Big Idea: Jesus is the Better Adam because where Adam failed, in the temptation in the Garden, Jesus prevails, in the temptation in the Wilderness.
The ____________________________ of the Temptation
Luke 4:1–2 (ESV) — 1 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness 2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.
WILDERNESS (Heb. miḏbār, ˓arāḇâ, yešîmôn; Gk. erēmiˊa, érēmos). In general, [the wilderness is seen as a] geographical region beyond the limits of civilization and widely perceived as disorderly and inhospitable. Such areas include desert wastelands (Deut. 32:10; Ps. 106:14), thorny patches (Judg. 8:7, 16), rocky or mountainous regions (1 Sam. 23:14, 25–26), forests (Ezek. 34:25; cf. Isa. 32:15), and pasturelands (Gen. 36:24; Jer. 9:10 [MT 9]).
Most notable in the Bible is that wilderness between Egypt and the promised land of Canaan in which the Israelites wandered for forty years, the period of the “wilderness wanderings” recalled repeatedly in both the Old and New Testament (e.g., Ps. 78:52–54; Amos 2:10; Acts 7:36; 13:18; Heb. 3:17). This was the “great and terrible wilderness” (Deut. 1:19; 8:15; cf. 2 Cor. 11:26) where the Israelites were convinced they would die (Exod. 14:11–12), for there they had neither food (16:2–3) nor water (15:22; 17:1; Num. 21:5).
The wilderness, or desert, is a place of destitution and danger.
Gen. 2:4-17
Jesus is the better Adam because no matter the disadvantage, Jesus prevails where Adam fails.
The _______________________ of the Devil
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Luke 4:2–3 (ESV) — 2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. 3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”
The question here is not an inquiry after the truth, but rather it is intended to bring the truth into question.
Deuteronomy 8:3 (ESV) 3 And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
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Luke 4:5–7 (ESV) — 5 And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, 6 and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. 7 If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.”
Daniel 4:17, 34-35
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Luke 4:9–10 (ESV) — 9 And he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, 10 for it is written, “ ‘He will command his angels concerning you, to guard you,’
Jesus’ responds accordingly to the devil’s perversion of God’s purposes. Jesus does not test God with his Word, He trust God in His Word.
Question to Consider
In what ways do you see the tactics of the devil in your life? How should you respond?
