The Desire of Ages Audiobook Chapter 13: The Victory
Summary
TLDRThe script from 'The Desire of Ages' details the spiritual battle between Jesus and Satan during the temptation in the wilderness. Jesus, steadfast in faith, resists Satan's ploys to test God's promises and refuses to be swayed by the offer of worldly power. The narrative underscores the importance of faith, obedience, and the victory over temptation through submission to God's will. It also emphasizes that while Satan can tempt, he cannot compel, and true faith protects against his deceptions.
Takeaways
- 😇 The script describes the second temptation of Jesus by Satan, where Jesus is taken to the pinnacle of the temple and urged to prove His divinity by casting Himself down.
- 📜 Satan quotes scripture to deceive, using God's words to tempt Jesus, showing his knowledge of the Bible and his ability to manipulate it for his purposes.
- 🛡️ Jesus resists the temptation by refusing to entertain doubt and by not allowing Satan to compel Him to sin, demonstrating the importance of faith and trust in God's will.
- 🙅♂️ The narrative emphasizes that no one can be forced to sin; it requires a voluntary consent of the will, highlighting the power of choice in the face of temptation.
- 🚫 Jesus rejects the path of presumption, choosing to obey God rather than to test God's promises, showing the distinction between faith and presumption.
- 📖 The script contrasts the true nature of faith, which is grounded in obedience and trust, with presumption, which Satan uses to justify transgression.
- 🌏 Satan offers Jesus the kingdoms of the world in exchange for worship, revealing his desire to be acknowledged and his deceitful tactics to gain control.
- ✝️ Jesus' mission is one of suffering and redemption, not of worldly power or glory, and He rejects Satan's offer, affirming His commitment to God's plan.
- 🛑 The script warns against the dangers of presumption and the allure of worldly success, urging believers to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.
- 🙏 The importance of prayer and meditation is highlighted as a means to avoid unnecessary temptation and to maintain a close relationship with God.
- 🌟 Jesus' victory over Satan is complete, demonstrating that through submission and faith in God, even the weakest can resist and overcome the tempter.
Q & A
What is the significance of angels ministering to Jesus after His victory over temptation?
-The angels ministering to Jesus signifies divine support and care, showing that even though He was tested, He was not alone and was sustained by heavenly beings, highlighting His humanity and divinity.
How does Satan attempt to deceive Jesus by using scripture in the script?
-Satan quotes scripture, specifically Psalm 91:11-12, to suggest that Jesus should test God by throwing Himself off the temple, implying that angels would protect Him. This is a misinterpretation meant to manipulate Jesus into a dangerous act of presumption.
What does Jesus' refusal to cast Himself down from the temple demonstrate about His character?
-Jesus' refusal shows His obedience to God's will and His understanding that faith does not involve testing or presuming upon God's protection without His direction.
How does the script describe the nature of temptation and its impact on individuals?
-The script describes temptation as an attempt to lead individuals away from God's will, using deception and manipulation. It emphasizes that temptation can only succeed if the individual's will consents to it.
What is the difference between faith and presumption as depicted in the script?
-Faith is based on trust in God's promises and results in obedience, while presumption is a counterfeit of faith that misuses God's promises to justify disobedience or transgression.
Why does Jesus refuse to worship Satan in exchange for the kingdoms of the world?
-Jesus refuses because His mission is to establish a kingdom of righteousness, not to gain power through evil means. Worshipping Satan would contradict His purpose and surrender to the principles of rebellion.
How does the script illustrate the power of faith in overcoming temptation?
-The script shows that Jesus overcomes temptation through submission to God and faith in His word, demonstrating that faith provides the strength to resist and defeat the tempter.
What does the script suggest about the role of prayer and meditation in resisting temptation?
-The script suggests that prayer and meditation are protective practices that keep individuals from unnecessarily rushing into dangerous situations and help in avoiding defeat by temptation.
How does the script portray the relationship between Jesus and the angels?
-The angels are portrayed as watchers and supporters of Jesus during His time of trial, coming to His aid after His victory over temptation, providing physical and emotional sustenance.
What message does the script convey about the ultimate cost of redemption?
-The script conveys that the cost of redemption is immense, requiring Jesus to endure suffering and separation from God. It also suggests that the full realization of this cost will come when the redeemed stand with Jesus before God's throne.
How does the script use the imagery of a high mountain to depict Satan's temptation of Jesus?
