Words of Jesus Podcast - Scriptures Record the Testimonies of Real Men

Episode Date: March 26, 2021

Jesus, Son of God, came to earth - as a man. This is born out in the Scriptures. It would be of no comfort or encouragement for us to know that God could overcome temptations. But, Jesus as a man, walking out the process of becoming a "Son of God" shows how we, 'following Jesus', can achieve the same result. ***The Temptation of Jesus (Part 4)IMMEDIATELY after he had been baptized the Spirit of God led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted of Satan. After fasting for forty days and nights he was hungry.           Satan came to him, saying:           “If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.”           Jesus replied:           “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.’”           Then Satan took him into the holy city and thence to a pinnacle of the temple and said:           “If thou art the Son of God, sast thyself down; for it is written, ‘He shall give his angels charge concerning thee; and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.’”           Jesus replied:           “It is written again, ‘Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.’” Then Satan took Jesus to the top of a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, saying:           “All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.”           Jesus repulsed Satan with these words:           “Get thee hense, Satan; for it is written, “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.’”           The temptation overcome, angels came and ministered unto him.***CHAPTER 3 SCRIPTURES (KJV):MATTHEW 4:1-11Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the...

Think Red Ink Ministries presents The Words of Jesus. I really appreciate being able to come to you with this kind of thing. This is the whole crux of what we do here at Think Red Ink. The idea is for you to be so familiar with what Jesus said that it just automatically comes into your head as you make the decisions of life. And wondering what to do sometimes, we just have to think,

Red Ink, what did Jesus say? What did he do? What did he say to do? And we need to make sure that our lives resemble his. It's not that difficult to do. We started talking here in chapter 3 about the temptation of Jesus, and this one is really kind of stretching on here because there's so much to talk about. We started reading, and this is chapter 3 in this little book,

but it's Matthew 4, Mark 1, and Luke 4. Immediately after he'd been baptized, the Spirit of God led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted of Satan. After fasting 40 days and nights, he was hungry. The King James actually says he was an hungered. That's what that means. He was hungry. Now, it might be interesting for you to know that those of you who have fasted for any length of time

knows that as you eliminate food from your daily life, it's difficult when it first starts out because your body rebels. But after a while, there comes a part of this fasting experience that is very peculiar, and that is that hunger leaves you. And all of a sudden, I've even found that in some fasting situation, food is just kind of disgusting to you, and it's hard to watch somebody eat. But it is a fact that hunger, and many times I think it's just appetite, leaves and

it's just not a part of your thinking anymore. And the body has a natural function to it as food is withdrawn from the body the body starts to consume itself and when the scriptures say that he was a hungered or in

this particular translation said he was a hungered, or in this particular translation said he was hungry, you need to know that that hunger has returned because the body is now in danger of consuming itself. When the body starts to consume itself, it's called starvation. And it will consume vital organs. It will consume things within yourself. You'd think it's almost self-destructive but it's a mechanism that's in us

that kicks in and it kicks in in different times depending on the fat content or however a person's built or their metabolism, all those things enter into it. But the Scriptures wanted us to know that Jesus did not move into the temptation of the stones being made bread in that state of fasting, because it says that he'd been fasting for 40 days,

the scriptures wanted us to know that he didn't move into that temptation in that situation where he'd been fasting so long that he wasn't even hungry. He was more than hungry. He had more than an appetite. He had more than an empty stomach. He had already moved into the area of starvation. So it is like the ultimate physical temptation to take the power of God

that was obviously his to use and change rocks into bread. I want you to look at what Jesus said because I got a feeling that's going to finish out this show because this is a huge subject. He said, if you be the son of God, Satan speaking, if you be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. Jesus replied, it is written, man shall not live by bread

alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. If you know anything about Think Red Ink Ministries, it's built upon a revelation that was made very, very real to me many years ago now that the Scriptures use the term Word of God not to refer to the written Scriptures. When it comes to the written Scriptures, it simply refers to them as the scriptures, which

they are. These are the written documents. That's all scriptures means. Scriptures, that's what it's all about. A person who writes things for a living is known as a scrivener. And things that are written are script. Or if they're written and collected as documents, they're scripture. That's all the Bible ever, that's the only way it refers to itself. When the Bible talks about the word of the Lord, the word

