All the Kingdoms of the World
Things Unseen with Sinclair B. Ferguson
Ligonier Ministries
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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The devil offered Jesus the dominion that Adam had lost. This is just what Christ came to regain, but only by the conquest of the cross. Today, Sinclair Ferguson delights in Christ's unwavering devotion to His Father's will.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Friday's edition of Things Unseen. Today we're bringing to an end this week's |
| 0:13.6 | series of reflections on the wilderness temptations of our Lord Jesus. We've noticed that they're |
| 0:20.2 | arranged in a different order in Luke's gospel from the order in Matthew's gospel. And |
| 0:26.6 | we've reflected on the temptation to turn stone into bread and to leap down from the temple. |
| 0:32.0 | These are the first and the last ones in Luke's gospel. The middle one, Satan's bargain, |
| 0:39.2 | it's the climactic one in Matthew's gospel. If Jesus will just bow down and worship Satan |
| 0:46.4 | just once, then he can have all the kingdoms of this world. First of all, let me try and explain |
| 0:53.7 | Matthew's order. One of the themes that we find at the beginning and at the end of his gospel |
| 0:59.2 | is that while Jesus came from among the Jews, he came not just to be the savior of the Jews, |
| 1:05.7 | but of people of every nation. So at the beginning of the gospel wise men come from the east to |
| 1:11.9 | worship him and at the end his disciples are sent into the world with the good news about Jesus. |
| 1:18.3 | So you can see it would be natural for Matthew to climax his description with |
| 1:24.0 | a temptation that concerned all the nations or all the kingdoms of this world. But there's |
| 1:31.3 | something else here and I think the best way to get into it is by asking this question. |
| 1:35.4 | Why was this really a temptation? I mean I asked that question for a fairly obvious reason. |
| 1:44.2 | If this were you, would it be such a great temptation? I suspect many of us would think the whole |
| 1:50.0 | thing was ridiculous. Who did Satan think he was offering Jesus the kingdoms of this world? |
| 1:56.9 | You don't have any right to do that does he? But you see what Jesus understood was that |
| 2:04.1 | this is exactly what was lost by the fall. Adam and Eve were created to have dominion, |
| 2:11.3 | to extend the kingdom of God to the ends of the earth. But Satan had usurped that dominion. |
| 2:20.2 | He became the prince of this world. And that's the reason I think in Matthew's gospel this is the |
| 2:28.6 | climactic temptation. All the kingdoms of the world are on offer. Satan is prepared to part with |
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