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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Temptation Of Jesus | July 6, 2025
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- Pastor ed young: there's always bad news before
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- There's good news, ladies and gentlemen, in the gospel.
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- Somebody, "well, the gospel is good news."
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- There's bad news before there's good news.
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- Had to realize, be convicted of our sin and our rebelling
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- Against god, before the good news can come.
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- There's bad news--john the baptist came with the bad news.
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- Man, you're rebellious. you're sinners.
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- You're away from god.
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- You're not obedient the commandments.
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- But there's coming one after me, i'm not even worthy to unlatch
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- His sandals, the lowest thing you could do for someone.
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- I'm not even worthy to do the lowest service you can render to
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- Anybody else.
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- He said, "i just baptized you with water."
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- He said, "jesus gonna baptize you with the holy spirit and
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- With fire."
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- Ladies and gentlemen, if you've come to faith in jesus christ
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- And you've been baptized, whether you were 12 years old or
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- 92 years old, you may not have realized it, but you and i, we
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- Were baptized in the holy spirit.
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- That's when the spirit of god came into our lives.
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- And we're baptized with fire because, as we walk with christ,
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- That fire burns and keeps on burning up all the junk in you
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- And me.
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- Baptized with fire!
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- And that's the reason we walk with him.
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- He keeps that fire kindled and burning and keeping you clean
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- And keeping me clean and keeping you pure and keeping me pure and
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- Making you whole and continue to make me whole.
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- That's the baptism in christ, not just water, holy spirit
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- Power and with fire of cleansing.
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- And then i want you to read about the baptism of jesus.
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- He was baptized by john, his cousin.
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- Look at verse 13 chapter number 3: "then jesus arriving from
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- Galilee to jordan coming to john, to be baptized by him.
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- But john tried to prevent him, saying, ‘i have need to be
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- Baptized of you, and do you come to me?' jesus answered and said
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- To him, ‘permit it at this time; for in this way it is fitting
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- For us to fulfill all righteousness.' then he, jesus,
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- Permitted him."
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- In other words, jesus was saying, “i do not need to
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- Be baptized.
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- You know that, john.
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- I know that, john, but i am doing it as a substitute, as a
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- Surrogate, in imitation of, and preparing the way, for those who
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- Will follow me, and they will be baptized,” see?
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- He's saying, "just permit it.
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- I'm a demonstration of righteousness that will be
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- Imparted to those who are baptized who later follow me."
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- That's the implication that is here.
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- And then look, verse 16: "and after being baptized, jesus came
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- Up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were
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- Opened, and he saw the spirit of god descending as a dove and
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- Lighting on him, and behold, a voice out of the heavens said,
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- ‘this is my beloved son, in whom i am well-pleased.'"
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- A dove coming out of the heavens.
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- Oh, you guys, get excited.
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- I know this is dove season.
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- So this was a different deal here.
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- When i saw that, i thought about the dove that would--in noah and
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- The ark was flying around.
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- Remember?
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- Waiting for a place to land, and when the dove didn't come back,
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- No one knew that the floodwaters had subsided.
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- And i thought about the dove, symbol of the holy spirit,
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- Flying around all through this time trying to find someone that
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- He could land on who would be anointed.
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- And this is the anointment of jesus for the specific purpose
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- That god had brought him into this world as his only
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- Begotten son.
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- And then the dove landed, and then the heavens opened.
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- And the voice of the father said, "this is my beloved son
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- In whom i'm well pleased.
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- Thirty years you've lived, my son.
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- You've done a super job.
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- I'm well pleased with you, my son," the father confirming the
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- Setting aside, the anointment, the call of jesus christ.
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- Now, i want you to see in the very next beginning of the
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- Fourth chapter something that when you read it uninitiated and
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- Fresh, you're sort of startled by it.
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- What a wonderful moment if you think about it.
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- Baptized.
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- Dove comes.
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- Voice from heaven.
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- The whole trinity's there: god the father, god the son, god the
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- Holy spirit.
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- Man, this is the apex of history.
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- And then, look what happens.
