Pastors Jim and Marie Watt
(From: MATTHEW #4 - 4:1-16)
B. 4:1-11 JESUS TEMPTED IN THE WILDERNESS
a. 4:1 CHRIST'S TEMPTATION
TOte ho IeSOUS aNECHthe[321]eis ten ERe-mon [2048]huPO tou PNEUma-tos
Then was :Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness
pei-rasTHEnai [3985]huPO tou di-aBOlou [1228].
to be tempted of the devil.
b. 4:2 And having fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.
kai neSTEUsas heMEras tes-seRAkon-ta kai NUKtas tes-seRAkon-ta, HUste-ron ePEIna-sen.
c. 4:3 SATAN'S FIRST TEMPTATION
Kai pro-selTHON ho peiRAzon [3985]EIpen auTO,
And the tempter came and said to him,
Ei huiOS ei tou TheOU, eiPON HIna hoi LIthoi [3037] HOUtoi ARtoi [740] GEnon-tai.
If you are :God's Son, bid these stones to become loaves.
d. 4:4 JESUS ANSWERS BY SCRIPTURE
ho de a-po-kriTHEIS EIpen, GEgrap-tai [1125], Ouk ep' ARto MOnoZEse-tai [2198]ho ANthro-pos,
But he answered and said, It is written, Not by bread alone shall :man live,
all' ePI panTI 'REma-ti [4487]ek-po-reu-oMEno[1607]diA STOma-tos [4750]TheOU.
but by every word that proceeds out of God's mouth.
e. 4:5-6 IN THE HOLY CITY
TOte pa-ra-lamBAnei [3880] auTON ho diAbo-los eis ten haGIan [40]POlin [4172],
Then the devil takes him into the holy city,
kai Este-sen auTON ePI to pteRUgi-on [4418]tou hi-eROU,
and set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
kai LEgei auTO, Ei huiOS ei tou TheOU BAle se-auTON KAto:
6and says to him, If you are :God's Son cast yourself down:
GEgrap-tai gar [HOti] Tois agGElois auTOU en-teLEItai [1781] peRI sou:
for it is written [that] He shall give his :angels charge concerning you:
kai ePI cheiRON aROU-SIN se, MEpo-te proSKOpses [4350]pros LIthon ton POda sou.
And on their hands they shall bear you up, Lest haply you dash your :foot against a stone.
f. 4:7 Said :Jesus to him, Again it is written, You shall not make trial of theLord your :God.
Ephe auTO ho IeSOUS, PAlin GEgrap-tai, Ouk ek-peiRAseis [1598]KUri-on ton TheON sou.
g. 4:8-9 ON THE MOUNTAIN
PAlin, pa-ra-lamBAnei auTON ho diAbo-los eis Oros [3735] hu-pseLON [5308]LIan [3029],
Again, the devil takes him to an exceeding high mountain,
kai DEIKnu-sin [1166] auTO PAsas tas ba-siLEIas tou KOSmou kai ten DOxan auTON,
and shows him all the kingdoms of the world and their :glory,
kai EIpen auTO, TAU-TA soi PANta DOso, eAN peSON pro-skuNEses [4352]moi.
9and said to him, All these will I give you, If you fall down andworship me.
h. 4:10 JESUS' THIRD SCRIPTURAL RESPONSE
TOte LEgei auTOho IeSOUS, HUpa-ge [5217], Sa-taNA [4567]: GEgrap-tai gar,
Then says :Jesus to him, Go, Satan: for it is written,
KUri-on ton TheON sou pro-skuNEseis, kai auTOMOno laTREUseis [3000].
The Lord your :God shall you worship, and him only shall you serve.
i. 4:11 Then the devil leaves him, and lo, angels came and ministered to him.
TOte aPHIe-sin [863]auTON ho diAbo-los, kai iDOU, AGge-loi proSELthon [4334]kai di-eKOnoun auTO.
C. 4:12-16 JESUS IN GALILEE AND CAPERNAUM
A-KOUsas de HOti IoAnes pa-reDOthe [3860], a-neCHOre-sen [402]eis ten Ga-liLAIan;
Now when he heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into :Galilee;
kai ka-ta-liPON ten Na-zaRA elTHON kaTOke-sen [2730]eis Ka-phar-naOUM
13and leaving :Nazareth he came anddwelt in Capernaum
ten pa-ra-tha-lasSIan, en hoRIous Za-bouLON kai Neph-thaLEIM:
:by the sea, in theborders of Zebulun and Naphtali:
HIna ple-roTHE[4137] to 'reTHEN [4483]diA E-SAIou tou proPHEtou LEgon-tos,
14 that it might be fulfilled what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet saying,
GeZa-bouLON kai geNeph-thaLEIM, hoDON thaLASses, PEran tou IorDAnou,
15Zebulun land and Naphtali land, By way of thesea, beyond the Jordan,
Ga-liLAIa ton ethNON, ho laOS ho kaTHEme-nos en skoTIa [4655] phos [5457]EIden MEga [3173],
Galilee of the nations, 16The people that sits in darkness Saw agreat light,
kai tois ka-theMEnois en CHOra [5561]kai skiA [4639]thaNAtou, phos aNEtei-len [393]auTOIS.
And to those sitting in a region and shadow of death, For them alight arose.
NOTE: Jesus withstood the 3 temptations of Satan by quoting Scripture each time.
Dr. Donald Gray Barnhouse, minister of the 10thPresbyterian Church of Philadelphia - answered all questions given him by the Scriptures also. His questioners asked him - “Can't you answer our questions by telling us what youthink? Do you have to quote Scripture for all of your answers?” He replied, “Why should I lower myself to my own level of answer, when I can give you each time an eternal answer?”
Satan cannot withstand our answers from the Word of God. We should be like Jesus and Dr. Barnhouse.
4:12-16 - Wherever Jesus went - therelight shone forth! And when webecome like Paul in Galatians 2:20 - “I have been crucified with Christ; and no longer Ilive, but Christ lives in me: and what I now live in theflesh I live by faith which is in the Son of :God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.”- thenthe light of Jesus within us shines forth enlightening those who hear us.
George Whitefield was of this caliber. Perhaps America has had no other evangelist who so powerfully manifested the light of Jesus. It was his custom to spend 4-5 hours daily kneeling before his Bible, reading aloud, praying over it, and meditating upon it. Then when he preached in Boston, Benjamin Franklin found that he could stand on the outskirts of a crowd of 20-30,000, and hear him clearly! God gave Whitefield a projecting voice long before P.A. systems. Though Franklin did not become a convert - yet he was so powerfully influenced by his friendship with George Whitefield - that the light of hat friendship permeated into Franklin's influence in the founding of our nation and its constitution.
Is not thisa practical application to understand and explain the wisdom manifested by Franklin with our Founding Fathers? J.A.W.