[Pulp Fiction]

Incase you are wondering, Yes... Jesus was tempted by the devil. As a matter of fact, Jesus knew before he started on his journey that he would be tempted. But I really believe that Jesus didn't know when or how he would be tempted.

1 Peter Ch. 5 (KJV)
8 - Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.

The devil knew that Jesus was hungry, tried and weak. No weak spiritually, but weak in the physical body after a 40 day fast in the wilderness. And the devil being the devil, he tempted Jesus.

Matthew ch. 4 (KJV)
1 - Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

2 - And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

3 - And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

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.

5 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

6 - 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.

7 - Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

8 - Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

9 - And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

10 - Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

11 - Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.




But thank God for what he tells us.....

1 Corinthians ch. 10 (KJV)
13 - There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but 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].

James Ch. 1 (KJV)
13 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

14 - But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

15 - Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.


What does all this mean....???

God WILL NEVER tempt us.... Ever!

Yes, the devil WILL temp every person on the planet everyday of their life.

But thank God.... He tells us that when the devil does tempt us, that everything the devil does temp us with HAS TO go through Jesus first before it even reaches us.

And when the devil does tempt us... The Lord WILL make a way of escape.