“One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.” (Matthew 4:4)

 It was a real and physical temptation to Jesus as He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards He was hungry. What so substantial was that He had the Holy Power to command stones to become loaves of bread. However, Jesus knew what concealed in behind the temptation was that He had to prove He was the Son of God. So He refused.

Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He was by every means under the protection of the Holy Spirit. Yet temptation was hardly to resist especially at the time when the flesh was weak.

In the Lord’s Prayer which Jesus taught us, He told us to request Our Father “not to lead us into temptation”. Temptation is not a sin. It will then be a sin if you succumb and conform to temptation. We could not say we have not transgressed God’s Divine Law when we deliberately deliver ourselves into such a situation we definitely know we will falter and fall.

To resist and oppose temptation, the Words of the Lord are practical and helpful. In His being tempted by the devil, He made use of the Words in Deuteronomy to repel the devil.

When we get used to live out the spirit of the Words of the Lord, the chance of being tempted will surely be diminished.