The King is Here: Seeing Temptation Overcome

This last Sunday we had the privilege of hearing from our very own, Chris Sharp. Chris taught us through the passage in Luke 4 where Jesus is in the wilderness being tempted by the devil. Chris encouraged us from the Scriptures that the temptation to take health, wealth, and power into our own hands is not foreign to Jesus. That in fact, because Jesus was in every way tempted as we are, and remained faithful to His Father, we too are invited into this reality of victory. Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection made it not only possible for us to resist temptation, but to turn what the enemy intended for destruction into a testimony of victory to stand on. This way of living requires submission in humility. The opposite of what the world would suggest as life enjoyed. The victory is fully lived into when we recognize that we’re not here to build our own kingdom, but to yield to the power of the Holy Spirit in us. The good news is that this Holy Spirit wants to and is able to set us more and more free to the degree that we yield. -- So may we joyfully bring everything before Him that we thought about putting above Him, and receive again His perfect love that casts out fear.