You're not going to be here. Welcome to Meridian magazine's Come Follow Me podcast. Today we're looking at Matthew

Chapter 4 and Luke chapter 4 and 5 and the theme is

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. You can find all the podcasts at LDS mag

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So today we're going to be talking really about the beginning of Jesus

ministry. He's about 30 years old. He has been baptized and now not far away he is going into the

wilderness to fast for 40 days. In fact even today the mound of temptation, the traditional

spot, is not far from the baptism spot.

We're going to look at this story in Matthew Chapter 4.

What is interesting about this is the Joseph Smith translation or the JST

makes many clarifications to this story that we're going to talk about today.

And what is so interesting is as we watch Satan Tempt the Savior, we learn some things about the patterns of the

temptations he makes not only to the Savior, but to all of us.

He is a well-practice tempter and he knows the kinds of things that will bring us down.

And so he practiced his tools over the centuries and we see them in full blown array right here in Matthew

chapter 4. So we start with the first verse which says then was Jesus

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