-The high mountain serves as a vantage point from which Satan shows Jesus the kingdoms of the world in their glory, using their beauty and prosperity as bait to entice Jesus to worship him and gain dominion over them.
Outlines
🛡 Triumph Over Temptation
This paragraph narrates the story of Jesus' encounter with Satan during the temptation in the wilderness. It emphasizes Jesus' unwavering faith and reliance on God's word to resist the devil's deceptive tactics. The text highlights the importance of faith and obedience to God's will, as well as the futility of Satan's attempts to compel Jesus to sin. It concludes by teaching that no one can be forced to sin without their consent, and that faith in God is the key to overcoming temptation.
🙏 The Nature of Faith and Presumption
The second paragraph delves into the distinction between faith and presumption, using the biblical story of Jesus' temptation as a backdrop. It explains that faith is grounded in God's promises and leads to obedience, while presumption is a counterfeit that misuses God's promises to justify sin. The paragraph also discusses the consequences of presumption, contrasting it with genuine faith that trusts in God's love and commands. It concludes with the importance of prayer and meditation to avoid unnecessary temptation and the assurance that God will provide a way to escape it.
🌏 The Temptation of Worldly Power
This section of the script describes the third temptation of Jesus, where Satan offers him the kingdoms of the world in exchange for worship. It underscores the conflict between the principles of righteousness and rebellion, highlighting Christ's mission of suffering and redemption. The paragraph explains that Satan's dominion is limited and usurped, and that Christ, as the rightful King, rejects the offer. It also warns that Satan continues to deceive people by offering worldly success at the cost of integrity and obedience to God.
🌟 Victory and Redemption
The final paragraph concludes the narrative of Jesus' temptation and victory over Satan. It portrays the moment when Jesus, having resisted all temptations, commands Satan to depart, demonstrating divine authority and power. The text then shifts to the aftermath, describing the angels' ministry to the exhausted Jesus and the assurance of heaven's support. It concludes with a reflection on the cost of redemption and the future acknowledgment of Christ's sacrifice, culminating in the redeemed's praise and worship of the Lamb of God.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Temptation
💡Faith
💡Satan
💡Angels
💡Pinnacle
💡Scriptures
💡Presumption
💡Obedience
💡Redemption
💡Kingdom of the World
💡Victory
Highlights
Angels ministered unto Jesus after His victory over the temptations.
Satan uses scripture to deceive, quoting 'He shall give His angels charge concerning Thee'.
Jesus refuses to entertain Satan's insinuation of doubt, 'If Thou be the Son of God'.
Satan cannot compel sin; the will must consent to his influence.
Sinful desires provide Satan a foothold; failure gives him power to reproach Christ.
Jesus rejects the path outside obedience, refusing to test God's promises.
Faith is distinct from presumption; faith obeys while presumption misuses God's promises.
True faith is founded on Scripture's promises and avoids the path of presumption.
Satan offers worldly kingdoms to Christ in exchange for worship, which Christ rejects.
Christ's mission requires suffering; Satan's offer contradicts this purpose.
Satan's dominion is usurped and limited by God's permission.
Jesus commands Satan to depart, asserting His divinity and authority.
Satan's offer to men is deceptive, requiring the sacrifice of integrity and conscience.
Jesus' victory over Satan demonstrates the power of submission and faith in God.
The angels' ministry to Jesus after His victory shows divine support and care.
The cost of redemption is immense, reflecting the depth of Jesus' sacrifice for humanity.
Transcripts
The Desire of Ages
Chapter 13: The Victory
And, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
"Then the devil taketh Him up into the holy city, and setteth Him on a pinnacle of the temple,
and saith unto Him, If Thou be the Son of God, cast Thyself down: for it is written,—
"He shall give His angels charge concerning Thee:
And in their hands they shall bear Thee up,
Lest at any time Thou dash Thy foot against a stone."
Satan now supposes that he has met Jesus on His own ground. The wily foe himself presents words
that proceeded from the mouth of God. He still appears as an angel of light, and he makes it
evident that he is acquainted with the Scriptures, and understands the import of what is written.
As Jesus before used the word of God to sustain His faith, the tempter now uses
it to countenance his deception. He claims that he has been only testing the fidelity of Jesus,
and he now commends His steadfastness. As the Saviour has manifested trust in God, Satan urges
Him to give still another evidence of His faith. But again the temptation is prefaced with the
insinuation of distrust, "If Thou be the Son of God." Christ was tempted to answer
the "if;" but He refrained from the slightest acceptance of the doubt. He would not imperil
His life in order to give evidence to Satan. The tempter thought to take advantage of Christ's
humanity, and urge Him to presumption. But while Satan can solicit, he cannot compel to sin.
