Matthew 4:4

Verse

Matthew 4:4

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

  • Faith
  • God
  • Word of God
  • Spiritual Nourishment
  • Obedience
Bebe's interpretation
Satan’s temptations are intended to cause Jesus to act independently of God the Father. As Jesus resists each temptation, He quotes from Deuteronomy 8, relating His own experience of 40 days in the wilderness to the experience of Israel after they escaped Egypt. When Moses speaks to the Israelites in that passage, they are preparing to finally enter the Promised Land.
As with all members of the human race, Christ also needed food to maintain His physical human body. In His life, however, obedience to His Heavenly Father's will and words was His highest priority. It is true that He was fully God and able to turn stones into bread, but to do so would have meant acting independently of God, as Adam did in the Garden of Eden. This would have disqualified Him from God's plans and purposes.
Although Jesus was fully God, He lived His life as fully human in obedience to the words and wills of His Father. The life of Jesus is the perfect example of how God expects all His blood-bought children to live - obedience to Him and complete dependence on Him.
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