Feb. 12, 2025

Temptation of Jesus: How He Won

Temptation of Jesus: How He Won

We conclude our discussion about the temptation of Jesus

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We conclude our discussion about the temptation of Jesus

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective.

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This is the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central.

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Good afternoon everyone.

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It is Wednesday, February twelfth, twenty twenty five. It is

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currently twelve thirty five pm Central Time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here.

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In Abilene, Texas. Well.

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For the last few days, I've been asking this question,

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did you go to chapel service today?

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How is chapel service now?

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I'm gonna be honest with you. I didn't get anywhere

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near at chapel service today. I didn't even open the

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sermon's two point oh app. I was running way behind today,

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did not get to things. Things here just did not

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really work in favor of getting to chapel service. I know,

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I know, no real excuse, but I didn't make it.

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If you made it great, how was it?

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Was it okay? And you said, what are you referring to?

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I'm referring to the sermons two point oh app, the

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sermon audio website that little tab there that says webcast,

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and many of the Christian colleges and Bible colleges they

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air their chapel services Pensacola, Bob Jones Ambassador Bible caller,

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Baptist College. There's a number of them that air their

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chapel services, and so we've been kind of joking because

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this week kind of started with me watching one and

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then immediately talking about what they said. So did you

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go to chapel service? If you did, what was it,

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how was it was it good? I have awt now

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I didn't make it to chapel service. I have been

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watching and listening to a lot of the special There's

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been a lot of I guess revival meetings going on,

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special meetings going on at a number of churches on

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the sermon's two point oh app I've been paying attention

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and listening to their messages. What's interesting is typically this

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is really interesting. Over the last few days, I have

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heard the term hypostat union used maybe three times, and

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it's usually a term that's not typically used. Now what's

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fascinating is I've heard them mention hypostatic union, and then

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I've almost heard them then almost promote ideas that would

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almost be against the hypostatic union idea, right. It would

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almost go with what we'll call knotic theology or a

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canosis heresy, and it's kind of been fascinating. They've mentioned

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the actual hypostatic union. Now they've not read, you know,

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anything about the hypostatic union or even truly define it

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defined it.

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But I found it odd that I've heard that mentioned.

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I think it was at one of the revival meetings

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yesterday they did that. Now this morning I was watching.

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It was a youth rally. It was a youth rally.

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I'm dropping my pencil here. It was a youth rally.

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Now this one wasn't live.

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It was one that had been uploaded, and it was

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a youth rally and they were in Genesis twenty four

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and whoam no, no, no, no no.

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I got issues with that one.

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So we may have to review that because Genesis twenty four,

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if you know, that's the story of Abraham, Abram, Abraham

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finding Isaac a wife, and that story has been so

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it's been well, it's almost always interpreted as typology, where

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Abraham's God, the Father, the servant is the Holy Spirit,

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Rebecca's like the church. I think it gets it gets

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all kinds of crazy the way they do the typology there.

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It turns into how you're supposed to find a wife,

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it turns into crazy things. So I want to correct that.

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I want to correct that. I want to spend a

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lot of time with that. So I was going to

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do that, but I'm like, you know what, I can't

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really do that.

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I can't. I can't.

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I didn't go to chapel service, so we can't talk

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about that. I want to talk about the hypostatic union,

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which we may get into a we may this what

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we're doing now may lead into it. I want to

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talk about Genesis twenty four, but we know where we

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have to do, right because our empty notebook kind of

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got filled up with Matthew chapter four this week, So

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we need to go back to Matthew chapter four.

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And remember how all of this started.

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This what we've done almost two hours now on Matthew

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chapter four.

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This all started because of a what was.

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It a fifteen minute maybe not even fifteen minutes, a

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ten minute devotional that I heard on the sermons two

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point zero app And I cannot stress this enough. Look,

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listening to sermons at times can be maddening.

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It can almost dry.

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And I say this jokingly, but there's a little bit

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of seriousness to it, not that I will actually end

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up at this location.

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But it makes me feel this way.

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Sometimes listening to sermons makes me want to get in

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the car and drive to the liquor store because I

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can't take it anymore. It's maddening, it's frustrating. It's like

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what is going on the way the text is handled,

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the constant disagreement about everything, all the different interpretations you get.

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It can be maddening. But what I want you.

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To realize is, no matter how bad the sermons are,

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no matter how short they are, no matter how long

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they are, no matter if you agree with them, no

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matter if you disagree with them, if you and I've

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got to remind myself of this. So this is I'm

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not even preaching to you. I'm preaching to myself. When

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we take this wonderful tool that we have, the sermons

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two point zero app with all of these sermons, you know,

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around five to six thousand sermons added every single week.

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Just try to wrap your mind around that five to

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six thousand sermons added a week. I can't even process

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that right. And many of those may drive us crazy,

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They may drive us to the liquor store, you know,

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figuratively speaking, metaphorically speaking, But if you will listen.

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No matter what, no matter how it makes.

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You feel, if you will allow that sermon to lead

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you into the text, make you study the text, make

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you take the text apart, make you consider theology, make

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you consider doctrine, make you consider church history, make you

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consider hermeneutics. If it leads you to a deeper study,

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then no matter how bad it was, we should be

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grateful for it. Right, Like I mean this, We've been

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taking apart this little ten minute devotional on Matthew four,

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and we found the good in it.

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Right, it gave us.

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It gave us the three reasons Jesus was tempted, and

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those were really good. Right, Jesus was tempted to fulfill

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all righteousness on our behalf. Jesus was tempted to become

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a merciful and sympathetic high priest. Jesus was tempted to

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succeed where Adam failed, so he become the head of

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redeem humanity. He would be the second atom. We talked

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about it, and we broke those down into great detail.

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We almost spent an hour doing that. So we applauded

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the good, but the bad is it went from here

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are the reasons Jesus was tempted to here is how

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Jesus overcame. And immediately I felt that this throws up

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some concerns. And while we have been talking about it,

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not only that, guess what.

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This ten minute devotional got us.

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Into a lengthy discussion about should Matthew four be interpreted

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as descriptive or prescriptive.

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And I made the argument.

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I made the case that we have to look at

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Matthew four as descriptive. Matthew four is a how is

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showing you that Jesus was tempted like we were, but

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yet without sin, and as a result he fulfilled the law.

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And it was demonstrating that he would fulfill the law,

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he would fulfill all righteousness on your behalf. The sermon

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on the temptation of Jesus is not showing us that

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we can overcome sin.

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By imitating Jesus.

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It's showing that we overcome of sin by being in Jesus,

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by being united with him, because he did it for us.

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He's not showing us how we can do it.