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- Chapter number 4: "then jesus was led," in another gospel
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- Translation, it says, "jesus was driven," force, "jesus was led
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- Up by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by
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- The devil.
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- And after he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he then
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- Became hungry," interesting.
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- Mountaintop experience.
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- Then he's thrown into this place of desolation.
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- He's there 40 days, nothing, nothing to eat.
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- Can you imagine how he looked?
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- Forty days fasting, heat, wild animals, one of the gospels
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- Tell us.
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- Emptiness, alone with the father, emaciated, dying of
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- Hunger, right on the borderline of death.
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- And somebody said, "well, that's when satan came to get him at
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- His lowest moment."
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- Wrong!
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- His lowest moment physically, but his highest
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- Moment spiritually.
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- Have you noticed that in your life?
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- When we're down, we're out, we're low, we're desperate,
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- We're empty, we're sick, we're confused, we're mad, we're
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- Angry, we're hurt, and we turn to god in christ, and there is
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- That brokenness and their openness that can become the
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- Highest moment of spiritual power, right?
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- Out of desperation, i really pray.
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- Don't you?
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- Out of desperation, we're so sensitive to god, and all the
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- Forces of evil become so offensive to us.
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- This was a low moment physically, but a high
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- Moment spiritually.
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- And satan comes to him, and i want you to notice what
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- Satan says.
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- It's just--verse 3: "and the tempter came to him, jesus,
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- Said, ‘if you are the son of god, command these stones to
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- Become bread.'"
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- If you are the son of god.
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- My forty days before, jesus and the jordan coming up, the
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- Heavens open, god said, "this is my beloved son."
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- Now, satan comes and says, "if you are the son of god."
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- In other words, satan say, "look at you.
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- You're dying.
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- You have nothing to eat for 40 days.
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- You're out here in the middle of nothing.
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- And you say your purpose is to be god's son."
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- By the way, little parenthesis here, but i want you to
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- Underscore the parentheses.
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- I want you to write in capital letters.
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- Let's be reminded what the purpose of jesus was.
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- Very important.
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- Forget everything.
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- Remember this.
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- The purpose of jesus, god visiting this planet in his son,
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- The incarnation, god with us, the purpose of jesus was to
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- Change the hearts of people so they could enter the kingdom
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- Of god.
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- That's his purpose: to bring the kingdom, right?
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- Change the hearts of you and me and those who come to faith in
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- Him so will we be citizens of the kingdom of god now
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- And forever.
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- That's jesus's life purpose.
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- That's the purpose of the messiah.
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- And therefore, the devil comes and says, "if you are god's
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- Son"--by the way, where--why do we know about this?
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- Jesus told his apostles about it.
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- Nobody knows it, but jesus.
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- See. that's how we know this.
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- Is this temptation real? it's absolutely real.
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- That's the reason jesus told ‘em about it.
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- It was a temptation to him.
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- Was it a temptation to him to turn those stones into bread?
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- A little bit. really not much.
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- A little bit.
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- It was a temptation for him to use his own power for his
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- Own person.
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- He never did that. he didn't do that here.
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- But the temptation is much, much bigger than that.
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- Much, much bigger than that.
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- We are always tempted at the point of our life's purpose.
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- Get that?
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- We're always tempted at the point of our life's purpose.
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- What was his purpose? remember?
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- Change hearts so we can live in his kingdom.
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- That's his purpose.
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- Now here, satan was saying, "you want to have the kingdom?
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- You want people to follow you?
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- Feed them."
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- It was bread.
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- You take all the trimmings out of life.
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- Throw everything else. punt it.
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- Kick it away. take all the trimmings out.
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- What do you have left? bread!
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- Everybody needs bread.
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- You have to have bread, bread, bread.
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- Satan is saying, "hey, you're out here.
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- Nobody's ever heard of you.
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- Look how emaciated, how burned, you are.
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- You're nothing.
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- You're a nobody.
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- If you will use your miraculous power to provide bread, you'll
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- Get a big following."
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- You doubt that?
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- That's the whole story of communism, isn't it?
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- Marx said, "the answer is a plow.
