When it says, mention it not live by bread alone, but by everything that comes out of the mouth of God.

You know what comes out of the mouth of God?

God.

The self-revelation of God comes out of the mouth of God.

When he spoke manna into existence, what they were to see and feed on is not merely manna.

They missed the whole point if they just ate manna. They were to see the love of God and then say with the psalmist, the steadfast love of the Lord is better than manna.

Better than life. Better than life.

Hi, I'm your host, Dan Kruver.

How do we survive in the wilderness of testing?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper opens Matthew 3, verse 16 through chapter

4, verse 4, to show that Jesus' victory over temptation

revealed a deeper hunger for God than for food.

This message was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on January 15, 1995.

Here is Jesus. He is about to enter upon the most important ministry in the history of the world.

If he fails, everything in the universe fails. If Jesus fails, no salvation.

Because nobody can be crucified for my sins who can't beat the devil.

If he doesn't win in the wilderness, he won't win at the cross. I get no salvation.

There's damnation everywhere and no salvation. This is an important moment.

And he begins it with fasting.

And that ought to just kind of stagger us because I face challenges and I'm not Jesus.

And if Jesus met the challenge of the devil with 40 days of fasting, what does it say about me?

I mean, it ought to shock us.

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