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It's showing us he did it so that in him,

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his righteousness and obedience is imputed to my account.

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So I think that was a.

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Look whether we agree or disagree with the ten minute devotional,

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look at all the things that have come from it,

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and we're not even done.

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We're just we still have more to do. So what

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I'm going to do here?

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And I hope you just see that that And I look,

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it's difficult for me. Sometimes I'll listen to a sermon

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like I don't ever want to listen to another sermon.

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Again, I give up.

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But you know what, if I listen to a sermon,

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even if I disagree with it, if it gets us

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into the text, then it's worth it, right, It's worth it.

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So I'm hoping. Look, I've got to remind myself of that.

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Maybe I'm preaching to myself. But on one hand, I

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look at all that this wonderful tool that we have,

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which is just you know, the sermon's two point oh out,

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the entire sermona audio platform, thousands upon thousands of sermons

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being added a week. We have all of this content,

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all right, how can I better use it? But then

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sometimes when I start using it, I get frustrated by it.

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But then I got to think, you know what, that

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frustration sometimes leads me to actually challenging myself with the text,

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and that is a positive thing. So I hope you

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I hope you realize that and you're you still utilize

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it as much as possible. But now we've got to

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get to some frustration. Well, do you hear that. I

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don't know if you hear it, that's that next door

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neighbors their dog is just barking and barking and barking

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and barking. If you hear that during this broadcast, just

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remember it because I may try to utilize that as

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a uh as an important illustration here, hopefully I can

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you just hear it's just barking and barking and barking

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and barking.

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Okay, just keep If.

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You hear that in the background, I'm aware of it.

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There's nothing I can do about it. I could go

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over there and try to talk to the dog. I

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don't think it's going to understand. Just let's just remember

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it because I may try to use this in an illustration.

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But here's what we need to do.

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We're going to go back to this little devotional that

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I heard. We've talked about the first part of the

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devotional where they explained why Jesus was tempted. We are

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in complete agreement with it, we expounded upon it, we

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expanded it, and I thought it was a great conversation,

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a great discussion, and I think it was good.

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But now we have and at the same time, then we.

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Got into a discussion about Matthew four being a descriptive

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not prescriptive, and we talked about all of that.

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You need to go back and listen if you didn't.

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But now we got to get to the how how

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did Jesus overcome temptation?

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How did he win the battle? How did he do? This?

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Is this teaching us?

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Now I've already clearly, I've already made up I've already

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made it very very clear my perspective. This is descriptive.

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It's not prescriptive. It's not prescribing how I overcome sin

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other than showing me Jesus did. And then I know

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I can only overcome sin and Jesus and my position.

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And my practice.

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I will never overcome sin because I'm in a perpetual

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state of sin. Now, you can try to pretend that

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you overcome sin by pointing to a specific one or

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specific things, but you can have one hundred things on

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your list that you don't do.

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You're still in sin.

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Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Christians

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never want to acknowledge this, but this is just true

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from any reasonable understanding of the command to be perfect

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as God is perfect, You're never going to be that.

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So you're in a perpetual state of sin. So when

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we look at this, how did Jesus overcome we're just

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going to allow this to start, and then we're going

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to get into breaking this down and how we should

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understand this and what things we should avoid. So let's

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go back and listen to just what maybe a minute here,

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This is going to go by really quick. He just

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says and and in fact, when I start this audio,

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he's basically saying something.

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even saying that way I think is syllo logically flaws.

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obvious reason he didn't send But okay, well, well we'll

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because for some reason churches always record everything as such

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got to listen quickly.

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I don't. Can you listen quickly? Just pay attention.

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Here we go, thus fixing Adam's fall by reversing the

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curse of the Garden of Eden. And how did he

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do it? As are Messiah who was fully maned. Jesus

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the Word of God.

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Jesus, Now, please, did you hear the key elements there?

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does he stress? He ignores the deity of Christ. He

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relying on the Holy Spirit and by scripture? Just know

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he emphasized the humanity of Christ and the reliance of

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the Holy Spirit and scripture. Now he's going to say

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Jesus was empowered by the Holy Spirit and he quoted

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Scripture to the devil using the sword of the Spirit

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to fight the enemy. Now, think about this. If Jesus

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how foolish would we be to try to face Satan's

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temptations in our own wisdom, to think that we could

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help smart him more outreason him. We must depend upon

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the Holy Spirit, and we must use the word of God,

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just as Jesus did.

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he needed the scriptures like he needed this in order

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not to sin. He needed this in order to overcome sin.

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I got a million thiological problems with the way this

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I got a million problems here, all right.

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course immediately he turns it into see this as being prescriptive.

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on the Holy Spirit and quote Scripture to the devil,

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and then we can overcome sin just like Jesus.

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See, Jesus did it this way, Now you do it

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this way, and you'll get similar results. Well, if that's

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the case, all I had to do is rely on

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the Holy Spirit quote scripture, and I should be perfect

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because well Jesus was perfect. Well no, no, I'm not

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saying you'll do it perfectly.

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Either I can do it or I can't do it.

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Either this leads to the same conclusion or it doesn't.

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can rely on the Holy Spirit quote scripture, but you

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still can't be perfect. Okay, well, then so does it

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help me win or does it Well, it helps you

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win some, but not win. Then it becomes this all discombobulated,

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convoluted mess. And again you're making the passage prescriptive.

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It's not. It's descriptive. So let's take this apart.

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Now we've gone through all of this, I'm gonna I'm

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I'm skipping down on all of these notes. I'm not

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gonna go back and review everything because.

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I think I think there's to me.

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I think there are legitimate concerns, legitimate concerns, and I

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believe they highlight significant theological and interpretive issues. When we

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handle Matthew four more in a prescriptive way, than a

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descriptive way. So I'm just gonna go through a number

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of things here. Some of these things will be somewhat

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repeating what we've already discussed. Some of these will be

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adding to it, because I want to build on this

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and I want to try to get us away from

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handling Matthew four like most sermons handle it. I think

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most sermons handle Matthew four. It's a travesty. It's spiritual malpractice.

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It's wrong, all right. So let's look at the problem

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of turning jesus temptation into a prescriptive formula. That's why

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it almost always happens. You want to know how to

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overcome sin, We'll open your Bibles to Matthew chapter four,

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and we're gonna learn the formula. We're gonna learn the

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way to overcome sin because all we gotta do is

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do what Jesus did and we'll get similar results.

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I think that's absolutely nonsensical.

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Ridiculous, illogical, theologically in error. I think it's crazy, okay,

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Many sermons and Bible studies I've got, I've got books

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all around me.

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I could pull up books and just look you've got the.

