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Joshua Kehler: Let's go
to Ephesians chapter six.

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Happy Pentecost.

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Yes.

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we're gonna be looking at the
sword of the spirit today.

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So in the armor, I'm gonna read
in verse 10, start in verse 10.

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Finally, be strong in the Lord and in
this strength of his might put on the

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whole armor of God that you may be able
to stand against the schemes of the devil.

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For, we do not wrestle against flesh
and blood, but against the rulers,

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against the authorities, against
the cosmic powers over this present

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darkness against the spiritual forces
of evil in the heavenly places.

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Therefore, take up the whole armor of
God that you may be able to withstand.

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The A and having done all to stand
firm stand therefore having fastened

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on the belt of truth and having put on
the breastplate of righteousness and

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as shoes for your feet, having put on
the readiness given by the gospel of

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peace and all circumstances take up
the shield of faith with which you can

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extinguish all the flaming arrows of
the evil one and take the helmet of

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salvation and the sword of the spirit.

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Which is the word of God, praying
at all times in the spirit with

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all prayers and supplication.

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To that end, keep alert with all
perseverance, making supplication

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for all the saints and also for me
that the words may be given to me in

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opening my mouth boldly to proclaim
the mystery of the gospel for which I

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am an ambassador in chains, that I may
declare it boldly as I ought to speak.

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Matthew chapter four.

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Then Jesus verse one was led up
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to be tempted by the devil.

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And after fasting, 40 days and 40
nights, he was hungry and the tempter

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came to him and said to him, if you
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stones to become loaves of bread.

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But he answered, it is written shall
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word that comes from the mouth of God.

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Then the devil took him up to the
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of the temple and said to him,
If you are the son of God, throw

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yourself down for it is written.

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He will command his angel discerning
you and on their hands, they

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will bear you up, lest you strike
your foot against the stone.

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Jesus   said to him again, it
is written, you shall not put

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the Lord your God to the test.

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Again.

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The devil took him to a very high
mountain and showed him all the kingdoms

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of the world and their glory, and he
said to him, all these I will give you.

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If you will fall down and worship me.

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Then Jesus said to him, be gone.

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Satan, for it is written, you
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and Him only shall you serve.

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Then the devil left Him and behold,
angels came and were ministering to him.

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This is the word of the Lord.

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Let's pray.

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Father, we thank you for your word.

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and we thank you that the word
became flesh and DW among us.

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We thank you that you are the message,
the very tone come from heaven to

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reveal the heart of the Father to us.

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Help me Lord, to make much of Jesus right
now and all of us together, Lord, that

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Jesus will be made much of in our hearts.

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Save us from the opinions of men and
good ideas, clever reasoning, gimmicks,

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10 step programs or whatever it may be.

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Lord, we want.

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Jesus to be exalted and lifted up because
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need is you, that you are our chief end.

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And so bless this time, bless the churches
that gather all over the Central Valley.

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Thank you for the different churches
and their different expressions.

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Thank you that the family of Jesus is big,
that your father over so many different

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personalities and expressions and cultures
and races, and we're all part of the

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same family, and we thank you for that.

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what a privilege to be a part
of this, blood bought family.

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man, everything else is just a shadow.

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Pointing to the reality
that really to her.

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Yes.

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And so we thank you that you're
the substance, thank you, that you

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came to bring us to the father.

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we love you so much.

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Jesus.

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Bless this time.

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A Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Russell Moore writes in his book, as he
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a program called The Stairway to Heaven.

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they were talking about slaughtering cows.

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He said there was something
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about the soft clatter of it.

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The soothing repetition sounded
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up from the coast or rickety old
midnight train off in the distance.

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I had no idea what I was listening to.

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I had no idea that it was the rhythm
of cattle marching to a slaughterhouse.

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It turns out what I had happened
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a public radio program about factory
farm broadcast was about how to kill

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cows, but with kindness kind of brings
new meaning to kill 'em with kindness.

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What happened is that there was
this scientist that studied.

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For years because, when cows get stress
or sense stress, it makes the meat tough.

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So her whole thing was how can we
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coddled and that they don't get
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slaughtered, the meat stays tender.

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Learned through years of research
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which stimuli produced which
animal sounds and how to track what

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scares or stresses the livestock.

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A slaughterhouse then, in order to
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anything from the side of the animals
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The real problem is novelty.

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If dairy cattle are used to seeing
bright yellow raincoats slung

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over the gates every day when
they enter the milking parlor.

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There'd be no problem.

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She counsels this researcher.

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It's the animal who's seen a bright yellow
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time at the slaughter plant or, the feed.

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Who's going to balk or freak
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contented and comfortable?

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They'll go wherever they're lead.

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She advises.

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Don't surprise them.

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Don't unnerve them, and above all,
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until you slit their throats at the end.

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Along the way, the scientist
devised a new technology that has

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revolutionized the ways of the big
slaughter operations in this system.

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The cows aren't prodded off the truck
but are lead in silence onto a ramp.

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They go through a squeeze shoot,
a gentle pressure device that

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mimics a mother's nuzzling touch.

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The cattle continued down the
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There are no sudden churns.

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The cows experience the sensation
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they traveled so many times before
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They don't e notice when their hooves
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A conveyor belt slowly lifts them
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of an eye, a blunt instrument levels a
surgical strike right between their eyes.

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Yeah, they're transitioned from
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enough to be alarmed to bite any of it.

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Yikes.

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Which is great for barbecue.

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It's terrible for us because what
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are in a spiritual battle and that
the enemy is out to steal, kill.

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And destroy.

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That we face off against this enemy.

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We wrestle not against flesh and
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who wants to see our destruction.

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The temptation and the reality of the
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as we talked about last week, the hug
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bodies, projectile vomit like we see,
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that cuz shouldn't have watched that.

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that kind of like, oh my
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It's alarming, but it's the subtle
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Getting you to think like
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in the things of the world.

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You remember that we said that every
temptation is rooted in your identity.

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Yes, every temptation is rooted in an
attack on your identity of who you are

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in Christ as a beloved son and daughter,
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the serpent coming and whispering.

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Did God really say?

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Does God really care?

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Does God really, after your
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you could have all the trees.

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he's holding one back from you.

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He's holding the best back from you.

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In fact.

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To get you to doubt his love.

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it's not so much, it's the slow,
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us into the image of the world
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Every temptation at its root is an
attack on our identity in Jesus.

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You'll be tempted with
consumption, security, and status.

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You'll be tempted to provide for yourself,
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And at the core of these three as a common
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God, to cast off his care, to cast off
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his plant and his wisdom for our life.

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Father led or fed.

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Father protected or neglected father's
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rhyme scheme to help you guys remember it.

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The first step in the cycle of temptation
is the question of your identity.

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James told the poor and the beaten
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told the prosperous and the up and
coming to glory and his humiliation.

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Why James understood that temptation
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a skewed vision of who you are.

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The Satanic powers don't care if
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grandiosity or self-loathing.

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As long as you see your current
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as the eternal statement of who you
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Great.

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Have at it if it's not
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So we'll see in the testing of Jesus,
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protection, and the attack on process.

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Okay, the three and we come to
this, this is our third in a message

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about the sword of the spirit.

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So first we talked about what it's not.

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And then we talked about what it is,
and now we'll talk about how to use it.

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So I'm gonna catch us up a little bit for
those of you who haven't been with us.

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Just a five minute recap.

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Stand firm.

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Paul writes, hold the ground
that Jesus has already won.

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Jesus has already won the victory
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live the victory experientially.

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We're not trying to achieve victory.

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Jesus has already won the victory.

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You're not fighting for victory.

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We are fighting from victory.

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It's been done.

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It's happened.

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the cross in the resurrection.

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That is the pinnacle of history, right?

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So then he comes to the
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He's talking about wearing the armor.

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And we've seen that each piece
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facet of the gospel, right?

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That we're putting on his righteousness.

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Not a righteousness that we
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And, how to deal with discouragement
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But we come to the Sword of the spirit.

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Take the helmet of salvation, verse
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the Spirit, which is the word of God.

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It was called the macra.

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A small sword is distinguished
from a large sword.

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It's probably used in quote,
close quarters battle because

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again, I'm gonna say it quickly.

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The, when Paul writes this,
he's thinking of community.

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We see this individualistically
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like William Wallace, running in
that first scene where he takes

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the garrison right by himself,
you're like, wow, this is amazing.

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Or we think of Samson,
who's just throwing.

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But in his mind, the church is standing
together, shield to shield, right?

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That's how the Romans would fight.

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And so they wouldn't draw their
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because it would cut your friend.

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And so you had the dagger.

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And then when he is talking
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talking about, a referee being
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He's talking about that fight where you're
on the ground and in the mud, that fight.

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So you've got this blade, double-edged.

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With a super sharp point.

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This is a spiritual sword and cuts in
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go to a the human sword, and that's
not the sword the spirit uses, right?

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You remember Peter?

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he pulls out a sword and just
put away, that's done by sword.

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He says, you'll pull out a
sword one day, and you'll cut.

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And he does on the day of
Pentecost today, 2000 years ago.

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And it's a different sword.

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It's not a sword from the physical realm.

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And it says, as they heard him
preach about the cross of Jesus,

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about his death and resurrection,
they were cut to the heart.

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It's a sword that doesn't inflict damage
in the physical realm, but man, it cuts

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you to the heart in the spiritual realm.

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It liberates.

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It sets free.

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It takes the idols down.

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James one 20 says, for the wrath of man,
does not produce the righteousness of God.

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Cuz we don't believe in the power of
this sword and we know we don't believe

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in it because we so rarely use it.

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It is written.

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It is the one and only in the arsenal,
maybe because it's the only one we need.

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There's not like a lot of weapons,
like we said, in Call of Duty.

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You've got, so many options, right?

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It's a sword that belongs to the spirit,
but it's put in your hand to use.

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Now the word here is Rama, the sort of
the spirit, which is the word of God.

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Ramah.

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So there's three words
used in the Greek for.

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The word of God.

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The first one is graphe.

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It's the writings or the written word.

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Okay.

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The 66 books and words that make them
up and compose the canon of scripture.

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When Paul's talking about the word of
God, he's not talking about walking

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around with a Bible under your arm.

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Like this, it's like this weird thing.

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I've shared, we grew up in a church
where the word of God was like

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the fourth person to the trinity.

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the grapha, the writings, they were
this, it was the sacred kind of thing.

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and it was almost worshiped.

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There's another word.

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So you've got the writings,
you've got the scripture.

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The other word is log.

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the logos right in the beginning
was the logs and the logos was

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with God, and the logos was God.

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Lagos is the message of the
book, what it's all about,

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understanding what the passage says.

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At church, you understand
the logos or the meaning.

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If you hear the gospel and it grips
your heart, then you understand

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the message of the Bible, so it's
not just, the 66 books compiled.

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You need that because, but the
whole point is to get to the meaning

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of the book, which is the gospel,
and that's where the power is.

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We see people swear on a Bible
in court, If I break this, I'm

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gonna get struck by lightning.

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It's this like superstitious thing.

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They're treating the graphite,
the written this scripture, like

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it's this superstitious thing.

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The person who's putting his hand on the
Bible rarely cares about the message in

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the Bible, but it's like this religious
thing that's their, they don't care

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about the message, they just care about
the book in a weird, superstitious way.

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I talked about how I.

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when my former pastor would come in
when I was a kid, I had highlighted

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passages of the Bible to make it look
like I was a student of the word.

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for some I was a poser, a thing.

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I, my parents were actually
underlining, I'm just like, oh,

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that looks cool, kind of a thing.

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Oh, the word that he uses is rama.

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Utterance or word spoken or declared,
it's declaring the message, the

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declaration of the message that is
contained in the written word of God.

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You need the logos from the graphe,
the written word, and then Paul is

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saying, uttered, it is written when
God, he didn't just think about.

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Creating light and go, that'd be nice.

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he declared let there be light.

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And it was so, it's interesting cuz in
Hebrews four 12 it says, for the Lagos

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of God is living an active, sharper
than any two-edged sword, the same word.

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For sword and our passage in
Ephesians, piercing did the division

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of soul and spirit of joints and
morrow and discerning the thoughts

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and the intentions of the heart.

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It's the message the
logos of God is living.

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Not just the book, but
the message of the book.

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It is alive and active.

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The story about Jesus the
gospel is why he says, and.

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Romans one.

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It's the power of God unto salvation.

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That's why Jesus says the
volume of the book is about me.

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That's why the disciples on
Resurrection Day said, did

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our hearts not burn within us?

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When he explained from the
scriptures, How he was the

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fulfillment of all these things.

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It's the message.

