Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. If this is your first time here, hey, thank you a ton for checking this out.

I hope you find it interesting and engaging and useful. We are going through the Book of Matthew,

but that doesn't mean you have to go back and start from the beginning if you don't want to.

Just jump in with us here, see what you think of it.

If you do find it interesting, you can go back and check that out whenever you want, or we can just

cruise forward from here.

If you've been hanging around with me doing this thing for a while, hey, glad you're back. Thanks for letting me be a part of the rhythm of your weekdays as we cruise through the book of Matthew. So to reset it for everybody, we're in Matthew chapter four.

We're looking at the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness.

He is just freshly an adult in the narrative of Matthew. We've seen its first adult

thing happen in Matthew chapter 3. It's baptism. The whole Trinity shows up

to celebrate and affirm Jesus and then that same holy spirit that shows up in the form of a dove at his

baptism flips around and in the very next passage Matthew chapter 4 leads

Jesus out into the desert to face temptation and testing at the hands of his chief adversary, the devil.

And the first of those temptations once again goes like this. The temp came to him and said if you're the son of God tell these stones to become bread

Jesus answered it is written man doesn't live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God and that's Deuteronomy 8.3.

Before we get on to the next temptation, which I think will probably do tomorrow,

I never know.

Before we get onto that though, I want to flesh out this whole bread thing just a little bit further.

Because I think Jesus is drawing on language that we hinted at in our last conversation,

but that I want to make sure we've really got dialed here before we move on.

So I want to look back and then I want to look forward a little bit to make some sense of this.

Okay, so looking back, once again, that whole God providing bread thing isn't just a metaphor or an imagined

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