Sex, drugs, drugs, booze, gambling, financial impropriety, embezzlement stealing, that kind of stuff.

I suppose these are the things that we usually associate with the concept of temptation.

It's really naughty stuff that if you get caught doing it,

you're going to be super embarrassed, you're going to look like a hypocrite,

everybody's going to imagine that you lead some kind of double life, these are destructive things that

hurt other people, but they tend to be things that happen kind of in secret.

We really don't want them to come to the surface.

And so this idea of temptation for whatever reason over the years

I think has really taken on those kind of scandal-ridden connotations or we flip it all the

way around and when we talk about temptation we're like

chocolate, budge, an extra long hot tub weekend or things like that and so

it's like like almost wink wink wink

temptation is cool and indulgent and everybody should be allowed to

indulge every now and then. But the concept of temptation that we're

about to see described in Jesus' temptation in the wilderness in Matthew

chapter 4 is nothing like that.

There is no sexy time temptation.

There is no booze or drugs or anything scandalous.

The temptation is very simply that the best

persuader, the best tempter in the history of tempting

is trying to get Jesus the son of God the

redemptive plan incarnate himself to stub his toe and fail at this whole

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