“YOU ARE MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED”

Dec. 15, 2013

“YOU ARE MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED”

“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” Then for forty days He fasted and prayed for strength. Today my friends I want you to focus on the second temptation when his legitimacy was brought into question from the PRINCE OF DARKNESS about Him being the Son of God “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down.

For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you, ’and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone. AND Jesus response was “IT IS WRITTEN AGAIN, in other words once again Satan ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God’

My friends forty days before Christ temptation in the wilderness He identified himself with sinners in His baptism in the Jordan  “it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, YOU ARE MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED Luke 3:21-22

This is the beginning of His Ministry, He will now be placed on the center stage of all to see in the heavenly realms, and on earth. Was our Savior prepared “for such a time as this” Remember this is the Savior of the world the I AM who would die for us all, and the Hope of Israel who was counting on a king to reestablished a government, and there dominance in the world.

“And his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace” Isaiah. 9:6 But He knew His kingdom was not of this world, He knew He would be condemned as a follower of Beelzebub, and a transgressor of His own law.

My friends follow me close today and focus on where I am trying to take you. The first thirty years of His life He was a common, blue color laborer in his fathers carpentry shop, and knowing there was other son’s in the family, He wasn’t given a special right of immunity to work part-time, and then given the rest of the day to go and study the scriptures, and familiarized himself on what his mission from His Father in heaven was.

My friends we also work each day followed by all of our family, and church responsibilities. So if Christ is our example, why do we allow the things of this world to occupy the time we should be spending with God and His WORD. He herd His father say after his baptism “YOU ARE MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED.”

But after forty day’s without food in the wilderness, weak and emasculated, maybe He just imagine that voice from above, My friends how did He know he was the son of God. The bible never mentions before His Baptism of Him being told of His Divinity.

But friends He could only recognize the voice of God if every waken moment of His day when he wasn’t working or doing his family duties, He was not preparing Himself for Calvary by seeking a connection with the father through THE SPIRIT, and a CONSTANT HEARTFELT PRAYER, and STUDY LIFE, yes my friends, He was prepared for the wilderness experience and Satan’s tactics of deception.

“For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Heb. 4:15 we must realize Christ could not have been our example if he would have allowed His Divinity to overcome the forces of evil.

It had to be the power of the same Spirit that we have access to through the Word, which in so doing gives us direct access to the Father through the son “who sits at the right hand of the Father.” My friends our Savior gave it all up for our Salvation, now what will we give up to be saved and receive eternal life.

God is talking to us today through His Spirit. Christ had no problem recognizing God’s voice and acting upon it. But our STUDY LIFE AND PRAYER HABITS has become weak, because we have allowed the constant sound of the TV, and all the alternatives to eternal life Satan offers to drown out Gods voice. Once again my friends don’t let the next time you Here God’d voice be when He stands up and says it is finish, then it will be to late.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY