Luke 4:7 “Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours.” Rather than gaining anything, Christ would have lost everything. To worship Satan is to give him power over you. The offer of so much power was empty because it meant only to be Satan’s stooge. Jesus knew this was a trick,…
Luke 4:6 “And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.” The offer made here was a legitimate one in that the devil did have the authority he displayed. However, the offer…
Luke 4:5 “Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.” There is not a high mountain from which every kingdom can be seen. Yet, the devil has power to do limited wonders. He showed off his greatness in a…
Luke 4:4 “But Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written,`Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’” In other words, we must not put dependence on physical food over dependence on the Word of God. The devil had questioned God’s Word by saying ‘if’. The fact of the incarnation…
Luke 4:3 “And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” The devil never accepts reality. Always it is a questioning of truth with him. He will not make any statement without some admixture of lie. And why? Lies are his tools, and even…
Luke 4:2 “being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.” Adam and Eve were tempted once, and that is all it took for the devil’s schemes. Jesus endures here forty days of the devil doing his worst. Forty…
Luke 4:1 “Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,” This is one of many verses that help us to understand the operations of the Godhead. Though Jesus is the Eternal Son of God, He operates here by the leading and…
Luke 3:38 ” the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.” What does it mean here to say that Adam was the son of God? We are all the offspring of God in the sense that we are His created beings. But, like Adam, we are not…
Luke 3:37 “the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,” I have always found it quite interesting that Methuselah was the son of Enoch. Enoch, of all the men in history, was one of the closest to the LORD. He walked with…
Luke 3:36 “the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,” Semitic peoples were the descendants of Shem. Shem was one of just three men who were called upon to repopulate earth after the flood. Due to the Biblical record of this event…