jesus was led into the wilderness to be tempted

#Jesus was led into the wilderness to be tempted full#

Then Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

#Jesus was led into the wilderness to be tempted full#

John Piper ( is founder and teacher of and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. Jesus resists each temptation with a quote from Deuteronomy, refusing to. Each one attempts to lure Christ into abusing His power to take immediately what God the Father has promised to provide later. After 40 days and nights of fasting, Jesus faces three temptations from Satan. Hold me back from stepping inside the temptation. Matthew 4:111 describes Jesus' temptation in the wilderness. But, O mighty God, forbid that I would yield. That’s what life is: endless choices between belief and unbelief, obedience and disobedience. Today I will stand before innumerable temptations. Deliver me from this evil that is set before me. As we can see, if you read the context, the Jews God in the wilderness. 15 So He gave them their request, but sent a wasting disease among them. What it teaches us to pray is that the temptation does not take us in. Psalm 106:13-15, They quickly forgot His works They did not wait for His counsel, 14 But craved intensely in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. The Lord’s prayer does not teach us to pray against that kind of sovereign guidance. There is no moment of your life that is not a moment of temptation-a moment when unbelief and disobedience is not a possibility. In fact, every step we take is a step into the presence of temptation. “A man’s steps are from the Lord” (Proverbs 20:24). So God does not do the tempting-he does not put evil desires in our hearts (for he can have no evil desires in his heart)-but he does bring us into the presence of many tests and temptations.

But the Bible also says, “Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil” (Matthew 4:1). James 1:13 says, “Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am being tempted by God,’ for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one” (James 1:13). “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” (Matthew 6:13).