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by: Debbie Galyen

08/25/2025

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“If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread” (v3). Jesus was “full of the Holy Spirit" (v1), yet he did not immediately begin his ministry. First, he faced the demonic temptation to achieve counterfeit glory through ungodly means: shortcuts, compromising with the devil, and self-promoting displays of power (v3-13). Jesus resisted so that true divine glory could shine through him as he took up his work: to “proclaim good news to the poor” (v18). 

Jesus rejected false glory so that we could see God’s power at work in him: self-sacrificial, divine love in ordinary human form. He came to “set the oppressed free” from sin and demonic forces and to heal our broken hearts and bodies (v18, 31-44). 

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“If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread” (v3). Jesus was “full of the Holy Spirit" (v1), yet he did not immediately begin his ministry. First, he faced the demonic temptation to achieve counterfeit glory through ungodly means: shortcuts, compromising with the devil, and self-promoting displays of power (v3-13). Jesus resisted so that true divine glory could shine through him as he took up his work: to “proclaim good news to the poor” (v18). 

Jesus rejected false glory so that we could see God’s power at work in him: self-sacrificial, divine love in ordinary human form. He came to “set the oppressed free” from sin and demonic forces and to heal our broken hearts and bodies (v18, 31-44). 

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