Satan wanted to get Jesus to proved
He was the Son of God by tempting
Him into turning the stones to bread.

But after a long fast there are feelings
of spiritual power even in physical
weakness.

Jesus came to do the Father's will and
not His own. So Jesus answered him
"....man doth not live by bread only,
but by every word that proceedeth out
of the mouth of the LORD ....."
Deuteronomy 8:3

It had nothing to do with Jesus' ability
to turn the stones into bread, It was
His desire to do the Father's will.

He miraculously feed multitudes.

"And Jesus

being full

of the Holy

Spirit

returned

from Jordan,

and was led

by the Spirit into the wilderness,

Being forty days tempted of the devil.

And in those days he did eat nothing:

and when they were ended, he after

ward hungered. And the devil said unto

him,....." Luke 4:1-2

Satan's appearance took place when

Jesus was at His weakest, after a long

fast for several days. That is usually

when Satan picks to attack, in times of

exhaustion and depression.

His first words were to put doubt in

Jesus' mind of his divinity. "If thou be

the Son of God", he wanted to reason

with Jesus' human side and confuse him.

After receiving

the baptism

of the Spirit
at the Jordan

River.

Jesus gradually started to develope the

powers that He had before as God.

He emphasized his pre-existance......

"Jesus said unto them, If God were your
Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded
forth and came from God; neither came I
of myself, but he sent me." John 8:42
"Jesus said unto them, Verily,verily, I say
unto you, Before Abraham was, I am."
John 8:58

"I came forth from the Father, and am
come into the world: again, I leave the
world, and go to the Father."

John 16:28

"And now, O Father, glorify thou me with
thine own self with the glory which I had
with thee before the world was."

John 17:5

"Father, I will that they also, whom thou
hast given me, be with me where I am;
that they may behold my glory, which
thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me
before the foundation of the world."
John 17:24

No denying His testimony.

"For what the law could not do, in

that it was weak through the flesh,

God sending his own Son in the

likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,

condemned sin in the flesh:"

Romans 8:3

He got his human nature from Mary.

"Let this mind be in you, which was

also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the

form of God, thought it not robbery to

be equal with God: But made himself of

no reputation, and took upon him the

form of a servant, and was made in the

likeness of men: And being found in

fashion as a man, he humbled himself,

and became obedient unto death, even

the death of the cross."

Philippians 2:5-8

He existed as God but took on human form.

"...the Word was made flesh, and dwelt

among us..." John 1:14

The divine Spirit clothed Himself with a

human body and the limitation of man.

Simple put the Son of God came into the

world as a person. And became Our Saviour!

When Jesus
asked the Pharisees and
others who they thought He was,
He got all sorts of answers.

Some thought he was:

• a gifted person;
• an unusually talented individual;
• a man with a unique personality;
• he was great but only human;
• a prophet;
• a teacher;
• the Son of David

(David who called Him Lord)........

But only the disciples saw Him as
the Son of the Living God.

"But this man, because he
continueth ever, hath an
unchangeable priesthood.

Wherefore he is able also to save them
to the uttermost that come unto God by
him, seeing he ever liveth to make
intercession for them.
"Hebrews 7:24-25

Jesus saw in the scriptures that He also
was to be a priest. Not of Levi, for He
was not of Levi but of Melchizedek.

".....Thou art a priest for ever after the
order of Melchizedek." Psalms 110:4

He had to be 33 before He could become
a priest. So He had only 3 years to finish
fulfilling the sriptures before His death.

His Father's words throught the prophets
were the bases of His work, but the Holy
Spirit in Him gave power to the word and
guided Him into all truth.

"Search the scriptures; for in them ye
think ye have eternal life: and they are
they which testify of me. And ye will
come to me, that ye might have life."
John 5:39

Just as

we must,

Jesus always supported His faith

by confirming it by the word of the

prophets given by God.

The only way He could go through

what was required of Him was to

know the reason for and the outcome

of His obedience.

Isaiah 53 gives a clear picture of Jesus'
destiny as the Messiah.

It was plain from the prophecies that
He would be rejected by the religious
leaders.

When Jesus' first read the prophecies
of His future, they had not been fulfilled
as yet; but He knew that they had to be
fulfilled:

his betrayal
his trial
his death
his resurrection
his descension into hell
his ascension up to heaven
his seat at the right hand of His Father
his sending of the Holy Spirit
and
his ruling with the Father forever.....

Jesus' ministry was one of deliverance.

Not from the Romans, but from sin and
sickness.

He was to set free the spiritsand bodies
of mankind.
"The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me;
because the LORD hath anointed me to
preach good tidings unto the meek; he
hath sent me to bind up the broken
hearted,to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to them that
are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year
of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of
our God; to comfort all that mourn;...."
Isaiah 61:1-2

He received an anointing of the Spirit that
gave him power to perform these works.

He was not just to speak words as others
but He was to show His authority by a
ministry of power.

By binding Satan's power He would bring
deliverance.

Jesus knew He was born to be King.
But His kingdom would not be of this
world,

"Jesus answered, My kingdom
is not of this world: if my kingdom
were of this world, then would my
servants fight, that I should not be
delivered to the Jews: but now is my
kingdom not from hence." John 18:36

Read Deuteronomy 18:14-19 Moses
prophesied Him to be a prophet. So
His ministry started as a prophet, and
then as Saviour to the nation of Irael.

He knew there would be attempts to
make Him king. But he had to reign
over their hearts first before He could
rule over them as a kingdom.

Jesus' work would be very difficult
because of their thinking. They were
looking for a Messiah not to teach, but
who would lead them on the battle-
field to victory.

They had no desire for a spiritual
kingdom.

Jesus needed wisdom to present His
message to them. He would have to
use simple illustrations (his parables)
so they could understand.

He took them to the scriptures to give
a bases for His teachings.

God
needed
someone
to speak

with authority,

to tell the people

what was truth,

why they were

born, how
they could live with the laws of their
beings, and how they could have

immortality.

Jesus was that someone. He had to
proclaim the laws of the kingdom of
God to the world and eternal life.

He was the someone to redeem man
from sin and set them free.

God would be revealed to the people
so they could know His real nature
and that He was a Father that every
one could go to; That heaven could
be born in their hearts and they could
know the kingdom of God before it
would be established on the earth.