He said to Jesus, "Cast Thyself down," knowing that he could not cast Him down;
for God would interpose to deliver Him. Nor could Satan force Jesus to cast Himself down. Unless
Christ should consent to temptation, He could not be overcome. Not all the power of earth or hell
could force Him in the slightest degree to depart from the will of His Father.
The tempter can never compel us to do evil. He cannot control minds unless they are yielded
to his control. The will must consent, faith must let go its hold upon Christ,
before Satan can exercise his power upon us. But every sinful desire we cherish affords him a
foothold. Every point in which we fail of meeting the divine standard
is an open door by which he can enter to tempt and destroy us. And every failure or defeat on our
part gives occasion for him to reproach Christ. When Satan quoted the promise,
"He shall give His angels charge over Thee," he omitted the words, "to keep Thee in all Thy ways;"
that is, in all the ways of God's choosing. Jesus refused to go outside the path of obedience.
While manifesting perfect trust in His Father, He would not place Himself, unbidden, in a position
that would necessitate the interposition of His Father to save Him from death. He would not force
Providence to come to His rescue, and thus fail of giving man an example of trust and submission.
Jesus declared to Satan, "It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."
These words were spoken by Moses to the children of Israel when they thirsted in the desert,
and demanded that Moses should give them water, exclaiming, "Is the Lord among us,
or not?" Exodus 17:7. God had wrought marvelously for them; yet in trouble they doubted Him,
and demanded evidence that He was with them. In their unbelief they sought to put Him to the test.
And Satan was urging Christ to do the same thing. God had already testified that Jesus was His Son;
and now to ask for proof that He was the Son of God would be putting God's word to the
test,—tempting Him. And the same would be true of asking for that which God had not promised.
It would manifest distrust, and be really proving, or tempting, Him. We should not present our
petitions to God to prove whether He will fulfill His word, but because He will fulfill it; not to
prove that He loves us, but because He loves us. "Without faith it is impossible to please Him:
for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of
them that diligently seek Him." Hebrews 11:6. But faith is in no sense allied to presumption.
Only he who has true faith is secure against presumption. For presumption is
Satan's counterfeit of faith. Faith claims God's promises, and brings forth fruit in obedience.
Presumption also claims the promises, but uses them as Satan did, to excuse transgression.
Faith would have led our first parents to trust the love of God,
and to obey His commands. Presumption led them to transgress His law, believing that His great love
would save them from the consequence of their sin. It is not faith that claims the favor of Heaven
without complying with the conditions on which mercy is to be granted.
Genuine faith has its foundation in the promises and provisions of the Scriptures.
Often when Satan has failed of exciting distrust, he succeeds in leading us to presumption.
If he can cause us to place ourselves unnecessarily in the way of temptation,
he knows that the victory is his. God will preserve all who walk in the path of
obedience; but to depart from it is to venture on Satan's ground. There we are sure to fall.
The Saviour has bidden us, "Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation." Mark 14:38.
Meditation and prayer would keep us from rushing unbidden into the way of danger,
and thus we should be saved from many a defeat. Yet we should not lose courage when assailed
by temptation. Often when placed in a trying situation we doubt that the Spirit of God has been
leading us. But it was the Spirit's leading that brought Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted by
Satan. When God brings us into trial, He has a purpose to accomplish for our good.
Jesus did not presume on God's promises by going unbidden
into temptation, neither did He give up to despondency when temptation came upon Him.
Nor should we. "God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able;
but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." He says,
"Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the Most High: and call upon Me in the day
of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me." 1 Corinthians 10:13; Psalm 50:14, 15.
Jesus was victor in the second temptation, and now Satan manifests himself in his true character.
But he does not appear as a hideous monster, with cloven feet and bat's wings. He is a mighty angel,
though fallen. He avows himself the leader of rebellion and the god of this world.
Placing Jesus upon a high mountain, Satan caused the kingdoms of the world, in all their glory,
to pass in panoramic view before Him. The sunlight lay on templed cities, marble palaces,
fertile fields, and fruit-laden vineyards. The traces of evil were hidden. The eyes of Jesus,
so lately greeted by gloom and desolation, now gazed upon a scene of unsurpassed loveliness
and prosperity. Then the tempter's voice was heard: "All this power will I give Thee,
and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If Thou
therefore wilt worship me, all shall be Thine." Christ's mission could be fulfilled only through
suffering. Before Him was a life of sorrow, hardship, and conflict, and an ignominious death.
