Brain Washed by Manny Arango

Author:Manny Arango
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Living/Personal Growth;Thought and thinking—Religious aspects—Christianity;REL012070;HEA010000;PSY036000
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2022-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

Confidence Amid Temptation

Immediately after Jesus’s baptism, the Serpent appears to tempt Him. The same Serpent that deceived Adam and Eve into eating the forbidden fruit comes to tempt Jesus to eat bread, but the temptation has nothing to do with hunger and everything to do with intimacy and identity.

The Serpent finds Jesus in the wilderness and takes advantage of the opportunity. Matthew 4:3 tells us, “The tempter came to him and said, ‘If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.’”

Do you see what the Serpent is doing? He’s setting the same trap that worked against Adam and Eve. A cloud of paternal mystery had remained over Jesus’s head until people heard the audible voice of God break into time and space at His baptism and call Him “my Son” (Matthew 17:5). But ignoring that confirmation, the Serpent decided to try to sow doubt.

The temptation isn’t about food.

The temptation is about belief.

Just like in the garden.

The Serpent says, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” Can you hear the deception and manipulation in this question?

The Serpent attacks the most sensitive area in Jesus’s life. He’s saying, “If you are the Son of God, prove it.”

But by trying to prove it, Jesus would have only shown that He didn’t believe the truth God had declared at His baptism. He would’ve proven that His feelings or opinion held more weight than God’s word.

But confidence is always silent.

Confidence feels no pressure to prove anything.

Jesus triumphed over the Serpent because He was confident in God’s rhema. His brain had been washed.

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