"About four thousand years afterward Christ came into the
world, the second Adam.
world, the second Adam.
The devil tried to make Him fall also,and he tried Him on the very point where he succeeded with the first Adam.
and said,
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3 If you be the Son of God, command that these stones be
made bread.
4 But He answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live
by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
Three separate and distinct temptations the devil brought to
bear on the Lord Jesus, and each one of them was simply an
endeavor to induce the Lord to swerve from the Word of God.
bear on the Lord Jesus, and each one of them was simply an
endeavor to induce the Lord to swerve from the Word of God.
The devil cared for nothing else but to get Jesus to deviate just
a little from the written Word;
a little from the written Word;
and Jesus resisted the temptations and gained the victory only by His strict loyalty to thatwritten Word.
He met every temptation with:
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4 It is written."
4 It is written."
E.J. Waggoner