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It's the message why so many sermons
are dead or dulls because they missed

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the message of the graphite or the
scripture that it's about Jesus.

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In fact, Andrew pointed this out last
week and I dug into it a little more.

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And the father, he's talking to the
Pharisees and John 5 37 and 39, and

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the father who sent me has himself
born witness about me, his voice.

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You have never heard his form.

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You have never seen, and you do not
have his word, his logs abiding in you.

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The message for you do not believe
in the one whom he has sent.

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You searched the graphe, the
scriptures because you think that

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in them you have eternal life.

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And it is they that bear witness about me.

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I'm the whole point of the scripture,
the whole point the whole power

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of the Bible is the message about
Jesus seeking and saving the lost.

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It's about Jesus coming to
restore what man has broken,

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to returning us back to home.

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In the creation, right in the Garden
of Eden, it's a story about losing a

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father and being wayward, trying to find.

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Family in this broken world and about
Jesus coming and to bring us back to the

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Father like It's a story about going home.

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It's the story of Jesus
seeking and saving the lost.

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It's a story about the Father, heart of
God who gave his son to have you as sons

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and daughters forever for eternal life.

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So why this tangent?

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Because Jesus says to
the devil, it is written.

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The devil loves to hear us say,
I think, or my opinion is, or my

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friends say, or This is what the
latest poll says, or Here's what my

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political party's stance is, or this
is what the religious leaders say.

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But Jesus knowing the message, because
the devil's gonna quote scripture.

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But Jesus knows that he's the message,
he knows the message of scripture,

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that it's all pointing to him.

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So really important that as we think,
and then we, as Paul says, the sword of

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the spirit is we're not just, it's not
just sitting up here, but that we're.

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Singing Psalms, hymns and spiritual
songs to one another, that we're telling

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each other the message of the gospel
that we're preaching to our hearts.

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You know that, as the psalmist
says, why are you cast down

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within me like hope in God?

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What's wrong with you, my soul?

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You hope God's preaching at
his heart, the message, right?

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And so we really need to understand
that, and that's as Paul's framework

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for the sword of the Spirit.

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So it's not just a random.

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Verse, it's knowing the message.

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Of what that verse is, right?

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So often, we take
something like Psalm one.

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Blessed is the man who walks not in
the council of the ungodly, or sits

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or stands in the wave centers or
sits in the seat of the scornful.

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His delight is on the law.

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The Lord in his law, he
meditates day and night.

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he'll be like a tree planted by
the rivers of water, who, he's not

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gonna flee, but the wicked are not.

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So they're like chaff driven away
by the wind, you come to Psalm and

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you're like, man, I wanna be this man.

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I wanna be the one who's not,
sitting in the seat of the scornful.

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I, I don't wanna be the chaff.

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I wanna be, The one who delights in
the law of the Lord day and night.

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And then you start to like, wow.

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But I don't, I'm not delighted in
the law of the Lord Day and night.

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I am more like, I do sit sometimes.

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I'm the scornful and other
people are sitting and I'm the

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one who's scorn in everything.

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I'm like, man, I'm more
like the chap than I am the,

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it's because there's a
greater hero of every verse.

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And every verse whispers his name, and
he is the one who came, who did delight

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in the law on the Lord Day and night.

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He never did not delight in the
law of the Lord Day and night.

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It oos out of him on the cross.

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He just bleeds scripture, and
he was treated as the chaff.

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He was treated as the scornful, as the
wicked and judgment was put on him.

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He was uprooted so that I could
be planted by the rivers of water.

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so that I could have life.

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And so even in that verse, there's rescue
and it's about Jesus, but then it gives

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me a picture of what he's shaping me
into, that he put his law in my heart that

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like he put the Holy Spirit in me who?

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Praises the Lord who loves Jesus, who
makes much of Jesus day and night like,

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like all of a sudden there's rescue
in that, that there's hope in that.

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There's promise in that.

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There's reality in that, and there's
worship and there's praise, through that.

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So not just the graphite, we need it.

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It's important.

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People died for it.

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Like the canon of scripture.

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Amazing history.

398
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But we have to know the message of it.

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And it's about Jesus, right?

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That it's about Jesus and his story.

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so how to use it.

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00:22:54,344 --> 00:22:56,475
So that's just a little,
we're coming back.

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00:22:56,534 --> 00:22:59,624
So now we're getting into
the temptation of Jesus.

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Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit,
Matthew four, one to two, into the

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winner, be tempted by the devil.

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00:23:05,695 --> 00:23:07,975
So this is a spiritual battle.

407
00:23:08,485 --> 00:23:11,215
This is like a battleground, right?

408
00:23:11,605 --> 00:23:12,505
It's very interesting.

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00:23:12,505 --> 00:23:16,825
We'll point some things out along the
way, but 40 days in the wilderness,

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very picturesque of the children of
Israel, going through the wilderness

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for 40 years, wandering, needing
to depend on God for everything.

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So then Jesus was led up by
the Spirit under the wilderness

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to be tempted by the devil.

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And after fasting, 40 days
and 40 nights, he was hungry.

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So 40 days, 40 nights.

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I don't know how, if you've ever
fasted, or how long you've fasted.

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00:23:43,934 --> 00:23:45,404
I go like 10 hours.

418
00:23:45,404 --> 00:23:47,924
I'm like, I'm gonna die.

419
00:23:48,194 --> 00:23:53,509
it's a long time and now, doctors say
that your body's turning on itself.

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You need to eat food or you're
going to die of starvation.

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What a wonderful thing that the
sun would not only identify us

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with by becoming human, but also
to submit to temptation for us.

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We must never lose sight of the
context for this wilderness testing.

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And here's the context of it,
cuz this happens right after

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this, and this is so important.

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Luke 3 21 to 22.

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Now, when all the people were
baptized and when Jesus also had been

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baptized and was praying, the heavens
were opened and the Holy Spirit

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descended on him in bodily form.

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like a duff and a voice came from heaven.

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00:24:31,059 --> 00:24:32,799
You are my beloved son.

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00:24:33,549 --> 00:24:34,479
With you.

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I am well pleased.

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Then in Luke four, one to two,
and Jesus full of the Holy Spirit,

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returned from the Jordan, was led by
the Spirit in the wilderness for 40

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days being tempted by the devil, and
he ate nothing during those days and

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when they were ended he was hungry.

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The whole context of this spiritual
battle, the whole context that Jesus is

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going into is you are my beloved son.

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That's right.

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And whom I'm well pleased.

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That's it.

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The attack is gonna be on that.

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It's gonna be an attack on his
identity, that he has a beloved son.

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Of God.

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And so too were will our attacks,
the spiritual battles as much as we

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wanna make 'em about this or this,
it all comes down to the fact, am

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I truly a beloved child of God?

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Am I.

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Truly beloved by him no matter what
am I, is what he says from heaven or

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says to us and the person of Jesus
through the gospel that I'm his

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beloved son and that I'm his beloved
daughter because of what Jesus did.

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He's well pleased with me.

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That's right.

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Is that the truth over my life?

456
00:25:46,579 --> 00:25:46,669
Yes.

457
00:25:46,699 --> 00:25:51,889
Is that the reality that I live
my life in, or am I suspicious

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00:25:52,639 --> 00:25:54,049
because of circumstances?

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Yes.

460
00:25:54,189 --> 00:25:57,399
Am I suspicious because of timelines?

461
00:25:57,709 --> 00:25:59,705
Am I suspicious because of difficulty?

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00:25:59,824 --> 00:26:01,864
Am I suspicious because the path is hard?

463
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Am I suspicious?

464
00:26:03,124 --> 00:26:06,274
Because what he says that
he's a shield about me.

465
00:26:06,274 --> 00:26:08,614
It feels like I'm getting
struck with arrows.

466
00:26:09,725 --> 00:26:11,044
Where's the shield?

467
00:26:12,044 --> 00:26:18,385
Is that the reality that
governs how I see life or

468
00:26:18,435 --> 00:26:21,764
Circumstances is that
govern how I see life.

469
00:26:21,764 --> 00:26:25,274
And so that is going to
be the point of attack.

470
00:26:25,965 --> 00:26:31,935
Our sonship, our daughtership, our but,
and not just, I can't stress this enough.

471
00:26:31,935 --> 00:26:32,465
That's right.

472
00:26:32,935 --> 00:26:37,895
Like not just you're the redheaded
stepchild, whatever that means.

473
00:26:38,435 --> 00:26:41,945
Or the son, we don't invite to the
gatherings because you're a little crazy.

474
00:26:43,295 --> 00:26:50,269
Or the kid who has a passed and hasn't
fixed himself up yet, like this distance.

475
00:26:52,069 --> 00:26:56,320
The message, the logs of the
Bible, As replayed over and

476
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,469
over as Nathaniel is in my life.

477
00:27:00,469 --> 00:27:02,659
I get home, he's like, dad.

478
00:27:03,659 --> 00:27:04,319
And I pick him up.

479
00:27:05,099 --> 00:27:05,939
And he bear hugs me.

480
00:27:07,849 --> 00:27:12,449
The Holy Spirit says,
that's it in my heart.

481
00:27:13,529 --> 00:27:14,489
I don't want anything from him.

482
00:27:15,489 --> 00:27:17,229
I don't want him to graduate with honors.

483
00:27:17,589 --> 00:27:21,529
Yeah, that's so far off a thing.

484
00:27:21,769 --> 00:27:24,019
What I want is his nearness.

485
00:27:25,429 --> 00:27:28,909
Am I just rejoices over that little?

486
00:27:29,809 --> 00:27:31,849
Is he does this thing now where.

487
00:27:32,614 --> 00:27:36,754
He's trying to kiss you and he just
grabbed your face and like, he's pretty

488
00:27:36,754 --> 00:27:41,884
strong and he just churns it and he's just
like, and he'll just, he kisses so weird.

489
00:27:41,884 --> 00:27:45,334
But you know, you're like,
like that is the message.

490
00:27:45,754 --> 00:27:51,334
It is the prodigal who's a far off and
the father runs and he tackles the boy.

491
00:27:51,989 --> 00:27:55,979
I heard one commentator say that, in
that day to dishonor your father, like

492
00:27:55,979 --> 00:27:58,414
that the community could stone you.

493
00:27:59,584 --> 00:28:04,654
So as he's walking back, the father's
like Uhuh and he's gonna dart to him.

494
00:28:04,659 --> 00:28:04,834
Yeah.

495
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:07,369
And he's gonna tackle him
and hide himself in him.

496
00:28:07,369 --> 00:28:10,729
He's gonna kiss him and he's gonna
hug him and he's gonna love him.

497
00:28:11,089 --> 00:28:11,989
and he's gonna feast.

498
00:28:12,049 --> 00:28:14,149
And the guy's like, I'm gonna fix my life.

499
00:28:14,149 --> 00:28:15,619
I swear this time it will be.

500
00:28:15,709 --> 00:28:16,549
And he's like, shut up.

501
00:28:16,549 --> 00:28:18,809
I don't My son was dead and he's alive.

502
00:28:18,809 --> 00:28:20,729
You're with me, you're with me.

503
00:28:21,059 --> 00:28:24,929
Guys, we come to
Christianity to get fixed.

504
00:28:25,929 --> 00:28:28,870
Being fixed is a byproduct of nearness.

505
00:28:29,754 --> 00:28:34,584
And God isn't ultimately after your
fixing, he's after proximity with you.

506
00:28:35,054 --> 00:28:38,415
And Nearness Holiness

507
00:28:39,415 --> 00:28:40,915
is a byproduct of nearness.

508
00:28:41,365 --> 00:28:43,045
He had to make you holy so
it could be near to you.

509
00:28:43,095 --> 00:28:47,505
But the whole goal was it just to
have a, oh, there's another holy one.

510
00:28:47,565 --> 00:28:48,365
But to have you.

511
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:49,580
Yes to have you.

512
00:28:49,610 --> 00:28:49,940
That's it.

513
00:28:50,030 --> 00:28:51,050
That's the message.

514
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,290
That's the logos, he came
to bring us to the father.

515
00:28:55,790 --> 00:28:59,510
He's the way, the truth and the
lie comes to father, but by him.

516
00:28:59,870 --> 00:29:00,590
But through him.

517
00:29:00,950 --> 00:29:02,470
So we can't lose sight.

518
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:06,340
And so the enemy is going
to attack you on that.

519
00:29:06,390 --> 00:29:09,750
he's gonna attack your identity
of who you are in Christ.

520
00:29:09,930 --> 00:29:14,370
He's gonna attack your identity
and he's gonna asal you with

521
00:29:14,370 --> 00:29:17,970
thoughts that maybe God doesn't love
you, like he loves other people.

