34:34 minutes (15.83 MB)
Sermon text: Matthew 4:1-11
One of the great discussions of Christian history has always been the question of how Jesus could be both fully human and fully God. And we have always believed that in order for Jesus’ death and resurrection to be of affect that it must have been fully God that did it. But also that for us to believe that death was truly defeated on our behalf, through our means, that Jesus must have been fully human.
This morning we read a wonderful passage that fits right on the line of Jesus full humanity and full divinity. In this passage we see a man that we can fully relate to in temptation and a man that we strive to be like in his perfect overcoming of it.
In Hebrews 4:15, Paul says, “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are – yet was without sin.”