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How To Win A Fight

How to win a fight Luke 4:1-13.

Introduction:

  1. It is good to be back from my sabbatical, I want to thank everyone for giving this time.
  • Today I would like to talk about how to win a fight, remember, Eph. 6:10-12

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

  • First, we must be strengthened by the Master and His vast strength, in the Greek it is in His strength or power not our own.
  • Second, put on the full armor of God, so that we can stand against the tactics of the Devil.
  • And third, understand how the fight is with, it is not against flesh and blood, but against rulers, against authorities, against world of darkness and spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

Luke 4:1-13

  1. Notice, in verse 1 it says that Yashua returned from the Jordan full of the Holy Spirit. Right off He was full of the power that He needed to fight this battle.
  • It didn’t say that He needed to get ready it says He was ready. Look at Luke 3:21-22. It is the power of the Holy Spirit that brings us to that point.
  • This means that we need to make sure we have the time it takes to ready ourselves each day, We don’t know at what hour we maybe be tempted.
  • It says that the Holy Spirit led Him to the wilderness to be tempted. It doesn’t say the Holy Spirit tempted Him but He did lead Him to the place of temptation.
  • The length of temptation was 40 days, it wasn’t just overnight it lasted for a while, so be ready to fight the battle for as long as it takes.
  • Yashua’s first response was to fast.

The Devil’s tactics:

  1. The first tactic the Devil used was to focus on Yashua’s hunger and he did this by saying “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread”
  • Yashua’s answer was to give the Devil Scripture, Look at Duet. 8:3, Man does not live on bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh.
  • Next, the Devil, offered all the kingdoms of the world to Him if He would bow down and worship the Devil.
  • Yashua’s answer is found in Duet. 10:20:

He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

  • So then, the Devil took Yashua to the pinnacle of the Temple and said, “If you are the Son of God, throw Youself down from here. For it is wriiten in Psalms 91:11-12:

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. 

  • Yashua’s answer is found in Duet. 6:16:

Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not? 

  • Then it says that the Devil departed. Notice that all of Yashua’s answers came from Torah.

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