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So Jeanette is asking, during Jesus’s temptation, where he was driven to a high mountain, was Satan a visible angel or operating in Jesus’s mind?
Speaker 2
Jeanette, that is a great question.
Speaker 3
I really appreciate that.
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And it’s know to consider know so many times. I don’t know if you guys felt.
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This way as like you’re feeling I’m.
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Getting thoughts or ideas thrown at me and I know this is not from myself or this is something from outside of me or you sense like this is the enemy tempting you.
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And so it’s easy to then think.
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Was Jesus just tempted in his mind or was this an actual physical event? And when we go to scripture in Matthew chapter four, I think the answer is pretty clear that this was indeed a visible angel that Satan came to Jesus as.
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And I say this because when you.
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Look in Matthew chapter four, starting of in verse three, the beginning of the temptation, jesus we know he was 40 days, no food. He was definitely hungry and weak. And so Satan of course is when he jumps on Jesus to attack him. And in Matthew chapter four, verse three, it says now when the tempter came to him, to Jesus, Satan said, if you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread. So first of all, we see Satan coming.
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It’s not just whispering in his ear.
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It says he actually came. He physically came. And then when you go up a few verses to verses five and six, it says, then the devil took him up to the holy city, set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, if you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written, he shall give his angels charge over you, and their hand shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone. And so here we see.
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Mean, it.
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Seems pretty obvious that he physically took him and set him on the pinnacle. It wasn’t just an idea in his mind. He was literally set there because he says to know if you’re the Son of God, throw yourself down. So he would have had to physically be there because then Satan is saying he shall give his angels charge over you. And so he’s quoting Psalm 91, but he’s twisting it.
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And so I definitely think this is.
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A physical occurrence that definitely happened. I don’t think it was just kind of like, oh, imagine whatever.
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I think Satan literally took him and he’s like, because if you’re the Son.
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Of God, you’re going to obey this scripture, which is that if you dash that God will give charge over you, like prove it by jumping off of this thing.
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So I think we would have physically.
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Had to be there in order to tempt him in this way.
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And so, yeah, I do think that’s.
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A pretty clear indication that this was a physical manifestation of Satan in the.
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Temptation of you know, I just want.
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To note really quick, the thing is, too, with Satan, while he can whisper things in your ear, he can tell you things, and he can probably look.
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At you and from what’s going on.
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On the outside and discern like this is probably their reaction. This is how I’m going to respond. Satan cannot read your mind. Only God has the power to do that. When you see that in scripture so many times where God discerns the heart of man, jesus discerns their thoughts.
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Or many instances of scripture, like when.
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David was going to be selected as king, he tells Samuel, the prophet in one Samuel, chapter 16, that in verse seven, it says, God doesn’t see as man sees, for man looks on the outside, but the Lord looks at the heart. Only God can see of the heart and only can read your mind. And so I don’t think that Satan was able to speak to Jesus within his mind as if he was inside of there having a conversation, because Satan can’t do that. Satan can possess people in the fact that he tells them what to do and they do it and they are completely some people are submitted to the enemy, but Satan cannot read your mind. He can’t do that. And he couldn’t not read the mind of Christ. And so I don’t think it was a mental battle as much as it was. I mean, there was a mental battle aspect going on, but it was definitely a physical manifestation that Satan was physically there. He literally took him up to a pinnacle and literally said, throw yourself down or else you’re not the Son of God because you’re not able to literally fulfill this scripture.
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And so Jesus decided to no, no.
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This is what the Bible actually says. And so I love Christ’s response because.
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Everything he says is it is written. And that’s what we stand for at Bible asks. So I hope that answers your question.
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And just do you have any other.
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Thoughts on that, be sure to let us know.
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