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Sermons two point oh app today. Look you know what

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you do today? Just start listening to sermons on Matthew four.

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Go tell me what you've find. You tell me what

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you find. Don't take my word for it. Go listen

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and see what you find. I believe many Bible studies, sermons, books, commentaries,

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they typically present the victory of Jesus over temptation as

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a step by step method. For you and I, it

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will go something like this, how do you overcome temptation?

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How do you overcome sin? How can you resist the devil?

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Number one? Be filled with the Holy Spirit?

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the Holy Spirit.

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How do you know you're filled with the Holy Spirit?

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While the evidence of.

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That is speaking in tongues? Okay, and I completely reject that.

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something that happens after salvation. And maybe it may work somewhat,

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you know, at the same time, but you can be

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saved and then receive the Holy Spirit later. We can

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get into that all discussion. Of course, I reject everything

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charismatic say all the way around.

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Believe that we are filled with the Holy Spirit at salvation.

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So be saved, be filled with the Holy Spirit. Okay,

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have the Holy Spirit, you have to be filled with

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the Holy Spirit. And that's not the Holy Spirit getting

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more of you. That that's not you getting more of

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the Holy Spirit. That's the Holy Spirit getting more of you.

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I means you have to surrender to the Holy Spirit

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so that you can be filled with the Holy Spirit.

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in order to be filled by the Holy Spirit, which

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means I have to do these things apart from the

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power of the Holy Spirit in order to be filled,

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so that I can then have the power of the

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Holy Spirit. But if I can do all of these things,

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surrendering and doing all of this in order to be filled,

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then I don't need the Holy Spirit after I'm filled

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because I was able to do it.

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Okay, then it gets.

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All convoluted and complicated again. All right, But the idea is,

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you got to be filled with the Holy Spirit. You

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have to memorize scripture, so you got to be like Jesus.

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When temptation comes, you can just quote scripture.

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can just quote it right. Number three.

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Whatever the temptation is, you quote it, whatever that whatever

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it is, you got to quote it right. So for example,

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now the dog's not barking, but if the dog starts

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barking again, the dog is irritating me. It's frustrating me

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because I'm trying to do teaching and it's barking. So

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you know what, do all things without complaining and grumbling?

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Do all things without complaining and grumbling?

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So does that fix it? Well, some will take the

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idea that it does. All right.

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There I sneezed, okay, I apologize for that. So that

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frustrates me. So now that now I'm irritating. Oh, do

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all things without grumbling and complaining? Do all things without

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do not get irritated, do not be okay?

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And then guess what will happen? So fulfilled with the

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Holy Spirit womor scripture, we quote Scripture.

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Victory over sin will follow. That's what you have to do. Right.

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So I should not be frustrated. I should not be irritated,

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right because, and I should not be complaining. I should

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not be grumbling. Right So, even though the dog is barking,

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even though I had to sneeze in the middle of

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a broadcast, which is irritating, all right, hopefully I got

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it muted. No, no, no, no, don't be filled with anxiety, worry, frustration. Okay,

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So if I just quote it, then it should all work, right.

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Now, Let's be honest.

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This practical, the practical application of this. This sounds appilling,

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doesn't it doesn't it sound appealing. When I was a young.

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Christian, I would love this.

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I would love Oh yes, give me the step step one,

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step two, step three, step four, step five, because I'm

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a teenager and I struggle with this and I want

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to do this and I want to do this.

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Okay, I just need these steps. Okay, Okay, what do

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I do? What do I do do? Okay, I do this.

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I do this. I would read every I remember. In fact,

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I have the book. I think it's downstairs.

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I'm looking. I'm looking. Make sure I don't have a

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copy up here. I think it's downstairs.

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It's written by Charles Stanley, An Overcoming Temptation Man. I

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had that book marked up so much as a teenager.

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I'm like, Okay, I'm going to follow all of these steps,

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and I would get this book and get this book

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and this book and this book. That's why books sell

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so well, especially a lot of times. Amongst I've told

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you before. I'll just give you an example. I know,

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I cut myself off there. One of the most successful

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things we ever offered as I offered a PDF file

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that was about to help men overcome porn porn addiction.

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That was the most requested thing.

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We gave away Bible dictionaries, we gave away Bible handbooks,

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we gave away commentaries.

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No, no, no, no no.

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The thing that was requested the most of everything we've

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porn addiction.

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Hmm, that's interesting.

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I wonder why, well, one that would show that there's

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a whole lot of Christian men struggling with porn.

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Okay, oh wait, wait wait, that shouldn't be possible.

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But see, but every the main thing I want you

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to take from it is it it's because it offered

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a formula. Oh oh, this will give me the steps.

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Everybody wants the steps. Everybody wants that formula. Oh do this,

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I do this, I do and I get this. It's

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like a recipe. At a little of this, at a

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little of this, at a little of this, put it

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in the oven, bake for you know, for what you know,

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one hour and boom. Look at how perfect it is.

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The Only problem is all of these formulas don't typically work,

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and I believe the Matthew four formula doesn't work either.

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But it sounds good. Now.

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I think this creates several philological and experiential problems. Number one,

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here's just a couple of the problems I think this creates.

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Scripture does not promise that using these steps guarantees victory

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over sin.

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There's no guarantee.

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Matthew four is just a descriptive passage of what Jesus did.

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It's not telling me, hey, if you do this, this

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will work.

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I don't think that that's an accurate thing, because guess what,

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two thousand years of Church history has demonstrated Believers pray,

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Believers try to rely on the spirit. Believers quote scripture

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after scripture after scripture, not only do they continue to

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struggle with sin, they continue to sin. Let me give

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you an example. All right, I'm going to rely on

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the Holy Spirit. I'm gonna memorize be Ye Holy as

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He is Holy, And every single time I am tempted

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to do anything, I'm going to quote be Holy as

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He is Holy. You know what, I Am never going

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to be holy as He is Who, no matter how

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many times I memorize that scripture, no matter how many

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times I quote it, no matter if I have it

477
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written on the refrigerator, the bathroom mirror, the rear view.

478
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Mirror, and the car.

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It doesn't matter if I have it written on it

480
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doesn't matter where I write it. I Am never gonna

481
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be holy as God is Holy. So I can rely

482
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on the Holy Spirit. I can memorize that scripture, I

483
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can quote that scripture. I will never obey that scripture, never, never, never,

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So already from just a I mean, there is an

485
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experiential test that you can do knowing that something's already wrong.

486
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I'm following the formula. I will never be holy as

487
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God is holy. Now, how can I ever be holy

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as God is holy?

489
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Well?

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I can't practically, but guess what. Let me read the Bible. Oh,

491
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here's this person named Jesus. Look at him.

