Thursday... Two different responses to two different challenges. Matthew 4 shows us two different challenges. The first one is to Jesus. Verse 1 (NLT) says, "Then Jesus was led into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil." Now this was the beginning of His ministry and He started it with a time of prayer and fasting but it was also a time of testing and tempting. Here He was having not eaten for 40 days and He was hungry and I'm sure His desires were there to eat. And that is where temptation comes in. Verse 2 says, "For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry." Temptation comes at the point of our desires. Verse 3 says, "During that time the devil came and said to him, 'If you are the Son of God, tell theses stones to become loaves of bread." He was tempted through Jesus' humanness. And that is where we are tempted so much. So what did Jesus do? Verse 4 say, "But Jesus told him, 'No!'" We...
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