522
00:29:18,070 --> 00:29:21,160
maybe you are the one who, maybe
you gotta go clean yourself up.

523
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,335
Maybe you gotta head out, maybe churches
have told you're not good enough.

524
00:29:25,485 --> 00:29:28,565
You need to, take your baggage
and throw it away in the dump.

525
00:29:28,625 --> 00:29:30,465
And like, and it's the enemy.

526
00:29:31,625 --> 00:29:32,885
God is so faithful.

527
00:29:33,395 --> 00:29:34,955
At completing the work he began.

528
00:29:35,405 --> 00:29:37,065
Yeah, man.

529
00:29:38,065 --> 00:29:41,265
So often we're like, oh, we gotta
help God complete the work he began.

530
00:29:43,245 --> 00:29:45,675
Romans eight 15 For you did
not receive the spirit of

531
00:29:45,675 --> 00:29:48,435
slavery to fall back into fear.

532
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:48,900
Yeah.

533
00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:53,230
But you have received the spirit
of adoption as sons whom we cry.

534
00:29:54,130 --> 00:29:54,580
Abba.

535
00:29:54,790 --> 00:29:55,330
Father,

536
00:29:56,330 --> 00:29:58,880
that is the height of theology.

537
00:29:59,150 --> 00:29:59,370
Yep.

538
00:30:00,370 --> 00:30:03,230
Abba, father, daddy, Galatians four, six.

539
00:30:03,230 --> 00:30:07,580
And because you are sons, God has sent the
spirit of his son into our hearts crying.

540
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:09,680
Ah, the father.

541
00:30:10,925 --> 00:30:14,315
So he gives you the Holy Spirit cuz
he knows we don't even believe that.

542
00:30:15,315 --> 00:30:20,475
So the Holy Spirit's preachy APA
father, Matthew seven, nine to 11

543
00:30:20,535 --> 00:30:25,695
of which of you, if his son asks him
for bread, will give him a stone.

544
00:30:26,805 --> 00:30:30,825
So amazing that Jesus says this
after his temptation because

545
00:30:30,825 --> 00:30:31,815
that's the whole temptation.

546
00:30:32,940 --> 00:30:35,280
If a son asks him for bread,
we'll give him a stone.

547
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,080
Or if he asks for a fish,
we'll give him a serpent.

548
00:30:37,350 --> 00:30:40,920
If he, then you who are evil
comparatively know how to give good

549
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,070
gifts to your children, how much more
will the father who is in heaven give

550
00:30:44,070 --> 00:30:47,340
good things to those who ask him?

551
00:30:47,340 --> 00:30:52,530
Father letter fed, father protected or
neglected, the Father's way or Man's

552
00:30:52,710 --> 00:30:55,410
way, or the father's plan or man's way?

553
00:30:56,410 --> 00:31:00,160
In Jesus, we overcame temptation
the same way he did by trusting in

554
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:04,690
our father and hearing his voice
over everything in our lives.

555
00:31:06,100 --> 00:31:07,000
Some of us may ask, what?

556
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,520
What does temptation look like
to the spotless son of God?

557
00:31:09,940 --> 00:31:10,630
Did he real?

558
00:31:10,630 --> 00:31:11,860
Was he really tempted?

559
00:31:12,340 --> 00:31:14,970
Did he just shoot electricity
and deal with the devil that way?

560
00:31:15,660 --> 00:31:18,600
Some argue this wasn't hard for Jesus
because he was the son of God, but

561
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:22,500
others can argue that the one who faces
temptation after temptation and comes

562
00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:24,990
out Victoria's faced it more intensely.

563
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:29,430
As they keep upping the ante,
he suffered from nation.

564
00:31:29,430 --> 00:31:31,320
Far worse than anything we have faced.

565
00:31:31,500 --> 00:31:36,690
Scripture says that Jesus was tempted
in all points as we are yet without sin.

566
00:31:37,350 --> 00:31:40,420
Hard for us to wrap our minds around
because in so many places, when we're

567
00:31:40,420 --> 00:31:45,790
tempted, we fall, but he did not fall
and he did not fall on your behalf

568
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,980
like he won victory for you and me.

569
00:31:52,870 --> 00:31:54,310
He beat temptation.

570
00:31:54,790 --> 00:31:57,700
Because he knew our frame, that it's dust.

571
00:31:58,090 --> 00:32:03,340
He knew we would falter and that
we would fail, but he succeeded.

572
00:32:03,345 --> 00:32:04,305
he won.

573
00:32:04,605 --> 00:32:09,215
So Jesus out into the wilderness,
the biblical word, in the biblical

574
00:32:09,215 --> 00:32:13,385
word, the desert was a dangerous
place at its most primal level.

575
00:32:13,445 --> 00:32:15,995
Dry, fruitless, lonely, untamed.

576
00:32:16,745 --> 00:32:19,475
we kind of picture the wilderness
he was in as maybe Yosemite.

577
00:32:20,165 --> 00:32:24,925
You know, it wasn't, it was like a
rock quarry, there's like three animals

578
00:32:24,925 --> 00:32:26,815
that like live in that wilderness.

579
00:32:27,045 --> 00:32:29,355
just a stones everywhere.

580
00:32:30,075 --> 00:32:32,565
Dry, desert, deserted.

581
00:32:34,410 --> 00:32:38,250
lonely, untamed in a passage.

582
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,400
Many ancient Christians believe
spoke of the fall of Satan.

583
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,290
Isaiah 14, 16 to 17.

584
00:32:43,830 --> 00:32:47,160
The Bible speaks of the enemy
as one who shook kingdoms and

585
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:48,660
made the world like a desert.

586
00:32:49,660 --> 00:32:52,780
Some of us tend to think of wilderness
here as a forest or a woodland even

587
00:32:52,780 --> 00:32:56,500
when we come to understand that Jesus
was so journeying in a desert, we

588
00:32:56,500 --> 00:33:00,430
still tend to see it as a vast tract
of sand, like a beach with no ocean.

589
00:33:00,610 --> 00:33:04,810
But this place, the Judean wilderness,
was a craggy field of stone.

590
00:33:05,425 --> 00:33:08,695
There were probably rocks as far as
Jesus could see, and Satan offered him

591
00:33:08,695 --> 00:33:11,395
a way of escape from this rocky exile.

592
00:33:12,445 --> 00:33:15,445
Another element why this passage
seems strange to us when we read

593
00:33:15,445 --> 00:33:19,525
about the temptations, I think, or the
testing of Jesus is, his temptations

594
00:33:19,525 --> 00:33:21,326
on the surface seem foreign to us.

595
00:33:22,015 --> 00:33:25,705
I've never been tempted to turn
stones into bread or to get up on

596
00:33:25,705 --> 00:33:28,685
the temple and jump off of something
high, I'm not a fan of heights.

597
00:33:28,685 --> 00:33:33,125
I don't mind them, but although I did jump
out of a plane once, which was insane.

598
00:33:34,775 --> 00:33:37,895
What is Jesus tempted with
and how, in any sense is this

599
00:33:37,895 --> 00:33:40,265
something that applies to us?

600
00:33:40,355 --> 00:33:44,585
So bread, verse three, and the
tempter came and said to him, if you

601
00:33:44,585 --> 00:33:47,765
are the son of God, command these
stones to become loaves of bread.

602
00:33:47,765 --> 00:33:49,445
And here is the attack.

603
00:33:49,625 --> 00:33:54,435
If you are his son, you need to eat.

604
00:33:55,740 --> 00:33:58,860
If you really are his son,
why hasn't he fed you?

605
00:33:59,860 --> 00:34:00,580
That's the attack.

606
00:34:01,870 --> 00:34:06,970
If you really are his son, who God
said from heaven, you're beloved,

607
00:34:07,970 --> 00:34:09,050
then why are you hungry right now?

608
00:34:09,050 --> 00:34:14,929
Jesus, why are you slitter starving
to death and a lonely place all alone?

609
00:34:16,429 --> 00:34:16,820
Where is he?

610
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:18,409
Why isn't he coming through?

611
00:34:20,315 --> 00:34:24,094
The first temptation was to
doubt God's provision and love

612
00:34:24,155 --> 00:34:26,735
in the face of circumstances.

613
00:34:27,304 --> 00:34:31,565
Satan often traps us by introducing
a small element of doubt, right?

614
00:34:31,895 --> 00:34:35,735
Adam, in the garden has
God really said, right?

615
00:34:35,795 --> 00:34:40,715
Eve has, God really said you
can't eat a, fill the trees.

616
00:34:41,210 --> 00:34:46,190
Satan rarely comes in with a pile of moral
crap and say, here you go, wallow in it.

617
00:34:46,670 --> 00:34:51,949
He presents it as something beneficial
and insightful, like, Hey, you need this.

618
00:34:52,100 --> 00:34:52,730
Look at you.

619
00:34:52,735 --> 00:34:54,260
You did the 40 day fast.

620
00:34:54,260 --> 00:34:55,219
You're amazing.

621
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,830
You did the cleanse, you
know, kind of a thing.

622
00:34:57,835 --> 00:35:01,180
Think he doesn't say, do
a 180 and you'll be fine.

623
00:35:02,110 --> 00:35:03,220
Look at these temptations.

624
00:35:03,220 --> 00:35:03,910
Not a single tempt.

625
00:35:03,910 --> 00:35:09,340
Take adultery, cheat on taxes
or lie or steal, or rob.

626
00:35:09,460 --> 00:35:11,500
In fact, on the face of
it, it seems reasonable.

627
00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:13,930
he has been fasting 40 days.

628
00:35:13,930 --> 00:35:18,100
Isn't he supposed to be the
one to come and rescue mankind?

629
00:35:18,130 --> 00:35:21,370
How's he gonna do it if he's
not gonna survive at the end?

630
00:35:21,370 --> 00:35:23,320
He's weak, he's tired, and he's hungry.

631
00:35:23,710 --> 00:35:25,870
He's saying, I'm not suggesting
you do something wicked, like

632
00:35:25,870 --> 00:35:27,400
create a harem or something.

633
00:35:28,255 --> 00:35:29,995
I'm suggesting you feed yourself.

634
00:35:30,335 --> 00:35:32,645
isn't the body, the
temple of the Holy Spirit?

635
00:35:33,425 --> 00:35:36,905
Nothing intrinsic, intrinsically
wicked in this temptation.

636
00:35:37,295 --> 00:35:41,615
So too nowadays, our physical and personal
discomforts are used against us by the

637
00:35:41,615 --> 00:35:48,035
enemy of our souls to make us, in the
first instance doubt God's love and

638
00:35:48,035 --> 00:35:54,575
care for us, and to doubt his provision
in our lives and the whole culture.

639
00:35:55,575 --> 00:36:00,825
Is trying to shape us into
consumers who are never satisfied.

640
00:36:01,875 --> 00:36:04,875
You are a economic unit.

641
00:36:05,875 --> 00:36:09,535
They give you social media
free unless you're on Twitter.

642
00:36:10,015 --> 00:36:13,845
because what they want is they
want to study your spending habits

643
00:36:15,075 --> 00:36:16,815
and then they create products.

644
00:36:16,815 --> 00:36:21,750
So, That break after the warranty
expires where you keep perpetually

645
00:36:21,750 --> 00:36:26,060
buying and you know, I was told, as
an electrician, sometimes we get to

646
00:36:26,060 --> 00:36:27,680
work in cool places in the Bay area.

647
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,485
We're working at, Intel and one
guy pulled me aside and he is

648
00:36:31,490 --> 00:36:33,705
like, see this box right here?

649
00:36:34,455 --> 00:36:37,375
And this is back when the penny
in four was just released, and

650
00:36:37,425 --> 00:36:40,575
oh, it was awesome because I
bought it day one, early adopter.

651
00:36:41,415 --> 00:36:42,255
Went into debt.

652
00:36:42,315 --> 00:36:42,884
Awesome.

653
00:36:43,005 --> 00:36:43,725
Andrea loved that.

654
00:36:43,965 --> 00:36:46,484
but I had two people at
church say, oh, that's cool.

655
00:36:47,235 --> 00:36:49,555
he's like, Hey, the pity
and fours just came out.

656
00:36:50,305 --> 00:36:51,745
They've got like the twelves right here.

657
00:36:53,485 --> 00:36:54,295
I was like, what?

658
00:36:54,565 --> 00:36:55,135
He's all, oh yeah.

659
00:36:55,185 --> 00:36:55,755
they just stagger.

660
00:36:55,755 --> 00:36:56,925
They've already developed everything.

