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LESSON FOR OCTOBER "a
JESUS TEMPTED


LESSON TExT--Luks 41-1a
~ GOLDEN TExT--For in that He Him.
self hath suffered being tempted. He il
able to succor them that are tempted.
Heb. 2:1S.
I. REF sRENcE MATERIAI<-Phn. 25-u;
Heb. 214-1S; 4:14-1s.
PRIMARY ToPic--Jesus ovsrcomes
Temptation.
JUNIOR ToPIc-sesus Tempted to Do
Wrong.
INTERMEDIATES AND SENIOR TOPIC
Overcoming Temptation
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
What Christ's Victory Means to Us,
|. The Place Of (v. Ii.
The wilderness of Judea. The first
man, Adam, was tempted in a garden
with the most pleasant surroundings.
The second man, Jesus Christ, was
tempted in barren wilderness sur
rounded by wild beasts mark 1:13).
II. The Purpose Of ". ~. He was
led into wilderness by the Spirit.
Christs temptation was Messianic.
Though He was tempted in all points
like as we are" we are not tempted
as He was in this instance, but the
same methods are employed on us,
During the eighteen years OF retire
ment Satan surely tempted Christ as
he tempts us. Satan, no doubt, would
have gladly escaped this hour, but the
time had come for the Redeemer to
enter upon His mediatorial work;
therefore He went from the place Of
amounting and heavenly recognition as
the Son Of God to meet and despoil
the arch enemy (iieb, I'D.
1. 1t was not a preparation for His
work, but rather Its first conflict. In
baptism we have the symbolic act OF
dedication of himself to the work Of
redemption through the cross--the
making full righteousness. In the
temptation, the strong man Is spoil
ing the enemy.
2. 1t was not to see If Christ would
stand fast--would fail under the most
crucial test Christ could not fall.
To so postulate would make Gods
scheme OF redemption to have been
unsettled until after this temptation.
and would have made God guilty Of
setting forth a scheme OF redemption
on tho basis OF a possible overthrow.
g. 1t was TO show Christ as an OBJ
ject upon which we may rest our faith
with mistaken confidence. He came
as the second Man, the head OF new
race, Its very source and life. It was
demonstration of the inseparable-
ness of the divine ana human natures
! in the incarnation.
III. The Method of wv. 2-12).
Christ as the worlds Redeemer
sustained a threefoId relation-Son Of
Man. Son Of God; and Messiah, there
fore Satan made each one ground of
attack.
/. AS Son Of Man wv. 2-4). Satan
made his first assault upon Him as
man by appealing to the instinct Of
| hunger. Satan urged Him to use His
divine power and convert stone In
to bread. Hunger is natural and sin
| less The temptation was in salts
flying a right hunger in a wrong way.
To have yielded III this case would
itations which He had taken for our
sakes. TO use divine power to satisfy
human needs would have been to fail
as Saviour and Redeemer.
! 2. AS Messiah (vy 5-S). Here the
| temptation was to grasp His right
full dominion by false means. The
| devil offered to surrender unto Him
the world if lie would worship him.
The force of this temptation was in
/ the fact that the Kingdoms Of the
world are Christ's by Gods covenant
! with Him. Gods method by which
Jesus was to possess the world was
| the cross. The temptation Satan is
! pressing upon the church today Is to
| get possession of the world by other
means than the cross.
3. AS Son of God (vv 9-12). Here
| Satan tries to induce Christ to pre-
! sumo upon Gods care. He quotes a
| Messianic Psalm to induce Him to SO
act. TO do the spectacular thing in
order to get notice is to fall into Sa-
| tan's temptation. For Jesus to have
1 placed himself in danger in order to
| get Gods special help in delivering
| Film would have been to sin. TO put
ones self in moral and spiritual peril
| In order to test Gods faithfulness Is
| to sin. Satan is never quite so dan
erous as when he quotes Scripture.
w. christ's Defense Wv. 4, 5, 12).
1t was the Word Of God. He met
and repulsed the enemy with 1T is
written Our defense is Gods Word
May every Sunday school teacher
know how to use it
W. The Issue ". 49,.
Satan is yanquished. If we will bu1
trust God and use His Word we too