Outline For Mathew Chapter 4
Introduction – Thesis This paper will take very detailed look at Mathew Chapter 4. I will be trying to give pinpointed details as it pertains to Mathew Chapter 4. The instructor has given the details; I will cover the best I can every of details given to me. Mathew 4 holds a very special place in my heart scripturally. We will look at this text, and discuss things as far as when it starts and stop major minor parts about the txt and some components of it. The most enjoyable part for me will be discussing the characters. Upon completion of the paper, there should be a fuller understanding of Mathew chapter 4 and all that details that relates specifically to vs. 1-11. The text that is being reviewed is a well-known one by mostly, I will not
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say all because the older I get I am realizing that there are many that just do not read their bibles. We will be looking at the temptation of Jesus as it pertains to Mathew 4:1-11. To me, the text is very easy to read and understandable to grasp the concept into what might be going on. Like Jesus, we are all tempted in our modern day society, unlike him, we fall short in our test, and we can learn from the text that the second character in the text is very persistent and he never gives up. He will come and keep coming until he can find a week spot in our armor. Like Jesus, who shows that we can win against him, if we fight. Similarly, this txt should make it more visible to us that if we as Christians are going to be Christ-like we must battle Satan and be ready because when and if we win a round or two, he will always reappear and come back again. What should also be interesting to the Christian that studies his bible is that, the scripture, God’s inspired word; there are two other accounts that remind of this temptation of Jesus. Mark and Luke have two very similar accounts of the temptation of Jesus, which is very important. It is to remind us that we can overcome satan and his temptations. The bible speaks of Christ, who was human and in the flesh, but sinned not. You get it three different times to be encouraged that we can win the fight against satan. The text that I have chosen starts in Mathew 4:1 – Mathew 4:11. I would be hard to start elaborating on the eleven versus without talking about what happened before and after these verses. The preceding chapter Christ was declared to be the Son of God and the Saviour of the world. Then he was led up to the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil. This seemed to very much the providential plan of God to give us a front seat. The seat will surely show us that satan will attack and how we are to respond to those attacks. I thought it interesting that we see Jesus in his weakest state of not having any food for forty days. He would overcome the testing of satan and go immediately to work on the mission of saving souls. As mentioned, before it would have been hard to dive right into the txt without setting the txt up before doing so. It does not matter whom we are our background as far as where we came from, we as Christians we will all face temptation at some point in our Christian Journeys. The verse in question seems as if though Christ went into combat led by the Spirit. It does not seem that he was at full strength. He had just enough strength during the battle that he was able to overcome satan. After fasting for forty days and forty nights, he had become hungry. Satan seems to pick the ideal time, when we may be at our lowest points. He attacks, without warning, because most times we do not see him coming until it is too late. Many of us do not practice fasting anymore, but if we did, we could possibly be able to fight off wilds of the devil when he approached us in such a way. After forty days and night Jesus, body was entering into a stage where it was going to shut down. How many of us today can last that long and be offered something to eat that may be sinful? What would we do, would we give in, or would we do as our Lord and Saviour did? That was vs. two of the Text immediately following in vs. the tempter came to Him and said, if you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread. What stands out to me is that the devil knows exactly whom he is dealing with and he knows that he is the Son of God. He knows that he is weak and he is hoping that he can get him to sin. If the devil knows who Christ was there is no reason today why he can’t recognize us, there is no reason today that he won’t know our weaknesses and try to tempt us also. In the very next vs. 4 But He answered and said It is written, Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. It is teaching that the will of God’s is more important than food. On another note on his answer to satan is with scripture. That is what is missing in our world today is scripture. Our world has drifted further and further from God’s inspired word. We should confront the problems or temptations we have to today with the written word. Then the devil took Him into the holy city; and had Him to stand on the pinnacle of the temple. Vs. 6 he adds and said unto Him, if You are the Son of God throw Yourself down; for it is written, He will give His angels charge concerning You; On their hands they will bear you up, Lest you strike your foot against a stone. We see Satan can quote scripture also. Satan is very cunning quoting scripture, even being off on a word or two. It puts me in remembrance back in the beginning with Adam and Eve in the Garden when the serpent changed on word and deceived Eve. Without elaborating all the way through vs. eleven, is where we see the entire section of this paper that is being written about. The Major her is we see our Lord and Savior, by example how to battle satan. In minor, he uses scripture to fight the powerful satan. Some more major, He is at a very weak point by having not eaten for forty days and forty nights. The main structural parts of the text are very simple, we see the lust of the flesh, turn these stones in to bread. Lust of the eyes- all these kingdoms will be yours. Pride of life – all these angel will come to rescue you. This is what I Term practical application of the entirety of the text. It speaks to us today and the sin problem of humankind today. When we sin today, it usually will come down in one of these departments. As mentioned earlier we must revert to our scripture to not give in unto to Satan’s wicked devices. When we do, we read in vs. eleven that satan left until an opportune time (left him for a season) in other words he will be back again. It would be naïve of us t think that when we read that satan left he will not return he will, and we must be ready with God’s word. The scripture tells us to hide God’s word in our heart that we might not sin. It also tells us to put on the whole armor of God that we may be able to fight against the devil. As we analyze both characters, we start with our Lord Savior Jesus Christ the Messiah.
