Temptations

Making stones to become bread; jumping off the temple tower; falling prostrate and worshiping the devil: these are the temptations that Jesus seemed to have faced at the beginning of his public life.

Let's read these three temptations from the back. That is, let's look at them from Jesus' responses.

To the first temptation Jesus' response was, "Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God."

In other words, man is not mearly matter, but also divinity. Many have gotten glued to scientific and philosophical schools of thought, such as philosophical materialism; existential nihilism; secular humanism; genetic determinism, etc that state that humans are merely matter.

(It is better to allow oneself to become bread than to make stones to become bread!)

Jesus' response to the second temptation was, "You shall not put the Lord your God to the test."

When does one put God to test?

According to the Bible, one tests God whenever one disbelieves or doubts God’s presence, God’s promise, God’s power!

(The jumping shouldn't be from the temple tower to the earth, rather from the earth on to the temple tower!)

Jesus’ response to the third temptation was, “You shall worship the Lord your God and only him.”

What Bible would call idolatry is 'worshiping' anything other than God. Power, money, fame, comfort, success, appearance, beauty, technology, ideology, politics, sex, and ego could be the things one gives importance to in life more than God. Anything that is not God and is the most important thing in life- that's idolatry.

(From the unreal to the real, from darkness to light,

From mortality to immortality!)

-We are not only matter.

-Faith is real seeing

-God alone is the Lord