492
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He was born of a virgin. He was with the Word.

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I mean, he was with God and he was God.

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Oh wait, wait, that means Jesus. Oh wait, Jesus is.

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The eternal son of God, second person of the Trinity.

496
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Because the Word was with God and the Word was God. Okay,

497
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you get the idea what I'm quoting here. Okay, he

498
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was with God, he was God, all right, So Jesus

499
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is the eternal son of God. And then look, he's

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tempted and all points as we are. Yet without sin,

501
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he was perfect, he was holy, he was righteous.

502
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Oh, and guess what.

503
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Happens when I put my faith in him? His righteousness

504
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is imputed to my account. So in him I am perfect.

505
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But see that means Matthew four is not.

506
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Giving me a formula and how I can overcome sin

507
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and practice.

508
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It's demonstrating Jesus is.

509
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The one who overcame it, and by putting my faith

510
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in him, his overcoming, his obedience then is accredited.

511
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To my account.

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It's not a formula. It's showing what Jesus did and

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that we can get there. Another issue is I think

514
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I think another problem is ultimately, when we go with

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this formula minded, prescriptive mindset, it places the burden of

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overcoming sin on human effort.

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It suggests that, hey, if you'll just do what Jesus did,

518
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you basically can achieve sin lessness. You can do it.

519
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Go ahead and think that you can't, and now the

520
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burden and everything becomes about you and about what you

521
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can do. No, the whole point is, it's what Jesus did.

522
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Another problem with all of this it does not align

523
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with real human experience.

524
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See Christians who.

525
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Try to approach this and the way that most pastors

526
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teach it. Well, you're gonna fall, and you're gonna be

527
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left feeling guilty, and you know what, ultimately you'll be

528
00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:39.359
left with You'll doubt your self, fation, You'll be filled

529
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with worry, You'll be filled with anxiety, fear, dread, discouragement, disillusionment.

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So how should we approach Matthew for Jesus' victory in

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the wilderness. Jesus victory in this temptation is primarily a

532
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model for.

533
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Us, is not?

534
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I mean, we stated it this way, we stated this way.

535
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Jesus victory in the wilderness. Jesus victory over temptation is

536
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not a model for us. It's not a model, it's

537
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not a formula. It is a unique event tied to

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his mission as the second Adam and the Messiah. I'll

539
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just reference some scriptures Romans eight thirteen. For God has

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done what the law. For God has done what the law,

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weakened by the flesh, could not do, by sending his

542
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own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,

543
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he condemned sin in the flesh.

544
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Jesus does what we can't do. Jesus does what the law.

545
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He fulfilled the law, because the law would never change

546
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us or transform us, It only condemns us. Jesus did

547
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something in his temptation in life that we could never do.

548
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He had perfect obedience and place of our perfect disobedience.

549
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We could quote Galatians two twenty. I have been crucified

550
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with Christ. This is no longer I who live, but Christ,

551
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who lives in me. Your ultimate victory over sin isn't

552
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following a method, but it is being united to Christ,

553
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who's already conquered it. On your behalf.

554
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I die.

555
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I am found in Christ, Christ, Righteousness, Christ obedience now

556
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becomes my righteousness and my obedience and my positional reality.

557
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My practical reality is one of sin.

558
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Those are all Look, those are some problems, and that's

559
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a biblical response to all of this. Right, this is

560
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the whole problem of turning jesus temptation into a prescriptive formula.

561
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And this is kind of the way we should approach it.

562
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We should understand this is not a model, it's not

563
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a formula.

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It's showing us what Jesus did on our behalf.

565
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Now, another issue with all of this, and I'm just

566
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going through different concepts here talking about it, is that

567
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typically the way pastors handle Matthew four is they ignore

568
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the divine nature of Christ and they ignore the fact

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that he was sinless.

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When you look at Matthew four and we turn this

571
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and oh, we can do it, we can do it.

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We can do it. We just do the same thing.

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We rely on the Holy Spirit, we quote scripture, we

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memorize scripture.

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When you turn it into that, you've.

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Missed the whole point, because this is something different. You

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00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:36.079
cannot ignore the fact that Jesus was God, and you

578
00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:39.119
cannot ignore the fact that he did not even he

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did not have a sinful nature. He is sinless in nature,

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00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:49.640
in thought, he is sinless. We are sinful. He is divine,

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00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:54.480
we are human. You can't take a model of what

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Jesus did. But you know why they do this because

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they didn't ignore his divinity. Just like we heard in

584
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that Divi, he was fully maned. They stressed the humanity part,

585
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ignoring the sinless part and the deity part. Many teachings

586
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emphasize when they get to Matthew four, the humanity of

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Jesus and the temptation, and they almost completely ignore or

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at least separate it from his divinity. And this should

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be a red flag to everyone whenever I hear Matthew

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four talked about.

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And it stresses Jesus was a man. Jesus was a man.

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Jesus was a man. And here's how we do it.

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Here is how he did it. Now you go do

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it the same way.

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Every red siren, red flag, red alert, every warning signal

596
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in the world should go off in your mind. You

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should be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. At least I

598
00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:53.440
need to pay close attention here because this has the

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potential of sliding over into a major philological heresy. See

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when we consider biblical christology, who is Jesus. Jesus is

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fully God and fully man. This is the hypostatic union.

602
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You have to have both. Right, he is fully God

603
00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:30.480
and fully man, John chapter one. I'll I'm just going

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to read John chapter one and John chapter one, verse fourteen.

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And the beginning was the word. The word was with God,

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and the word was God. And the Word became flesh

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and dwelt among us, John chapter one, verse one. In

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John chapter one, verse fourteen gives you both sides of it.

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He was with God, he was God, and he became

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flesh Colossians two nine. For in him, that's in Christ.

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The whole fullness of the deity dwells bodily. Jesus never

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cease being God. Even in his humanity. He never ceased

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00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:07.279
being God, he said, when you say, well, in his temptation,

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he was fully man. He never stopped being fully God.

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Not only that Jesus did not have a sinful nature.

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For we do not have a high priest who is

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unable to sympathize with our weakness, but one in every

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respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

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That's Hebrews four fifteen Luke one thirty five. The child

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to be born will be called Holy, the son of God.

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Jesus humanity was real, but it was unfallen. He did

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not have a corrupt nature, and we have that nature

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even after salvation. So immediately we're already in a categorically

624
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different perspective. He is God, he is sin less, no

625
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sinful nature. Now you're gonna hand me a formula that's

626
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somehow going to help me overcome sin.

627
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Because Jesus overcame, he could not sin. He was God

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right that you're missing the point?