It is very fitting to start with him because he won the fight. He also won many other fights as he starts on his journey. Christ even won the fight over death. The grave could not hole him and he was raises again on the third day that for us to be saved. There are some 200 names and titles of Christ found in our inspired word. Some names are more prominent than others are. He is mentioned as part of the Godhead mentioned to us in the inspired word. Firstborn over all creation he sustains the most exalted rank in the universe; he is the head of all things (Colossians 1:15). He is the head of the Church: (Ephesians 1:22, 4:15, 5:23) He is not a pope; he is the only supreme, sovereign ruler of the Church, those for who he died and who have placed their faith in Him alone for salvation. King of kings and Lord of Lords (1Timothy 6:15) Jesus has dominion over all authority on earth, over all kings and rulers, and none can prevent him from accomplishing his purpose. In ( John 1:1-2) In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. Jesus not only spoke words that pertain to eternal life, but according to mainly (vs. 1) He is the very words of life, referring to the eternal life of joy and the fulfillment, which he provides. His work on earth provides for us today the blue print on how we should live our Christian lives. (Hebrews 12:2) Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Ephesians 2:8-9) For by grace you have been saved you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should
boast. We could continue with analyzing of The Christ, I heard and old preacher say once that he could preach Christ every Sunday for quite some time if he had too. There is Just so much and seven pages would be and injustice. I tried to hit some of the high points as regards to Christ. Satan was spiritual being who led a heavenly revolt against God, and was subsequently cast down into earth. (Luke 10:18) And he said to them I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. His personal name means adversary. The name indicates Satan’s basic nature: he is the enemy of God. He is also called the devil; the word means false accuser or slanderer. Satan plays the when he attacks Job’s character in (Job 1-2). Names like Baalzebub, tempter, wicked one; he can also transform himself into the angel of light. The serpent and Lucifer are just a few more names that can describe the arch enemy. Some finding based on this study is as Christians we serve the almighty God that sent his Son to die for us and. We have learned through study and the writing of this paper that in the end Christ won. He was in the flesh as we are but had no sin. (Hebrews 2:18) For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, he is able to aid those who are tempted. He aids us today with his many of example as we have read mostly in the Mathew’s text. The two characters of the text have been mentioned in this paper. It is a perfect example of what we could call good versus evil. They are subject that has been defined for the short writing of this paper. It reminds me of my adolescent days where we would have characters that we wanted to be like. Now that I am a little older now my Character is definitely the Christ the Son of the living God. The two represents our world today in the objectionably since in that there is turmoil all about us. There are people losing their lives senselessly every day. There are churches dying out also. These are objects of Good vs. Evil. Christ died a cruel death on the cross for all. I doing so he gave us the victory, if we follow his example we can gain that same victory. In since, their relationship to one another is good for us to study and write papers like this one. When we do so, we get a very vivid look at our world today. We see good vs. evil on a daily basis. We have choice daily to choose good or evil. Lastly, I will point to never micromanages our choices that we make he lets us do that. If we recall the text of (Mathew 4:1-11) god never intervened in his Son’s choice he let him handle it himself.
