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chapel. I believe it's going to bless you today. I want to talk to you for just a few

moments about how to justify the greatest justification that you can have for unforgiveness,

what a strange title. I want to tell you how to justify unforgiveness in your life.

When I think of the great temptation of Jesus, I think of the wilderness and so in Matthew 4

is labeled that in most Bibles. Any study Bible will call Matthew chapter 4 the great temptation

of Christ. When for 40 days he fasted, it was unreal where he was in the wilderness,

the Dead Sea, it's a hostile terrain, bleak circumstances, hot, miserable. He fasted

for 40 days under these conditions that we can't even imagine. I've been on a few

protected fast, never 40 days like that, but go without food, week, two weeks, three

weeks. In the comfort of your own home is still an enormous, enormous challenge,

but to do it out in nature and particularly in a desert, in this area, this region,

we can't imagine. In those Judean hills and deserts, they are Christ for 40 days

fasted and then Satan came to tempt him, the Bible said. Satan himself faced to face

with Jesus at the end of the 40 days and he said, if you're the son of God, turn the stone

into bread, you're hungry, you're starving, you're about to be just stop existing,

you're so famished, you could die out here, you have an eaten in 40 days and you got

a long journey ahead of you to get out of the wilderness. He said, turn the stones into

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