I was just thinking about temptation today. If you are not in a body of flesh, how can you be tempted? For real....What could you possibly tempt a spirit with, money?? Money for what? If you are a spirit, what are you going to need money for? What about sex? Without a body you're not going to have any urges. So when people tell me that God can't be tempted, no kidding, God's a spirit. (John 4:24) How are you going to tempt a spirit?
Check this out now, this is how mighty and great my God is. Jesus (because he always was Jesus before he showed us who he was.) created a body, and lived a human life in it. In this life, He was holy and completely un-corruptible. He never fell to greed, hate, pleasure, desire...none of that. (1 Peter 2:22) Now this is a God that I'm going to worship because daily I think about how bad I have blown it and sometimes continue to blow it. (I'm working on not blowing it though because the grace God to me is not something to take lightly, it's not a green card to sin. Grace can run out, so I'm not comforted in being saved because I'm in the process of being saved. I Corinthians 1:18)
This entire concept of temptation takes my humility and love for God to an entire new level. I always thought that because Jesus was God, that his temptation wasn't as real to him as it was to me. I also thought that His pain couldn't possibly be as real as mine either. I can't believe I used to patronize God's righteousness and pain. Unfortunately this is easy to do with a false sense of God's deity and humanity.
Finally this revelation on who Jesus is, shows us how God's flesh by itself could do nothing on it's own. (John 5:30) God's flesh was a beautiful and promised messianic son. (Matthew 1:1) This son came through the line of Judah, a son of King David that the father created (Psalm 2:7) (Beget = to cause/create) and lived in. (2 Corinthians 5:19) As a Son, Jesus listened to what he knew was right. He did this EVERY TIME when he was confronted with a choice. (Life is a series of moral choices) He listened to his Spirit, the Father inside Him. Tempted, but never missing God's perfect mark of righteousness . (2 Corinthians 5:21)
Yet people continue to say that they don't need to be saved? Please....get over your flawed self. Proverbs 22:4 says "The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life." Who is the LORD again?...Oh yeah, it's Jesus. "Shema Yisrael," God is one. (Galatians 3:20)
Check this out now, this is how mighty and great my God is. Jesus (because he always was Jesus before he showed us who he was.) created a body, and lived a human life in it. In this life, He was holy and completely un-corruptible. He never fell to greed, hate, pleasure, desire...none of that. (1 Peter 2:22) Now this is a God that I'm going to worship because daily I think about how bad I have blown it and sometimes continue to blow it. (I'm working on not blowing it though because the grace God to me is not something to take lightly, it's not a green card to sin. Grace can run out, so I'm not comforted in being saved because I'm in the process of being saved. I Corinthians 1:18)
This entire concept of temptation takes my humility and love for God to an entire new level. I always thought that because Jesus was God, that his temptation wasn't as real to him as it was to me. I also thought that His pain couldn't possibly be as real as mine either. I can't believe I used to patronize God's righteousness and pain. Unfortunately this is easy to do with a false sense of God's deity and humanity.
Finally this revelation on who Jesus is, shows us how God's flesh by itself could do nothing on it's own. (John 5:30) God's flesh was a beautiful and promised messianic son. (Matthew 1:1) This son came through the line of Judah, a son of King David that the father created (Psalm 2:7) (Beget = to cause/create) and lived in. (2 Corinthians 5:19) As a Son, Jesus listened to what he knew was right. He did this EVERY TIME when he was confronted with a choice. (Life is a series of moral choices) He listened to his Spirit, the Father inside Him. Tempted, but never missing God's perfect mark of righteousness . (2 Corinthians 5:21)
Yet people continue to say that they don't need to be saved? Please....get over your flawed self. Proverbs 22:4 says "The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life." Who is the LORD again?...Oh yeah, it's Jesus. "Shema Yisrael," God is one. (Galatians 3:20)