Matthew Chapter 4 Discussion Page 9

After reading Matt 4 I do not see anything about healing What does it say about healing Talks about darkness but for the lay person you should be more specific

It clearly shows who demands worship. Satan.

That verse implies that patience and trust needs to be in place when it come to meeting our needs, cause God is looking to be invovled in direction all things to us. Doubt is in the heart when anxiousness is the mood. The Father wants to speak to His children but we hear Him best when we have been abiding in His fellowship. Testimony & convection is birthed from challenges, like this. We must understand to lose -control, means that we gain more of Christ, and then can serve Him with less strings attached.

WE SHOULD LEAVE THE DARKNESS WHICH IS SIN AND SEEK TO FOLLOW THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT - JESUS WHO IS LAMP TO OUR FEET AND LIGHT TO OUR PATH

Matthew 4 shows me that after God had showed Jesus his approval of him in chapter 3 he allowed him to be tempted by Satan to get Jesus response of him Just as he does us.We always want his blessing and deliverance; which he will do, but what happens when its our turn to defend and honor God when we are tempted by something that's very
inviting and enticing

I see the fasting was led by the Spirit,meaning that Jesus had total descernment of His times and seasons to be able to know when to fast for the 40days and nights and also after fasting He also gets tested that means we must always know why we are fasting .

Latasha,

You may read John, chap 14 and 15.

God is with us are the words to defeat evil, to prove we only serve the Lord, and to show people who sit in darkness a great light has shown. he who follow him will be fishers of men whom get healed,or will heal, as we live on the word of god which is our manna. not material things but heavenly things. amen come Lord Jesus. shalom

I believe we all know the importance of keeping Gods word with us but here we are seeing the importance of FASTING as well. I think its clear how to prepare ones self in order to bring forth good fruits but in my life ,as here, there is always a battle with satan beforehand,& matt 4 is telling us to be filled with the word & fast then we can thread down & march thur the darkness so that we can do Gods will & bring forth good fruits.

We are talking for our souls,an spiritual food to our souls.not a physical food.and always remember the food that is considered to be eaten.don't lost your souls for only a food.clean and unclean creatures from LEVITICUS chapter 11 and DEUTORONOMY chapter 17,

Some people says,how they live if they don't eat all creatures in this world like pig,they also said that they must take care of their health because their body is where God is living,and if they don't eat,they will become sick or whatever.but it is written that man shall not live by bread alone,but on every word that comes out from mouth of God.well...in my understanding,the most important here is our soul not our health or body.so we should watch the food we are eating if it is forbidden or unforbidden.

Jesus was tempted by ,the devil, but HE conquered with the WORD. That"s what Jesus taught us here. Not by miGht nor by power but by the Spirit of God. And who is the Spirit but the Word of God. God is Spirit and God is Life. There os Power in the Name of Jesus because Jesus is the Word that became flesh and made His dwelling amongst us. So when we speak His Word we proclaim and declare Jesus and God to the world. His Word is a lamp to o.ur feet and a light to our path. We are nothing without God's Word.. That"s why it is our daily bread. Praise God Almighty! He is my life, love, trust hope and my everything.

We must remember that we need more than physical food. In order to be successful we need to pay attention to all the words that come from God. We can do this by regularly reading His word the Bible and applying what learn.

where can i found in the bible about anxiety and depression so i can read it.

First they were in spiritual darkness, then a great light sprung up. I know a similar thing happened to me in a dream, a very evil darkness was closing in on me and I knew it would kill me (this was many years ago) not knowing where I knew to do this I suddenly yelled "JESUS" immediately a light burst for from me and obliterated totally all of the darkness surrounding me. The name of Jesus had saved my life, and though I said it, I know even that was by God's Grace because it wasn't something I would think of nor did I have time to think.

So, I was voraciously wanting more of Jesus after that, and I think this particular verse it telling us how their hearts were prepared to do such unusual things when you consider this from a human perspective. Why else would the disciples drop their whole lives to follow Jesus. There may have been other supernatural dreams, visions, but that verse I believe is the key, although being fully God and fully Human, would be something to behold I am sure everyone with an open heart to God would feel drawn irresistibly towards Him.

Where can I found in bible in Matthew 15:5

We should take Jesus as our example of OBEDIENCE to God , he did not follow what devil was telling him because he held word in his heart( psalm 119: 11)

was the Holy City consider to be that satan was offering Christ the (CHURCH)?

I agree with all the comments.. We do have to be careful because satan is everywhere. He will try to run in your life at your weakest moments but we must pray an be strong. We cant give him an inch of power to control us because we are all God's children. He thought he was going to get Jesus but Jesus showed him that he is the son of the truth, light, and holy spirit. We should all be like Jesus tell that devil depart from thence I am an child of God no weapon shall form against me.

Satan is a liar. we christian should not fear him as we are children of God. we are not allowed to be tempted. Jesus is our way.

I have learnt from this chapter.
Satan know everything. The goodness of worshiping God.
Satan know that in the word of God,there is life. This is why he tried to convince Jesus to step down from this belief in verse4.

Satan knows that in worshiping there is a grate reward. This is why we see him commanding Jesus to worship him in exchange of the world in verse9.

In verse6,Satan manifest him self that He knows how caring God is to us. He knows that He will not allow us to slip down,He will not watch us being tortured and any harm to us. As it is written that He will "command" the angels to come for our aid.

Do not be mislead by him,as he comes like the promised prophet and give a biblical prophecy. He knows that in Lord Jesus we have everything.

Let us focus on Jesus a lone.

Christ was tempted as the Son of God...it would not have helped us at all if He came as God

In this life we really need to be careful as to who is quoting the word of God into our lives and under what circumstances . Matt: 4:6, satan took a bold step in what he taught was Jesus' weakest hour to quote the word. But what he did not realized is that Jesus is THE WORD. Acct.to John1: Then also His strength is made perfect in my weakness.

Jesus/yes/ is a healer.Truely he came to all that is sick.we need to trust in him.

the word of God is power that has the ability to manifest itself in so many dimensions including what ever man desire of in this world because john 1:1 everything was by him n through him including the food being spoken here.

I love you Jesus Christ.I belive in my heart that you the saviour and the Son of our heavenly Father GOD.Teach me your ways because you know mine.

When we start the journey of following Jesus we have to know that we have entered into the battle field with the devil and temptations are part and parcel of this journey so if you haven't yet facing trials know that you haven't started your journey.

...nobody is exempted for temptations it is how firm you are to where you stand or what do you believe. Since I am redeemed by the blood of the lamb holy spirit's voice pat my mind to hear its voice and yield not.

@Peace,
There are many scriptures that speak of the Grace of God, but a couple of my favourites ones are:
- John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”.
- Isaiah 53:4-5; 4 “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.” 5 “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
- Acts 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved."

The temptation by evil is not a plan of God but a plan of Evil. So it could be an attempt to physically eliminate or weaken Jesus, especially when Jesus was physically weak after 40 days of fasting, so that the plan of God Almighty about Jesus is nip in the bud itself. Knowing the plan of evil, Jesus willingly (bodily) climbed to the pinnacle of temple when asked by evil so as to win over evil.