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Mark has a very efficient way of characterizing events in his gospel, so it could be easy to miss the significance of Christ's temptation in the wilderness. In today's episode, we'll continue our sermon series from the archives, the gospel according to Mark.

In this sermon, Paul reminds us that the hope of humanity rests on Jesus' shoulders in these two short verses.

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Now here's Paul with today's message.

Perhaps it's humbling to admit.

Embarrassing at points,

but all of us still carry around with us a susceptibility to temptation.

You were susceptible this week. You're susceptible to different things that I may be susceptible

to, but we're may be susceptible to.

But we're all susceptible to temptation in some location, some situation, some relationship.

And because of that, this passage that we're going to look at

how ever brief is a particular comfort.

Let me read the verses again from Mark chapter 1, verses 12 and 13. The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness, and he was in the wilderness 40 days,

being tempted by Satan, and he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.

Mark is very careful to record that Christ faced and defeated Satan in three ways throughout his life. First,

in this moment where Christ is driven by the Spirit of God into the wilderness and is tempted

by Satan and defeat Satan in that moment.

Christ faces him again in his public ministry and demonstrates his power over evil there.

And Christ faces him again at the cross, making public spectacle of him, triumphing over him by the cross.

And Mark reminds us that everything Christ did in his life was done for us.

From day one, it all was a substitution. It all was Christ in our place. Christ facing what we

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