The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1922-10-11
gESSON FOR OCTOBER 22
JESUS TEMPTED


JESUS TEMPTED
2 SE3soN TExT-Luke l:1-1s.
E1SQbDEN TEXT-For in that He Him
80 path suffered being tempted. He -
% succor them that arc tempted.
Mob 2:1S
38EFERENCE MATERIAI-Phil. 2:5-11:
I'M z:A-1S: 4:14-16
,s4k1MARY TOPLC-Jesus Overcomes
@gHpfation.
ss3S3NIoR TOPIC-Jesus Tempted to Do
3Urong.
DERMEDLATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
XEconing Temptation.
DUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
mat Christ's Victory Means to Us.
The Place Of ". ~.
pc wilderness of Judea. The first
Adam, was tempted in q garden
1.-the most pleasant surroundings.
second man, Jesus Christ, was
ted In barren wilderness sur
loea9ed by wild beasts MARK :1S).
The Purpose Of ". ~. He was
.sk1nto wilderness by the Spirit.
lists temptation was Messlanic.
Ign He was tempted in all points
~ as we are" we are not tempted
Ne was In this instance, but the
methods are employed on us.
ng the eighteen years Of retire
satan surely tempted Christ as
mpts us. Satan, no doubt, would
LAY xladly escaped this hour, but the
had come for the Redeemer to
onts upon His mediatorial work;
He went from the place of
anqlntinS and heavenly recognition as
tne1Son Of God to meet and despoil
tneS trch enemy tHeb. 2:4).
lit was not a preparation for His
Tn but rather its first conflict. In
pap!sm we have the symbolic act of
peeieation Of himself to the work of
reas$nption through the cross-the
aRlng full a Righteousness. In the
toMAtadon, the strong man is spoil
hs enemy.
1T was not to see II Christ would
fast-would fail under the most
cHcIal test. Christ could not fail.
Io 10 postulate would make Gods
sche1pe OF redemption to have been
unsettled until after this temptation.
ana would have made God guilty of
sstp4g forth q scheme Of redemption
On 4&s basis Of q possible overthrow.
Et was to show Christ as an OBJ
1eefs4pcn Wbth we may rest our faith
bunnhaken confidence. He came
esecond Man, the head Of q new
ery source and siife.s s 1T was
ef Ahe 1nxe rahla.. /.
neH the divine and human natures
w ~ 3nEaSnattnns
IIi- The, Methas o. tvv. 2-12,.
Qtfist as the worlds Redeemer
ned threefold relation-Son of
IL Son Of God; and Messiah, there
foreSsatan made each one q ground Of
attack.
1. AS Son Of Man wv. "a. Satan
made; his first assault upon Him as
q mah by appealing to the instinct Of
hunger. Satan urged Him to use His
divine power and convert q stone in
to bread. Hunger Is natural and sim
less. The temptation was In salts
flying right hunger In q wrong way.
To haye yielded in this case would
have been to renounce the human linn
ttations 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 wv. 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 He 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 In
pressing upon the church today is to
get possession Of the world by other
means than the cross.
4 8. AS Son Of God (vv. a12). Here
Satan tries to induce Christ to pre-
sumel upon Gods care. He quotes q
Messh hnic Psalm to induce Him to so
act. TO do the spectacular thing In
order.to get notice is to fall into Sa- 1
fan's 'temptation. For Jesus to have
placed himself In danger In order to
get Gods special help In delivering
Him you'd have been to sin. To put |
ones self In moral and spiritual peril
IN orgsr to test Gods faithfulness In
to sin. Satan is never quite SO dan
srous, az when he quotes Scripture.
q ~. Christie Defense wv. 4, 8, 12).
1t vas the Word Of God. He met
and fepulsed the enemy with "It is
writtsn." Our defense is Gods Word.
May every Sunday school teacher
know lhow to use It'll