What is in a name? The names that have been discussed in the paper really reflect the good vs. evil concept it throws shade on the good vs. evil theme.
say all because the older I get I am realizing that there are many that just do not read their bibles. We will be looking at the temptation of Jesus as it pertains to Mathew 4:1-11. To me, the text is very easy to read and understandable to grasp the concept into what might be going on. Like Jesus, we are all tempted in our modern day society, unlike him, we fall short in our test, and we can learn from the text that the second character in the text is very persistent and he never gives up. He will come and keep coming until he can find a week spot in our armor. Like Jesus, who shows that we can win against him, if we fight. Similarly, this txt should make it more visible to us that if we as Christians are going to be Christ-like we must battle Satan and be ready because when and if we win a round or two, he will always reappear and come back again. What should also be interesting to the Christian that studies his bible is that, the scripture, God’s inspired word; there are two other accounts that remind of this temptation of Jesus. Mark and Luke have two very similar accounts of the temptation of Jesus, which is very important. It is to remind us that we can overcome satan and his temptations. The bible speaks of Christ, who was human and in the flesh, but sinned not. You get it three different times to be encouraged that we can win the fight against satan. The text that I have chosen starts in Mathew 4:1 – Mathew 4:11. I would be hard to start elaborating on the eleven versus without talking about what happened before and after these verses. The preceding chapter Christ was declared to be the Son of God and the Saviour of the world. Then he was led up to the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil. This seemed to very much the providential plan of God to give us a front seat. The seat will surely show us that satan will attack and how we are to respond to those attacks. I thought it interesting that we see Jesus in his weakest state of not having any food for forty days. He would overcome the testing of satan and go immediately to work on the mission of saving souls. As mentioned, before it would have been hard to dive right into the txt without setting the txt up before doing so. It does not matter whom we are our background as far as where we came from, we as Christians we will all face temptation at some point in our Christian Journeys. The verse in question seems as if though Christ went into combat led by the Spirit. It does not seem that he was at full strength. He had just enough strength during the battle that he was able to overcome satan. After fasting for forty days and forty nights, he had become hungry. Satan seems to pick the ideal time, when we may be at our lowest points. He attacks, without warning, because most times we do not see him coming until it is too late. Many of us do not practice fasting anymore, but if we did, we could possibly be able to fight off wilds of the devil when he approached us in such a way. After forty days and night Jesus, body was entering into a stage where it was going to shut down. How many of us today can last that long and be offered something to eat that may be sinful? What would we do, would we give in, or would we do as our Lord and Saviour did? That was vs. two of the Text immediately following in vs. the tempter came to Him and said, if you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread. What stands out to me is that the devil knows exactly whom he is dealing with and he knows that he is the Son of God. He knows that he is weak and he is hoping that he can get him to sin. If the devil knows who Christ was there is no reason today why he can’t recognize us, there is no reason today that he won’t know our weaknesses and try to tempt us also. In the very next vs. 4 But He answered and said It is written, Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. It is teaching that the will of God’s is more important than food. On another note on his answer to satan is with scripture. That is what is missing in our world today is scripture. Our world has drifted further and further from God’s inspired word. We should confront the problems or temptations we have to today with the written word. Then the devil took Him into the holy city; and had Him to stand on the pinnacle of the temple. Vs. 6 he adds and said unto Him, if You are the Son of God throw Yourself down; for it is written, He will give His angels charge concerning You; On their hands they will bear you up, Lest you strike your foot against a stone. We see Satan can quote scripture also. Satan is very cunning quoting scripture, even being off on a word or two. It puts me in remembrance back in the beginning with Adam and Eve in the Garden when the serpent changed on word and deceived Eve. Without elaborating all the way through vs. eleven, is where we see the entire section of this paper that is being written about. The Major her is we see our Lord and Savior, by example how to battle satan. In minor, he uses scripture to fight the powerful satan. Some more major, He is at a very weak point by having not eaten for forty days and forty nights. The main structural parts of the text are very simple, we see the lust of the flesh, turn these stones in to bread. Lust of the eyes- all these kingdoms will be yours. Pride of life – all these angel will come to rescue you. This is what I Term practical application of the entirety of the text. It speaks to us today and the sin problem of humankind today. When we sin today, it usually will come down in one of these departments. As mentioned earlier we must revert to our scripture to not give in unto to Satan’s wicked devices. When we do, we read in vs. eleven that satan left until an opportune time (left him for a season) in other words he will be back again. It would be naïve of us t think that when we read that satan left he will not return he will, and we must be ready with God’s word. The scripture tells us to hide God’s word in our heart that we might not sin. It also tells us to put on the whole armor of God that we may be able to fight against the devil. As we analyze both characters, we start with our Lord Savior Jesus Christ the Messiah.