661
00:36:56,925 --> 00:36:59,805
they just get you to keep buying and
needing the upgrade and needing the

662
00:36:59,805 --> 00:37:01,825
upgrade and needing the upgrade, and so.

663
00:37:02,365 --> 00:37:10,495
The whole culture is trying to shape
us into that mold of needing more and

664
00:37:10,495 --> 00:37:14,065
never being satisfied with enough.

665
00:37:14,655 --> 00:37:15,645
it's all about that.

666
00:37:16,645 --> 00:37:18,685
And he is our representative.

667
00:37:18,715 --> 00:37:22,495
You guys will see, and maybe it's hitting
you as you hear about the story, the

668
00:37:22,495 --> 00:37:25,045
first Adam, he's in a garden paradise.

669
00:37:25,265 --> 00:37:27,995
And he is also offered food, right?

670
00:37:28,505 --> 00:37:29,885
A food he's not supposed to eat.

671
00:37:30,365 --> 00:37:32,225
And he gives in in paradise, right?

672
00:37:32,225 --> 00:37:35,525
He's got every tree he can
choose from except for one.

673
00:37:36,545 --> 00:37:41,585
And then our second Adam in a wilderness
has also offered food that he's not

674
00:37:41,585 --> 00:37:47,385
supposed to eat yet, and he has victory
the parallel as our representative.

675
00:37:47,415 --> 00:37:48,225
You see, Adam?

676
00:37:48,255 --> 00:37:53,085
We all have sin when we're born because
our federal head, our representative,

677
00:37:53,085 --> 00:37:56,115
the best of us, Adam, right?

678
00:37:56,295 --> 00:37:57,465
Imperfection our.

679
00:37:57,795 --> 00:37:58,545
Almost perfection.

680
00:37:58,545 --> 00:38:04,605
It's not perfect if you can choose evil,
but close chose not good, chose sin.

681
00:38:04,845 --> 00:38:08,115
And as our representative brought
sin into the world, and then we

682
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,735
all, it's passed down, to us.

683
00:38:10,825 --> 00:38:17,445
Our second Adam, our new representative,
Jesus, our new federal head, He

684
00:38:17,445 --> 00:38:20,025
succeeded where Adam failed, right?

685
00:38:20,865 --> 00:38:25,695
Again, it's like God said to Adam, the
first Adam, obey me concerning this tree.

686
00:38:27,090 --> 00:38:28,350
And you'll forever be blessed.

687
00:38:28,950 --> 00:38:29,820
And he failed.

688
00:38:30,420 --> 00:38:33,360
And we're like, I wouldn't,
oh, I would be way faster.

689
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,940
It'd be like, and God said, let there
be a light, and he'd be like, oh, wow.

690
00:38:35,940 --> 00:38:36,930
The fall already happened.

691
00:38:36,930 --> 00:38:37,950
It must be Josh.

692
00:38:38,270 --> 00:38:40,130
Oh, chapter three already crazy.

693
00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:46,970
God said to the second Adam
the Garden of Gethsemane son.

694
00:38:47,970 --> 00:38:49,440
Obey me concerning this tree.

695
00:38:51,270 --> 00:38:52,680
And you're gonna be cursed.

696
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,390
You're gonna suffer the
curse of all mankind.

697
00:38:56,390 --> 00:38:57,410
And he obeyed.

698
00:38:58,410 --> 00:39:02,190
He said, if there's any other way, but
not my will, but your will be done.

699
00:39:02,195 --> 00:39:07,260
And he went to the cross us and
he took on our curse so that

700
00:39:07,260 --> 00:39:09,000
it would be obliterated in him.

701
00:39:10,545 --> 00:39:14,475
To rescue us and to bring
us back into the family.

702
00:39:14,625 --> 00:39:18,495
And so yes, there is way more
than just Jesus passing the test.

703
00:39:18,495 --> 00:39:24,135
He's our representative passing the
test for us because again, in the

704
00:39:24,135 --> 00:39:27,105
gospel we don't just get a clean slate.

705
00:39:27,345 --> 00:39:30,495
And now we've gotta keep
it clean in the gospel.

706
00:39:30,525 --> 00:39:31,515
We get a new record.

707
00:39:31,610 --> 00:39:35,930
we get the righteousness of Jesus
himself when he relates to us.

708
00:39:35,990 --> 00:39:38,630
He's not like, oh wow, you
didn't do your devotion today.

709
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:39,085
Okay.

710
00:39:39,505 --> 00:39:40,075
Side hug.

711
00:39:41,075 --> 00:39:48,035
He sees the perfection of Jesus over your
life and it's beautiful, and he charges

712
00:39:48,035 --> 00:39:52,895
you and he bear hugs you and he holds
you, and he is like amazing, perfect,

713
00:39:53,045 --> 00:39:54,575
beautiful, because of what Jesus did.

714
00:39:55,015 --> 00:39:55,305
Yeah.

715
00:39:55,475 --> 00:39:57,215
That's why it's good news.

716
00:39:57,215 --> 00:39:59,225
Yeah, it would be good.

717
00:39:59,645 --> 00:40:03,275
And news if we got
forgiven and clean slated.

718
00:40:03,455 --> 00:40:04,355
That was great.

719
00:40:04,355 --> 00:40:07,115
For the people in the Old
Testament who had to, on the Day

720
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:11,165
of Atonement, a substitute would
cover their sins for another year.

721
00:40:11,345 --> 00:40:11,495
Yeah.

722
00:40:11,595 --> 00:40:13,995
That's, yes, man.

723
00:40:13,995 --> 00:40:14,895
I'm covered.

724
00:40:15,795 --> 00:40:20,925
Why we call it good news is because
it's not only washed away as far

725
00:40:20,925 --> 00:40:22,245
as the east is from the west.

726
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,590
But something new is put in its place.

727
00:40:25,690 --> 00:40:30,320
So was put in its place a righteousness
and that's how God relates to us.

728
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,420
So yes, he is our representative.

729
00:40:33,170 --> 00:40:36,260
So at the end, he's weak,
he's tired, and he's hungry.

730
00:40:37,070 --> 00:40:39,570
It's not this crazy, do something wicked.

731
00:40:41,340 --> 00:40:44,400
To make us in the first instance
doubt God's love and care for

732
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:45,810
us to doubt his provision.

733
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,960
It is relatively easy to trust
God when everything is going well.

734
00:40:48,990 --> 00:40:49,830
We all know this.

735
00:40:50,940 --> 00:40:56,560
Then get four months of chronic
pain or five or 10 years, and when

736
00:40:56,565 --> 00:40:58,750
someone tells you to curse God
and die, you're tempted to do it.

737
00:40:59,750 --> 00:41:00,620
Some subtle points.

738
00:41:00,620 --> 00:41:03,440
Really, it was a plea to
doubt ever so slightly.

739
00:41:03,990 --> 00:41:04,280
Amen.

740
00:41:04,340 --> 00:41:08,540
Jesus will not do anything apart from
the expressed leading of the Father.

741
00:41:08,750 --> 00:41:10,370
He says that in the Gospel of John.

742
00:41:10,370 --> 00:41:13,940
He says, I only do what
my father tells me to do.

743
00:41:14,990 --> 00:41:16,490
Should the son trust his father?

744
00:41:17,750 --> 00:41:22,910
Should he take independent action
to satisfy his needs to, and you

745
00:41:22,910 --> 00:41:26,540
take a step back into that ancient
agrarian world of the Bible.

746
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:28,700
There was no child support.

747
00:41:29,510 --> 00:41:32,570
There were no eternities
or state welfare offices.

748
00:41:32,870 --> 00:41:36,200
A man who would not feed his
family was disgrace to his tribe.

749
00:41:36,470 --> 00:41:39,830
This is at the root of Jesus's
teaching that even an evil person

750
00:41:40,070 --> 00:41:42,590
would not give their child a snake
when he asked for a fish or a stone

751
00:41:42,590 --> 00:41:44,480
if he asked for a bread, right?

752
00:41:44,540 --> 00:41:48,890
We just read that verse, and so there's
this sense that like, The enemy is saying,

753
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:50,540
why isn't your father coming through?

754
00:41:50,545 --> 00:41:52,190
Why isn't he feeding you?

755
00:41:52,700 --> 00:41:56,270
This is where Eve fell,
and Adam, right behind her.

756
00:41:56,540 --> 00:42:00,080
Satan suggested back in the garden that
somehow God was withholding something

757
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,680
good from the humans, something that
in fact would make them like him.

758
00:42:04,550 --> 00:42:08,120
Eve started to see God not
as father, but his rival.

759
00:42:09,410 --> 00:42:12,740
And that's when she struck out
to grab what he was holding

760
00:42:12,740 --> 00:42:14,260
back from her appetites.

761
00:42:14,260 --> 00:42:19,900
Satan said, were more reliable, a
guide to what she needed than the

762
00:42:19,900 --> 00:42:27,190
word of her heavenly father and man,
that is the temptation of the day.

763
00:42:27,220 --> 00:42:29,440
Your appetites are a more reliable guide.

764
00:42:29,450 --> 00:42:33,470
your drives are a more reliable guide
to what you need in this moment.

765
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:35,510
You're trusting.

766
00:42:37,385 --> 00:42:41,795
And a father who loves you without
restraint and without limit, and is

767
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:47,765
using all his power to bring out his
glory and your life and your joy.

768
00:42:49,145 --> 00:42:50,605
It's just so, it's that.

769
00:42:51,215 --> 00:42:52,655
it's Nathaniel, I just can't get over it.

770
00:42:52,655 --> 00:42:56,555
I'm like, he does not
understand the plans.

771
00:42:56,555 --> 00:42:57,845
Why I go to work he doesn't like.

772
00:42:57,845 --> 00:42:59,975
They're so not, he's
just like, you're gone.

773
00:42:59,975 --> 00:43:00,575
Where are you?

774
00:43:00,575 --> 00:43:01,655
Why'd you leave?

775
00:43:01,720 --> 00:43:03,250
I wanna play, I want you to hold me.

776
00:43:03,250 --> 00:43:05,440
I don't get it, man.

777
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:06,790
That's me, Lord.

778
00:43:07,510 --> 00:43:08,860
I'm like, where'd you go?

779
00:43:09,790 --> 00:43:13,785
Even the garden Esau and the
birthright it's all through the

780
00:43:13,785 --> 00:43:15,255
narrative of scripture, right?

781
00:43:15,285 --> 00:43:20,725
Esau sells his birthright for some
porridge, some lentil stew, right?

782
00:43:21,725 --> 00:43:25,475
Israel on the wilderness, God
providing manna every day.

783
00:43:25,475 --> 00:43:26,915
And they look at it and
they go, what is it?

784
00:43:28,505 --> 00:43:29,285
What's this?

785
00:43:30,845 --> 00:43:37,405
And they're like, remember when we had
garlic and onions and and we had meat?

786
00:43:38,185 --> 00:43:39,595
We had all this food.

787
00:43:41,035 --> 00:43:41,245
Yeah.

788
00:43:41,245 --> 00:43:45,085
Our firstborn sons were face
down on the water drowned.

789
00:43:46,675 --> 00:43:47,455
Oh, we forget about that.

790
00:43:48,455 --> 00:43:50,955
And just as an eat and
Satan offered Jesus food.

791
00:43:50,955 --> 00:43:53,085
If you are the son of
God, how will he respond?

792
00:43:54,165 --> 00:43:57,435
Will he respond like the children of
Israel and the desert who when they

793
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:01,005
were hungry, murmuring, complain,
and a sign to God some motive of

794
00:44:01,005 --> 00:44:03,795
evil, God brought us out here to die.

795
00:44:03,855 --> 00:44:09,165
Isn't that the ultimate like, not like,
Hey, he liberated us and he's just not.

796
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,680
But we like begin to
assign him evil motives.

797
00:44:13,730 --> 00:44:19,160
When he is not coming through, we're
like, he brought us out here to kill us.

798
00:44:20,150 --> 00:44:24,510
The angels are just going like ove,
they're just like, what in the world?

799
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:26,010
Are you kidding me?

800
00:44:27,090 --> 00:44:28,050
It's insane.

801
00:44:28,830 --> 00:44:33,570
he, and he says simply, and I love
this cuz we, it can't be lost on us.

802
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:34,440
He uses the sword.

803
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:35,210
Yeah.

804
00:44:35,910 --> 00:44:40,665
And he knows the message because he
knows the graphite, the scripture, right?

805
00:44:40,995 --> 00:44:41,715
He uses the sword.

806
00:44:41,715 --> 00:44:42,765
He says it's written.

807
00:44:43,410 --> 00:44:45,120
He doesn't do a fantastical display.