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- It's not prayer."
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- Gandhi said, "even god himself dares not appear to a hungry
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- Man, except in the form of bread."
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- Now, god doesn't just say, "oh, you don't need bread."
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- Lord's prayer: give us this day our daily what?
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- Bread. absolutely.
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- So bread is essential.
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- But here, satan is tempting jesus to say,
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- "the way you're gonna build your kingdom
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- You feed everybody."
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- The whole political agenda of some people even today on this
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- Earth: let's just feed everybody.
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- Get everybody dependent, and they'll follow you.
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- You will be a powerful person. you'll have a kingdom.
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- You'll have followers. just feed them!
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- Feed them, jesus. you have the power to do it.
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- Turn these stones into bread.
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- You can feed the whole world to answer the problem of poverty,
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- The problem of hunger.
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- That's a big thing. that's no little thing.
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- And we are a part of that, but then, jesus said, "man cannot
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- Live but by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of
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- The mouth of god."
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- That's jesus's answer.
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- He's not saying you don't need bread, but he said bread alone
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- Is never enough.
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- It never is.
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- Bread is a temptation of flesh.
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- Remember?
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- Lust of the flesh. lust of the eye.
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- The pride of life.
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- That covers these three temptations, by the way.
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- It's a tempta--you can satisfy all the flesh, all the flesh,
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- All the desires, all the passion with bread, everything else, and
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- When you get through, you'll still be empty.
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- Satisfaction of the flesh is not enough, but by the words of god.
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- You see, we're basically spiritual beings.
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- If you think you're a body with a spirit, you're wrong.
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- You're a spirit that has to put up with this body for a full
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- Score plus or minus.
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- You see, just satisfying the flesh is never enough.
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- It never will be enough.
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- It never has been enough for anybody anywhere any time.
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- With all the clatter and all the noise, satisfy the flesh.
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- Jesus said, "you can't just live by bread alone, but by the
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- Spiritual quality."
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- What comes out of the mouth of god?
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- The word of god? the word became flesh.
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- Stewardship.
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- Oh, that's a part of it.
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- Ownership. that's a part of it.
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- Responsibility. love.
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- The words that comes out of the mouth of god, this flows from
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- Us as we walk with christ, as we are his family.
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- We're his sons and his daughters.
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- So, jesus rejected this first temptation.
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- Man can't live by bread alone.
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- We know that's true.
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- But by the words, by the spiritual quality, that god in
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- Christ gives to those who are his sons and are his daughters.
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- Then look at the next temptation.
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- It has to do with magic.
- 00:13:23.125 --> 00:13:25.628
- Everybody likes magical religion.
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- Look at verse 5: "then the devil took him into the holy city and
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- Had him stand on the pinnacle of the temple," this was herod's
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- Porch there.
- 00:13:35.037 --> 00:13:36.372
- It's about 450 feet, by the way, above the kidron valley, way up
- 00:13:36.372 --> 00:13:40.276
- High, right on, right on the top.
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- "the devil took jesus pinnacle of the temple, and said to him,
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- ‘if you are the son of god, throw yourself down,'” and then
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- The devil quote scripture.
- 00:13:50.419 --> 00:13:52.588
- Amazing.
- 00:13:52.588 --> 00:13:53.923
- "‘he will command his angels concerning you'; and, ‘on their
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- Hands they will bear you up, so that you will not strike your
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- Foot against a stone.'
- 00:14:00.496 --> 00:14:02.564
- And jesus said to him,
- 00:14:02.564 --> 00:14:03.899
- ‘on the other hand,'” and jesus quote scripture.
- 00:14:03.899 --> 00:14:06.535
- By the way, the devil quoted that scripture out of context.
- 00:14:06.535 --> 00:14:09.371
- You can take the bible and twist it around and make it say almost
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- Anything, ladies and gentlemen.
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- I see that all time.
- 00:14:13.842 --> 00:14:15.744
- How absurd. how ridiculous.
- 00:14:15.744 --> 00:14:18.347
- In context, it's a powerful sword.
