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TEMPTATION

The temptation of Jesus, as told in the Gospels,
remains one of the most arresting messages in all of Scripture to me.
As a young and growing believer,
I often wondered how anyone could walk faithfully
through a world so saturated with sin.
The answer was not found in theory,
but in a Person.
We look to the One who had no sin,
knew no sin,
committed no sin—
yet stood victorious over every temptation set before Him.
If anyone knew the way through the wilderness,
it was the sinless Son.
And from that sacred encounter, a few truths rise to the surface.

We are tempted along the lines of our own inclinations.
As James reminds us, temptation is never foreign;
it is drawn from what already stirs within us.
The enemy does not test at random—
he studies, he waits, he fashions his offers
to match the fractures of our desires.

In Matthew 4, every temptation Jesus faced
was an appeal to ego and power,
and they came immediately after the Jordan—
after affirmation, after anointing.

Turn stones to bread—
use your power.
Leap from the heights—
display your power.
Take the riches of the world—
seize power.

Unrestrained ambition will bow to at least one of these altars.

Yet what is most striking is not the temptation itself,
but the response of the Lord.
Jesus did not rely on sheer willpower
or a stubborn resolve not to sin.
Where desire exists, determination alone is never enough.
Instead, He leaned entirely on God.

In every response, Jesus pointed beyond Himself.
Even as the tempter addressed Him directly—
“If you are the Son…”—
Jesus answered by invoking God.
He had already discerned the hidden snare of the temptation:
self.
And in doing so, He revealed the only true escape—
God.
Every Scripture Jesus quoted came from Deuteronomy 8,
a chapter born in Israel’s wilderness,
where God confronted their cravings,
their hungers,
their misplaced trusts.
The wilderness tests were never meant to destroy them,
but to teach them dependence—
that man does not live by bread

𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄

🟤Appetite for marriage will die.😲

🟤Appetite for job will die.😫

🟤Appetite for admission will die.😵

🟤Appetite to be the Nigerian president or governor of any state will die😵

🟤Appetite for s*x will die😭

🟤Appetite for fame will die😭

🟤Appetite for Riches will die😭

🟤Men of God that missed it will be ashamed😓 to come out from there houses because of shame of there members seeing them.😱

🟤Christians that missed it will equally be ashamed to go close those unbelievers they preached to but never gave heed to there message.😱

🟤I mean after rapture, those who loved motivational messages will dislike them with passion and shall seek for messages of salvation, but it be too late 😭

🟤Bro after rapture, grace on its own accord will expire here on earth. 😱

🟤Spiritual gifts shall beard because there will be no Holy Spirit to manifest them anymore. 😱

🟤Those who were not raptured will take home the belongings of those that where raptured if peradventure it happened in a church service.😭

🟤Those who never believed in rapture shall do so but it must have become too late.😭

🟤I said after rapture, those that missed it shall cry hysterically😭.

🟤People would love to repent but there will be no Jesus on earth to accept them😭.

🟤It is only sin that has what it takes to drop any man or woman on the day😢.

🟤Let us lay aside every weight and sin that doth so easily beret us😢.

🟤May God Almighty help each and everyone of us to in Jesus mighty name

If you want an excellent life, guard your words.
Because your future responds to your speech.
https://chat.whatsapp.com/JZnRpQ3QrC7FTjBu4OWv41?mode=wwt

~ Pastor Chris Worth Hearing

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆

🔘I just told you that God holds you responsible for your thoughts.

📖Jeremiah 17:9 says,
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaPwKR2AzNbnThhL3j38

🔘Until a man is born again, this is the description of the state of his inward man. No wonder Jesus said you must be born again, because the natural man’s heart is desperately wicked.

📖Isaiah 55:7 also says,
“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.”

🔘These all show that God holds every man, even the unrighteous and unsaved, responsible for his thoughts.

🔘What then should the unrighteous do about his state, since, according to Jeremiah 17:9 and Genesis 6:5-6, his heart is desperately wicked and his thoughts are only evil continually?

📖Jesus gives us the answer in John 3:3.

🔘He says he must be re-created; he must be born again and receive a new nature and a new heart.

🔘But the question of his negative, evil thoughts still remains, even after he instantly receives a new heart by the miracle of salvation.

🔘And God still holds him responsible for his thoughts, in spite of his new nature.

🔘That’s why Isaiah 55:7 says, “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.”

🔘In other words, change your way of thinking.

🔘The Lord holds you responsible for your thoughts, and He expects you to change your way of thinking to conform with His Word.

✅𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐋𝐘 𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐒𝐀𝐏𝐏 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐋 👇👇
https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaPwKR2AzNbnThhL3j38

✅𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐒𝐀𝐏𝐏 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐏👇
https://chat.whatsapp.com/JZnRpQ3QrC7FTjBu4OWv41?mode=wwt

_One of the things you must deliberately eliminate from your life is godless jesting. God wants you to use your mouth rightly — and this is very important._

The excellence of your life begins and ends with your speech.

Your life does not rise above the level of your words.🗣️

https://chat.whatsapp.com/JZnRpQ3QrC7FTjBu4OWv41?mode=wwt

~ Pastor Chris Worth Hearing

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