angels came and took care of Jesus, go ahead.
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Go ahead.
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Well, I was gonna say, you know, we've kind of focused on the questions that that Satan asked of Jesus.
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We maybe we have or haven't touched on each individual answer that Jesus gave to Satan.
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So he said, If you're the son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.
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Jesus says, No.
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The scripture says people do not live by bread alone.
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Then he took him to the holy city of Jerusalem to the highest point.
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If you are the son of God, jump.
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For the scripture says he will order his angels to protect you, and they will hold you up with their hands.
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They'll hold you up with angels.
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Then goes on to say, took him to the highest peak.
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He says, get out of here, Jesus.
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He says, For the scriptures say you must worship the Lord your God and serve only him.
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Those are the three different answers that Jesus gave.
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Again, go to Deuteronomy and and read more, but but the angels are gonna protect you.
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The angels are gonna hold you up.
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There is there is salvation, right?
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There is protection.
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There's a plan in place by God to take care of his people.
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And the Lord knows there's nothing better than being protected versus out there in the wilderness by yourself, Donnie.
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Yeah.
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But he's out there by himself.
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He's out there by himself.
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And sometimes we're gonna find ourselves out there.
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And um, you know, the other thing too, like we were just talking about Mark, you know, he Satan says, you know, if you're the son of God, so right there he says, you know, if you're who you claim to be, you know, turn this into stone.
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You know, then he says, uh, if you're the son of God, jump off.
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Satan knows the scriptures too.
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He he's quoting Jesus, right?
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And then, you know, at the end, when he says he took him to the peak of a very high mountain, showed him all the kings of the world, said, I'll give it all to you.
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Because it's Satan's to give to whoever who'll worship him.
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Right.
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That's another thing that the prosperity gospel really fails at, you know.
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Satan is in control of an awful lot of things.
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Jesus don't, he don't say, hey man, you ain't in control of that.
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Because Satan is in control of the world's secular system, I think.
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I mean, that's just the way it is.
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And I think it's real interesting there that Jesus doesn't contradict him.
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He doesn't say, oh, that's not true.
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You know, you don't, you don't, you don't have control.
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I I think it's real interesting to realize, tell me what you think, you guys.
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A lot of people might not want to take on the idea of the devil.
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You know, we we we want to think about the gospel and everything's kumbaya and all that stuff, you know, or to believe that way of thinking.
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But, you know, that devil is real.
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I mean, the fact that he's here right here this early in the gospel attacking Jesus, the Son of God.
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What does that say about us?
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I mean, to me, it's almost like if we're not as Christians talking about the idea that there is a devil.
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There are demonic forces at work in the world, and we're setting ourselves up to be even more victimized by his schemes.
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What do y'all what do y'all think about that?
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I think.
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Well, a lot uh you let me go to the first thing that you started talking about.
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You start you s you mentioned the prosperity gospel and the things that they do not do, and then you talked about about this.
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A lot of times, what the de the crazy thing is when What the devil is saying here, uh, what Satan is saying to Jesus in this uh account where he's tempting Jesus, those exact words are what some gospel, pr prosperity gospel preachers, put in the mouth of God.
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Amen.
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God does not say, if you do this for me, I will give you these things.
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If you serve me, I will give you these things.
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That is what the devil is literally saying to Jesus right here.
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And so we can we can understand that God does not, I think there is a um there's something that certain people think that is not true.
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That is that God need somehow needs us to serve him.
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God doesn't need us.
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God does not need us to do one thing for him.
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He doesn't need us to go witness to that person.
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Does he want us to?
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Yeah, but he doesn't need us to.
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He can find somebody else to do it like that.
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He doesn't need us.
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He gives us the opportunity to serve him.
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He gives us the opportunity to worship him and show our love and our praise and our thanks to Jesus who died on the cross for us.
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That's what he does.
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He gives us an opportunity.
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But if we don't take that opportunity, he doesn't need us.
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So I think that is a that is something that when when you said that, Donnie, I it it hit me like that.
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I'm like, man, these exact words that Satan is saying, that's what a lot of these, a lot of folks are are teaching and preaching.
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It's not true.
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Yeah, that's that opportunity, that opportunity is powerful because we're gonna follow and once we take that opportunity and and put it to God's use.
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Um have you ever been in a situation where you've been baited and switched?
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Oh you know, I think everybody understands that terminology.
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You're baited to do something, and then you get down the road and it switches to something less desirable.
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I think that's what the devil does, right?
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He baits you.
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Absolutely switch you.