808
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,260
He doesn't rebuke the wind and the
story he just says it's written.

809
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:52,370
And man, this slashes right
in the belly, but he answered.

810
00:44:52,375 --> 00:44:55,430
It is written, man shall not live
by bread alone, but by every word

811
00:44:55,430 --> 00:44:57,590
that comes from the mouth of God.

812
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:00,200
Do you say he display
a power raises voice?

813
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:00,920
It is written.

814
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:01,610
It is written.

815
00:45:01,790 --> 00:45:02,300
It is written.

816
00:45:02,300 --> 00:45:03,650
It cannot be lost on us.

817
00:45:03,650 --> 00:45:07,190
If the Son of God used the sword
of the spirit to face off against

818
00:45:07,190 --> 00:45:10,760
the enemy, how much more should we?

819
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,810
In Acts 23, there's this interesting
story where Paul's brought before

820
00:45:14,810 --> 00:45:19,470
the high priest and in Acts 23, 5,
the priest says something and he,

821
00:45:19,570 --> 00:45:22,180
and Paul says, you whitewashed him.

822
00:45:22,430 --> 00:45:25,400
he like loses his temper
and calls him out.

823
00:45:26,420 --> 00:45:28,900
And and then somebody points out
to him and says, the scriptures

824
00:45:28,900 --> 00:45:31,150
say you're not supposed to speak
against the Lord's anointed.

825
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,315
and Paul said, I did not know brothers.

826
00:45:33,885 --> 00:45:36,315
That he was the high priest for
his written, you should not speak

827
00:45:36,375 --> 00:45:38,685
evil of a ruler of your people.

828
00:45:39,165 --> 00:45:40,275
He preaches to his heart.

829
00:45:40,455 --> 00:45:41,145
He's like, oh yeah.

830
00:45:41,145 --> 00:45:41,895
And the sword cuts him.

831
00:45:41,945 --> 00:45:45,785
He responds with that word from
God, a millennial and a half before.

832
00:45:46,565 --> 00:45:48,425
So here's the content of what Jesus says.

833
00:45:48,485 --> 00:45:48,665
Okay.

834
00:45:48,665 --> 00:45:51,245
It's really important, and
this is kind of the main one.

835
00:45:51,245 --> 00:45:54,035
we're chunking at, we're gonna move
through the other two, but this is

836
00:45:54,035 --> 00:45:55,135
we're gonna, we're spending our time.

837
00:45:55,135 --> 00:45:58,435
I'm almost done with this point,
but Deuteronomy eight, two to three.

838
00:45:58,435 --> 00:46:03,595
And you shall remember the whole way
that the Lord your God has led you

839
00:46:03,925 --> 00:46:08,575
these 40 years in the wilderness, that
he might humble you, testing you to

840
00:46:08,575 --> 00:46:12,175
know what was in your heart, whether
you would keep his commandments or not,

841
00:46:12,175 --> 00:46:16,285
and he humbled you and let you hunger
and fed you with manna, which you did

842
00:46:16,285 --> 00:46:18,055
not know, nor did your fathers know.

843
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:20,200
That he might make.

844
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:26,110
that man does not live by bread alone,
but man lives by every word that

845
00:46:26,110 --> 00:46:29,440
comes from the mouth of the Lord.

846
00:46:29,830 --> 00:46:31,090
So it's the whole manna story.

847
00:46:31,900 --> 00:46:35,500
God gave the manna every day
except on the Sabbath, right?

848
00:46:36,100 --> 00:46:37,990
And then people would try
to hoard it even in that.

849
00:46:37,990 --> 00:46:38,950
They're like not trusting.

850
00:46:38,980 --> 00:46:40,150
God's not gonna come through, right?

851
00:46:40,570 --> 00:46:42,190
And it says it was filled with maggots.

852
00:46:42,190 --> 00:46:45,610
The next day, God provided
for them every single day.

853
00:46:45,970 --> 00:46:50,620
Give us this day our daily bread as
a callback to the manna from heaven.

854
00:46:52,390 --> 00:46:55,480
Like every day he's teaching them.

855
00:46:57,190 --> 00:46:59,170
You're my beloved, beloved
sons and daughters.

856
00:46:59,170 --> 00:47:01,060
I am a good father.

857
00:47:01,150 --> 00:47:05,170
I'm providing every day for you.

858
00:47:05,830 --> 00:47:10,870
The whole point is this, what Jesus wanted
most was to be father led rather than fed.

859
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:13,210
He just trusted the father.

860
00:47:13,660 --> 00:47:21,160
He's like, I'm beloved, if I'm
not eating right now, that's

861
00:47:21,165 --> 00:47:23,170
because he knows what he's doing.

862
00:47:23,220 --> 00:47:27,270
Satan didn't propose that Jesus uses
power independently as we commonly assume.

863
00:47:27,270 --> 00:47:32,220
Instead, he called on Jesus to direct
God, to use God's power for Jesus sake.

864
00:47:32,460 --> 00:47:37,720
That as Satan wanted the son, of the
Father to make his desires paramount and

865
00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:41,170
his communion with God a means to that.

866
00:47:41,230 --> 00:47:46,730
And I can't tell you
enough how I see in, young.

867
00:47:47,580 --> 00:47:50,730
believers as they're getting,
we come to God and we're like,

868
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:52,650
okay, God, you're awesome.

869
00:47:52,650 --> 00:47:55,860
You saved me, but here's
what I, here's my list.

870
00:47:55,860 --> 00:47:57,120
Here's what I want you to do for me.

871
00:47:58,230 --> 00:48:02,190
When the whole point of
salvation is communion with God.

872
00:48:02,220 --> 00:48:02,280
Yeah.

873
00:48:03,350 --> 00:48:04,160
That's the whole point.

874
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,440
That's the whole of everything.

875
00:48:06,890 --> 00:48:08,600
Everything is an attack on his identity.

876
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:11,480
This is my beloved son in
whom I am well pleased.

877
00:48:11,870 --> 00:48:12,560
In the wilderness.

878
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:17,634
In Psalm 63, David had sung a hymn in
my flesh, faints for you as in a dry

879
00:48:17,634 --> 00:48:19,404
and weary land where there is no water.

880
00:48:19,959 --> 00:48:23,319
Even in his hunger though, David's
saying, also, my soul will be

881
00:48:23,319 --> 00:48:26,379
satisfied as with fat and rich food.

882
00:48:26,889 --> 00:48:29,409
God fed David exactly when he needed it.

883
00:48:29,499 --> 00:48:33,939
And in the meantime, the spirit prompted
David to see that at the end of the

884
00:48:33,939 --> 00:48:38,079
hunger would be a table prepared for
him in the presence of ven enemies.

885
00:48:38,199 --> 00:48:39,729
A feast, right?

886
00:48:39,789 --> 00:48:43,724
And so he's like, yes, this is what
my drive is going to lead me to,

887
00:48:43,844 --> 00:48:45,524
is that you are my true hunger.

888
00:48:45,644 --> 00:48:50,564
You are what I need, like this hunger,
pain is pointing to me to a greater

889
00:48:50,564 --> 00:48:52,664
reality, not just that I need bread.

890
00:48:52,664 --> 00:48:54,224
He says, man shall not
live by bread alone.

891
00:48:54,224 --> 00:49:00,314
We need it, but we also need to
live on and trust in the love of God

892
00:49:00,494 --> 00:49:02,414
and the Father, heart of our God.

893
00:49:02,964 --> 00:49:06,294
Recovering a sense of who you
are apart from what you want the

894
00:49:06,294 --> 00:49:09,774
world around you often defines
you in terms of what you want.

895
00:49:10,314 --> 00:49:13,374
The advertising world sees you as
a consumer defined by your buying

896
00:49:13,374 --> 00:49:15,084
power and your product preferences.

897
00:49:15,414 --> 00:49:20,154
Beyond that, other forces would seek to
define you by your appetites themselves.

898
00:49:20,514 --> 00:49:22,524
If you want to drink, you're a drunk.

899
00:49:22,524 --> 00:49:25,124
If you want to have sex,
then be true to yourself.

900
00:49:25,394 --> 00:49:26,444
And so it goes.

901
00:49:26,944 --> 00:49:29,374
But you don't live by bread alone.

902
00:49:29,374 --> 00:49:32,314
You are not what you want.

903
00:49:33,364 --> 00:49:36,124
You are who God declares you to be.

904
00:49:37,834 --> 00:49:43,024
You are not what you want, even
though the world tells you.

905
00:49:43,024 --> 00:49:43,804
it's a shadow.

906
00:49:43,904 --> 00:49:46,364
That's why Jesus said to the
woman at the well, She's out by

907
00:49:46,364 --> 00:49:48,164
herself cuz she's full of shame.

908
00:49:48,974 --> 00:49:50,414
Doesn't want to hear
any of the town gossip.

909
00:49:51,344 --> 00:49:51,524
Yeah.

910
00:49:51,764 --> 00:49:52,934
Nobody wants to get near her.

911
00:49:53,354 --> 00:49:56,174
Jesus says, I'll share
a cup water with you.

912
00:49:56,474 --> 00:50:01,169
But he says, if you knew the water
that I had, You'd be asking me because

913
00:50:01,169 --> 00:50:04,049
the water I have to give, once you
drink it, you'll never thirst again.

914
00:50:04,049 --> 00:50:06,629
She's like, sir, tell me
where to find this water.

915
00:50:06,729 --> 00:50:08,769
She's like, yes, that's what I want.

916
00:50:09,339 --> 00:50:14,299
And he's using even that thirst
to point to the greater reality

917
00:50:15,319 --> 00:50:21,349
that ultimately these drives point
to that all our satisfaction.

918
00:50:21,964 --> 00:50:25,204
Is found in him ultimately.

919
00:50:25,254 --> 00:50:28,884
Jesus heard the voice of his father and
believed the words, you are my beloved

920
00:50:28,884 --> 00:50:30,684
son, with whom I am well pleased.

921
00:50:31,464 --> 00:50:36,144
Those invisible words were louder
for him than a stomach's growl.

922
00:50:37,884 --> 00:50:41,544
What will we have to decide is whether
we'd rather be fed or fathered.

923
00:50:42,084 --> 00:50:42,954
And that's what it comes down to.

924
00:50:43,954 --> 00:50:45,784
Let me just move through
these and then we'll be done.

925
00:50:46,204 --> 00:50:51,544
The temple top Father protected
or neglected, verse five and six.

926
00:50:51,544 --> 00:50:54,304
Then the devil took him to the holy city
and sat him on the pinnacle of the temple

927
00:50:54,304 --> 00:50:57,964
and said to him, if you are the son of
God, throw yourself down for his written.

928
00:50:57,964 --> 00:51:01,564
He will command his angels consign
you and on their hands, they will

929
00:51:01,564 --> 00:51:03,994
bear you up unless you strike
your foot against the stone.

930
00:51:04,714 --> 00:51:07,864
The second temptation was to doubt
God's protection because of the

931
00:51:07,864 --> 00:51:10,144
circumstances and thus doubt.

932
00:51:10,414 --> 00:51:13,264
His identity as a beloved son.

933
00:51:13,714 --> 00:51:15,004
So what does Jesus want here?

934
00:51:15,004 --> 00:51:17,614
Quite simply, Jesus, the man
wanted what every son and daughter

935
00:51:17,614 --> 00:51:20,254
wants to be safe and to be loved.

936
00:51:20,674 --> 00:51:24,634
Satan's offer here was one more
assault on God's fatherhood and on

937
00:51:24,634 --> 00:51:30,964
Jesus' sonship, the people wanted a
sign in order to answer a question,

938
00:51:31,384 --> 00:51:34,024
is the Lord among us or not?

939
00:51:34,924 --> 00:51:36,214
Exodus 17, seven.

940
00:51:36,214 --> 00:51:38,059
and that's the whole framing of this one.

941
00:51:39,154 --> 00:51:43,204
We need a sign, is the
Lord among us or not?

942
00:51:45,154 --> 00:51:46,534
So they're wandering in the wilderness.

943
00:51:46,534 --> 00:51:47,764
They've just crossed the Red Sea.

944
00:51:49,084 --> 00:51:54,214
The question was whether God was
right or Pharaoh was right, whether

945
00:51:54,214 --> 00:51:58,654
they were really sons or just saves
after all who had a new owner?

946
00:52:00,244 --> 00:52:02,194
The first temptation
drives us to the word.

947
00:52:02,194 --> 00:52:07,024
The second temptation is find Satan
using the word to try to trip Jesus up.

948
00:52:07,964 --> 00:52:11,624
because Satan quotes scripture to Jesus.

949
00:52:11,894 --> 00:52:12,704
Whoa.