- 00:14:18.347 --> 00:14:20.582
- So he quotes it.
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- "jesus said, ‘on the other hand, it is written, ‘you shall not
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- Put the lord your god to the test.'"
- 00:14:25.654 --> 00:14:28.624
- Jesus answered by scripture.
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- Deuteronomy 8, deuteronomy 6, deuteronomy 6.
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- All these tests.
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- "go up there, jesus.
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- Jump down.
- 00:14:38.300 --> 00:14:39.935
- And boy, everybody will know you.
- 00:14:39.935 --> 00:14:42.071
- You'll become famous!"
- 00:14:42.071 --> 00:14:44.073
- You know somebody who is famous, they can draw a crowd.
- 00:14:44.073 --> 00:14:46.909
- Man, his facebook will be written.
- 00:14:46.909 --> 00:14:48.978
- It'll just be full.
- 00:14:48.978 --> 00:14:50.312
- People want to let him.
- 00:14:50.312 --> 00:14:51.981
- I wanna be your friend.
- 00:14:51.981 --> 00:14:54.850
- Satan's saying this is the way it works, and jesus
- 00:14:54.850 --> 00:14:59.922
- Rejected this.
- 00:14:59.922 --> 00:15:01.790
- He said, "the idea i can float down and god will protect me,
- 00:15:01.790 --> 00:15:06.428
- That's true.
- 00:15:06.428 --> 00:15:07.763
- But i'm not gonna put god to the test because that's not the way
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- The kingdom is gonna take place."
- 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:13.569
- There's no business like show business.
- 00:15:13.569 --> 00:15:15.270
- You can gather a crowd, get people up, applaud, excited, and
- 00:15:15.270 --> 00:15:18.540
- Say, "boy, what a great guy.
- 00:15:18.540 --> 00:15:19.875
- What a great gal.
- 00:15:19.875 --> 00:15:21.210
- What a great person that is."
- 00:15:21.210 --> 00:15:22.544
- But i'll tell you, jesus says, "i'm not taking that short cut
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- To the kingdom."
- 00:15:25.714 --> 00:15:27.049
- "oh," said satan, "you'll be well-known, and they'll wanna
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- Follow you.
- 00:15:29.451 --> 00:15:30.786
- You're a miracle worker.
- 00:15:30.786 --> 00:15:32.121
- We've never seen anything like it."
- 00:15:32.121 --> 00:15:33.455
- He said, "no, no, no, no, no, no.
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- I'll be testing god.
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- That's not how the kingdom is to come in my life.
- 00:15:36.425 --> 00:15:40.062
- I'll not fulfill my purpose like that."
- 00:15:40.062 --> 00:15:43.799
- See, on a clear day, you can see forever.
- 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:46.835
- And jesus wasn't gonna take a shortcut to the kingdom.
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- No way.
- 00:15:50.873 --> 00:15:52.207
- And then, here is the third temptation, and it's the most
- 00:15:52.207 --> 00:15:55.110
- Beguiling of all that came to him.
- 00:15:55.110 --> 00:15:58.147
- Verse 8: "and the devil took him to a very high mountain and
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- Showed him the kingdoms of the world and their glory; and the
- 00:16:01.850 --> 00:16:05.721
- Devil said to him, ‘all these things i will give to you, if
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- You fall down and worship me.'
- 00:16:09.591 --> 00:16:11.660
- Then jesus said to him, ‘go, satan!
- 00:16:11.660 --> 00:16:14.363
- It is written, ‘you shall worship the lord your god, the
- 00:16:14.363 --> 00:16:19.768
- Lord your god, and serve him only.'"
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- Jesus quoting eighth chapter of deuteronomy--sixth
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- Chapter of deuteronomy.
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- Big temptation.
- 00:16:31.880 --> 00:16:34.083
- Right when the second world war
- 00:16:34.083 --> 00:16:37.052
- Was about to commence, franklin delano roosevelt,
- 00:16:37.052 --> 00:16:40.856
- The president of the united states,
- 00:16:40.856 --> 00:16:43.459
- Sent a telegram to winston churchill.
