The Life-Changing Lessons From The Temptation of Jesus Christ

In this video, discover the best lessons we can learn from the temptation of Jesus Christ. Let us go through the greatest battle ever fought in the history of man and see how we can overcome our spiritual enemies today! ====== ??? Get my FREE eBook, The 7 Powerful Habits of Highly Effective Christians, here: https://becomingchristians.com/get-my-free-ebook/ ====== ??? Read the blog version, "12 Important Lessons We Learn from the Temptation of Jesus Christ": https://becomingchristians.com/2017/04/13/12-important-lessons-we-learn-from-the-temptation-of-jesus-christ/​​ ====== ⚡⚡⚡ If this video has inspired and helped you, please consider supporting my work: https://bit.ly/2Kng9R9​​ ====== Transcript: Lessons from the Temptation of Jesus Christ Today, I want to talk about the most important lessons we can learn from the temptation of Jesus Christ. In this video, let us discover how we can better overcome temptations in our lives and defeat our greatest enemy, Satan! Did you know that the greatest battle between good and evil happened about 2,000 years ago? This battle is so great that the winner would become the future and permanent ruler of this world. Not only that, but this battle would determine whether salvation would be given or not to the entire humanity! I’m talking about the time when Satan tempted Yahshua or Jesus Christ. It was the ultimate battle between light and darkness. The battle between Yahshua and Satan was narrated in Matthew 4:1-11, Mark 1:12-13 and Luke 4:1-13. Let us go through the story and learn the most important lessons we can apply in our lives today. For the purpose of this message, I would read more from the writings of Matthew. So, let’s go to Matthew 4. We read in verse 1: Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Here is the first vital lesson we should learn. We must be led by the Holy Spirit just like our savior, Yahshua. In Luke 4:1-3, we can even read that Yahshua was full of the Holy Spirit. He wasn’t just a quarter full or half-full, but He was completely full! Yahweh, the God of the entire universe is the Source of the Holy Spirit. So, if we want to be filled with the Holy Spirit, we must stay close to Him. In verse 2, we read: And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. One of the best ways we can be filled with the Holy Spirit and get closer to God is through fasting. Sadly, a lot of Christians ignore this powerful spiritual tool. In fact, fasting is among the most important habits of zealous Christians today. Yahshua recognized that He was about to fight the greatest battle He will ever fight in His human existence. He knew that He can’t do it on His own and that’s why He fasted 40 days and 40 nights to get intensely close to His Father. Notice that in Luke 4:2, we read that Yahshua was tempted by the Devil not just on the 40th day, but He was tempted for 40 days! Can you now see the importance of fasting? It is a super powerful spiritual tool that sadly a lot of Christians don’t know about or use. If you want to learn more about fasting, I highly recommend you grab a free copy of my eBook, “The Seven Powerful Habits of Highly Effective Christians.” In verse 3, we read: Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” Wow, can you just imagine, Satan, the tempter, the great adversary, the perfect epitome of everything that is against God can quote the Scripture! Now, that’s really interesting. This tells us that knowing the Scripture isn’t enough. We can memorize the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, but if you don’t apply what you learned, just like the devil, it will all come to nothing! Notice how Satan was trying to tempt Yahshua. He was trying to use pride to lead Yahshua to sin. He said, “If you are the Son of God.” Now that’s a very clever way to tempt someone. In the same manner, Satan tries to play with our tendency to be boastful. He wants to take advantage of our “pride of life.” There’s no doubt that Yahshua is truly the Son of God and He has nothing to prove to Satan. However, this didn’t cause Yahshua to feel boastful, but rather, He focused on the greatness of God. To which He replied in verse 4: “It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ” The greatest battle in the history of mankind was not fought with guns and bombs. Rather, it was fought with spiritual swords. We read in the Bible that God’s word is like a sword. When Satan used God’s word to tempt Yahshua, he was in effect using a spiritual sword. So, Yahshua also drew out His spiritual sword by quoting Deuteronomy 8:3. As followers of Yahshua and of God, we must always keep our spiritual sword sharp. By daily Bible study, meditation, fasting, and... Read the full blog here: https://becomingchristians.com/2017/04/13/12-