The Word Unleashed

In Matthew 4 we find Satan's second temptation in the wilderness. Pastor Tom reveals how Satan tempted Christ to pursue personal glory instead of God's glory alone—and how Christ's victorious response teaches us that God's glory must always be our pursuit, never our own.

Today we continue examining Christ's first temptation. Pastor Tom Pennington shows us five ways our needs cross into sin—neglect, excess like gluttony or laziness, methods contrary to God's Word, pursuits contrary to God's design, and idolatrous passion that places physical desires above loving God.

On today's broadcast, we examine Satan's first temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. Pastor Tom reveals the divine pattern for overcoming physical temptation—showing us how neglect, rebellion, and excess can ensnare us, and how Jesus' victorious response teaches us to consistently overcome the physical temptations that assault us daily.

In this series, we continue exploring the temptation of Jesus Christ by examining a most unique theological question: whether Jesus was able to sin and what makes His temptations both similar to and different from ours.

Since Jesus Christ did not sin, we as Christians have hope of forgiveness of our sins, hope of being justified before a holy God. Our Lord had to be without His own sin so that He could stand in our place. And in Matthew 4, we see Jesus face temptation and sin and withstand both.