- 00:16:43.459 --> 00:16:47.096
- In that telegram, he said, referring to mussolini, because
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- They did not know how the fascists, how the italians, they
- 00:16:51.867 --> 00:16:55.270
- Would be on hitler's side, the nazi side, or remain neutral or
- 00:16:55.270 --> 00:16:59.308
- Remain on the side of the allies.
- 00:16:59.308 --> 00:17:01.210
- Italy was sort of in no-man's-land, and so, roosevelt
- 00:17:01.210 --> 00:17:05.447
- Sent a telegram to churchill, who had a relationship with
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- Mussolini, and said, "by all means, keep mussolini from
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- Siding with the nazis."
- 00:17:16.125 --> 00:17:20.996
- Churchill sent a telegram back to fdr and said, "it's too late.
- 00:17:20.996 --> 00:17:28.403
- Hitler has already taken him to the top of a high hill and
- 00:17:28.403 --> 00:17:34.977
- Showed him the kingdoms of this world."
- 00:17:34.977 --> 00:17:38.514
- Look around this world today.
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- Just take a globe. take a map.
- 00:17:40.749 --> 00:17:43.385
- Mention any country you want to mention.
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- Who is an authority? who is the king?
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- Who is the prince? who is the ayatollah?
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- Who's the general?
- 00:17:51.894 --> 00:17:53.228
- Who's a dictator? who's the president?
- 00:17:53.228 --> 00:17:56.298
- Who's the prime minister?
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- With few exceptions, we could say it is controlled by those
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- Who are secularist and under the control of demonic powers, all
- 00:18:03.272 --> 00:18:07.609
- Across the world right now.
- 00:18:07.609 --> 00:18:10.979
- And if jesus, if jesus--satan would say, "jesus, i'll give you
- 00:18:10.979 --> 00:18:16.818
- All of this."
- 00:18:16.818 --> 00:18:18.820
- You see, first, he was tempted by bread to bring in
- 00:18:18.820 --> 00:18:21.523
- The kingdom.
- 00:18:21.523 --> 00:18:22.858
- Then he was tempted by magic. you know, jump off the temple.
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- Get a big crowd. be a celebrity.
- 00:18:25.460 --> 00:18:28.063
- Now, he's tempted by power.
- 00:18:28.063 --> 00:18:29.398
- He says, "i control all of this."
- 00:18:29.398 --> 00:18:31.433
- He does today, does he not, basically?
- 00:18:31.433 --> 00:18:34.303
- He controls all of this, and he says, "i will give you all
- 00:18:34.303 --> 00:18:38.607
- This power.
- 00:18:38.607 --> 00:18:39.942
- All you have to do is just worship me a little bit.
- 00:18:39.942 --> 00:18:42.544
- Just bow the knee toward satan a little bit."
- 00:18:42.544 --> 00:18:45.380
- See, this is the first commandment: thou shalt have no
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- Other gods before me.
- 00:18:48.951 --> 00:18:50.352
- God is exclusive.
- 00:18:50.352 --> 00:18:53.522
- He's exclusive, and he always wants you and i to take
- 00:18:53.522 --> 00:18:58.594
- Something and make it an idol to replace his kingdom and replace
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- Him as the only object worthy of our worship.
- 00:19:05.033 --> 00:19:09.705
- Jesus saw all the way through this shortcut to the kingdom.
- 00:19:09.705 --> 00:19:14.176
- He said, "you shall worship the lord thy god, and only the lord
- 00:19:14.176 --> 00:19:17.913
- Thy god shall you serve and shall you worship."
- 00:19:17.913 --> 00:19:20.816
- Remember his purpose.
- 00:19:20.816 --> 00:19:23.485
- His purpose was to change lives, change hearts, so that we could
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- Be members of his kingdom.
- 00:19:29.992 --> 00:19:33.662
- Now, these temptations were about how jesus would fulfill
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- His life's purpose.
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- You got that?
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- Bread, magic or power.
- 00:19:42.004 --> 00:19:45.107
- And those are still there.
