How to face opposition. Further, we see Satan tempts Jesus to receive all the kingdoms of this earth – right then. Prematurely – before His cross work. Oh, to be clear, Jesus will receive the kingdoms of this earth – but it was not yet time. We’ll see that, next week.

Satan also tempts when you’ve just had a wonderful, spiritual event in your life. Satan tried to tempt Jesus right after Jesus was baptized by His cousin, John. This is what we’re going to learn about Jesus: Jesus used Scripture to counter Satan’s attacks.

January 4, 2023 - On this one occasion the Devil himself quoted scripture. Again, the challenge to Jesus was to misuse his power. But it also asked Jesus to prove that he was the Messiah and that God really cared for him. This question was an important one for Jesus to deal with because he would be faced with ...

April 3, 2024 - Satan tempted Christ to seek immediate gain through unprincipled action. He wanted Christ to turn bread into stones, to cast Himself off the pinnacle of the temple, and to fall down and worship him. In every case Jesus turned Satan back by quoting Scripture.

Being hungry, Satan tempted Jesus with food. We could also contrast Jesus, the Son of Man’s success with Adam’s failure, both representatives of mankind. Jesus won a strategic battle and threw Satan down from His lofty position. We must also examine how the devil and Jesus used God’s ...

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, h

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

November 1, 2024 - When you are tempted, turn to Jesus because He is stronger and Satan cannot stand up to Him. D. Jesus responds with Scripture again, giving us an example that we should always respond to lies and temptation with truth. Meditate on the truth of God’s Word and use it to defend yourself against ...

February 27, 2023 - Jesus rejects the suggestion with decision. He prefers the way of quiet trust in the heavenly Father, a trust that needs no test, and a ready acceptance of his will. He refuses to demand a miracle even if from the perspective of someone on earth that might seem desirable, even compelling.

So far in our developing a method for studying the Bible we have noted that while the narratives themselves give us the basic reports of the events, what we call the story lines, the quotations in the story reveal to us what is actually going on and why. So we focus on the quotations a good deal.

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God,

January 10, 2025 - The devil tempts Jesus a third time by offering Him immediate power and glory in exchange for worshiping him. Jesus rebukes him to depart and quotes Deuteronomy a third time. The devil flees and Jesus is ministered to by angels.

Matthew 4:1-11: Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

The Emotional Temptation: “Question God’s Love” (Matthew 4:5-7) Next, Satan took Jesus to the highest point of the temple and challenged Him to throw Himself down, quoting Scripture to suggest that God’s angels would save Him. This was an emotional temptation—an attempt to make Jesus question God’s love and care. Satan twisted Scripture to imply that Jesus could test God’s faithfulness. Jesus saw through this manipulation ...

Again, Jesus quoted Scripture. Teacher: Show your Bible and the sword again. Say: God’s Word is like a sword. It cuts through the evil plans of the devil. James 4:7 says to RESIST the devil, and he will flee from you! Then the devil left Jesus. Angels came and took care of Him. - Matthew 4:11 · Angels are God’s messengers. They came to Jesus to minister to Him. What a difference! On one hand, Satan was tempting ...

April 26, 2025 - Luke's account is similar, though ... third temptations "represents a more natural geographic movement, from the wilderness to the temple". Luke's closing statement that the devil "departed from him until an opportune time" may provide a narrative link to the immediately following attempt at Nazareth to throw Jesus down from a high place, or may anticipate a role for Satan in the Passion (cf. Luke 22:3). In Luke's (Luke 4:1–13) and Matthew's (Matthew 4:1–11) accounts, ...

September 21, 2010 - The first temptation concerns the ... replies with Scripture, quoting Deuteronomy 8:3. The second temptation concerns the pride of life (Matthew 4:5–7), and here the devil uses a verse of Scripture (Psalm 91:11–12), but the Lord replies again with Scripture to the contrary ...

Matthew 4:1-11: Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

The scriptures teach that the Savior experienced temptations of every kind “but gave no heed unto them” (Doctrine and Covenants 20:22; see also Mosiah 15:5; Alma 7:11). One experience came after His baptism, when He went into the wilderness to be with God (see Joseph Smith Translation, Matthew 4:1 [in Matthew 4:1, footnote b]). After Jesus had communed with God for 40 days, Satan ...