Only Jesus Knows the Full Force of Temptation

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Desiring God

2 жыл бұрын

Ask Pastor John
Episode: 1706
Transcript: www.desiringgod.org/interview...

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@HearGodsWord 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, he was tempted yet did not sin. That's why he's the perfect ransom.

@mafia461 2 жыл бұрын

Christ battled for thirty three years and at the end of his life's crescendo he was tempted 3 consecutive times in Getsemani to renounce the cross, but He never gave in to this temptation and suffered the Roman torture and death. Wow, this was so helpful, necessary and inspiring, thank you Pastor John.

@willgoins218 2 жыл бұрын

I needed to hear that I shouldn't be paralyzed by my failure and to use God's grace.

@bekahleah574 2 жыл бұрын

Needed to hear this. Thank you!

@internationalsurvivalcounc6980 2 жыл бұрын

My God in Heaven pour out your Spirit and Grace on me, and my loved ones. Put the Love of Paul for The Church in me. For the lost, In Jesus Name Only I pray and by His Name I ask for prayer....Crushing....simply Crushing.

@anton2192 2 жыл бұрын

The static makes it even more intense.

@Feartheupcoming 2 жыл бұрын

Facts

@ot1402 2 жыл бұрын

I know I absolutely do not deserve help. However, my Lord and Savior has helped me in ways I never thought possible. Thank you Jesus.

@abcabc2680 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you pastor. I needed this message.

@hlangs5 2 жыл бұрын

Such a blessing

@AspenleafStudio 2 жыл бұрын

Super message!

@ChristisKingOverMyLife 2 жыл бұрын

This is wholesome and profound. Thank you pastor John.

@mckaylaosei-gyamerah9958 2 жыл бұрын

for some reason, i always thought Jesus was only tempted in the desert but now i realize that He was tempted way more than i thought.

@Aaron-gm5tr 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I needed to hear today 🕊️

@deshaunhill7934 2 жыл бұрын

Amen

@davecarlson9584 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for these videos. I am getting fed every morning.

@monztr_m2836 2 жыл бұрын

Every so often I fall into a pattern of thinking that the only time that Jesus was tempted was when he went into the woods to be tempted. I have never thought about Jesus being tempted in his early life, though. Thanks for the message, now I look at Jesus's ministry and his life in a whole different light!

@kathryntreadway3112 2 жыл бұрын

Amen 🕊️ Amen

@m.d.sharpe8892 2 жыл бұрын

This is incredibly timely

@veggiet2009 2 жыл бұрын

I've never thought of the other times in his life where he might have felt temptation

@marcelniles342 2 жыл бұрын

In the morning I cast myself on CHRIST and plead for grace upon grace upon grace❗

@busyaustralia 2 жыл бұрын

Amen! Jesus is King! My King!

@ezrabunn6360 2 жыл бұрын

That was so powerful! Thanks John!

@williamcopeland6683 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing like being ushered into the Presence of Grace.. thanx pap'ah J

