Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from,

we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

We are now, we just finished a series called The Gifts of Jesus out of Ephesians 4,

and there are five, we went through five Apostle Prophet Evangelist Pastor Teacher.

We are now going to be getting a new series called The Ministries of Jesus.

And there are five as well. And so it'll be a five week series.

I'll preach all of them. And the first one is salvation, which fits perfectly for Easter.

This is in Luke 4, and it's when Jesus goes to his home church where he was brought up and

preaches his first sermon in his home church. Let me just remind you a little bit. In Luke 3,

he got baptized, water baptized by John the Baptist and the Holy Spirit came on him.

And then he went into wilderness and he was tempted for 40 days.

And then it says that the devil retreated after the third public temptation. There were many

temptations, but the third one we know about, but the devil retreated for a more opportune time.

I just want you to know that Satan attacks during opportune times. You need to know that.

Especially when you're tired, physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually.

And so think about it. Even though Jesus is a facet for 40 days, he was hungry.

And what was Satan's first temptation? Turn these stones into hot bread. He didn't know

hot is not in the Greek, but you can imagine if Jesus baked it, it would have been hot and fresh

and had honey butter on the top of it. And that was the temptation after 40 days.

And that's the way Satan is. Just to let you know, also, every time I fast sugar,

they put blue bell on sale. So I've decided if you want, I'll start posting it when I'm fasting

sugar and you go to a store, no matter what store it is, blue bell will be on sale. All right, so

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