The Nature of Jesus? Temptations and the Bible

13:3, we find that “the Father had given all things into His hands ….” Jesus could have ended His ordeal at any time. The more I delve into this entire travesty, I don’t know how Jesus was able to allow this upon His person. For some reason, He loves me, and was willing to go through this for me. I hope you can say that, too. The point? Well, there are at least two. First, obedience to God’s will often brings negative events. The temptation is to avoid such reality. I am certain this dynamic will only exist in this age (from Adam until the Judgment). Second, these temptations to sin are as powerful as any sin-nature-inclination battle. Look at the energy required for Jesus to defeat them. There is no way any sin-bent temptation I ever face will be more challenging than the ones (plural) He faced. How could any fight against sin be more intense than … the cross? He was “obedient to the point of death, even death of a cross” (Phil 2:8).

The truth is – Jesus was, and is, first place in every arena He chooses to enter. He was marred more than any man (Isa 52:14), He was treated more unfairly than any man (2Pet 2:22-24), and His fight against evil, and its intensity, will never be equaled (Heb 12:3). No man will ever face more powerful temptations than He did … sin-bent or not. He is preeminent.

Consider This

James tells us “God cannot be tempted by evil” (Ja 1:13). The Bible is also clear that “(t)he Word was God … and the Word was made flesh” (Jn 1:1,14). This refers to Jesus Christ who “did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped” but was willing to be “made in the likeness of men … in the likeness

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