Jeus proved to Satan that He was Satan's sovereign and God of gods over Satan. Satan left the wilderness defeated. God W"ON again!
Some people wonder how Jesus could fulfill the whole of the law as if He was not able to sin. But if one understands and believes that Jesus was God in human form-Fully God and Fully Human-then we can understand the Jesus' human nature was tempted along with His divine nature and His humanity was truly tested but His human will chose to align with His always BECAUSE He did not have both a human person and a divine Person within His body. The only Person in Jesus was the divine Son of God and therefore, as a divine Person, He could not be tempted to sin, but his human nature surely felt the temptation as we all do. But, praise the Lord, The divine Son controlled the human nature, being perfectly united with His Divine nature without mixing the two. His human nature always had to submit to His divine nature, who always submitted to the Father.
God in Christ TRIUMPHED over Satan and sin in this wilderness encounter. Jesus knew this would be so, but Satan misunderstood who Jesus really was, thinking He was only human and the physical SEED of the woman without Being also God in the flesh. The Word says not to put God to the test and Satan did just that by tempting Jesus, who was God, and also asking Jesus to test His Father to spare Him injury instead of fully trusting the Father steadfastly. I don't think that Satan understood that God was Three Persons in the One Being of God. God must have kept this from Satan.
Let's go on to the death and resurrection of Jesus. Here Satan made every attempt to succeed in his plan to usurp God and His plan during Jesus' ministry. When the people of Jerusalem chose to have Jesus executed, Satan must have been rubbing his "hands" together with delight thinking he will finally conquer this Seed of the woman. But the suffering and death of Jesus for our sins despoiled Satan. cont.
I realize in getting my thoughts out in these posts I have made mistakes. I hope you all can get what I meant. If not, ask me about it and I will clear things up. At a break in making dinner and wanted to go back and reread. Thus, I find the mistakes. My thoughts were flowing quickly as I typed as I had so much in my brain on this topic I wanted to touch all points. I guess I need to practice proofing before posting. So please forgive the errors. This past week I have been studying on this topic and I found that there is just so much in Scripture that shows how God is VICTOR. I realized I needed to select accounts in Scripture that are most important in presenting how Triumphant the Sovereign God is in ALL things. Will get back to this later tonight or tomorrow.
I appreciate all who read these posts and love it when people respond. God bless.
Back to dinner. BBQ chicken, corn on the cob, salad and pineapple. One of my favs.
Pt. 6
Jeus proved to Satan that He was Satan's sovereign and God of gods over Satan. Satan left the wilderness defeated. God W"ON again!
Some people wonder how Jesus could fulfill the whole of the law as if He was not able to sin. But if one understands and believes that Jesus was God in human form-Fully God and Fully Human-then we can understand the Jesus' human nature was tempted along with His divine nature and His humanity was truly tested but His human will chose to align with His always BECAUSE He did not have both a human person and a divine Person within His body. The only Person in Jesus was the divine Son of God and therefore, as a divine Person, He could not be tempted to sin, but his human nature surely felt the temptation as we all do. But, praise the Lord, The divine Son controlled the human nature, being perfectly united with His Divine nature without mixing the two. His human nature always had to submit to His divine nature, who always submitted to the Father.
God in Christ TRIUMPHED over Satan and sin in this wilderness encounter. Jesus knew this would be so, but Satan misunderstood who Jesus really was, thinking He was only human and the physical SEED of the woman without Being also God in the flesh. The Word says not to put God to the test and Satan did just that by tempting Jesus, who was God, and also asking Jesus to test His Father to spare Him injury instead of fully trusting the Father steadfastly. I don't think that Satan understood that God was Three Persons in the One Being of God. God must have kept this from Satan.
Let's go on to the death and resurrection of Jesus. Here Satan made every attempt to succeed in his plan to usurp God and His plan during Jesus' ministry. When the people of Jerusalem chose to have Jesus executed, Satan must have been rubbing his "hands" together with delight thinking he will finally conquer this Seed of the woman. But the suffering and death of Jesus for our sins despoiled Satan. cont.
I appreciate all who read these posts and love it when people respond. God bless.
Back to dinner. BBQ chicken, corn on the cob, salad and pineapple. One of my favs.
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