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He said, well so, people said, well, so was the

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temptation real? Was the temptation not real? The point was

631
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he did not sin. He came and kept the law

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as a representative of you, so that his obedience could

633
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be accredited to your account. Many sermons treat Jesus temptation

634
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as if he faced it in the same exact way

635
00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:41.400
we do, ignoring that he.

636
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Is the sinless son of God.

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His divine nature wasn't just magically turned off while he

638
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faced real human temptation. He was never internally drawn to

639
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sin as you and I are.

640
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His experience is unique.

641
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It was not just a personal struggle, but it was

642
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part of his role as the second atom, overcoming where

643
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Adam fell. So what are so this is the theological

644
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error that this can lead to and what we have to.

645
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Be careful of.

646
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This is known as the knotic heresy or canosis. See,

647
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some people almost teach even those who would argue, they're

648
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not for the canotic kerose, they're they're against cainnosis.

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00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:28.920
They're they're they're they're they're.

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Against that whole concept, they still at least almost imply

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that Jesus emptied himself of his divine attributes when he

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became man. And they that they take this from Philippians

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two five through seven, and Philippians two five through seven

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does not are six through seven does not mean Jesus

655
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stopped being God, only that he humbled himself in taking

656
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on a servant's role. He didn't stop being God. He

657
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could not have sinned because he was God.

658
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He didn't.

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Well, he did it as a man, and he relied

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on the spirit. Well, whatever you mean by relying on

661
00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:14.000
the spirit, it's not like, well, if I rely on

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the spirit, I'll get similar same results, because I'm not

663
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going to get similar the same results.

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For two reasons. He was still God.

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So therefore he could not sin, and he did not

666
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have a sinful nature. If I take the formula and

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00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:29.679
apply it to me, I'm not gonna get anywhere near

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similar results because I'm not God. I'm sinful even before

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I do an act. My sinfulness flows from my.

670
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Nature, and I have a sinful nature.

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We have to acknowledge the reality of human sinfulness versus

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Jesus' sinlessness. Let me state that again, we have to

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acknowledge the reality of our sinful versus the reality of

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the sinlessness of Jesus.

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We continue to sin.

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If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves,

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and the truth is not in us. Even in Romans

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seven twenty one through twenty five, Paul maintains that he

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could he let me stay it this way, Paul not

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00:36:26.199 --> 00:36:30.000
maintains the truth and the reality that even as a

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mature believer, we struggle with ongoing sin. Unlike Jesus, we

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have a sinful nature. Even after salvation. We have an

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internal inclination towards sin. Jesus did not. We are not

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able to perfectly resist temptation Jesus did. Even so called

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00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:59.280
spirit filled believers struggle with sin. If merely quoting scripture

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and relying on the spirit led to sinlessness, then all

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mature Christians would be sinless, which we are not. Matthew

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four is not a prescriptive formula. It is a descriptive truth,

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as a descriptive proclamation that Jesus did what nobody else could,

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and we should celebrate that and say I am not.

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This is not a formula. This is not for me

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to follow the example. This is for me to celebrate

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and put my trust in the one who is sinless,

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because his sinlessness is a credit to my account. His

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obedience is accredited to my account. If we teach that

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quoting scripture and relying on the spirit enables believers to

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basically resist sin like Jesus did, we will mislead people

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into thinking sin should be easily avoidable. We will create

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spiritual discouragement for those who still struggle, and we fail

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to emphasize that our victory comes from christ finished work,

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not from our efforts.

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Let me state that again.

703
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If you handle Matthew four wrong, you're going to mislead

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people into thinking sin should be easily avoidable. Number two,

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you're going to create spiritual discouragement for those who still

706
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struggle and number three, you're going to fail to emphasize

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that our victory comes from Christ finish work, not for

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what we do or don't do. If you want true

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comfort from Matthew four, it's not a formula to beat sin.

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It basically is this, Jesus perfectly obeyed on our behalf

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because we never could. His victory is our victory, not

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because we copy his actions, but because we are in him.

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Our hope is in his righteousness, not our ability to

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resist sin. I want you to if you don't write

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anything things down, write these three things down.

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Matthew four teaches.

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Jesus perfectly obeyed on our behalf because we never could.

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00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:03.679
Adam couldn't, Israel couldn't. We can't.

719
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In fact, that's why there's so many similarities between the

720
00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:10.880
temptation of Jesus and the temptation of Adam and Eve,

721
00:39:11.079 --> 00:39:13.760
the temptation of Jesus and the temptation.

722
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Of Israel in the wilderness.

723
00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:19.559
He's recapt He's showing everyone else failed in similar or

724
00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:24.559
like situations or in some ways different situations. Right that

725
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:28.519
Adam they had everything, and Jesus was in the wilderness

726
00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:31.400
without food, but Jesus still overcame.

727
00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:34.760
So I want you to write these three things down.

728
00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:35.920
You ready.

729
00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:40.320
Jesus perfectly obeyed on our behalf because we never could.

730
00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:43.280
Let me state that again, Jesus perfectly obeyed on our

731
00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:47.880
behalf because we never could. Jesus perfectly obeyed on our

732
00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:53.119
behalf because we never could. Number two, his victory is

733
00:39:53.239 --> 00:39:56.400
our victory not because we copy it, not because we

734
00:39:56.480 --> 00:39:58.559
copy his actions, but because.

735
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We are in him.

736
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His victory is our victory, not because we copy his actions,

737
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but because.

738
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We are in him.

739
00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:10.320
Number Three, our hope is in his righteousness.

740
00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:22.679
Not our ability to resist sin. All right? Did you

741
00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:23.440
get those three?

742
00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:28.880
Jesus perfectly obeyed on our behalf because we never could.

743
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:29.639
No one could.

744
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:32.360
His victory is our victory, not because we copy it,

745
00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:35.000
but because we are in him. Number three, our hope

746
00:40:35.039 --> 00:40:37.800
is in his righteousness, not our own ability. So my

747
00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:41.559
issue with the way Matthew Chapter four is typically taught

748
00:40:41.599 --> 00:40:45.239
by most sermons is that it turns jesus victory into

749
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:48.880
a prescriptive method for overcoming sin. Yet the reality is

750
00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:54.199
we all remain in sin, all right. So it's not

751
00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:58.079
a victory. It's not victory into a prescriptive method. It's

752
00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:01.360
victory because Jesus was victorious, and his victory is imputed

753
00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:04.599
to me. But no, the common interpretation turns jesus victory

754
00:41:04.599 --> 00:41:08.400
into a prescriptive method for overcoming sin. Yet we remain sinful.

755
00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:11.400
So there's already a problem. So that's the first problem.