of God, it is talking about the supernatural communication between God and man. Whether that be something that is written, oh I am not under any delusion that when I read the Scriptures that what I'm hearing within my spirit is not the Word of God. I believe that it is. But to arbitrarily add to the Scriptures some magical

component is a huge mistake for us to make. I think a lot of this started within the Catholic faith when people were taught to say ten Our Fathers which is the beginning of the Lord's Prayer Our Father which art in heaven. Or Hail Marys or Novenas or these kind of things that have given supernatural

power to words. Friend, that is so close to satanic incantation, they can hardly be separated. A witch or whatever black arts goblins out there, whatever they are, that take their book of incantations. They need a certain spell and they flip through their book until they find a certain spell and they start to read these words. And as they read these words, they are incanting.

These incantations are supposed to bring about power or to conjure spirits or to bring about something in their life that's not there presently. I'm afraid that a lot of what Christians practice by taking the Scriptures and flipping it open and reading or finding their favorite verse or whatever it is, look, I understand that. It is easy to fall in love with the Scriptures. They've given us answers that we haven't had before. I don't know what I'd do without my Bible.

I mean, I love my Scriptures, but they're not the Word of God as Christ is the Word of God. Christ is the word of Christ is the living word of God. His intention is for the Father to speak to us now in this life. Give us revelation knowledge. He told his disciples I'm going to go away. They said oh that's a shame we don't want you to go away. Oh no it's good for me. I'm going to go away. They said, oh, that's shame. We don't want you to go away.

Oh no, it's good for me. I'm sorry. He says, no, it's good for you that I go away. It's good for you. It's expedient for you that I go away. Well, let's just look at that for a moment. How in the world could it be better how could it be better for me that my Lord Jesus who's sitting right here in this chair next to me and is able to speak to me and able to answer my questions, how in the world could any relationship be better than a one-on-one personal eye-to-eye face-to-face relationship? How could that even be? He's saying that if I go away, it's going to be better for you than it is right now.

Because if you keep my commandments, I and my Father will manifest ourself to you. We'll move into you and lead you and guide you from the inside. I will become a part of you. You will become a part of me. He prays in John 17. He said, Father, I in them, them in me, us in them, you in us, all one. That was his purpose. That was his purpose. That was his plan from the beginning. That cannot happen as long as Jesus is here with us.

So he says, so if I go away, I am going to, I know you're getting guidance from me now. I know you're asking me questions now. I know that you have something that's on your mind and you need me to clarify it. You can look at me across the campfire and ask me and I'll tell you. But I'm telling you there's going to be something better than that. What in the world could be better than that? And the Lord Jesus says if I go away I'm going to send you

a book. Did he say that? No, he didn't say that. If I go away, I'm going to send you a pastor. No, he didn't say that. I'm going to send you a church, Sunday school literature. I'm going to have people write books. The libraries are going to be full of books and you can read them. He didn't say any of that, did he? He never mentioned it. It wasn't even in the equation. What did he say? If I go away, I'm going to send the Spirit of God, and it's going to lead you and guide you into all truth. He didn't say, I'm going to send you a book. Oh,

by the way, sorry about it, but that book is going to be written in a language you don't understand. So you may have to learn Hebrew, but that's no hill climb. You'll be all right. Maybe you'll get yourself a Greek one and learn Greek. Get yourself a Latin one and learn Latin. Maybe it'll even be translated. Oh yeah, there's another problem, is that for the first, I don't know, 1,600, 1,700 years after I'm gone, not everybody's going to have one of these. There's only going to be a handful of these books. And until I got a guy in mind, Gutenberg, he's going to get one in everybody's hands. So the last

150 years, we've had, all of us have had Bibles. Well, that's when this relationship with the book has grown. Because I agree with you, it's precious. I can't live without it. I love it. I live by every word in it. But when it comes to the Word of God, it's none other than Jesus Christ. Never has been anything else. But when it comes to the word of God, it's none other than Jesus Christ.

Never has been anything else. Jesus Christ, the Lord speaking to us in our ear or within our spirit, that's the word of God. The first time it was mentioned, I believe it was said to Saul. I think Samuel was speaking to Saul, he said, come aside and I'll show you the word of God. Now, do you think that Samuel took him aside and read to him out of a Bible? Of course not. The word of God, it's quick.

