Matthew 4:1-10

"Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil … the tempter came to Him, he said, ‘If You are the Son of God, …’...."

"Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil. For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very..."

"[Continuing the temptations,] the devil took [Jesus] to the holy city, Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple, and said, "If you are the Son of..."

"[Continuing the temptations,] the devil took [Jesus] to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory...."

""I will give it all to you," he [the devil] said [to Jesus], "if you will kneel down and worship me." "Get out of here, Satan," Jesus told him. "For....."

Can you sway without breaking or falling? Mike Barres reminds us that we need to be like trees: flexible, rooted, connected, and built on the rock.

"[After his baptism,] Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil."

"[After his baptism,] Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil."

"Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'""

"A holy character does not avert temptation-Jesus was tempted. When Satan tempts us, his sparks fall upon tinder; but in Christ's case, it was like..."

Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. - Matthew 4:4

Because he knew the true and living God, the heart behind the Scriptures, he could recognize the forger, the fraud — Satan — who tried to distort and misuse truth and Scripture. James Nored and Phil Ware discuss the temptations and trials of Jesus and why they are important to us and what they have to say to us as people who are part of God's story.

Is the Word of God alive in your life? We need to be more diligent in reading the Word of God.

It's not a Sunday morning deal we make with God! Brian McCutchen talks about worship and how it must be a daily part of our lives or it is not real worship like the early Christians shared and lived.

Have you been trusting in the wrong things? It is so easy to be deceived by the evil one, but the Scriptures can help us like they helped Jesus overcome temptation.