@phieble 2 жыл бұрын

I confess that I have painfully struggled to understand how the holy, perfect God-Man (Theanthropos) Jesus Christ, could sympathize with me when I am tempted with sin, not because I believe that someone who has never sinned can't know as much of the hardship of resisting temptation as one who has sinned because that's just not proper thinking. Until Adam sinned in Eden he had no knowledge of good and evil that is an experience of being on both sides, yet I know that for him the pressure to sin was strong because he gave in and also because of the natural curiosity that comes with being a finite human being whom God withholds some secrets from. My issue was that I didn't understand how Jesus could truly sympathize with me because he didn't have the same curiosity that I have about sinful pleasures and also because he did not have a sinful nature that would make sin appeal to him so that he would have to fight to resist it. He is also sovereign, so he was in complete control of his, Satan's and everyone else's destiny, unlike all other human beings. Those facts contribute to the issue of whether or not Jesus could have actually sinned on earth when he was tempted and just didn't or if it was impossible for him to sin - the peccability (susceptibility) vs impeccability (insusceptibility) of Jesus debate. Knowing from Scripture and logic that Jesus could not possibly have sinned when he was tempted only made it harder for me to understand how he could sympathize with me who can possibly sin whenever I am tempted and have to fight against my own nature not to when Jesus never had to fight against his inward self because he was always in agreement with the Father's will. Finally today, when listening to this episode I had some thoughts that eased my mind on this issue and gave me a bit of a breakthrough. In that passage - 14) So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe. 15) This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. 16) So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most. - Hebrews 4:14-16 - Jesus is said to UNDERSTAND our weaknesses, but that does not mean that he EXPERIENTIALLY FELT all of our weaknesses. Also, that he faced all of the same testings that all human beings faced, or as better rendered in some other translations, was tempted in the same way that others are DOES NOT MEAN that he was tempted with every particular kind of temptation, but rather that categorically he was tempted with cravings for physical pleasure (lust of the flesh), a craving for what we see (lust of the eyes), and pride in achievements and possessions (pride of life), all throughout his physical life, and although he never had to fight inwardly with himself to resist these things and could not have sinned like we can, he was tempted more so than we are because having created physical pleasure and everything that can be seen, and having acheived infinitely more than anyone else, he had more access to possess what he was tempted with as a human being, so he was tempted more often and to greater degrees because more was offered to him than has been offered to any other human being on the planet. Also, SYMPATHY means that one can understand what someone else is going through from their own perspective as opposed to EMPATHY which is the ability to put oneself in another's position to understand based on shared or similar experience. This is important because Jesus was said to SYMPATHIZE with us NOT EMPATHIZE, and we should not be less comforted with that because if Jesus could empathize with us like the high priests under the Old Covenant then that would require that he be fallible and sinful, and thus he would not be the Son of God and he would not be able to save us. Also, Jesus does need to have ever experienced sin or been drawn to sin inwardly with the possiblity of sinning even if he never did in order to help us and pity us because as God he perfectly understands sin and its horrendous consequences, and so he can hate it and zealously oppose it in us more than if he were not God and he was susceptible. Therefore, Jesus feels more compassionate and more zealous to help me BECAUSE he cannot empathize with me but can only sympathize with me having not shared my experience all the while hating sin and desiring to destroy it and free me from it, and the only reason that he is mighty to save me is BECAUSE he never desired or tasted the sin that I am daily faced with and sometimes give in to, but rather he always disgusted it, opposed it and triumphed over it from his flawlessly pure heart to his unstained hands and undefiled body. And then to ponder the fact that more than anyone else he bore on himself the weight and filth of sin, and he died suffering God's wrath for it that he never deserved all in order to ransom those who had given their whole lives to sin and enjoyed it, so that we could be forgiven, justified and freed is logically satisfying and almost emotionally overwhelming to those who are blessed to have eyes that see and ears that ear and a renewed heart to appreciate and treasure the Lord Jesus because they have had his and the Father's love poured into their hearts affirming that they are his and that everything Jesus did and did not do despite all the temptation he faced and the wrath he suffered even when passing all of his tests was for their souls benefit. Alleluia, what a Saviour! All glory to God, and great thankfulness from my finite, wayward heart, that I can finally begin to understand and articulate the great truth of the sympthay of the sinless one for his sinful yet sanctified people!!! 😭🙌🙌✝️❤

@pootypotputt 2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate and can see the train of thought of your logic, but theres many things we will not ever be able to fully grasp, but that should not lead us to minimize what scripture says to fit our idealogies. Has the devil himself ever came to you face to face and tempted you? Have you ever been offered the world and its riches? Have you ever had to resist temptation to the point of bloodshed? And have you carried the sin of the world on your shoulders (which means you experienced the full fury of the wrath of God because of it) knowing that you could end the suffering of God's wrath by coming down off that cross whenever you wanted to? I agree that Jesus was and is truly God. We cannot minimize the fact though that Jesus was and is truly man. And because He became flesh, humans are able to sin. Yes, He did not inherit the sin nature from Adam, being born by the Holy Spirit and not sinful sperm, but we see that Adam fell before he had a sin nature. This is why what Jesus did is so remarkable and praiseworthy. He, being God almighty in His divine nature, subjected Himself to worst temptations than we could ever imagine in His human nature...and He was yet without sin! We cannot say the same because we give into temptation more often than we actually fight it, which is the main point. Jesus knows what it is like to fight against temptation on a level that WE OURSELVES cannot comprehend. Help us all Lord to readily believe Your Word as truth, regardless whether we can fully grasp what it asserts or not, and never try to minimize nor reduce any of Your glorious attributes or works! Bless you my brother in Christ.