950
00:52:13,964 --> 00:52:18,194
if Jesus says You must live by the word,
the enemy says, I can quote the word too.

951
00:52:18,704 --> 00:52:19,694
You wanna live by the word.

952
00:52:19,754 --> 00:52:20,354
I gotcha.

953
00:52:20,894 --> 00:52:24,224
Now, this is probably a visionary
experience like Ezekiel had, cuz

954
00:52:24,224 --> 00:52:27,054
it would be hard to climb up on the
temple, and he's in the wilderness

955
00:52:27,054 --> 00:52:28,314
at the end of these things.

956
00:52:28,794 --> 00:52:30,774
So he is taken, Paul said, whether I was.

957
00:52:31,584 --> 00:52:32,544
In heaven or not.

958
00:52:32,544 --> 00:52:36,474
I don't, but it was a thing, so.

959
00:52:37,474 --> 00:52:42,184
If Jesus says, You must live by the bread.

960
00:52:42,464 --> 00:52:46,154
the enemy says, I can use the word
too again, visionary experiences.

961
00:52:46,634 --> 00:52:51,164
It's just as possible that there was
this rabbinical story circulating at

962
00:52:51,164 --> 00:52:54,734
least a couple centuries later after
the messiah came that said the Messiah.

963
00:52:54,739 --> 00:52:57,944
When he came, he would, stand
on top of the temple and crowd.

964
00:52:57,999 --> 00:53:02,619
You pour your salvation draws night and he
would leap down and authenticate himself.

965
00:53:03,219 --> 00:53:07,119
So that was this like expectation
that the rabbis had of what would

966
00:53:07,124 --> 00:53:09,849
happen even if that story came later.

967
00:53:09,854 --> 00:53:11,529
There are always people at the temple.

968
00:53:11,529 --> 00:53:15,849
If Jesus did this sort of thing, it would
be wonderfully authenticating, right?

969
00:53:15,939 --> 00:53:17,289
Could the father let the son die?

970
00:53:18,194 --> 00:53:19,274
We see over and over.

971
00:53:19,274 --> 00:53:21,644
Jesus is asleep on the boat
during the storm, right?

972
00:53:21,694 --> 00:53:24,454
shouldn't Jesus is apply
the same logic here.

973
00:53:24,454 --> 00:53:26,644
There are biblical texts
that talk about God's care.

974
00:53:26,944 --> 00:53:29,524
This is an attack on the sanity of trust.

975
00:53:29,764 --> 00:53:31,744
In the timeline of trust.

976
00:53:32,494 --> 00:53:34,894
the timeline of trust.

977
00:53:35,894 --> 00:53:38,954
Man, that's a hard one.

978
00:53:38,954 --> 00:53:39,344
Yes.

979
00:53:39,374 --> 00:53:44,744
Yes, because when the arrows are
coming and they begin to strike, and

980
00:53:44,744 --> 00:53:47,564
you're like, where's the deliverance?

981
00:53:47,864 --> 00:53:49,124
Where's the armies of the Lord?

982
00:53:49,124 --> 00:53:49,934
A host?

983
00:53:50,934 --> 00:53:53,754
We must not only the method, but we
must know the message of the Bible.

984
00:53:54,534 --> 00:53:57,354
Jesus said to him again in verse seven,
again, it is written, you shall not

985
00:53:57,359 --> 00:53:59,154
put the Lord your God to the test.

986
00:53:59,994 --> 00:54:01,224
Deuteronomy six 16.

987
00:54:01,224 --> 00:54:04,644
You shall not put the Lord your God
to the test as you tested him at maa.

988
00:54:05,184 --> 00:54:07,074
That's the, that's what
he's quoting right there.

989
00:54:07,284 --> 00:54:11,334
Maa was the place where they
got water from the rock.

990
00:54:11,389 --> 00:54:13,249
You remember, they were like,
we're gonna die of thirst.

991
00:54:13,249 --> 00:54:14,539
God brought us out here to die.

992
00:54:14,539 --> 00:54:15,739
He brought us out here to kill us.

993
00:54:15,889 --> 00:54:17,239
We just were so thirsty.

994
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:21,379
Like they had just seen Miracle after
Miracle after Miracle, his protection.

995
00:54:21,559 --> 00:54:27,164
They literally, could look back off
of the see the bob bodies in the

996
00:54:27,164 --> 00:54:32,074
Red Sea of the Egyptian soldiers,
but they're like, we're gonna die.

997
00:54:32,134 --> 00:54:32,794
We're doomed.

998
00:54:34,069 --> 00:54:35,659
Exodus 7, 7 17 7.

999
00:54:35,659 --> 00:54:39,779
And he called the name of the place,
Marba Maa Marba because of the

1000
00:54:39,784 --> 00:54:42,989
quarreling of the people of the Lord,
and because they tested the Lord by

1001
00:54:42,989 --> 00:54:46,139
saying, is the Lord among us or not?

1002
00:54:47,579 --> 00:54:49,049
So again, Jesus knows the message.

1003
00:54:50,049 --> 00:54:53,679
The enemy saying, look at,
you're in the wilderness.

1004
00:54:53,859 --> 00:54:55,179
40 days you're starving.

1005
00:54:56,589 --> 00:54:56,769
Okay?

1006
00:54:56,769 --> 00:54:58,959
So you're not gonna turn,
you're not gonna feed yourself.

1007
00:55:00,159 --> 00:55:01,779
But where's the father's
protection over you?

1008
00:55:02,679 --> 00:55:04,899
Doesn't he care about you more
than the birds of the air?

1009
00:55:04,899 --> 00:55:05,259
Doesn't he?

1010
00:55:06,339 --> 00:55:07,149
Doesn't he clothe you?

1011
00:55:07,149 --> 00:55:08,019
Doesn't he feed you?

1012
00:55:08,079 --> 00:55:10,659
Like, like, isn't he gonna come through?

1013
00:55:11,709 --> 00:55:18,759
Shouldn't you make sure like God's there
and Jesus knows the story, he knows

1014
00:55:18,759 --> 00:55:23,829
the message, and the Lord among us are
not, and he's like, oh, he's among us.

1015
00:55:25,704 --> 00:55:30,234
And I'm gonna lean into him, and
that can be so hard in trial.

1016
00:55:31,854 --> 00:55:32,964
Is he among us or not?

1017
00:55:32,964 --> 00:55:37,179
The people, this Demand for
protection was a sign of unbelief.

1018
00:55:38,049 --> 00:55:41,109
The people didn't trust God on the
basis of his word to protect them

1019
00:55:41,109 --> 00:55:42,579
and deliver them from their enemies.

1020
00:55:42,579 --> 00:55:45,339
They wanted some visible
manifestation, something that

1021
00:55:45,339 --> 00:55:47,769
would prove that God was a father.

1022
00:55:47,774 --> 00:55:48,789
After all.

1023
00:55:49,299 --> 00:55:52,989
What's fascinating is that God is a
good father and he's super gracious

1024
00:55:53,019 --> 00:55:58,329
and he does give them water out of a
rock, and they're in a similar situation

1025
00:55:58,329 --> 00:56:06,129
years later and they stilled out
like we do, like water out of a rock.

1026
00:56:08,529 --> 00:56:12,249
At nasa, the sign they wanted
was a stream of water, but it

1027
00:56:12,249 --> 00:56:14,529
would later be other things.

1028
00:56:14,889 --> 00:56:18,819
Again, over this, the word
among us or not also to you.

1029
00:56:18,869 --> 00:56:22,184
note that Satan uses scripture and
things can be taken outta context, and

1030
00:56:22,184 --> 00:56:27,134
twisted people who you know, use it.

1031
00:56:27,134 --> 00:56:30,694
We all know, husbands who tell
wives they have to submit and

1032
00:56:30,694 --> 00:56:31,774
they're just a bully in the home.

1033
00:56:31,774 --> 00:56:34,554
they always forget Husbands love
your wives like Christ, love the

1034
00:56:34,554 --> 00:56:35,694
church and gave himself for it.

1035
00:56:35,994 --> 00:56:36,834
What does that mean?

1036
00:56:36,834 --> 00:56:39,234
Oh, he died for her.

1037
00:56:39,774 --> 00:56:45,054
Like bled, like, you know, and so
all these things people can twist

1038
00:56:45,354 --> 00:56:47,814
to accomplish their own things.

1039
00:56:49,374 --> 00:56:50,304
Second temptation.

1040
00:56:50,304 --> 00:56:51,774
Father protected or neglected.

1041
00:56:52,284 --> 00:56:56,884
And finally, verse eight and nine,
the father's plan, or the way a man.

1042
00:56:57,884 --> 00:57:00,824
Again, the devil took him to a very high
mountain and showed him all the kingdoms

1043
00:57:00,824 --> 00:57:03,764
of the world and their glory, and he
said to them, all these I will give to

1044
00:57:03,764 --> 00:57:05,654
you if you'll fall down to worship me.

1045
00:57:06,494 --> 00:57:13,244
He's like desperate, like,
okay, I'm gonna catch the chase.

1046
00:57:13,874 --> 00:57:17,504
I, the, you know, the bread that, that
ante that was crazy that I think about

1047
00:57:17,504 --> 00:57:20,234
it, but will you just worship me, please?

1048
00:57:21,374 --> 00:57:24,884
The third attack was an explicit
temptation to break the first commandment.

1049
00:57:25,259 --> 00:57:30,329
You shall love the Lord your God
and Him only shall you serve one

1050
00:57:30,329 --> 00:57:32,279
form of the end justifies the mean.

1051
00:57:32,279 --> 00:57:33,659
Satan isn't being subtle anymore.

1052
00:57:33,659 --> 00:57:35,189
Bread is not inherently evil.

1053
00:57:35,369 --> 00:57:38,539
Jesus has done great things to,
display his greatness, raising the

1054
00:57:38,539 --> 00:57:40,159
dead, quieting the storm right?

1055
00:57:40,339 --> 00:57:41,269
Or he is gonna do that.

1056
00:57:41,749 --> 00:57:45,649
Satan, whatever he knows, he knows
that Jesus is slated to be the king

1057
00:57:45,649 --> 00:57:47,029
of kings and the Lord of Lords.

1058
00:57:47,089 --> 00:57:53,099
And he says, here is a cross free way
to the world that you've come to rescue.

1059
00:57:54,099 --> 00:57:54,909
Here's a shortcut.

1060
00:57:56,589 --> 00:58:00,039
You can have the crown without the cross.

1061
00:58:01,899 --> 00:58:02,589
You just gotta worship.

1062
00:58:02,589 --> 00:58:03,129
I'll give you it.

1063
00:58:03,999 --> 00:58:04,539
I'll give it to you.

1064
00:58:05,349 --> 00:58:05,919
You can have it.

1065
00:58:06,279 --> 00:58:07,809
I'm tired of these people.

1066
00:58:08,809 --> 00:58:10,039
The crown without the cross.

1067
00:58:11,039 --> 00:58:11,579
It is vital.

1068
00:58:11,579 --> 00:58:14,249
Remember that the devil cannot
give you what he promises.

1069
00:58:14,249 --> 00:58:16,799
He doesn't have the right, and
in the end you'll lose your soul.

1070
00:58:16,859 --> 00:58:20,489
Like it's all, he's terrible.

1071
00:58:21,269 --> 00:58:26,639
Read the fine print How the enemy
covers up all the consequences, right?

1072
00:58:27,524 --> 00:58:28,244
Does that ever happen?

1073
00:58:28,244 --> 00:58:31,604
Like, like the thing temptation does
that he does with temptation is he

1074
00:58:31,604 --> 00:58:33,584
just distracts you from the future.

1075
00:58:34,454 --> 00:58:35,894
He tries to make temptation.

1076
00:58:35,894 --> 00:58:36,524
Now what?

1077
00:58:36,524 --> 00:58:38,479
Your knee now is prominent your drive.

1078
00:58:38,479 --> 00:58:39,769
Now this needs will fulfill.

1079
00:58:39,869 --> 00:58:43,589
one guy, said, like, but don't
you worry about your eternal soul.

1080
00:58:43,964 --> 00:58:45,334
It's like, God has to forgive me.

1081
00:58:45,334 --> 00:58:45,964
It's his job.

1082
00:58:46,044 --> 00:58:48,234
this like, wait, what?

1083
00:58:48,234 --> 00:58:51,324
No idea of like costly grace or anything.

1084
00:58:51,324 --> 00:58:54,354
Just this hardheartedness, to God.

1085
00:58:54,864 --> 00:58:56,304
But here, right?

1086
00:58:56,854 --> 00:59:02,194
he says, here's the cross
free way and the enemy.