He must bear the sins of the whole world. He must endure separation from His Father's
love. Now the tempter offered to yield up the power he had usurped.
Christ might deliver Himself from the dreadful future by acknowledging the supremacy of Satan.
But to do this was to yield the victory in the great controversy.
It was in seeking to exalt himself above the Son of God that Satan had sinned in heaven. Should he
prevail now, it would be the triumph of rebellion. When Satan declared to Christ, The kingdom and
glory of the world are delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will I give it,
he stated what was true only in part, and he declared it to serve his own purpose of deception.
Satan's dominion was that wrested from Adam, but Adam was the vicegerent of the Creator.
His was not an independent rule. The earth is God's, and He has committed all things to His Son.
Adam was to reign subject to Christ. When Adam betrayed his sovereignty into Satan's hands,
Christ still remained the rightful King. Thus the Lord had said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "The Most
High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will." Daniel 4:17.
Satan can exercise his usurped authority only as God permits.
When the tempter offered to Christ the kingdom and glory of the world, he was proposing that Christ
should yield up the real kingship of the world, and hold dominion subject to Satan. This was the
same dominion upon which the hopes of the Jews were set. They desired the kingdom of this world.
If Christ had consented to offer them such a kingdom, they would gladly have received Him.
But the curse of sin, with all its woe, rested upon it. Christ declared to the tempter,
"Get thee behind Me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord
thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve." By the one who had revolted in heaven the
kingdoms of this world were offered Christ, to buy His homage to the principles of evil;
but He would not be bought; He had come to establish a kingdom of righteousness,
and He would not abandon His purpose. With the same temptation Satan approaches men, and here
he has better success than with Christ. To men he offers the kingdom of this world on condition
that they will acknowledge his supremacy. He requires that they sacrifice integrity,
disregard conscience, indulge selfishness. Christ bids them seek first the kingdom of God,
and His righteousness; but Satan walks by their side and says:
Whatever may be true in regard to life eternal, in order to make a success in this world you must
serve me. I hold your welfare in my hands. I can give you riches, pleasures, honor,
and happiness. Hearken to my counsel. Do not allow yourselves to be carried away with
whimsical notions of honesty or self-sacrifice. I will prepare the way before you.
Thus multitudes are deceived. They consent to live for the service of self, and Satan is satisfied.
While he allures them with the hope of worldly dominion, he gains dominion over the soul.
But he offers that which is not his to bestow, and which is soon to be wrested from him. In return
he beguiles them of their title to the inheritance of the sons of God.
Satan had questioned whether Jesus was the Son of God. In his summary dismissal he had proof
that he could not gainsay. Divinity flashed through suffering humanity. Satan had no power to
resist the command. Writhing with humiliation and rage, he was forced to withdraw from the presence
of the world's Redeemer. Christ's victory was as complete as had been the failure of Adam.
So we may resist temptation, and force Satan to depart from us. Jesus gained
the victory through submission and faith in God, and by the apostle He says to us,
"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you." James 4:7, 8. We cannot save ourselves from the
tempter's power; he has conquered humanity, and when we try to stand in our own strength,
we shall become a prey to his devices; but "the name of the Lord is a strong tower:
the righteous runneth into it, and is safe." Proverbs 18:10. Satan trembles
and flees before the weakest soul who finds refuge in that mighty name.
After the foe had departed, Jesus fell exhausted to the earth, with the pallor of death upon His
face. The angels of heaven had watched the conflict, beholding their loved Commander as
He passed through inexpressible suffering to make a way of escape for us. He had endured the test,
greater than we shall ever be called to endure. The angels now ministered to the Son of God
as He lay like one dying. He was strengthened with food, comforted with the message of His
Father's love and the assurance that all heaven triumphed in His victory.
Warming to life again, His great heart goes out in sympathy for man, and He goes forth to complete
the work He has begun; to rest not until the foe is vanquished, and our fallen race redeemed.
Never can the cost of our redemption be realized until the redeemed shall
stand with the Redeemer before the throne of God. Then as the glories of the eternal home
burst upon our enraptured senses we shall remember that Jesus left all this for us, that He not only
became an exile from the heavenly courts, but for us took the risk of failure and eternal loss. Then
we shall cast our crowns at His feet, and raise the song, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing."
Revelation 5:12.
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