The Word Unleashed

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.

For us as Christians, Justification offers stunning hope: God credits our sins to Christ—removing them from our account, where He bore them on the cross and suffered their penalty. Then God credits Christ's righteousness to us—His perfect obedience becomes ours. This is the great exchange: Jesus gets our sins, and we get His righteousness.

In Romans 4, Paul answers the crucial question: On what basis are we made right with God? Today, our teacher unveils five key truths about justification from King David's example—truths that clarify how a holy God can justify the ungodly without violating His own character. And therein lay a question: What can David's sin and forgiveness teach us about our own justification?