What does that mean? It's alive. That's what the King James word quick means. The word of God is alive and powerful. Sharper than any two-edged sword. Piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit. It's a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart. Neither is there anything that is not manifest in Now, do you know what a pronoun is?

It uses a male pronoun and the subject of the sentence is the word of God. I know you thought it was talking about the Bible. I know when you read that and you say that the word of God is quick and powerful and sharpening two-edged sword. And somebody's quoting that scripture. I know you're thinking about the scriptures. We've been taught to do that. But the Bible says neither is there anything that is not manifest in his sight. Whose sight?

The Bible's sight? This is the discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart? Neither is there anything that's not manifest in His sight? That scripture's not talking about your Bible. It's talking about Jesus Christ, the Word of God. Continue reading that particular scripture that I'm telling you now. You'll find personal male pronouns throughout that scripture. Why? Because it's not talking about

a book. It's not talking about an it. It's talking about him. Now Jesus said here he says Satan is saying well if you're hungry why don't you make these stones into bread? He said man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Do you hear what's happened here? He's equated hearing the word of God to daily bread. What's the daily bread? Is it not manna? The manna that was given every day?

He gave that bread every day to sustain the lives of the children of Israel. That's daily bread, if I ever heard of it. Do you know that Jesus said one time, he says, you know, you accredit Moses for giving you that bread in the wilderness. He said, I want you to know, that bread was me. Moses didn't give you that bread. I am the bread. I am the bread. I am the bread that fell from heaven. I am the daily bread.

You're going to find that bread and the word of God are interchangeably almost synonymous when Jesus is speaking figuratively and speaking in these particular manners. Now some people feel like that because the scriptures record stories, situations, personal experiences and these kind of things, that it has some kind of power. And that, as I say, they mistakenly use them as incantations instead of what they are,

which is an accurate record of men and women who have obeyed God and who did exploits in His name and in His nature over the years. And it's given to us for our own admonition so that we can see and that we can read and we can hear these stories. And we need to be teaching these stories to our children. Dad, you need to be teaching these stories to your children. And we need to be very familiar with these words. But these words are the bread of life. Jesus is the bread of life. Jesus is the word of God. You keep finding

word and the bread put together here. Now Satan is tempting him saying command that these stones be made bread. Jesus said, it's written that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Let me tell you a story about the poor children of Israel who were kind of cowardly and they, well, I don't blame them. You them. They were coming into some rough country. And you remember when Caleb and Joshua went out and they spied out the land and they came back and said

this is the greatest thing that ever was. We're well able to take this land. And the children of Israel said, yeah, I don't know about that. I don't think this is a good idea. No, no, no. God's going to give it to us, they're saying. He's going to go before us and fight our enemies. We're going to be able to take this. We're going to be simple. It'll be easy. It'll go quick. Well, what happened? They all chickened out, didn't they? They all went to their, didn't they? They all went to their tents, as they say,

and they got to feeling bad that night. And they said, you know, isn't it a fact that if the Lord said to take it, that we ought to take it? If he said he's going to fight our battles, then perhaps we ought to let him do that. We made a mistake here. I'll tell you what. In the morning, we'll all get together and we'll get our swords and get our equipment and all gather out there and we'll take off. We'll go

subdue these people. Well, they did just that. And they're all getting ready. Moses is saying, what are you doing? Well, we're going to go fight the enemy. Oh, no, you're not. What do you mean? The Lord said, he said, the Lord said that yesterday. He didn't say that today. He said that yesterday. Him reiterating, it may have been Joshua that was reiterating this story. He says, you remember what they did to you at

Harma? They chased you like bees. I don't know if you've ever seen anybody being chased by a bee, but it's not a fun sight. And it's certainly not fun for it to happen to you. But these people were afraid. They ran. They were chased like bees were after them. Well I thought they had the word of God. They had the word of God yesterday. They didn't act on it yesterday. What makes you think you

can take a scripture out of the Bible that's 3,500 years old written to a particular person, said in a particular way by God to a particular man through a particular prophet for a particular time in the scripture, what makes you think you can take a 3,500 year old promise or prophecy or anything and apply it to your life today? What makes you think you can do that? I know what makes you think you can do that. The preachers preach this all the time. I want to prosper and be in good health.

