Tempted: Lesson One – Depending On A Dependable God

¹ Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 
² After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 
³ The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
⁴ Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
⁵ Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 
⁶ “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written: “He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.”
⁷ Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.”
⁸ Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 
⁹ “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”
¹⁰ Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.”
¹¹ Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.

² Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 
³ He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

⁵ Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
⁶ So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?”