- 00:19:45.107 --> 00:19:46.875
- There are a lot of people who want a magical religion instead
- 00:19:46.875 --> 00:19:49.311
- Of a moral religion.
- 00:19:49.311 --> 00:19:50.646
- Just zap me!
- 00:19:50.646 --> 00:19:51.980
- Just heal me!
- 00:19:51.980 --> 00:19:53.315
- Here's someone who's made bad choice after bad choice after
- 00:19:53.315 --> 00:19:56.451
- Bad choice after bad choice, and now they're sick mentally,
- 00:19:56.451 --> 00:20:00.022
- Emotionally, and probably physically.
- 00:20:00.022 --> 00:20:02.090
- They-- "oh, lord!
- 00:20:02.090 --> 00:20:03.425
- Heal me, i want magic!"
- 00:20:03.425 --> 00:20:06.528
- Real faith in christ works through morality and repentance.
- 00:20:06.528 --> 00:20:11.433
- That's how christ comes, and that's how he heals us from the
- 00:20:11.433 --> 00:20:14.603
- Inside out.
- 00:20:14.603 --> 00:20:16.705
- That's how he works.
- 00:20:16.705 --> 00:20:18.040
- Oh, we want magic. oh, no.
- 00:20:18.040 --> 00:20:20.509
- It's a miracle.
- 00:20:20.509 --> 00:20:23.178
- That's how he works.
- 00:20:21.843 --> 00:20:24.513
- That's how he heals.
- 00:20:24.513 --> 00:20:25.847
- So, the challenge here i say, well, how do we
- 00:20:25.847 --> 00:20:29.051
- Resist temptation?
- 00:20:29.051 --> 00:20:30.686
- I guess we fill our lives with scripture.
- 00:20:30.686 --> 00:20:32.754
- That's a good--that's 25% true.
- 00:20:32.754 --> 00:20:36.158
- If i'm gonna stand up against temptation, i need to have my
- 00:20:36.158 --> 00:20:39.928
- Life full of scripture.
- 00:20:39.928 --> 00:20:41.263
- Jesus was just full of the word of god, was he not?
- 00:20:41.263 --> 00:20:44.599
- That's how he answered all the temptations.
- 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:46.635
- Deuteronomy 8, two passages, deuteronomy 6.
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- It's like a sponge.
- 00:20:48.737 --> 00:20:50.205
- You put a sponge in water, and you just fill it up
- 00:20:50.205 --> 00:20:52.040
- And it is full of water.
- 00:20:52.040 --> 00:20:53.608
- It doesn't have any room anything else.
- 00:20:53.608 --> 00:20:54.943
- If the word of god, the scripture, memorization of
- 00:20:54.943 --> 00:20:57.646
- Scripture, is in there, man, that's what happened.
- 00:20:57.646 --> 00:21:00.215
- The devil couldn't get a foothold in jesus's life because
- 00:21:00.215 --> 00:21:02.851
- He was full of scripture.
- 00:21:02.851 --> 00:21:06.421
- But i've got bad news for you.
- 00:21:06.421 --> 00:21:09.291
- You could memorize the whole bible word for word, genesis
- 00:21:09.291 --> 00:21:13.061
- To revelation.
- 00:21:13.061 --> 00:21:15.030
- You say, boy, i put on the full armor of god.
- 00:21:15.030 --> 00:21:17.332
- I've got scripture.
- 00:21:17.332 --> 00:21:18.667
- I'm ready to combat satan.
- 00:21:18.667 --> 00:21:20.001
- Oh, no.
- 00:21:20.001 --> 00:21:21.336
- Satan was not trying to get jesus to sin and to fall so that
- 00:21:21.336 --> 00:21:26.908
- He would no longer be a good example.
- 00:21:26.908 --> 00:21:30.078
- Wasn't about jesus being a good example.
- 00:21:30.078 --> 00:21:32.047
- He is a good example, to be sure, but that's not the
- 00:21:32.047 --> 00:21:36.017
- Primary issue.
- 00:21:36.017 --> 00:21:37.352
- That's 25% of it.
