Preaching Jesus' Temptations
Don't preach to stopping the outward. Preach to lead people to satisfy the hunger in their soul by Hearing & Following Jesus.
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.
Luke 15:1-2
Jesus was hungry.
After 40 days, that is an understatement!
Everyone has a hunger. A hunger that goes beyond the physical.
Every time you go to the created order to satisfy, you are fulfilling a deep hunger in your soul.
Sin isn’t about the act. Sin is about how you’re satisfying your soul with his created order in a way God alone can satisfy.
Provision
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Wonder
The temptations are not about eating bread, worshipping the devil or jumping off a building.
They are about satisfying a deeper hunger.
And Jesus was tempted in every way the same as we are. Our deeper temptation is what we try to satisfy.
As you preach, lead people to understand they have a deeper hunger. A hunger in their soul only Jesus can satisfy.
A hunger only Hearing & Following Jesus will fully satisfy.