1087
00:59:02,194 --> 00:59:06,514
So often he covers up the consequences,
but then when you're caught.

1088
00:59:07,249 --> 00:59:11,929
Man, he loves to expose it and shout to
everybody like, did you see what he did?

1089
00:59:11,929 --> 00:59:13,069
and you feel the weight of it.

1090
00:59:13,069 --> 00:59:14,749
And then he tries to throw
a condemnation on it.

1091
00:59:14,779 --> 00:59:17,989
It's, he's a terrible enemy.

1092
00:59:19,429 --> 00:59:20,269
Verse 10 to 11.

1093
00:59:20,269 --> 00:59:23,059
Then Jesus said to him, be gone,
Satan, or get the behind me for it is

1094
00:59:23,059 --> 00:59:26,149
written, you shall worship the Lord
your God and Him only shall you serve

1095
00:59:26,419 --> 00:59:29,359
the devil left Him and behold, angels
came and were ministering to him.

1096
00:59:30,169 --> 00:59:30,709
Guess what?

1097
00:59:31,099 --> 00:59:35,779
One, of the gospel says he left Jesus
and came back for a more opportune time.

1098
00:59:35,929 --> 00:59:39,289
You know what it was Jesus is asking
them, who do men say that I am?

1099
00:59:39,289 --> 00:59:40,249
some say you're Elijah.

1100
00:59:40,254 --> 00:59:42,199
Some say you're John, who do you say I am?

1101
00:59:42,199 --> 00:59:45,089
And Peter says, you are the Christ,
the Son of the living God, flesh

1102
00:59:45,089 --> 00:59:47,994
and blood has not, revealed this to
you, but my father, who's in heaven

1103
00:59:47,994 --> 00:59:49,314
is giving you in that insight.

1104
00:59:49,494 --> 00:59:52,524
And then he begins to explain the cross
and that he's gonna go to the cross.

1105
00:59:52,524 --> 00:59:56,994
And Peter pulls him aside and he's
like, We gotta stop the crosstalk.

1106
00:59:58,464 --> 01:00:01,024
We like the glory, we like the revelation.

1107
01:00:01,024 --> 01:00:01,684
We like this.

1108
01:00:01,924 --> 01:00:02,254
Don't.

1109
01:00:02,434 --> 01:00:03,004
No, no, no, no.

1110
01:00:03,004 --> 01:00:03,634
Not the cross.

1111
01:00:03,634 --> 01:00:04,894
You don't need to go to the cross.

1112
01:00:04,984 --> 01:00:06,004
And what does he say?

1113
01:00:06,154 --> 01:00:07,474
The exact same thing.

1114
01:00:07,654 --> 01:00:09,214
Get the behind me, Satan.

1115
01:00:10,474 --> 01:00:18,034
He says that is the way of Satan
is a path forward without a cross.

1116
01:00:19,294 --> 01:00:20,134
What did Jesus say?

1117
01:00:20,524 --> 01:00:27,964
If you want to be my disciples, Take up
your cross themselves and follow me guys,

1118
01:00:28,964 --> 01:00:30,584
you will experience suffering.

1119
01:00:31,584 --> 01:00:37,294
It's not the way it was meant
to be, but God is redeeming and

1120
01:00:37,294 --> 01:00:40,154
restoring, but there is no shortcut.

1121
01:00:41,264 --> 01:00:42,344
And following Jesus,

1122
01:00:43,344 --> 01:00:49,164
like following him and tales suffering.

1123
01:00:50,604 --> 01:00:51,594
God hates suffering.

1124
01:00:52,254 --> 01:00:56,424
That's why He, one of the reasons he
came is to end it and finally it will be

1125
01:00:56,454 --> 01:00:58,404
ended death will be late in its grave.

1126
01:00:58,794 --> 01:01:03,874
Sickness and disease,
pain, all that betrayal.

1127
01:01:04,759 --> 01:01:09,709
Emotional, like toxic, real, all
that stuff is gonna be gone one day.

1128
01:01:09,829 --> 01:01:17,029
But what he does right now through
the suffering is he only allows it

1129
01:01:17,034 --> 01:01:21,079
to accomplish the exact opposite
of what it's trying to accomplish.

1130
01:01:22,669 --> 01:01:23,769
The enemy came to God.

1131
01:01:23,799 --> 01:01:25,329
God said, Hey, have you
seen my servant job?

1132
01:01:25,329 --> 01:01:27,699
I'm like, don't point me out.

1133
01:01:27,699 --> 01:01:27,939
Ever.

1134
01:01:27,939 --> 01:01:31,944
No, because cuz the enemy's like, oh,
he only worships you because, You allow

1135
01:01:31,944 --> 01:01:33,924
good in his life, he doesn't suffer.

1136
01:01:35,424 --> 01:01:38,274
If he suffered, then he would curse you.

1137
01:01:39,444 --> 01:01:41,754
The only reason is because
you bless him and that's it.

1138
01:01:42,744 --> 01:01:46,164
And God says you can do this
and this, but you can't do this.

1139
01:01:46,374 --> 01:01:51,514
He only allows Satan to do in
Job's life the exact opposite

1140
01:01:51,514 --> 01:01:52,684
of what Satan was trying to do.

1141
01:01:53,734 --> 01:01:59,359
Because what happens to Job is
that he says, Though he slay me.

1142
01:01:59,619 --> 01:02:04,699
Yes, yet will I praise him
that you are my true treasure?

1143
01:02:05,839 --> 01:02:07,369
cover me with boils.

1144
01:02:08,089 --> 01:02:13,459
Let me shave them off with shards of
pottery and the dust of the earth.

1145
01:02:13,609 --> 01:02:15,409
And yet you are my God.

1146
01:02:16,429 --> 01:02:17,869
I will worship you.

1147
01:02:17,944 --> 01:02:18,004
Wow.

1148
01:02:18,814 --> 01:02:22,474
And then he comes to know God
Through that his pride is revealed.

1149
01:02:22,534 --> 01:02:27,814
What's removed from Job is not his
faith and trust, but his pride.

1150
01:02:29,524 --> 01:02:36,809
And so again, the greatest defeat
against evil and suffering is to

1151
01:02:36,809 --> 01:02:38,489
make it the servant of your joy.

1152
01:02:38,519 --> 01:02:39,389
Isn't that triumphing?

1153
01:02:39,389 --> 01:02:41,919
Isn't that, you know when in
Colossians it says Jesus is

1154
01:02:41,919 --> 01:02:43,929
like triumphing over the enemy?

1155
01:02:43,929 --> 01:02:43,989
Yeah.

1156
01:02:44,169 --> 01:02:45,788
Like he stomps him on the feet.

1157
01:02:45,788 --> 01:02:48,549
Like he, he makes him like
servile in a footstool.

1158
01:02:48,549 --> 01:02:52,509
he's making a public
display over the enemy.

1159
01:02:52,514 --> 01:02:57,809
Isn't that the public display that evil
comes in and tries to, suffering comes in.

1160
01:02:57,809 --> 01:02:59,788
It's like, oh, you are gonna hate this.

1161
01:02:59,819 --> 01:03:01,619
And you're like, actually I love him more.

1162
01:03:01,949 --> 01:03:02,249
It's like, ah.

1163
01:03:03,249 --> 01:03:03,639
I love.

1164
01:03:03,639 --> 01:03:04,509
It's the ultimate defeat.

1165
01:03:05,089 --> 01:03:09,209
the only suffering that could really
destroy you was standing up to

1166
01:03:09,214 --> 01:03:11,369
God's judgment on that final day.

1167
01:03:12,929 --> 01:03:14,339
That's the only thing
that could take you out.

1168
01:03:15,449 --> 01:03:18,209
That's the only thing that would
forever separate you from him.

1169
01:03:18,209 --> 01:03:22,629
But Jesus came to, take the ultimate
suffering so that now any suffering

1170
01:03:22,634 --> 01:03:28,419
that we experience serves our joy and
his glory again, he's ultimately coming

1171
01:03:28,538 --> 01:03:31,538
to defeat that evil and that suffering.

1172
01:03:31,538 --> 01:03:37,869
But it's so easy to want the shortcut
and we live in a day in an age where

1173
01:03:38,109 --> 01:03:39,909
we can buy our way outta suffering.

1174
01:03:40,779 --> 01:03:41,979
With the credit card we can.

1175
01:03:42,429 --> 01:03:42,909
Amazon.

1176
01:03:43,239 --> 01:03:44,349
Amazon, yes.

1177
01:03:44,739 --> 01:03:46,209
We can get out of it.

1178
01:03:46,239 --> 01:03:49,659
And I'm not saying that we, like, we
are masochist and we just go into su,

1179
01:03:49,749 --> 01:03:51,759
like, I'm not like bring it on God.

1180
01:03:52,749 --> 01:03:53,919
We should hate suffering.

1181
01:03:53,919 --> 01:03:54,939
Like God hates suffering.

1182
01:03:56,109 --> 01:04:00,699
That God, when he stood at Lazarus's tomb
and he saw, what death did he snorts?

1183
01:04:00,699 --> 01:04:01,779
He grunts like a horse.

1184
01:04:01,869 --> 01:04:03,219
He's drawn a line in the sand.

1185
01:04:03,219 --> 01:04:04,959
He says, Jeff, you're done.

1186
01:04:05,769 --> 01:04:06,879
I'm coming for you.

1187
01:04:07,309 --> 01:04:07,788
He does.

1188
01:04:07,788 --> 01:04:09,379
He just squares off against it.

1189
01:04:09,444 --> 01:04:12,294
He weeps at the devastation.

1190
01:04:12,294 --> 01:04:13,464
He hates it.

1191
01:04:13,974 --> 01:04:15,654
He hates what it does to his creation.

1192
01:04:15,714 --> 01:04:19,074
He hates it and he's gonna end
it, and that's one of the reasons

1193
01:04:19,194 --> 01:04:20,454
that he went to the cross.

1194
01:04:20,459 --> 01:04:21,354
So we hate it.

1195
01:04:21,534 --> 01:04:26,454
But if that arrow is going through
the shield and pierces, your

1196
01:04:26,459 --> 01:04:29,844
heart guides, the sovereignty
of God says that it's an arrow.

1197
01:04:29,844 --> 01:04:30,744
He's ordained

1198
01:04:31,744 --> 01:04:32,704
for you and him.

1199
01:04:33,204 --> 01:04:42,474
Jesus says, worship God, only my
father's word is the most important,

1200
01:04:43,464 --> 01:04:45,354
the relationship, the communion I have.

1201
01:04:45,669 --> 01:04:50,799
Is the most important with the father, so
often we're tempted to take the easy way.

1202
01:04:51,069 --> 01:04:55,449
I may not be tempted to worship at Satan's
feet, but often a price tag is revealed

1203
01:04:55,449 --> 01:04:59,469
that I would give up at the cross and
take a shortcut if the price was right.

1204
01:05:00,729 --> 01:05:03,999
Paul writes like, many have left
because of the love of the world.

1205
01:05:04,049 --> 01:05:05,969
Like they were captivated by the riches.

1206
01:05:07,139 --> 01:05:10,679
Jesus provides a model of how
we deal with temptation, right?

1207
01:05:10,679 --> 01:05:13,709
it is written how to withstand
it, but that's not all he is.

1208
01:05:13,889 --> 01:05:15,299
He's more than our model.

1209
01:05:15,569 --> 01:05:18,689
We think of the first temptation, Adam in
the garden, and Jesus in the wilderness.

1210
01:05:18,689 --> 01:05:20,869
The first Adam had plenty of, beauty.

1211
01:05:21,619 --> 01:05:24,349
He had a companion with him, a wife.

1212
01:05:25,249 --> 01:05:29,849
The second Adam was in an ugly desert and
stark  ugliness the first Adam sin, and

1213
01:05:29,849 --> 01:05:35,819
brought about our downfall the second Adam
prevailed and brought about our release.

1214
01:05:36,329 --> 01:05:40,139
The first man Adam, in a perfect
environment, believes Satan's lies,

1215
01:05:40,139 --> 01:05:44,669
prioritize the gifts of God above
God himself, doubted the goodness

1216
01:05:44,669 --> 01:05:48,119
of God and compromised God's
laws in pursuit of a good thing.

1217
01:05:48,538 --> 01:05:52,889
Jesus The Second Adam, by contrast,
rejects Satan's lies not in the

1218
01:05:52,889 --> 01:05:56,849
Garden of Eden where all his needs
have been met, but in the wilderness

1219
01:05:56,849 --> 01:06:02,189
where he is hungry, he prioritizes
fellowship with the father above all.