@phieble 2 жыл бұрын

@@pootypotputt I want to make it clear in advance that it is not my intention to come off as hypercritical or condescending in my tone and speech, and also that I respect your right to disagree with what I am saying here. This is mostly to elaborate on my view. With that said, it seems that you would put yourself on the side of the argument that believes that when Jesus became a man that he became like Adam yet merely born sinless and powerful like God, and thus it was possible for him to sin, and that possibility to sin but total rejection of it is what made Jesus' triumph as astounding as it is. There are several Scriptural problems with that view. First is that Adam in his manhood is not like Jesus is his manhood because Adam was created and was "good," meaning he functioned as God designed him to function, whereas Jesus did not become less God when he became a man, and he was then on earth as he had always been, perfect. That means that he could not sin because in order to do so, he would be less than perfect, yet God cannot change in his nature and become any less virtuous than he has always been. Jesus is the same today, yesterday and forever. Jesus is God and God CANNOT EVER sin in any three of his Persons. Also to consider is that Jesus is sovereign. Before he created the world he had determined to die on a cross to save sinners, which means that his success was guaranteed, and so he could not have possibly sinned because that would defeat his purpose and again make him less than God because part of what it means to be God is to be sovereign and fulfill all of his purposes. Adam was not sovereign so he could not predetermine that he would not sin when tempted, and in fact, he could not prevent himself from sinning when he did, although he is responsible for sinning, because since Christ's crucifixion for the redemption of man was predestined, the Fall had to have been predestined. Lastly, it does not have to be so that Jesus could've sinned but didn't for his triumph over sin to be astounding. The retention of the perfection of his nature as God even as a man so as to guarantee that he would not sin is astounding in itself, and to add to that, his willingness to put himself in the position of being tempted, succed every time, but them suffer God's wrath as if he had failed every time for the sake of every person who would be saved since time began is worship-inducing. Greater love has no man than him, not because he could have failed but was determined not to, but because he couldn't have failed and he devised such a awesome and excrucuating plan to save the worst of sinners and then went through with it impeccably and sovereignly for our soul's benefit and God's glory. It is not minimizing Jesus' humanity to recognize that he was also God and infallible, as long as I profess his very real birth, development, physical needs, pain, death, burial, and resurrection, which are all things that he could only accomplish as a human being. It is minimizing his deity, though, to suggest that he could have sinned against his very self and to believe that somehow as a man he was less sovereign over his destiny than when he was with the Father in Heaven before God said "Let there be." This article may be helpful as well. www.gotquestions.org/could-Jesus-have-sinned.html

@elisabethtrotter4564 2 жыл бұрын

Jesus Christ went to the cross and now lives to set sinful you free from death and hell. Repent and turn your heart to Him before it’s too late. If He calls your heart, say yes!

@bossmonl.a2035 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely amazing

@TheCreepypro 2 жыл бұрын

never thought about this in such a way but I liked being able to do so now

@lanepywell1390 2 жыл бұрын

Great video!

@jamestanny849 2 жыл бұрын

Please pray for me brethren 🙏

@margaretmcguire3241 2 жыл бұрын

He had no sin in him bc his father was not of this world. Joseph was Jesus' step father, Earthly father. 1 John 5:18 - We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

@camraceranimation 2 жыл бұрын

How did the static make this better??

@sorrynotsorry9532 2 жыл бұрын

I am interested in learning what your view is on the entertainment business.

@Pyroverbs205 2 жыл бұрын

Will you go to Heaven? Here’s a quick test: Have you ever lied, stolen, or used God’s name in vain? Jesus said, “Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” If you have done these things, God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart, and the Bible warns that one day God will punish you in a terrible place called Hell. But God is not willing that any should perish. Sinners broke God’s Law and *Jesus paid their fine. This means that God can legally dismiss their case:* *“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have you life.”* Then Jesus rose from the grave, defeating it. Today, repent and trust Jesus, and God will give you eternal life as free gift. Then read the Bible daily and obey it. God will never fail you. (living waters/ray comfort) God bless you.

@alexsalvador3370 Жыл бұрын

In the temptation of Jesus in Matthew 4:4, how can turning the stone into bread be a sin, supposing Jesus did that. Please expound on this

@Myjesus-1 Жыл бұрын

Temptation was put before Jesus, but he was not tempted. If he felt temptation in his heart and mind, that would be sin. For example, Jesus said that even to look at a woman with lust is a sin. The bible tells us that Jesus never sinned.

@bossmonl.a2035 2 жыл бұрын

Where can we listen to the whole clip???