- 00:21:37.352 --> 00:21:39.921
- Jesus primarily is our savior and our substitute.
- 00:21:39.921 --> 00:21:46.061
- That's what this is all about.
- 00:21:46.061 --> 00:21:47.662
- It's how we would be saved, our hearts changed and brought to
- 00:21:47.662 --> 00:21:51.166
- His kingdom.
- 00:21:51.166 --> 00:21:52.501
- It's how we'd be salvaged, restored, the purpose for which
- 00:21:52.501 --> 00:21:55.737
- We were made, save, save, save, not example.
- 00:21:55.737 --> 00:22:01.576
- You're in the middle of the pacific ocean.
- 00:22:01.576 --> 00:22:04.513
- Nobody's around.
- 00:22:04.513 --> 00:22:05.847
- There's no boards, there's no boats, no hope, and
- 00:22:05.847 --> 00:22:08.817
- You're drowning.
- 00:22:08.817 --> 00:22:11.420
- Jesus comes and says, "hey, watch me.
- 00:22:11.420 --> 00:22:14.556
- I'm gonna show you how to swim.
- 00:22:14.556 --> 00:22:16.658
- Watch me.
- 00:22:16.658 --> 00:22:17.993
- I'm a good example.
- 00:22:17.993 --> 00:22:19.327
- Watch me."
- 00:22:19.327 --> 00:22:20.662
- You're not gonna swim out, even with jesus as an example, a
- 00:22:20.662 --> 00:22:24.032
- Thousand miles and make it, right?
- 00:22:24.032 --> 00:22:27.803
- You don't need an example if you're drowning in the middle of
- 00:22:27.803 --> 00:22:30.539
- The pacific ocean.
- 00:22:30.539 --> 00:22:31.873
- You need a savior, somebody who will take you out of the depths
- 00:22:31.873 --> 00:22:36.645
- And lift you up.
- 00:22:36.645 --> 00:22:38.180
- Jesus came as a savior to establish his kingdom.
- 00:22:38.180 --> 00:22:43.518
- Member of our staff tells a story about her mother brought
- 00:22:43.518 --> 00:22:48.990
- Up in south louisiana and said as a little girl, her mom was
- 00:22:48.990 --> 00:22:53.061
- Playing in the yard, and a moccasin, water moccasin, came
- 00:22:53.061 --> 00:22:57.532
- Out of the swamp and bit this little girl on the arm, and she
- 00:22:57.532 --> 00:23:03.138
- Ran in crying.
- 00:23:03.138 --> 00:23:04.840
- They were so far away, they could not get help, but her
- 00:23:04.840 --> 00:23:08.009
- Father took and made a cross over the place she was bitten
- 00:23:08.009 --> 00:23:13.448
- And sucked all the poison out, all the poison out, and she
- 00:23:13.448 --> 00:23:20.555
- Was saved.
- 00:23:20.555 --> 00:23:23.024
- That's what jesus did on that cross.
- 00:23:23.024 --> 00:23:26.194
- All of these options that satan offered, shortcuts to establish
- 00:23:26.194 --> 00:23:31.600
- The kingdom, was to keep jesus from having to go to the cross,
- 00:23:31.600 --> 00:23:35.337
- But it is on the cross is where jesus sucked all the poison out
- 00:23:35.337 --> 00:23:38.907
- Of you and me when he died for you and died for me.
- 00:23:38.907 --> 00:23:41.943
- And that's salvation now, and he not only came as our savior, he
- 00:23:41.943 --> 00:23:50.051
- Came as our substitute.
- 00:23:50.051 --> 00:23:53.889
- He took our sin upon him.
- 00:23:53.889 --> 00:23:57.559
- On his back, he bore the price, but he's our substitute now.
- 00:23:57.559 --> 00:24:02.330
- Let's get just real practical, ladies and gentlemen.
- 00:24:02.330 --> 00:24:06.201
- Martin luther was asked, "martin, how do you
- 00:24:06.201 --> 00:24:11.873
- Handle temptation?"
