Mat_4:8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an
exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the
glory of them
The devil showed
Jesus all the kingdoms of the world, but not just that, he showed them the
glory of those kingdoms. What do you
imagine he showed to Jesus? What was the glory he believed would entice God in
Flesh, the declared Son of God, the One he knew had a part in his own creation,
the creation of the world he claimed as his?
We can't forget that satan knew Jesus in heaven, He knew him as his
creator, he knew Him as God with God. He
knew Him in His spirit form. Satan also knew that when He brought sin into the
new world created by Jesus, that God the Father and God who was to become the
declared Son told Adam and Eve that an enmity would be put between Satan and
mankind.
Gen_3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the
woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou
shalt bruise his heel.
Satan knew that the
One who could bruise his head- killing him- was before Him as God in the flesh.
He KNEW the prediction that while he would hurt the One before him, the One
before him would destroy him. He needed
to go by all He knew of God in the flesh, God now subject to temptation because
He was flesh. He knew of God's love for
the world He'd created so he offered them back to Him.
Mat 4:9 And saith unto him, All these things will I
give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
He was telling
Jesus, God in the flesh, that He needn't be bruised at all, that He could have
what He wanted, the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them.
Again, what did he
show to Jesus, what was the glory that would entice God in the flesh to be
tempted to give up His purpose for taking on that flesh?
What did Jesus die
for? You and I, right? But Satan was
tempting Him with THINGS, with all the glories of the kingdom, all the things
any human would find tempting and even Jesus would find tempting, but He would
NOT yield His mind to the temptations before Him not even when they were
everything He could want as a human being, yet lacked everything He wanted as
God. He wanted the end to sin, an end to the thing that separated Him from His
Human creations.
Mat_4:8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an
exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the
glory of them
Jesus was shown
everything the world had to offer any human being and He through His Father's
power resisted the temptations that we face.
He felt the temptation it was REAL or else there wasn't a single point
in satan tempting Him, not one. He knew the temptation, the force of the
temptation, and none of us can ever say that our temptations are greater than
His ever were. Our temptations may be
more complex because of our technology but they all have the same root causes
every single one.
Are we choosing the
world over Jesus because of the temptations we succumb to, the temptations we
fight against? Temptations are REAL,
temptations are STRONG, temptations are going to come at us all the time with
the SOLE objective to separate us from Jesus.
We choose- the world
and all the glories of it, or Jesus.
By the grace of our
LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, may be choose JESUS. Please Father, keep us from
EVIL, all in YOUR GRACE, YOUR LOVE.
Amen.
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