Temptation and Jesus

What can you tempt God with when He is a man. Jesus came to earth and His temptation is fascinating really as it gives us understanding of who He was. I would think probably the largest thing you could tempt Jesus with is the desire to be God while being a natural man. In other words in Spirit He is God first and man second but if submitting to temptation He would have been man first and God second.

Look at the temptation of Christ and the devil said, bow down and worship me and I will give you the kingdoms of the earth. It may sound like a stupid thing to say but in reality to our natural man what temptation is not stupid. Temptation is always stupid to someone who has no desires in that area. Jesus was walking on earth as a man and the devil tried to tempt Him to have Godly rule but from carnality which is demonic not form Holy Spirit. Of course we know Jesus did not and ultimately said away with you satan.

But look at the next passage, this comes up in Luke 5. Jesus was casting out demons and they came out crying out “this is the Christ”. Jesus silenced them but you have to ask why do that? I used to think it was blowing his cover but it goes deeper. The devil was having a cheap shot at trying to tempt Jesus again. Had Jesus done the religious thing and fled from temptation He would have been running the rest of eternity. Remember the Holy Spirit led Him into and out the other side of temptation. He won and lived from Holy Spirit in His life. So here are the demons trying to get people to worship Jesus. You can ask what is the problem with that? I see one immediate problem being His carnal man would have loved recognition of being God but He stayed in Holy Spirit and focused on the life before Him. He could have stepped out and allowed people to glorify Him but if it was done in a carnal way all he would have got in return was what the devil offered Him during his wilderness temptation.

Jesus won again but it is so encouraging to see He understands what we go through. He was tempted but never gave in, an awesome man who lived form Holy Spirit default. Now He is in us we can do the same in the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was not manipulated by the devil when temptation came around. When we are in the Holy Spirit through Christ then like Jesus temptation becomes nothing.