It is very fitting to start with him because he won the fight. He also won many other fights as he starts on his journey. Christ even won the fight over death. The grave could not hole him and he was raises again on the third day that for us to be saved. There are some 200 names and titles of Christ found in our inspired word. Some names are more prominent than others are. He is mentioned as part of the Godhead mentioned to us in the inspired word. Firstborn over all creation he sustains the most exalted rank in the universe; he is the head of all things (Colossians 1:15). He is the head of the Church: (Ephesians 1:22, 4:15, 5:23) He is not a pope; he is the only supreme, sovereign ruler of the Church, those for who he died and who have placed their faith in Him alone for salvation. King of kings and Lord of Lords (1Timothy 6:15) Jesus has dominion over all authority on earth, over all kings and rulers, and none can prevent him from accomplishing his purpose. In ( John 1:1-2) In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. Jesus not only spoke words that pertain to eternal life, but according to mainly (vs. 1) He is the very words of life, referring to the eternal life of joy and the fulfillment, which he provides. His work on earth provides for us today the blue print on how we should live our Christian lives. (Hebrews 12:2) Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Ephesians 2:8-9) For by grace you have been saved you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should
boast. We could continue with analyzing of The Christ, I heard and old preacher say once that he could preach Christ every Sunday for quite some time if he had too. There is Just so much and seven pages would be and injustice. I tried to hit some of the high points as regards to Christ. Satan was spiritual being who led a heavenly revolt against God, and was subsequently cast down into earth. (Luke 10:18) And he said to them I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. His personal name means adversary. The name indicates Satan’s basic nature: he is the enemy of God. He is also called the devil; the word means false accuser or slanderer. Satan plays the when he attacks Job’s character in (Job 1-2). Names like Baalzebub, tempter, wicked one; he can also transform himself into the angel of light. The serpent and Lucifer are just a few more names that can describe the arch enemy. Some finding based on this study is as Christians we serve the almighty God that sent his Son to die for us and. We have learned through study and the writing of this paper that in the end Christ won. He was in the flesh as we are but had no sin. (Hebrews 2:18) For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, he is able to aid those who are tempted. He aids us today with his many of example as we have read mostly in the Mathew’s text. The two characters of the text have been mentioned in this paper. It is a perfect example of what we could call good versus evil. They are subject that has been defined for the short writing of this paper. It reminds me of my adolescent days where we would have characters that we wanted to be like. Now that I am a little older now my Character is definitely the Christ the Son of the living God. The two represents our world today in the objectionably since in that there is turmoil all about us. There are people losing their lives senselessly every day. There are churches dying out also. These are objects of Good vs. Evil. Christ died a cruel death on the cross for all. I doing so he gave us the victory, if we follow his example we can gain that same victory. In since, their relationship to one another is good for us to study and write papers like this one. When we do so, we get a very vivid look at our world today. We see good vs. evil on a daily basis. We have choice daily to choose good or evil. Lastly, I will point to never micromanages our choices that we make he lets us do that. If we recall the text of (Mathew 4:1-11) god never intervened in his Son’s choice he let him handle it himself.
What is in a name? The names that have been discussed in the paper really reflect the good vs. evil concept it throws shade on the good vs. evil theme.