The Importance Of The Temptation Of Christ
(based on a Bible study led by Darrel Cline)

Lesson 1

1-1. How was Jesus brought into the desert?

1-2. Why?

1-3. How many days did Jesus fast?

1-4. Why would Matthew include "nights"?

1-5. Why would Matthew write, "He was afterward an hungred." ?

1-6. Who is the "one" that has been tempted in every way?

1-7. When Satan asked, "If thou be the Son of God.." What was Satan questioning?

If Jesus was God's Son.

1-8. In Matthew 4:3 when Satan said, "command that these stones be made bread." How was this temptation like that of Adam and Eve? (What human weakness did Satan appeal to?)

Hunger.

1-9. Would the Father give Jesus a stone if Jesus asked for bread?

1-10. What was Jesus' food?

1-11. What is meant by "It is written:?"

1-12. In verse 1, who made a promise to whom?

1-13. In verse 2, who led the people in the desert for forty years?

1-14. Why?

1-15. Who humbled them?

1-16. After they were humbled, they became hungry, then God provided for them by giving them manna. What was God teaching them?

"... man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD."

1-17. Looking at the specific detail in verse three, the words, "every word" are written. Consider the importance of "every." Why is every important?

to show that every single word is important.

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