- 00:24:11.873 --> 00:24:14.776
- He said, "well," he said, "what i do is when the devil knocks on
- 00:24:14.776 --> 00:24:19.281
- The door of my house, i just send jesus christ to the door,
- 00:24:19.281 --> 00:24:25.420
- And the devil says, ‘i wanna talk with martin.'
- 00:24:25.420 --> 00:24:29.291
- And jesus says, ‘he doesn't live here anymore.
- 00:24:29.291 --> 00:24:33.828
- You're gonna have to talk to me.'"
- 00:24:33.828 --> 00:24:38.033
- I was crucified with christ.
- 00:24:38.033 --> 00:24:40.335
- We were crucified with christ.
- 00:24:40.335 --> 00:24:41.670
- Nevertheless, i live.
- 00:24:41.670 --> 00:24:43.004
- Nevertheless, you live.
- 00:24:43.004 --> 00:24:44.339
- Not i, not you, but christ who lives within us.
- 00:24:44.339 --> 00:24:49.244
- Very simple to send him to the door.
- 00:24:49.244 --> 00:24:54.816
- Send him to the door, the lord jesus christ, and the devil will
- 00:24:54.816 --> 00:25:00.088
- Run from you.
- 00:25:00.088 --> 00:25:02.357
- Pastor ed: this past year, we have seen god work in amazing
- 00:25:04.092 --> 00:25:07.996
- Ways through "the winning walk," and it is so encouraging to see
- 00:25:07.996 --> 00:25:11.866
- How the lord is using this broadcast to change hearts and
- 00:25:11.866 --> 00:25:15.737
- Lives all around the world.
- 00:25:15.737 --> 00:25:18.406
- Recently, we heard from a viewer in florida, among many we hear
- 00:25:18.406 --> 00:25:22.711
- From, but she emailed us to find out how to become a christian.
- 00:25:22.711 --> 00:25:28.717
- We called her, and while sharing the plan of new life of
- 00:25:28.717 --> 00:25:31.920
- Salvation, her husband, who was in prison, called her on the
- 00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:35.890
- Other line.
- 00:25:35.890 --> 00:25:37.225
- She told her husband that he needed to hear the same
- 00:25:37.225 --> 00:25:41.129
- Life-changing truth and had him listen in on the call.
- 00:25:41.129 --> 00:25:45.500
- And you know how god works.
- 00:25:45.500 --> 00:25:47.469
- As only god can orchestrate, both husband and wife were led
- 00:25:47.469 --> 00:25:51.873
- To christ right there on the spot.
- 00:25:51.873 --> 00:25:54.776
- I don't know about you, but i never tire of seeing how god
- 00:25:54.776 --> 00:25:58.747
- Uses just ordinary people, like you and like me, to impact lives
- 00:25:58.747 --> 00:26:03.918
- For the kingdom of god forever.
- 00:26:03.918 --> 00:26:07.522
- Listen, i'm personally thankful that god uses this broadcast to
- 00:26:07.522 --> 00:26:12.560
- Take the transforming truth of the bible to reach over a
- 00:26:12.560 --> 00:26:16.031
- Million people every single week.
- 00:26:16.031 --> 00:26:19.134
- But there's so many more we need to reach out to who have never
- 00:26:19.134 --> 00:26:22.971
- Heard the story of what god has done for man in jesus christ,
- 00:26:22.971 --> 00:26:26.207
- The good news.
- 00:26:26.207 --> 00:26:27.976
- This month marks the end of our fiscal year, our financial year,
- 00:26:27.976 --> 00:26:33.214
- And your support is critical as we look for opportunities to
- 00:26:33.214 --> 00:26:37.452
- Expand the reach of "the winning walk."
- 00:26:37.452 --> 00:26:40.388
- But for that to happen, a $50,000 need must be met.
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- So pray about what god would have you to give by the end of
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- This month.
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- You may have never given to a telecast, but i can tell
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- You something.
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- Just like i said, money given to this broadcast can be
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- Transformed into changed lives, homes that are saved, people
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- That have a whole new sense of life.
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- Let me thank you for giving, for your stewardship,
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- To "the winning walk."
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- ♪♪♪
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