1220
01:06:03,869 --> 01:06:10,199
How he, for 12 to 16, for the word of God
as living and active, the lug us sharper

1221
01:06:10,199 --> 01:06:12,239
than any two-edged sword, our word.

1222
01:06:13,634 --> 01:06:17,024
Piercing to the division of the soul
and spirit of joints and morrow,

1223
01:06:17,024 --> 01:06:20,204
and discerning the thoughts and
the intentions of the heart, and no

1224
01:06:20,204 --> 01:06:21,824
creature is hidden from his sight.

1225
01:06:22,844 --> 01:06:26,474
Since then, we have a great high priest.

1226
01:06:26,729 --> 01:06:28,049
who has passed through the heavens?

1227
01:06:28,049 --> 01:06:30,479
Jesus, the son of God, let us hold faster.

1228
01:06:30,479 --> 01:06:33,269
Confession for we do not have
a high priest who is unable to

1229
01:06:33,269 --> 01:06:37,538
sympathize with our weakness, but
one in every respect has, been

1230
01:06:37,538 --> 01:06:39,849
tempted as we are yet without sin.

1231
01:06:39,969 --> 01:06:41,679
He's victorious.

1232
01:06:41,769 --> 01:06:46,659
Let us then with confidence, boldness.

1233
01:06:47,199 --> 01:06:52,179
Draw near to the throne of grace
nearness that we may receive mercy

1234
01:06:52,179 --> 01:06:57,129
and find grace to help in the time
of need and your time of need.

1235
01:06:57,129 --> 01:06:59,559
We so often think I need
my circumstances fixed.

1236
01:06:59,649 --> 01:07:02,199
He says right here, mercy and grace.

1237
01:07:02,424 --> 01:07:02,514
Yes.

1238
01:07:02,874 --> 01:07:05,604
Is your rescue the story of grace?

1239
01:07:05,604 --> 01:07:09,654
Is your rescue, like that's
what you need in those moments?

1240
01:07:09,834 --> 01:07:13,074
Or Jesus knows what temptation
looks like, not just with the

1241
01:07:13,074 --> 01:07:17,064
knowledge or omniscience, but
with the knowledge of experience.

1242
01:07:17,154 --> 01:07:18,444
He knows our frame.

1243
01:07:18,594 --> 01:07:20,634
he's a high priest who's compassionate.

1244
01:07:21,144 --> 01:07:23,544
He knows the struggle.

1245
01:07:24,894 --> 01:07:25,884
He knows our frame.

1246
01:07:26,004 --> 01:07:29,514
He did step off the edge of the
cliff into the abyss of darkness,

1247
01:07:29,604 --> 01:07:34,494
and the angels did not bear him up,
and the father did not catch him.

1248
01:07:35,663 --> 01:07:37,524
He dashed his foot against the stone.

1249
01:07:38,004 --> 01:07:42,413
His heel was bruised, his
body broken and crushed.

1250
01:07:43,344 --> 01:07:46,884
The high priest who should be
doing the cutting became the

1251
01:07:46,884 --> 01:07:50,634
sacrifice and was cut with a sort
of judgment, justice, and wrath.

1252
01:07:51,504 --> 01:07:54,144
So that now when the sword
comes into our heart, it brings

1253
01:07:54,144 --> 01:07:55,434
life where there was death.

1254
01:07:55,764 --> 01:08:01,374
The sword of justice went into the
heart of Almighty Jesus and he bore

1255
01:08:01,374 --> 01:08:04,913
it and he suffered and he paid the
price that we should have paid.

1256
01:08:05,184 --> 01:08:07,254
All that we did wrong, he did right.

1257
01:08:07,614 --> 01:08:10,794
So when he, when, so when he
came to die, he could bear our

1258
01:08:10,794 --> 01:08:14,154
condemnation because a perfect life
that ended under the condo death.

1259
01:08:14,384 --> 01:08:16,844
Could free those under the
condemnation of death and

1260
01:08:16,844 --> 01:08:18,944
restore them to everlasting life.

1261
01:08:18,948 --> 01:08:19,814
The tree of life.

1262
01:08:19,814 --> 01:08:21,314
We get to eat of the tree of life.

1263
01:08:21,524 --> 01:08:24,964
And What it does is assure us to our
place with the Father, which gives

1264
01:08:24,964 --> 01:08:28,774
us the strength to overcome the
temptation of Satan and even more.

1265
01:08:28,774 --> 01:08:33,363
He united him himself to us by his
spirit, which means that the same one

1266
01:08:33,363 --> 01:08:37,443
who overcame these temptations for
me, can now overcome them through me.

1267
01:08:38,044 --> 01:08:41,404
Jesus, God's own son came to earth
to substitute himself for you.

1268
01:08:42,149 --> 01:08:46,859
Which secures your place before the father
because he paid your sin debt entirely.

1269
01:08:47,249 --> 01:08:51,959
And it assures you of God's steadfast love
for you, the fatherhood of God, that he

1270
01:08:51,964 --> 01:08:57,779
would go through all of this for you, and
so we can trust that he'll be consistent

1271
01:08:58,198 --> 01:09:02,219
and present and a father in her life.

1272
01:09:03,219 --> 01:09:06,698
There's something specific about the word
of God that Jesus recalls every time.

1273
01:09:07,089 --> 01:09:11,649
Something that undergirds ever's
quotes something so powerful that

1274
01:09:11,649 --> 01:09:13,059
not even Satan can refute it.

1275
01:09:14,439 --> 01:09:16,089
His identity in the father's eyes.

1276
01:09:18,068 --> 01:09:22,509
Satan says before the temptation, if
you are the son of God, everything

1277
01:09:22,509 --> 01:09:26,379
Jesus quotes ultimately goes
back to the security he possesses

1278
01:09:26,709 --> 01:09:32,408
in who he is in God's eyes, and
that's where the power comes from.

1279
01:09:33,129 --> 01:09:34,509
He knew who he was.

1280
01:09:35,318 --> 01:09:36,519
He knew his identity.

1281
01:09:37,254 --> 01:09:40,434
This is our main temptation, the
root of all temptations, to establish

1282
01:09:40,434 --> 01:09:44,993
our identity on something other than
God's declaration over you in Christ.

1283
01:09:45,993 --> 01:09:50,283
Satan wants us to base our identity on
how we live, but God wants you to base

1284
01:09:50,283 --> 01:09:52,354
your identity on how he lived for you.

1285
01:09:53,354 --> 01:09:54,224
He really loves you.

1286
01:09:55,224 --> 01:10:01,284
Jesus took care of every barrier,
every obstacle, every distance.

1287
01:10:02,284 --> 01:10:03,874
We're beset by temptation and we fail.

1288
01:10:04,174 --> 01:10:07,624
He took care of it for you.

1289
01:10:08,624 --> 01:10:10,344
We're overwhelmed by suffering.

1290
01:10:11,344 --> 01:10:13,744
He was overwhelmed by
the ultimate suffering.

1291
01:10:14,794 --> 01:10:15,664
So that now.

1292
01:10:16,504 --> 01:10:18,244
What Satan means for evil in your life.

1293
01:10:18,244 --> 01:10:23,544
God works for good and we know and we
know that all things work together for

1294
01:10:23,544 --> 01:10:27,654
the good to those who loved him and are
the called according to his purposes.

1295
01:10:28,584 --> 01:10:31,884
He who did not spare his own son, but
gave him up for us all, how will he not

1296
01:10:31,884 --> 01:10:39,924
also freely give us all things like,
like he loves you and he says, over you.

1297
01:10:40,974 --> 01:10:43,284
You are my beloved son and daughter.

1298
01:10:43,614 --> 01:10:45,084
And whom I'm well pleased.

1299
01:10:45,474 --> 01:10:46,434
I will never leave you.

1300
01:10:46,434 --> 01:10:47,364
I will never forsake.

1301
01:10:47,514 --> 01:10:48,504
He's for you.

1302
01:10:48,834 --> 01:10:55,344
And if God before us, who can be
against us like that is again, it's

1303
01:10:55,854 --> 01:10:59,864
our identity and what Jesus has
done and standing in that is the

1304
01:10:59,864 --> 01:11:01,274
victory that overcomes the world.

1305
01:11:01,324 --> 01:11:02,164
That is.

1306
01:11:02,749 --> 01:11:04,519
That's the power of the gospel.

1307
01:11:04,639 --> 01:11:08,059
That's the message of the law gospel
that he came to seek and save the

1308
01:11:08,059 --> 01:11:09,619
lost and bring us back to the Father.

1309
01:11:09,619 --> 01:11:11,419
So we pray for us.

1310
01:11:11,419 --> 01:11:13,399
Lord, we thank you for your word.

1311
01:11:14,039 --> 01:11:19,349
we remember that you did fall
off the cliff, that you leapt

1312
01:11:19,349 --> 01:11:26,068
into the abyss, that you stared
into that cup as you comprehended

1313
01:11:26,068 --> 01:11:27,359
what it would be like to drink.

1314
01:11:28,359 --> 01:11:36,829
All the wrong of humanity, every shape and
form of the curse, and that for our sakes,

1315
01:11:37,829 --> 01:11:42,799
you were broken so that we
could become whole on the cross.

1316
01:11:42,949 --> 01:11:44,899
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

1317
01:11:45,899 --> 01:11:50,459
One of the messages is that in
that moment, some mysterious

1318
01:11:50,459 --> 01:11:53,129
way, you lost your father.

1319
01:11:53,129 --> 01:11:56,439
So we could gain a father,
and we say thank you.

1320
01:11:57,789 --> 01:11:59,019
Thank you, Jesus.

1321
01:11:59,859 --> 01:12:02,709
Thank you that you've defeated the enemy.

1322
01:12:03,279 --> 01:12:05,049
Thank you that your victory,
victories our victory.

1323
01:12:05,919 --> 01:12:08,799
Thank you that you won.

1324
01:12:10,494 --> 01:12:15,504
And so I pray, holy Spirit, you keep
preaching that message to our hearts.

1325
01:12:16,584 --> 01:12:20,693
That message of sonship and
daughtership, that message of being

1326
01:12:20,693 --> 01:12:26,214
your beloved, of being the adored
ones, of being your favorite.

1327
01:12:27,684 --> 01:12:29,934
It's an amazing thing that
the Infinite God can have.

1328
01:12:30,054 --> 01:12:30,954
I could be his favorite.

1329
01:12:32,274 --> 01:12:34,764
because you don't divide
your love amongst us.

1330
01:12:35,454 --> 01:12:36,804
We have your face.

1331
01:12:37,804 --> 01:12:38,974
We have your gaze.

1332
01:12:39,974 --> 01:12:41,654
We have your word over us.

1333
01:12:43,304 --> 01:12:44,504
We have your attention.

1334
01:12:45,734 --> 01:12:49,544
We have your song, we have
your celebration, we have

1335
01:12:49,544 --> 01:12:52,154
your dancing and rejoicing.

1336
01:12:53,154 --> 01:12:53,964
Where can I go?

1337
01:12:54,964 --> 01:12:58,684
If I were to ascend into the
highest heavens, you're there.

1338
01:12:59,224 --> 01:13:01,744
If I had to descend into Sheol
itself, you're there with me.

1339
01:13:02,744 --> 01:13:04,934
What is man, that you're mindful
of him and the son of man that

1340
01:13:04,934 --> 01:13:08,624
you would visit him mindful?

1341
01:13:08,774 --> 01:13:13,784
May that word just fall on
us, that we have your face.

1342
01:13:15,434 --> 01:13:16,424
Thank you, Lord.

1343
01:13:18,134 --> 01:13:19,244
We can't wait to feast with you.

1344
01:13:20,859 --> 01:13:22,619
We can't wait for the
marriage supper, the lamb.

1345
01:13:23,429 --> 01:13:26,309
I can't wait for these taste
buds to be set on fire.

1346
01:13:28,169 --> 01:13:31,349
But in the meantime, we feast on
your body, broken in your bloodshed,

1347
01:13:32,349 --> 01:13:36,169
because really that's the food we
needed because we could feast in this

1348
01:13:36,169 --> 01:13:38,989
life and we could lose our souls.

1349
01:13:39,989 --> 01:13:42,839
But because you were
broken, now we're fed.

1350
01:13:44,219 --> 01:13:44,999
Now we're whole.

1351
01:13:45,999 --> 01:13:51,068
Now we're sustained and we declare
as your people we're satisfied.

1352
01:13:52,989 --> 01:13:53,919
We praise you Jesus.

1353
01:13:53,924 --> 01:13:54,669
In Jesus' name.

1354
01:13:54,999 --> 01:13:55,509
Amen.