We have been going through a series on the temptations of Jesus in the wilderness,

and I'm calling this series, You Can Win Like Jesus.

All three temptations, they basically codify and classify all temptations that are known to mankind.

No temptation that you and me experience or face or ever will face that does not come under one of those three categories. Pleasure, popularity,

and power. I just decided to put them that way so you can remember them. The Bible doesn't say that.

Every time you and I attempted, regardless of the subcategory of temptation, you take it all the way back and it goes to one of those three categories.

Question. Why did Jesus think it important to tell this personal experience that he and he alone

experienced to the gospel writers? The Bible said, Hebrews epistle, that Jesus, God the

son, the divine son of God, the very God who became very man, is tempted in every way like us,

but without sin. What does it mean to you? And what does it mean to me? It means that there is

no temptation that you have faced in the past, facing now will ever face that Jesus had not faced.

That's what it means.

So do you feel rejected by someone?

Huh.

Jesus got rejected by everyone, including those who are near and dear to him.

Are you experiencing injustice,

unfairness? Just think about how crooked politicians and crooked church leaders conspired together

and falsely accused him and sent him to the cross. Are you experiencing temptation to engage

in selfish pleasures?

Listen, he has been through it all.

And he wants to strengthen us to win over those temptations just like he did.

Someone asked me the other day, said, why did Jesus even

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