Amen and amen and amen. All right, church, grab your Bibles. We've got a lot of work to do. Matthew chapter four is where we're going to be. We're studying the book of Matthew all year. You need to get a Bible out. On your phone is fine. Paper copies, maybe finer. This sermon is from the Bible. It's about the Bible. That's what we do here. We teach the Bible. So don't just look at me. get a Bible.

All right, good.

We, if you look at it's about the Bible, that's what we do here. We teach the Bible. So don't just look at me. Get a Bible.

All right, good.

We, um, if you look at it, we're in chapter four, we're going to do 11 verses, but we're going to be in about 11 different scriptures, so you have to bounce around quite a bit. You'll see that the title of it here is it's called the temptation of Jesus. and so some of this is going to be review.

If you pay attention, well, you know, dozens of you do, then you'll be like,

haven't heard some of this before?

Yes.

But you're still sinning.

Yeah.

So we got to keep covering this.

And here's why.

Jesus is tempted in every way that we are.

And when I first started going to church, I didn't go up in church, maybe you heard me say that before. I got saved as a high schooler. I started going. And I mostly went to Southern Baptist churches, all right? And boy, they love the Bible. They love the Bible. And they talked about not sinning a lot, a lot, mostly. It's the only message I really heard.

God bless them, but I heard every week, man,

God is good, you're bad.

Try harder to see you next week.

But nobody told me how.

They just said, don't.

And sometimes I remember one preacher telling me,

listen, when you really, when you become a real Christian,

you're not even gonna to want a sin.

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