756
00:41:11.480 --> 00:41:15.280
Number two, it separates Jesus humanity from his divinity, ignoring

757
00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:19.559
that he was truly fully God even even as.

758
00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:20.239
He was tempted.

759
00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:23.400
Or I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna rephrase the way

760
00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:27.639
I put that. It separates Jesus humanity from his divinity

761
00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:31.199
and ignores that not only was he fully God, he

762
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:36.719
was sinless with no sinful nature, even as he was tempted.

763
00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:40.280
I know, I just added a lot to that. But

764
00:41:40.440 --> 00:41:44.440
the common teaching separates Jesus humanity from his divinity, ignores

765
00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:47.159
that he was fully God, and it ignores that he

766
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:50.440
was sinless. Just like that devotional did. It just emphasized

767
00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:54.159
his humanity. It didn't speak of his deity or the

768
00:41:54.199 --> 00:42:01.599
fact that he was sinless. I think I'll just go

769
00:42:01.679 --> 00:42:03.599
with those two. I think I'll go with those two.

770
00:42:03.719 --> 00:42:06.840
I have more here, but I'm gonna skip it. So typically,

771
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:09.559
the problems I have with most teaching is. The common

772
00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:13.360
interpretation turns jesus victory into a prescriptive method for overcoming sin,

773
00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:16.960
and we know the reality is we are still in sin.

774
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:21.280
It separates jesus humanity from his divinity and ignores that

775
00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:24.000
not only was he fully God, that he had a

776
00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:27.960
sinless nature and those things were there even as he

777
00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:29.239
was tempted.

778
00:42:38.360 --> 00:42:44.000
All right, there we have it.

779
00:42:48.239 --> 00:42:51.360
When we talk about Jesus taking on a human nature,

780
00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:55.320
did he have some limitations as humans do? We can't

781
00:42:55.360 --> 00:42:59.880
deny that. We know he did that, right, I was gonna.

782
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:03.480
I had written some things down here that Yes, he

783
00:43:03.519 --> 00:43:06.920
got hungry, he got tired, like there was there we

784
00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:10.679
see the reality of his humanity there, we see that.

785
00:43:11.119 --> 00:43:14.400
But by taking on the form of a servant right

786
00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:19.440
in many cases, in some situations, he laid aside his glory,

787
00:43:19.559 --> 00:43:21.679
or maybe we could say he lay aside the use

788
00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:25.480
of certain power. I mean because he walked places. He

789
00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:29.800
didn't just show up somewhere, right, So sometimes he limited himself,

790
00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:32.559
but that did not ever stop him from being God.

791
00:43:33.199 --> 00:43:36.719
His deity always remained. He did not lay aside his deity.

792
00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:51.760
He did not turn off his deity. Right, and I

793
00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:53.440
got a lot more here, but I think we can

794
00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:55.039
get that. So we have to avoid that or we

795
00:43:55.320 --> 00:43:57.559
end up in the I know, I know pastors don't

796
00:43:57.559 --> 00:44:00.199
want to end up in the Kenosis heresy, but it's

797
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:03.880
just weird. They'll say the hypostatic union. Well, that means

798
00:44:03.880 --> 00:44:06.880
he was truly man as well. Well, so now we're

799
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:11.239
gonna take this and just focus completely, like almost separate it, like, Okay,

800
00:44:11.360 --> 00:44:13.599
he's truly God, he's truly man. Now we're just gonna

801
00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:15.480
focus on the fact that he was truly man and

802
00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:17.760
then look at all of this in light of how

803
00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:20.679
Jesus handled it as a man. But you're still forgetting

804
00:44:20.760 --> 00:44:24.199
he's still God. It's like you can't just separate the two.

805
00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:31.000
It's a hypostatic union. They are both present. You can't

806
00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:35.800
so separate them. He was truly man, but he was

807
00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:40.079
truly God, and he never stopped being truly God, and

808
00:44:40.199 --> 00:44:48.840
even in his humanity, still sinless, still without a sinful nature.

809
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:55.559
We just we like to make everything about us, and

810
00:44:55.639 --> 00:45:00.880
we cannot do that now.

811
00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:03.480
I know some of this was somewhat repetitive to what

812
00:45:03.599 --> 00:45:08.039
we've talked about, and I've got a lot more. I've

813
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:09.960
got more notes here that we can get into we

814
00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:13.719
get we may get and more into knosis. Uh, the

815
00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:17.440
heresy of canotic theology and and and the whole canosis

816
00:45:17.480 --> 00:45:21.199
concept and all of that that problem.

817
00:45:21.239 --> 00:45:22.920
We may we may do that a little bit more.

818
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:25.840
I need to find the sermon that mentioned the hypostatic union,

819
00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:26.639
because once again.

820
00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:27.920
They mentioned it, and I'm like, what do you what?

821
00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:28.119
What?

822
00:45:28.119 --> 00:45:29.599
What do you go? Where are you going with this?

823
00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:45.760
So here's what I would say. Christianity at large is obsessed.

824
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:50.559
With this idea that when we become a Christian we

825
00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:54.719
become morally superior to everyone else. We become good little

826
00:45:54.760 --> 00:45:58.199
boys and girls, and we do everything right, and we

827
00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:01.480
become better, and we become trends formed and we're different.

828
00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:05.960
And it's so it almost becomes a moralism. It becomes

829
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:12.239
this theistic moral moralism is what it becomes. It's about morality, morality, morality,

830
00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:14.000
do this, don't do this, do this, don't do this,

831
00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:18.159
And it seems to completely have lost what it's originally about.

832
00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:23.039
The whole concept of Christianity from a non Catholic perspective, Remember,

833
00:46:23.199 --> 00:46:26.719
Catholicism says you become saved and you're infused with righteousness,

834
00:46:26.880 --> 00:46:28.559
you're infused with it right.

835
00:46:28.920 --> 00:46:30.840
Well, now that does something.

836
00:46:31.239 --> 00:46:34.000
Our whole concept from a non Catholic perspective is the

837
00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:37.960
law reveals how messed up we are and reveals our

838
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:39.880
incapability of keeping it.

839
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:42.679
But then the Gospel.

840
00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:46.440
Shows us that Christ did everything the law demanded, fulfilled

841
00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:51.199
it in every way possible. He fulfilled all righteousness. Not

842
00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:55.280
one jot or tittle was not fulfilled. He's fulfilled it all.

843
00:46:55.599 --> 00:46:59.920
And by my faith in him, his obedience, passive and active,

844
00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:01.480
is imputed to my account.

845
00:47:01.599 --> 00:47:02.639
Imputed mean.

846
00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:07.239
It doesn't make me righteous practically, it makes me righteous positionally.