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And everybody knows how that's turned out for them.
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But when there's an opportunity there that the gospel and you follow that road, that path, and you and you understand and see the miracles and the outcome from that, there's no bait and switch involved in in that.
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And so that's kind of while you guys have been talking, I've been thinking about you know, what does that relate to?
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And uh kind of got the bait and switch idea.
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Oh, that's his most Go ahead, Chad.
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No, I was I was just gonna say everything that we're talking about, I'm I'm going back to the scripture that we read and I'm looking at it, and Mark brought up a minute ago, we should look at what Jesus is saying.
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And so the more I read through this, Jesus literally points to, like you said, God's word every time.
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Every single time.
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He points back to what does God say?
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He says, No, the scriptures.
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People do not live by bread alone, but every word that comes from who?
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The mouth of God.
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And then he says, the scriptures also say, You must not test the Lord your God.
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And then he says, Get out of here, Satan, for the scriptures say, You must worship the Lord your God and serve him only.
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And then I scrolled down a little bit more.
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Um and verse 17 is the next time Jesus speaks, and he says, it says, From then on, Jesus began to preach, repent of your sins and turn to God, for the kingdom of heaven is near.
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Everything that Jesus points to is God's word and the gospel.
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Everything.
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And so that's an example to us.
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I mean, if we are relying on anything other than God's word or the gospel truth that we know, the truth about what Jesus uh has done for us, then we are fooling ourselves.
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That is what we should point to every time that we are in temptation or in hardship or something's hard.
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Go to go to God's Word.
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Well, you know, like we you know, our podcast, you know, like we've talked about before, we just three guys.
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We just don't hear reading the Bible and talking about it.
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But to your point, what both of you guys have said, if a person isn't reading the Bible and they're not in the Word, when Satan comes for them, they can't quote the scripture, right?
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They don't they don't know it.
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You know, this it's like preparing to play a ball game or preparing to go hunting or fishing or you know, preparing to design a website, you know, whatever you're good at doing.
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If you're not prepared, it and I think it screams out at me when I read this, like you were just saying, Chad, how valuable our time in the Word is.
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Because if we don't have that and things happen like Jesus is facing at this point, what are we gonna rely on?
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I mean, how are we gonna how are we gonna You're going hunting without any ammo?
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Well, we've all heard the saying, you know, and I've taught it to my children.
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You plan your work.
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And you work your plan.
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This is about planning.
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Um plan it.
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Then work it.
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Work your plan.
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Plan your work.
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This is the the book is the plan.
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And and I gotta go to work every second of every day.
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So good stuff.
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Yeah, it'll make you think.
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I mean, this this passage to me, and I I think this is so important that we're reading this right after his baptism and right before his ministry began.
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Jesus, the the sin there was there's a purpose for him experiencing this, right?
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And I think when we're suffering or we're hurting, we can either choose to make us more humble and appreciative and caring, or we can make us become bitter and angry and sullen, you know.
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And and it's just such a it's just such an important lesson that that not even God's son, and and all throughout the rest of the New Testament, eventually he's gonna go to the cross, right?
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That he he was not he was not sheltered from hard things, and we're not gonna be either.
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And when and when we're in the middle of it, if the people around us can understand that and say, hey, I understand, you know, it's tough, you know, it's it's one it's part of life, and you know, you gotta hang in there.
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That that goes a long way when you're in a tough spot, doesn't it?
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We've all been there.
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What do y'all think about that?
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Well, I think I agree with you before we go to closing prayer.
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I think it's you know, we want our audience to know that we welcome their comments and we welcome their their questions, and um we welcome them and to to share experiences and how they've been uplifted and what God and Jesus has done in their life.
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And uh Donna, you want to take us to prayer?
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Yeah, that'd be fine.
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Dear Lord, we want to thank you for this day and opportunity to be here.
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And Lord, we want to thank you for your word and uh Lord, this passage about uh Jesus being in the wilderness and being tested by the devil and being led there by the Holy Spirit.
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It's it's hard, it's hard to read, and it's scary.
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I mean, you know, and sometimes life, you know, can be hard and it can be scary and for us and for people around us, and Lord help us to remember that um even when we're in the wilderness, we're really never alone as long as we have a relationship with you.
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And I pray that all the people listening, maybe some folks who who need to hear that today, that you know, maybe you're in a difficult place, but you're not alone.
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If you accept Jesus as Lord, you know you're not alone, and he knows what it's like to suffer.
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And um I just pray that maybe people who need it today might hear that message.
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And we ask these things in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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