Week 8: Testing in the Wilderness

Testing in the Wilderness

Luke 4:1-13 NIV

15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Hebrews 4:15

1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the  and was led by the Spirit into the , 2 where for  he was  by the . Luke 4:1-2

Waters                         Waters

Wilderness                  Wilderness

Period of 40                Period of 40

Testing                         Testing

The devil is a personal, powerful, relentless, and strategic spiritual being, consumed with trying to oppose God’s and destroy God’s .

The temptations are about NOT trusting God’s provision and relying on our own and to get what we want.

What Satan offers Jesus is a without the .

What God wants for us is faith all by .

Jesus was…

• by the Holy Spirit.

• saturated in .

• in with God.

We need more than a great . We need a !

But thanks be to God! He gives the through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Cor. 15:57