847
00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:10.679
Positionally, I am perfect. I am holy and righteous.

848
00:47:11.079 --> 00:47:14.719
The practical reality of your Christian life, from the moment

849
00:47:14.760 --> 00:47:17.599
of your conversion all the way until the moment of

850
00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:24.400
glorification will be you will remain a sinner. You live

851
00:47:24.519 --> 00:47:28.400
your life in perpetual sin. I don't care how much

852
00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:30.760
you want to deny that. I don't care how much

853
00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:33.119
you want to pretend that you're better than everyone else.

854
00:47:33.280 --> 00:47:34.960
I don't care how self righteous you.

855
00:47:34.920 --> 00:47:36.480
Want to be. I don't care if you want to

856
00:47:36.519 --> 00:47:37.880
stand on a mountain and say.

857
00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:40.639
I think the God that I'm not like that guy

858
00:47:40.719 --> 00:47:43.880
on the Theology Central podcast, I go to church.

859
00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:47.760
I tithe. I don't do this, I don't do that.

860
00:47:48.280 --> 00:47:51.360
I don't do that. I'm better than everyone else.

861
00:47:51.599 --> 00:47:54.920
You sit there and pound your chest telling everyone how

862
00:47:54.960 --> 00:47:55.639
good you are.

863
00:47:55.920 --> 00:47:58.639
But I know the reality and you know the reality.

864
00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:05.119
We're all messed up sinners. How do I know this?

865
00:48:05.960 --> 00:48:10.239
Because the command is be holy as He is holy.

866
00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:15.000
You're never that, not for one second of one day

867
00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:20.199
are you ever as holy as He is holy? So

868
00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:23.119
you're in a perpetual state of sin. If you break

869
00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:26.360
one law, you're guilty of all of it.

870
00:48:26.599 --> 00:48:27.000
Oh I know.

871
00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:29.159
I hate to say this to some of you. You're

872
00:48:29.199 --> 00:48:31.599
an adulterer. Oh no, I'm not.

873
00:48:31.840 --> 00:48:34.239
Yes, you are, because if you break one point of

874
00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:38.039
the law, you're guilty of all of it. You're an idolator,

875
00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:42.280
you're covetous, you're a thief, you're a murderer. You're a liar,

876
00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:52.760
just like I am. So what's my hope Not in

877
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:57.679
following some prescriptive formula that I impose on the text.

878
00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:02.320
My hope is, look what Jesus did it. He did it,

879
00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:09.639
he defeated Satan, he didn't sin. Well, why is that

880
00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:10.280
good news?

881
00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:11.920
Because by faith.

882
00:49:11.760 --> 00:49:15.840
In him his righteousness is imputed in my account. So

883
00:49:16.119 --> 00:49:19.960
in Christ, I'm a new creature. Old things have passed away,

884
00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:25.280
All things are new. Positionally in Christ. I'm perfect in Christ.

885
00:49:25.719 --> 00:49:29.880
I'm obedient in Christ. I've defeated the devil. In Christ,

886
00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:36.639
I am absolutely without sin. You say, what does that mean?

887
00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:41.119
Practically means I still have to rely on that imputed

888
00:49:41.199 --> 00:49:42.599
righteousness and that grace.

889
00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:44.920
Am I excusing any sin?

890
00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:49.400
I'm not excusing any But again, it's such a subjective

891
00:49:49.480 --> 00:49:51.599
game we play. Well, you shouldn't do this, and you

892
00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:55.039
shouldn't do this. Well, congratulations, we shouldn't. I completely agree

893
00:49:55.079 --> 00:50:00.119
with you. We should fight against it. Just remember you

894
00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:03.559
can put fifty things on that list that you don't do. Oh,

895
00:50:03.599 --> 00:50:05.320
I don't do this, and I don't do that, and

896
00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:07.280
I don't do this, and I don't do that. And

897
00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:11.599
you can sound all self righteous, you still don't meet

898
00:50:11.599 --> 00:50:15.599
the command. Be holy as He is holy, be ye

899
00:50:15.719 --> 00:50:18.800
perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. Love God with

900
00:50:18.840 --> 00:50:21.000
all your heart, mind, body, and soul. Love your neighbor

901
00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:23.679
as yourself, love your enemy, turn the other cheek, do

902
00:50:23.719 --> 00:50:32.039
all things without complaining and grumbling. We've taken a passage

903
00:50:32.039 --> 00:50:36.440
about what Christ has done, and we turn it into

904
00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:42.719
what we should do, which is the very essence of

905
00:50:42.760 --> 00:50:46.239
what's wrong with so much of preaching. We take a

906
00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:50.639
passage about what Christ has done that's gospel, and we

907
00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:55.639
preach it and teach it as if it's law. Let

908
00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:59.239
me state again that law gospel distinction, which has been a.

909
00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:00.599
Part of church history.

910
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:02.840
I know when I talk about it people look at

911
00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:05.440
me like I'm seeing some foreign concept. This goes back

912
00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:09.280
to the entire Protestant Reformation. Ladies and gentlemen, a proper

913
00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:12.360
distinction between law and gospel. When I read a passage

914
00:51:12.360 --> 00:51:15.280
about what Jesus has done, I don't find in that

915
00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:18.480
what I should do. I find in that what Jesus

916
00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:21.880
has done, and that's beautiful, and I should find refreshing,

917
00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:23.840
refreshment and peace and.

918
00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:26.920
Joy from that because Jesus did it for me.

919
00:51:27.559 --> 00:51:29.800
And whenever I find a passage that tells me what

920
00:51:29.880 --> 00:51:32.920
I should do, I should be broken and crushed and

921
00:51:33.000 --> 00:51:37.519
humiliated by it because I see my failure. And then

922
00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:40.039
I run back to what Christ has done, and I

923
00:51:40.079 --> 00:51:45.280
find peace and refreshment and joy. Matthew four is about

924
00:51:45.320 --> 00:51:47.559
what Jesus did. How did we turn that into what

925
00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:48.280
we should do?

926
00:51:48.440 --> 00:51:49.239
I will never know.

927
00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:57.000
He did it because I can't. Adam couldn't, Israel couldn't.

928
00:51:57.360 --> 00:52:02.159
David couldn't, Abraham couldn't, Solomon could count, Paul couldn't, Peter couldn't.

929
00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:18.760
No one can. Why don't we want to believe that

930
00:52:18.800 --> 00:52:23.199
we can't? Look. I would love. I hope everyone understands this.

931
00:52:23.400 --> 00:52:27.239
I would love so much. I would love so much.

