15 Jul 2014

Matthew 4:1

Posted by joncooper

Matthew 4:1: “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.”

This is interesting. Jesus was baptized (which is an interesting fact all in itself) and God audibly identified Him as His Son. There was an amazing visual depiction of the Trinity, and then right after that Jesus was led into the wilderness to be tempted. We have a tremendous spiritual high that is followed by a difficult trial.

Some people have wondered if it was even possible for Jesus to sin. I don’t think He could have, because James 1:13 says that God cannot be tempted by evil. Jesus did have a human side, but even His human side did not have a sin nature, and evil simply does not tempt God. As the Bible says, He was tempted just as we were, but He never sinned. It is not in God’s nature to sin. However, it is in our nature to sin, and we sin all the time.

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