Matthew 4, Luke 4-5: ”The Temptations of Christ”

Unshaken Saints

Jared Halverson

Religion & Spirituality, Education

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🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 205 minutes

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Summary

A verse-by-verse study of Matthew 4 and Luke 4-5 (Christ is tempted and His ministry begins). This lesson focuses on the authority of John the Baptist, the mission of the Messiah, the timing of temptation, fasting, stones to bread, pride going before the fall, the kingdoms of the earth, types of temptation, Christ's Messianic announcement, fighting words, fishers of men, filling the nets, Peter's guilt gap, preaching with power, staying or spreading, and more. 0:00 Introduction 2:32 The Authority of John the Baptist 16:41 The Mission Call of the Messiah 30:31 The Timing of Temptation 37:50 Fasting in the Wilderness 47:02 Temptation #1 - Stones to Bread 55:16 Not by Bread Alone 1:02:37 Temptation #2 - Leap from the Temple 1:10:21 Temptation #3 - Worldly Kingdoms 1:21:58 The Final Victory (for now) 1:32:43 The Three Types of Temptation 1:44:18 Jesus in the Synagogue of Nazareth 1:50:38 Jesus Quotes Isaiah 61 1:57:57 Christ's Messianic Announcement 2:06:37 A Prophet in His Own Country 2:12:31 Fighting Words 2:21:34 Shining Light in Darkness 2:27:29 Fishers of Men 2:34:26 Filling the Nets 2:43:10 Simon Peter's Guilt Gap 2:47:08 Leaving Full Nets 2:52:15 Preaching with Power, Not as the Scribes 3:06:07 Casting Out Devils & Healing the Sick 3:15:07 Staying or Spreading 3:22:39 Conclusion

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0:00.0	When the Son of Man comeeth, shall he find faith on the earth?
0:06.0	Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief.
0:13.0	May our testimonies be as deep and as strong as that of Jacob.
0:19.0	When confronted by one who sought to destroy his faith declared,
0:23.0	I could not be shaken.
0:30.0	Hello, my friends. Welcome back to Unchaken. I'm Jared Halverson.
0:41.0	And can I just thank you for letting me join you for scripture study each week.
0:45.0	I'm grateful for you. I'm grateful for the technology that allows us to come together and study scripture.
0:50.0	I'm grateful there's no bell at the end of class that's forcing me to go faster than the scriptures would want us to.
0:56.0	Just yesterday I was teaching a class at BYU on Alma 32.
1:01.0	And we had an amazing experience, but it's only 50 minutes long.
1:04.0	And I think I got through about half of what I'd hoped.
1:06.0	And so I am grateful for the luxury of time.
1:10.0	I know that we take quite a bit of it.
1:12.0	From here on out, perhaps we'll take a little less.
1:15.0	I can't make any promises or false advertising.
1:18.0	Many of you called me out for that at the beginning of our Old Testament year last year.
1:22.0	But we no longer have long historical introductions to introduce us to the writings and the background and audience and approach and aim of the Gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
1:35.0	We've already introduced you to each of them.
1:37.0	And I hope that enough of that will stay in your mind that you'll be able to recognize their fingerprints all over the page.
1:43.0	As we started doing last week with the baptism, weaving together these disparate threads from Matthew, Mark and Luke bringing in a little John since he mentions it in John 1 as well.
1:54.0	We'll be doing more of that.
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