Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’ ”
4:10
Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan!
Jesus told Satan to get lost and he did (4:11)! That is a swift and straightforward answer. Jesus made the decision to exclusively worship the Lord God and resisted the temptation to worship in a syncretistic manner.
“Satan” means adversary. He knew His enemy
For it is written,
Jesus cited and paraphrased Deuteronomy 6:13 and 10:20 to defeat Satan’s own lust for power. He met each of the three temptations with a quotation from Scripture. The Lord quoted thirteen books of the Old Testament in the New Testament.
PRINCIPLE:
All victory in the Christian life comes through God’s revelation of Himself in the Word.
APPLICATION:
The reason most Christians face difficulty in living their Christian lives is ignorance of the Word of God and failure to apply it to their experiences.
…and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God… Eph 6:17
Thanks Dr Richison! Your site helped me a lot in doing my exegetical paper in my Bible School. You’re an inspiration! God bless you and your ministry!
Arra
Philippines
I am blessed by you as well, Arra.
Grant:
I’ve become quite a “fan”
of your online commentary.
I hear the ghost of Bob Theime and David Allen, both of whom influenced me greatly.
Do you have any audio available?
Dave, David Allen was my home pastor and under whom I became a Christian. He has had a major influence on my life. I followed him in memorizing thousands of Scripture which also changed my life significantly. Other influences on my ministry is Donald Grey Barnhouse, whose church I attended and W. E. Criswell, whose church my wife and I attended when we were in Dallas Seminary. I went to Dallas for training in Bible exposition and biblical languages. I think Theime went beyond extant statements of Scripture so I would not want to identify fully with him except for his commitment to bible exposition.
There are audios of when I was a pastor but they are quite old. A woman in Canada has possession of them.
Dave, since I got a bounce on your email. Here is the content:
Dave,
I am thankful for your commitment to Bible exposition. You are a rare breed of cat these days! In the last number of years I have been trying to influence pastors in different parts of the world to do verse-by-verse Bible exposition. I see greater hope in getting indigenous pastors to do exposition than western pastors. My book on Certainty argues for Bible exposition in certain places. We cannot have certainty without apriority deduction whereas most Christian colleges and seminaries are now dialectical and a posteriori in their approach to truth.
Grant
I agree with you about Theime. I think he went overboard as time progressed. I never listened to any of his material produced after 1970 as I began noticing extremes and fabricated doctrines.
I think this is a good lesson for all of us in ministry–not to get so impressed with our own understanding that we begin to “invent” our own theology.
The major contribution Bob made to my Christian life is that he was the first teacher I heard that was totally free from legalism. As a teenager in the sixties all I got from church, VCY, Word of Life etc was legalistic Christianity. Bob showed me that Christianity and legalism were not the same thing. Sorry about my e-mail, its messed up.