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“Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted [tested] of the devil” (Matthew 4:1).
We might wonder why it was necessary for the Lord Jesus to go out into the wilderness, to be tempted of the devil. When the devil met Him, he tempted the Lord with three different things. You can read about them in Matthew 4:1-11. They were the kinds of things that would tempt us to sin, but instead of committing a sin, the Lord Jesus simply answered Satan by quoting Bible verses. Can you find those Bible verses He quoted to Satan? They are all from the book of Deuteronomy.
Some have used all this to try and say that the Lord Jesus Christ could have sinned, but did not. But it was impossible for Him to sin, for He did not have a sinful nature. Rather, the temptations proved who He was, for He resisted all the attempts of Satan to make Him sin.
All this is a good lesson for us, too. When Satan tempts us, we can resist him by quoting the Word of God. Satan has no answer for that. When He quoted the Word of God to Satan, the Lord Jesus left us a good example of how to handle temptations to sin in our lives.
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