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Bible Series #8: Jesus’s Temptation in the Wilderness
With Commentary by the Archangels
I used to think that life was all about our human self battling our spiritual self, but that was wrong. Instead, it’s a blending of the two and finding a peaceful balance, so you can better handle not only life’s temptations, but also the hard times that don’t make sense.
This week’s Bible reference come from Matthew 4:1–11, as follows, taken from the New International Version Bible:
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
Jesus answered, “it is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”
Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