932
00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:33.360
That I could just take a simple, prescriptive formula, follow it,

933
00:52:34.119 --> 00:52:39.440
and never sin again. I would love that I was

934
00:52:39.519 --> 00:52:43.559
perfect in my thinking. I would love if I was

935
00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:44.960
perfect in my desire.

936
00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:47.000
I would love. But I am.

937
00:52:47.639 --> 00:52:51.239
I am a messed up, twisted, degenerate, is.

938
00:52:51.199 --> 00:52:51.760
What I am.

939
00:52:54.000 --> 00:53:02.000
I'm a vile, horrible, sinful human being. I don't deserve

940
00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:05.199
to breathe another breath. I deserve to be in hell.

941
00:53:11.239 --> 00:53:15.239
Paul says he's the chief of sinners. It's always funny

942
00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:17.920
Paul can say I'm the chief of sinners, and I'm like, well,

943
00:53:17.960 --> 00:53:20.760
he was just very sensitive, and we don't believe that

944
00:53:20.760 --> 00:53:24.079
he was actually committing any sin. I wish sometimes we

945
00:53:24.119 --> 00:53:26.559
could find out all the sins Paul was actually committing,

946
00:53:26.559 --> 00:53:31.760
because people would probably be shocked. He knew he was

947
00:53:31.800 --> 00:53:34.559
a sinner. I know I'm a sinner. You know you're

948
00:53:34.599 --> 00:53:37.320
a sinner. Now you may have a list of the

949
00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:39.639
sins you don't commit, and you know what, I am

950
00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:44.199
glad you don't because usually there's major practical implications when

951
00:53:44.239 --> 00:53:46.679
you commit certain sins, Usually bad things happen.

952
00:53:46.719 --> 00:53:48.400
We can all agree with that, right.

953
00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:54.880
Scandal, you know, shame, humiliation, pain, brokenness, We know all

954
00:53:54.920 --> 00:53:58.239
the difficult difficulties that can come from come from it.

955
00:53:58.320 --> 00:54:02.960
I know that, and I'm glad that I don't commit those.

956
00:54:03.119 --> 00:54:06.000
But for whatever sins I'm not committing. For whatever sins

957
00:54:06.039 --> 00:54:08.960
I'm not committing, there's plenty of others I am committing.

958
00:54:09.360 --> 00:54:11.280
I think that's the point. Even if you're not committing

959
00:54:11.320 --> 00:54:13.599
those that you can feel so good about, like.

960
00:54:13.719 --> 00:54:16.960
Well, I didn't do this and I didn't do that. Well, congratulations.

961
00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:19.280
It is good from a practical standpoint. It may be

962
00:54:19.320 --> 00:54:23.000
good for relationships, it may be good for your life. Great,

963
00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:26.360
feel good about yourself. I am glad for you. But

964
00:54:26.440 --> 00:54:30.800
from a philological perspective, just turn around and go, okay,

965
00:54:31.199 --> 00:54:33.599
oh wait, I'm still a sinner.

966
00:54:35.639 --> 00:54:40.400
I'm still a sinner. I'm still a sinner. That's no fun.

967
00:54:42.599 --> 00:54:44.880
We have the sinful nature inside of us, like that

968
00:54:44.920 --> 00:54:48.119
barking dog, and it just keeps barking and it never stops,

969
00:54:48.480 --> 00:54:52.199
and it keeps. It desires sin, it wants sin. It

970
00:54:52.239 --> 00:54:57.159
corrupts at our motives. It makes us sinful because that's

971
00:54:57.199 --> 00:54:59.480
why we are sinful. We do sinful things because we

972
00:54:59.519 --> 00:55:02.559
are sinner. We don't become sinners by sinning. We send

973
00:55:02.599 --> 00:55:07.280
because we're sinners. That you can't take what Matthew four

974
00:55:07.679 --> 00:55:10.760
and turn it into some like four step program to

975
00:55:10.840 --> 00:55:16.840
fix everything, because you're taking what Jesus did. And do

976
00:55:16.880 --> 00:55:21.239
you not understand the categorical difference. He was divine, he

977
00:55:21.400 --> 00:55:27.840
was sinless. You're human and you're sinful. So it's a

978
00:55:27.840 --> 00:55:32.000
descriptive passage, not a prescriptive passage. Now I think we've

979
00:55:32.039 --> 00:55:34.440
covered that. I know that was somewhat repetitive. I know

980
00:55:34.480 --> 00:55:36.159
I'm going to get the emails. I know some of

981
00:55:36.199 --> 00:55:38.320
you are going to complain, well, you didn't need to

982
00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:40.599
do that third message because you already covered it in

983
00:55:40.679 --> 00:55:44.719
first two. I know that I'm aware of that. But

984
00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:49.639
at the same time, my justification for doing this will

985
00:55:49.639 --> 00:55:52.599
be go listen to matt all sermons on Matthew four

986
00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:56.239
and when you hear how many times this is handled

987
00:55:56.239 --> 00:55:59.000
in a completely opposite way that I presented to you.

988
00:55:59.199 --> 00:56:01.880
Then I believe my being repetitive is necessary. Now I

989
00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:04.800
wanted to get more into the canotic heresy. We could

990
00:56:04.800 --> 00:56:06.920
get into the idea, Well, did Jesus rely on the

991
00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:09.039
Holy Spirit? What did that mean? What does that not mean?

992
00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:12.239
I just know whatever it means, it doesn't mean he

993
00:56:12.280 --> 00:56:15.519
stopped being God and that his deity was not present.

994
00:56:15.679 --> 00:56:18.760
And I think it also means it does not mean that. Well,

995
00:56:18.920 --> 00:56:21.920
if Jesus relied on the Holy spirits as quote unquote

996
00:56:21.960 --> 00:56:24.079
in his humanity, I can rely on it and get

997
00:56:24.119 --> 00:56:32.000
the same results. No, you're talking completely different situation. All right,

998
00:56:32.039 --> 00:56:35.159
I'll stop there. Man, I wish this would have gone

999
00:56:35.199 --> 00:56:39.400
a little differently. I apologize, But that's okay, that's okay.

1000
00:56:41.079 --> 00:56:44.760
It's all important. It's all important, So thanks for listening.

1001
00:56:46.199 --> 00:56:48.239
I wish I could say something profound here now to

1002
00:56:48.239 --> 00:56:49.079
make it all worth it.

1003
00:56:49.719 --> 00:56:50.239
I can't.

1004
00:56:50.760 --> 00:56:54.039
So if I haven't said anything profound in fifty six minutes,

1005
00:56:54.079 --> 00:56:56.920
I'm not going to say anything profound in fifty seven minutes.

1006
00:56:56.960 --> 00:56:58.719
So everyone have a great day. God bless