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Matthew 4:3-4
Excerpted from: Satan (Part 5)

You might wonder why Satan used "if." He did not use "if" to get Jesus to doubt His Sonship. Jesus knew who He was. Rather, he was trying to get Him to reflect on "if's" meaning. "Surely, if you're the Son of God, You have the right to expect to satisfy what You feel Your needs are at the moment."

Jesus didn't fall for it. As hungry as He was, He knew that was a trap. He knew He didn't have to be concerned about supplying His material needs because God would do it for Him. Didn't He later say, "If God so feeds the birds of the field..."? That's what He meant.

This was a temptation for Christ to use His Sonship in a way other than the God ordained purpose for it. What is the God-ordained purpose of our calling? To seek you first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. That's the truth of God. God will supply it. So Jesus' answer was, "Thank you, but I'll just wait for God to supply My need."

Matthew 4:4
Excerpted from: Passover and I Corinthians 10

The second point in this lesson is that in rejecting the manna, they were rejecting the major source of their strength. That was not the way they looked at it. They said that their life was dried up. But we have the New Testament aspect of it. You can write down John 6:35 where Jesus said that He is the true manna which came down from heaven.

We connect that to Matthew 4:4 where it says, "Man is to live by every word of God," and John 1:1, that Jesus is the Word, and we find that typically, symbolically, what they were doing was rejecting the major source of their strength—God's Word.

Unfortunately some of us are spiritually malnourished. We are really on a starvation diet, spiritually, and yet we need the Word of God because it is the food from which we get our spiritual strength (not all of it, but we get part of it from there).

Matthew 4:4
Excerpted from: Satan (Part 5)

Even when Satan says truth, even when he quotes scripture, he puts a perverse twist to it. Now how did the Boss fight Satan? With truth! There it is! That's how you defeat Satan—being confident that the victory has already been won; being confident that God has put a hedge around us so that we will not get into a situation confronting Satan that is beyond us; and being absolutely reliant upon the truth of God! Even though we may not be able to see how it is going to be worked out; even though we may feel that following the truth of God is going to require a considerable sacrifice of our self; yet we have the example of Jesus Himself showing us that He fought Satan by relying upon the truth of God. He trusted what God said.

Christians and Evolution

Articles
Are You Risking Your Salvation?
Conquering Temptation: Learn from Jesus Christ
Conquering Temptation: Learn from Jesus Christ
Developing a Mature Spiritual Appetite
Eating: How Good It Is! (Part One)
Eating: How Good It Is! (Part Three)
Essays on Bible Study
Every Word?
Faith—What Is It?
Growing to Perfection
Have You Had Your Manna Today?
Have You Had Your Manna Today?
Hedged About on Every Side
How Does Temptation Relate to Sin?
Immigration and the Kingdom of God
Is the Christian Required to Do Works? (Part One)
Nicolaitanism Today
Prepare to Meet Your God! (Part Eight): Seek Me and Live!
Sowing and Reaping
The Cursed Tree
The Four Horsemen (Part Two): The White Horse
The Fruit of the Spirit
The Weightier Matters (Part 2): Judgment
The Whole Truth
Unsheathe Your Sword! (Part One)
Unsheathe Your Sword! (Part One)
Unsheathe Your Sword! (Part Two)
What Did Jesus Do?
Who Were the Philistines?
You've Examined Yourself—Now What?

Bible Studies
The First Commandment
The Miracles of Jesus Christ (Part One)
The Model Prayer (Part Eight): Testing and Deliverance
The Model Prayer (Part Six): Our Daily Bread  (2)
The Model Prayer (Part Two): Our Father in Heaven

Booklets
Prepare to Meet Your God! (The Book of Amos) (Part Two)

Essays
Count for Yourselves
Cutting Off the Snake's Head
Little Choices
Pentecost: A Test?  (2)
Sorry, I Forgot
The Importance of Fellowship (Part One)
The Jewish Testament?
The Pursuit of Unity
The Three Witnesses of Christ (Part Three)
Walking With God
What 'The Bible and Its Influence' Will Teach
Why Preach the Gospel to the World?

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The Great Flood (Part 3)
The Foundation of the World
Motivation to Endure
Do You Recognize This Man? (Part 7)
Darts
Marriage and the Bride of Christ (Part 4)
Do You Recognize This Man? (Part 1)
Freedom, Liberty, and Bondage
Overcoming Is A Choice
Is the United States a Christian Nation? (Part 7)
Is the United States a Christian Nation? (Part 5)
Could You Be Struck Dead?
The Quest for Happiness
The Great Flood (Part 2)
Built as a Witness
By Every Word of God
Eternal Security (Part 1)
Our Core Business
Many Excuses
Don't Cherry Pick God's Law
Do We Truly Honor God in Our Actions?
Israel's Missing Characteristics of God
Colossian Law-Keeping
Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen (Part Three)
Metaphors of God's Word
Metaphors of God's Word
The W's and H's of Meditation (Part One)
The Book of Joel (Part Two)
Christ, the Chief Cornerstone
Deuteronomy Opening
The Cunning of Satan
The Cunning of Satan
In The Likeness of Men!
Matthew (Part Three)
How God Deals With Conscience (Part One)
Elements of Judgment (Part One)
Choosing the Field of Battle
Prayer and Persistence
The Covenants, Grace and Law (Part 16)
The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part 14)
Narrow Is the Way
The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part 6)
Four Views of Christ (Part 3)
Is God a Magician?
Is God a Magician?
Lessons From the Animals
Our Awesome Destiny (1993)
The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part 17)
Freedom and Unleavened Bread
Abraham's Sacrifice (Part Three): Hope Demonstrated
Abraham's Sacrifice (Part Three): Hope Demonstrated
Faith and Spiritual Focus
Stewardship of God's Temple (Part Seven)
Lead Us Not Into Temptation
Lessons From First-Century Christianity
Strategies for Escaping Babylon (Part Two)
Our Awesome Destiny (2000)
Acts (Part Fourteen)
Strategies for Escaping Babylon (Part Seven)
Words Versus Images
Imagination
Imagination
The Essence of Self-Control
Psalm 23 (Part 1)
Stimulating a Spiritual Appetite
Thou Shall Not Covet
Maintaining Good Health (Part 7)
Maintaining Good Health (Part 3)
Sabbathkeeping (Part 3)
Preparing Your Heart
James and Unleavened Bread (Part 3)
The Sacrifices of Leviticus (Part 1)
Warfare!
James and Unleavened Bread (Part 1)

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