I'm claiming it in the name of Jesus. Well, you can claim it all you want to. But you see, the Word of God is quick. It's alive and powerful. Jesus says man shall not live by bread alone but he will live by every word of God. Now here's the key. That proceedeth. Now I know that's Elizabethan English. I know that's King James. You want me to put it in English? That

proceeds. Not that proceeded in past tense. Not that will proceed that which is in the future. But that which proceeds from the mouth of God. When do you need to seek the word of God in your life? Right now. When do you need to hear the Word of God to answer a prayer, to answer a conundrum in your life, a quandary in your life, something that you don't understand? Maybe you need to be clarified on. You need revelation from God. When do you need that?

You need that right now. Because if you get that right now, what you're getting is the Word of God. The Word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword. But you see, you can't write this down and claim it forever. That's called incantation. That's taking, that's adding some power or mystic ability to the scriptures that they simply don't have. You know, this is nothing new.

This has been going on as long as there's been scriptures. As long as there's been scriptures, people have done this to the Bible, turned it into a book of incantations. This is why we have this soundbite theology nowadays that people can quote this scripture and this scripture and this one and this one and this one and this one and this one and this one, but they don't know the stories that they pertain to. You don't need to know the stories. All I got to do is thumb through my Bible until I find where he addresses something that kind of sounds like what I'm going through.

That's all I need to do. And if it's got a good promise attached to it I'm going to claim it for myself. I know what we can do. Let's go through the Bible and take out every promise in the Bible and print it in a new book called The Promises of God or something like that. We can make some money on this. I'll tell you what we can do. Let's just print it on little cards and put it on our breakfast table in a little box that's shaped like a loaf of bread. Where'd you get the idea that it was

bread? Hmm. I wonder. So this is our daily bread now. This is our daily bread. Hey, let's make a magazine and call it our daily bread. And we're just going to pull out little scriptures and we're going to make them make us feel better. Friend, you don't need to read the Word of God. You need to hear the Word of God. It's quick. It's alive. It's powerful. It's there for us. It is the promise of Jesus Christ. Keep my commandments. I'll come into you and I'll lead you and guide you into all the truth. Friend, there's not a day. Not a day goes by that you should

be sure that you're keeping the commandments of God, that you're not disobeying your conscience, even as it is today. Even though it's not complete and it's certainly not accurate in some cases, you need to obey your conscience. You need to learn how to do that. And thirdly, you need to seek God every day for his revelation for you. What is the Lord trying to tell us? And thirdly, you need to seek God every day for His revelation for you. What is the Lord trying to tell us?

What does He want to say to us? Because His intention, His plan is to come inside you and lead you from the inside. This idea of the life of Christ being a part of us was made so clear to the disciples that it confused them. Judas, not Iscariot, but Judas asked the Lord when he got done laying out this plan, he said, you're going to manifest yourself to us? Yes. Do you know what manifest means? This is more than just appearing. This is for us to know them fully and for them to know us fully. To be manifested to each other.

You're going to manifest yourself to us? Yes. Well, you're doing that right now. Oh, it'll be more than that. Well then, how are you going to do that and not manifest yourself to the world it was a confusion for him and if he because he understood exactly what jesus was saying i'm going to be more real to you then than i am now this is why it's expedient for you that i go away how are you going to do that he said i'm I'm going to put the Spirit of God, the same Spirit that's in my Father, the same Spirit that my Father is,

that is in me, is going to be in you. What did he say? You've had the Spirit of God with you, on you, but I'm going to put him in you. Now friend, through this half hour, have you understood now what it means when he says, it's expedient for you, it's good for you, it's better for you that I go away. You've only experienced the Spirit of God on your life. You've only experienced life with the Holy Spirit.

And my intention is to put Him in you. Alright, it's time for us to go now. Thanks so much for making this a part of your day. This Words of Jesus series is being brought to you by Think Ready Ministries. We want to hear from you. Let us know that you're listening. You can do that simply by sending me an email, don at thinkready.com. Or you can write by paper letter, Think Ready Ministries at P.O. Box 718 Pytown, New Mexico

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