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… baptized. And right after this spiritual encounter, right after this spiritual enlightenment, right after this incredible moment, watch what happens in Luke four, verse one, put it on the screen. It says, Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for 40 days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them, he was hangry. Write down point number three today. God tests in the wilderness. I just love this. Jesus, full of the Holy Ghost, full of the Holy Spirit, was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. See, most of us think that when we have a God moment and we get baptized or we go to conferences and we go to us conference, we're going to have this moment and God's going to lead us into comfort. But here Jesus gets full of the Spirit and gets led into the wilderness. Why does God lead his son into the wilderness? Because Jesus is about to prove that he is the true Israel. Israel was led into the wilderness. It should have been for 40 days, but it ended up being 40 years because in the wilderness, it's a test of dependence upon God. …
… Luke chapter 4 then Jesus being filled with the Holy Spirit returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. does your Bible just say what I just read? Yeah. The Holy Spirit, the kind, wonderful, generous, gentle, merciful, compassionate Holy Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. When the Lord leads you into a conflict, it is never punishment for you. It is always punishment for the devil. Listen to me carefully. There is no contest between God and the devil. It's not a contest. It's not worthy of mentioning the two in the same breath. There is no contest. with a word he can completely demolish and obliterate all powers of darkness. He has chosen to keep them here because they are training ground for you and me who will reign with Christ for eternity. And anytime the Lord leads us into a conflict, it's only because he's equipped us to win. The enemy's only chance is to get us to question what God has said. …
… Matthew 4, verse 1. The Bible says this, Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. That's the part I thought would shock you, because I thought the Spirit would lead Jesus to an easy place. But it gets worse. Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. I have got all kinds of questions about that verse, and none of them are rhetorical. I really need to know. Why would the Spirit lead him into the wilderness? I thought about that over and over again, and I realized the more I read it that it was a repeat, because I remembered how Israel in the Old Testament went through the wilderness too. not for 40 days and 40 nights, but for 40 years. Here's what the Enemy did to them when they were coming out of Egypt. God was bringing them out of Egypt to the Promised Land. On their way out of Egypt into the Promised Land, the Devil told them a lie that they could not do what God had called them to do. The devil has been telling you that same lie, hasn't he? …
… We see it when the Spirit of God comes upon Him, empowering Him for ministry, like chapter verse 1, Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led around by the Spirit in the wilderness. Down in verse 14 again, the power of the Spirit is operating through Him. Jesus is simply declaring what has already been demonstrated. He is the fulfillment of Isaiah 61, 1 and 2. This, again, is messianic. And since the Messiah has come, and since He has come with the good news, you notice that, the gospel, verse 18, this then is the favorable year of the Lord. This is the year when the Lord deposits His great favor on the world. The age of salvation has come. The Savior has come. The spiritual jubilee has arrived. The long-awaited kingdom is here. This is beyond comprehension for the people of Nazareth, who know this man, who have known him his whole life, and know him only to be the man that he was, fully human, truly human. …