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(Mat 3:17) The Devil came and first attacked this very claim. “This is my Son, whom I love, with him, I am well pleased. Jesus had experienced God’s voice at his baptism.Satan insisted on proofs about Jesus’ divinity, but Jesus reminded him of his humanity.Son of God does not need bread to live on or need to worry about injury!.“If You are the Son of God, throw yourself down…”.“If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread”.It seems that Satan had quite faulty logic! The first two temptations of Jesus were about proving Jesus being the ‘Son of God’.(Check out Trust in the Lord with All your heart – Bible study) During these times of testing, we need to put our complete trust in the Lord. Next, we find ourselves in the spiritual turmoil or wilderness. We may have just gone through the greatest highs of our walk with God. It tests the deepest secrets and convictions of our heart to test what lies in our heart. It deprives us of all the comforts that we may usually enjoy. We all go through wilderness experiences in our Christian walk.So, even though Jesus was physically weak, he was spiritually strong. Fasting helps to focus on the spiritual matters and takes our attention from matters related to flesh. Fasting is the most effective way of passing through the wilderness. Jesus on the other hand, fasted for 40 days and 40 nights.First thing, Isralites asked Moses and Aaron when they were in the wilderness, was “What should we eat? Did the Lord bring us out of Egypt to starve and die? (Ex 16:3), they again grumbled about water, “give us water to drink.” (Ex 17:2). However, there is a stark contract in Isralite’s and Jesus’ response towards the wilderness.(Jesus for Forty days, and Israelite for 40 years!) Next, they found themselves wandering and starving in the wilderness. And the Israelites had just saw the most powerful manifestation of God’s power at work at Red Sea.
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Jesus experienced God’s favor at his baptism. In both the cases, they had just experienced God’s power and favor.It is quite interesting to draw comparisons between Jesus Christ in the wilderness and the Israelite in the wilderness after God’s miraculous rescue from Egypt.He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.“) (Deut 8:2-3: “Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. Holy spirit led Jesus into the wilderness tot be tested, tempted and to be humbled.Greek word for tempted can also mean tested.