Satan’s Steps To Temptation Christ’s Temptation His Relationship To God The Temptation To Doubt Worship Me The Ultimate Mind Game

His Relationship To God The subtle temptation which Satan put before Jesus was the temptation to depart from the will of God. Obedience is what God want of us. Some believe that the Sonship which we have because of Jesus Christ gives us the right to sit in judgment upon the will of God

The Temptation To Doubt Satan took Christ “into the Holy City” (Jerusalem) and set him on a pinnacle of the temple. This sounded quite reasonable and logical.

Worship Me When Christ did not succumb to Satan’s second temptation, he put a third one before Him. The subtlety of this temptation was that the one who has the right to be worshipped also has the right to be obeyed The world has walked in disobedience.

The Ultimate Mind Game l John 2:15-17 When Satan comes to tempt an individual he will appeal to one of these three basic characteristics of our human nature. Satan plants a seed in the mind that then germinates that seed so that affection for this is produced since what a man loves ultimately he will serve - Matt 6:24 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever. 1 John 2:15-17 NAS95

The Ultimate Mind Game This process may be spread over an extensive period of time. In the wilderness temptations Christ used the Word of God to resist Satan’s attacks.

The Ultimate Mind Game Many go down in defeat, not because of lack of respect the Word of God, but because we don’t know what is in the pages of God’s Word and we are unable to apply the specific word to a given situation.