OUR FATHER WHOSE WORD IS A WEAPON AGAINST TEMPTATION

After the Lord Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, He was led out into the wilderness where he fasted for 40 days and then the devil came to tempt Him.

First, the devil tried to induce the Lord Jesus to turn stones into bread as proof that He was the Son of God. He then tried to pursuade Jesus to worship him in exchange for all the kingdoms in the world. 

Jesus, having parried the first two temptations, faced the temptation described in Luke chapter 4 verses 9 - 10 which reads this way;

The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down from here. For it is written:

“‘He will command his angels concerning you to guard you carefully;

Here, the devil again tried to make the Lord Jesus explicitly prove that He was the Son of God as was being said of Him.

After taking Jesus to a high point of the temple, the devil  quoted Psalm 91 verse 11;

For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;

The devil said to Jesus that because of this promise in the scripture, He could throw himself down from the height and the angels of God would guard Him and thus He would be prevented from striking the ground.

This attempt to get Jesus to prove that He was the Son of God was met with an irrefutable  rebuttal also from scripture found in Deutronomy chapter 8 verse 3 that says;

Do not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.

To deliberately set up a situation to try to force God's hand to intervene is a test on the Lord and it is forbidden to do so and thus Jesus refused to throw himself down.

The devil, hearing this response, left Jesus to wait for a better time to try again to influence Him.

Amen.

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