Temptations of Jesus (Covenant & Kingdom #4)
Channel: The Gathering Christian Church
Date: 2014-02-23

Speaker: Don Vanzant
Title: Temptations of Jesus
Series Name: Covenant & Kingdom
Series #:4
Subject: How Jesus' temptation help showcase the final revelation of the covenant, transitioning from old to new.
Date: February 16, 2014
Sermon Notes:
* The tempter uses the phrase, "If you are the Son of God."  The entire test is of the identity of Jesus Christ.  In the same way, all of the temptations that face us concern our covenant identity.  Are we children of God?
* Appetite.  Jesus was hungry after fasting so the first temptation concerned the appetite.   There are things that our mind and body crave and we might begin to wonder if God can or will meet those needs or not.
* In America our appetite for entertainment is at an addictive level.
* To break the power of appetite we first go to God to be filled.
* Secondly, we use our will in one area to open a path for God in an area of addiction.
* Ambition.   Ambition is destructive to us when we get our identity from winning.
* Sometimes God asks us to do things where we do not succeed.   We may not be successful but still be significant.
* To break the power of ambition we must choose to lose.
* Affirmation.   Our identity must come to us from the outside.
* Let God tell you who you are.
* The Tempter will use the addictive power of affirmation to cripple us.
* Temptation is an opportunity.  The Tempter comes back.
* In the same way that God the Father declared Jesus His Son and  declared that He was pleased with Him, so God declares us His children and says he is pleased with us.
 
Luke 4:1-14
Job 1:21
John 3:30
2 Cor. 11:24-25
John 10:17-28
 

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