Lesson 10- Satan tries to get Jesus to worship him instead of God

Satan tries to get Jesus to worship him instead of God
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Mat 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13; Luke 1-13


After Jesus was baptised, the Holy Spirit led him into the wilderness so that Satan could tempt him. This was important, because in being tempted as we all are, Jesus can now understand what we are tempted by, and show us that we too can over come them with His help. Let us look at how that went, shall we?


After Jesus had been in the wilderness fasting for 40 days, he was hungry. That is when Satan came to Jesus and said, "If you are the song of God, tell these stones to turn into bread, so that you can eat them." Jesus answered Satan, "It is in the Bible, 'A person does not live only by eating bread. But a person lives by everything that the Lord says.'"


Then the devil took Jesus to the very tip of the Holy temple in Jerusalem and said, "If you are the Son of God, up off of here. You won't get hurt, for the Bible says, 'He puts his angels in charge of you. They will catch you with their hands. And you will not hit your foot on a rock." Here the devil was quoting from Psalms 91:11-12, thinking that it would fool Jesus. But it did not fool Jesus, for he answered the devil by quoting Deuteronomy 6:16 which says,'Do not test the Lord your God."


Lastly, the devil took Jesus up on a very high mountain where you could see all the kingdoms of the world and said, "If you will bow down and worship me, In will give you all these things." Jesus answered him, "Go away from me, Satan! It is written in the Scriptures, 'You must worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him!"


When Satan heard that, he left Jesus defeated, for he had not been able to get Jesus to sin. You too can use the words from the Bible to win over the Satan when he tries to get you to do things against God and sin.