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Luke chapter 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scriptures<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I will summarize Luke chapter 4 where Luke wrote about Jesus being tempted by Satan in the wilderness.\u00a0 Where Jesus began his public ministry and where Jesus did numerous exorcisms and miracles.\u00a0 Jesus was left by the wilderness and he fasted while he went.\u00a0 Jesus ate nothing for 40 days straight.\u00a0 Then the temptations came.\u00a0 Satan tempted Jesus three times.\u00a0 The first time he said if you are the Son of God command this stone to turn into bread.\u00a0 You are hungry so use your authority and power to do it.\u00a0 Jesus replied and said,\u201d It is written man shall not live on bread alone but by every word that comes out from the mouth of God\u201d.\u00a0 Satan tried to tempt Jesus the second time again.\u00a0 He led Jesus to a place where he could see all the kingdoms of the world at one time. Satan said I will give you all the power of this world and all of its glory.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can rule over everything.\u00a0 All the world has been handed over to me and I give power to whomever I wish.\u00a0 If you bow down and worship me all of this will be yours.\u00a0 Jesus answered and said it is written, \u201cYou shall worship the Lord your God and serve him only.\u00a0 Satan could not tempt him because Jesus knew the scriptures so well.\u00a0 Satan this time thought that Jesus is replying to me with scriptures.\u00a0 Now I will try to trick him using the scripture.\u00a0 Satan then led Jesus to Jerusalem and had him stand on the very top of the temple.\u00a0 He said with a wicked smirk on his face if you are the son of God throw yourself down from here.\u00a0 You like to use bible verses so here\u2019s one for you.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Satan said it is written he will command his angels concerning you.\u00a0 They will bear you up and you won\u2019t even strike your foot against a stone.\u00a0 Jesus replied get away from me you Satan for it is written that you shall not put the Lord your God to test.\u00a0 Satan failed again.\u00a0 When Satan finished the full fury of every temptation and when Jesus resisted everything, Satan had thrown at him.\u00a0 Satan left.\u00a0 Then angels came and ministered to him.\u00a0 Jesus then returned to Galilee in the power of the spirit and he began to teach in the synagogue on the Sabbath.\u00a0 Jesus was given the book of Isaiah to read.\u00a0 He read,\u201d The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor.\u00a0 He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed, and to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.\u00a0 He closed the book and told everyone today the scripture prophecy has been fulfilled in your hearing.\u00a0 This prophecy is about me.\u00a0 Everyone understood what he said and they were shocked.\u00a0 Jesus just claimed to fulfill the prophecy that was written many centuries before.\u00a0 The people started speaking good things about him and wondered what else Jesus would do.\u00a0 Jesus heard them and read their thoughts.\u00a0 Instead of basking in their praise.\u00a0 Jesus started speaking you will turn against me.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You will say heal yourself, physician.\u00a0 Perform miracles here so that we can see them and believe you. \u00a0I tell you no prophet is welcome in his hometown.\u00a0 Truly I tell you there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah but when the great feminine came he was sent to care for a widow in another country.\u00a0 There were lepers in Israel in the days of Elijah but none of them were cleansed and healed.\u00a0 Only a foreigner named Naman was healed.\u00a0 The people quickly turned on him all the people in the synagogue flew into a rage because of what Jesus was speaking.\u00a0 They drove Jesus out of the city and forced him to the top of a cliff.\u00a0 If Jesus had not departed himself from the crowd, they would have thrown him off and killed him.\u00a0 Just because it was not yet Jesus\u2019s time everyone mysteriously froze in their tracks and Jesus walked through the crowd and left them.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus went from there and healed many people like Peter\u2019s mother-in-law.\u00a0 She had a fever but when Jesus rebuked the fever it immediately left her.\u00a0 Jesus healed many people who were possessed by demons too.\u00a0 He would heal demon-possessed people.\u00a0 On numerous occasions, Jesus would teach the people in the synagogue, and that was where he most frequently encountered the demon-possessed people.\u00a0 The demons would regularly try to interrupt and distract him.\u00a0 It would scream and say things like leave us alone.\u00a0 What business do we have with each other Jesus of Nazareth?\u00a0 Have you come to destroy us before judgment day?\u00a0 We know who you are the Holy One of God the Christ but Jesus each time commanded them to be quiet and come out of the person.\u00a0 Everyone who saw this was shocked every time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OBSERVATION<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing I think the lord wants us to understand after reading this chapter is that Satan tempted Jesus with the full force of every kind of temptation and Jesus resisted each one perfectly.  He showed us how to do it.  God wants us to see that Jesus spoke the truth even when he knew that people would get angry with him.  The Lord wants us to see that all the demons in the world know who Jesus Christ is and begged him not to punish them before Judgment day.  God wants us to see that Satan is a real being not just an idea or personification of evil.  God permitted Satan to have governmental powers over all the countries of the world.  Satan could give that authority to anyone he chooses.  God wants us to see that Jesus healed many people of different kinds of sicknesses and diseases including demon possession.  The Bible stories are all factually correct.  Come let us start reading it today.  It is much more interesting than movies etc.  It has all answers to your questions and problems and how to deal with them and lead a pure life.  They tell us facts about what people did in those days, the life led and their experiences, and how God communicated with them and save them and punished them when it was needed or did not turn from their evil ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prayer<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father, my chain breaker, I know that you want me to resist temptation.  I know you have not allowed any temptation to befall me which is beyond my strength to resist.  In you, I have the freedom to choose not to sin, and you have given me your spirit to stand firm against temptation.  When I am tempted to sin, help me instead to focus on your goodness to me that is demonstrated by the cross.  Fill me with your spirit and make me hate sin as much as you do.  You have bought my life with the precious blood of your son.  Father God, there is so much to see in your word.  Enlighten me and anoint me more as I read the bible.  May your word penetrate my whole being and transform me. Grant me the blessing to be a faithful disciple in believing in the word of God that I may be a light shining upon all who are in darkness. I make this prayer in the name of your beloved son our Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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