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SUNDAY SERMON ~ ' i: By Rev. D. T. Caldwell. L the TEMPTATION OP OHHaST. "For in that he himself hath suffer s f fi being tempted, he Is able to auocoui Itr.em that are tempted.” Hebrews 2:18 The first event we have recorded ir cur Lord’s history after Ills baptism It 7Tis temptation by the devil. We set Ttim passing from a season honor anti glory immediately to a season of eon 11 n't and suffering. The glorious tes timony of the Father, ‘‘Thou art mi •beloved Son, in whim I am weal pleas cci," has scarcely ceased ringing In His ,.,irs when w3 have the devil offering ,,, t- sneering suggestion, ,‘Tf thou be tin Son of G-c.. etc.” The devil had I,, on standing by as an onlooker at the baptism of Jesus and had heard all oi tlie ttinigs that were said and done. So hr was not the one to sit idly by and gee a friend come to humanity without malting some effort to stop the bless ing. Ho had overoome the first Adam in the Garden of Bden, and,why should he not overcome the second Adam in the wilderness? He had spoiled man once of Paradise, and why should he not spoil him of the kingdom of God. Ti we have the temptation of Christ brought before us. It is something that is deep and mysterious. There is nnn.ii In the history of it that we can not explain, but there are some les sons and truths for us to learrf from it ill at are very practical. The description that we have In the three gospels Is a vivid picture of a great historical fact. The temptation < C the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus was not taken unawares for He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. Mary says. “And immediately’the spirit dri vetli him into the wilderness.” The wilderness where the Master was tempted was in Judea. During the for ty days of his temptation. He was without food and drink. Mark adds, ."Jip was with the wild beasts.” Mark gives four orders of beings that were with the Lord during his stay in the wilderness. There were wild beasts, angels, Satan and the Spirit, of God. There is a striking comparison between the temptation of Christ and that of our first parents. Both the First Adam and the Second Adam—Christ— had an end to gain. Adam was, to obey God. so was Christ. That wad a part ■' of His life here on earth. Then too Christ had more to do than did Adam. There was no sin at all In the world when Adam was undergoing the temp , tation but when Christ was in the wil derness the world was burdened with sfn. So He had to dispose of sin and then gain eternal life whereas all Adam had to do was to gain .’ife. There was no sin in the soul of Ohriat and so Satan was given power over him for the time. Christ, was to be humil iated here on earth and by his tempta tion we see a part of it being done. We are humiliated because we have sin In our hearts and when we approach God we feet that. Jesus did not have this and so it must have been a greater hu miliation to undergo temptation know ing that He could not sin. So then we will take up the several phases of the temptation of Christ and see their bearing on our lives. How Was Temptation Possible For ChrlstT We are told that God cannot be tempted aad that He does not tempt any man. We are told moreover that Jesus Chrtet was without sin and yet he was tempted In all points like as we are. Then too vre are told that Jesus Christ Is very Go<S Himself. He Is the seoond Parson at the Trinity that took, on human doah and lived here on earth.' How then can we think of Christ as having'been tempted just like we have when we are told that God oannot be tempted? So it looks like we must have the possibility of Jesus sinning to have a real temptation, but we can . not have a Savlous that -oould sin. How then do we explain the temptation of Christ? Was It just, a: farce. that He went through with and-It was counted for a temptation? We must first reo ognize this great truth. With us the temptations, which Satan brings before us have their power In simply solicit ing sins that lie sleeping-In our hearts, but with Christ he had to solicit sin from a normally sinless nature. So then Satan had to bring something be fore Christ which dld„not contain .any thing wrong in itself.’.but whloh would be a supposed help . to Him In His work as Messiah for' the human race. Consequently Satan spoke of things that pertained to the future life and work of Christ here on earth and also of His kingdom in the future world. Satan then took points connected with - the Messiahship and not with the indi vidual life of Christ. In this way then Christ could undergo temptations which were just as real as any that we may have. These temptations,-would tear and pull at his soul more than any 'we ever have. Satan knew better than to try Christ on tlhe things that' he tried us on for the Lord would not pwf Here then is - the secret of the thought about Christ’s temptation, Christ was to have a glorious reign and Satan knew .that, hut here at .the' start He must be humiliated. This was the weak point that Satan thought. Christ would have. He tried then to get Christ to pass over this stage of humiliation and gain the glorluos end at onoe. But here is the point of the temptation. If Jesus had done this then he would have been acting as Messiah for Satan instead of God Him self. Satan thus wanted Christ-to be come the Sovereign Messiah for' Him. Jesus was to be His Messiah-and thus ■would retseive the kingdom from Satan instead of from God Hlseim. Satan would have him escape being just a human man and winning His way into the hearts of men, but Just with one stroke He would gain the whole world. So then In the Ugtrtof His proposed work as Saviour of the world and es tablished a kingdom Jesus could be tempted. He then truly was tempted In all poltrts like as we are but yet In a higher degree than we can ever ap preciate here on earth. We know that He weeps for the world that lies in sin and so it must have been an awful ■tug at his heart strings to have the.i kingdom presented to Him without having to undergo suffering here on earth, and without waiting for the slow action of we human beings In carrying His message to the world. Yes. He could be really tempted. The Nature of the Temptation of ' Jesus was to obey and Satan endeav ors to keep Him from doing that. If Satan could get Christ to sin here at the very beginning of His work on earth then he would not (have the lone fight to waged Satan was striking at the very heart of the kingdom of God by striving to get the King to sin. If j b-e had sinned then he would have been • no better than His subjects and could I have done nothing for them. This | truth is shown by all the fnonarchs on earth today. They try to show that | they are better than their subjects, ’ either in blood . or by intellect. , The strong in characterought to rule.-Jesus any attention to him. Christ. knew he must win the battle then 01 [ never. Satan was on the fundamentals I as we always And. Where there Is j something good going on there yot j find him busy and hard at work i The stages of this temptation of the j Christ are three: ■ ! 1 The writer well says that aftei j Jesus had fasted forty days and fortj ■; nights that he was hungry. Immed | lately the devil appealed to Him or this point, "If thou be the Son of God | comman dthat these stones be made : bread.” Then at once we have the an swer of Christ and he answers with | the word of God. “But he answered ; and said, “It is written, Man shall not ! live by bread alone but by every word : that prooeedeth out of the mouth oi : God.” The answer of Jesus is no1 brought from a chance quotation which ! be just happened to remember. There I is a connection with the verse and the ! situation Christ was in. Moses wrote j the words quoted and they are found in . Deut. 8:3. In that verse Moses is show ■ ing the Israelites that their experience | in the wilderness was for the purpose i of humbling them. He refers to their [ thinking they could live on the manna alone which God gave to them. So then j the two cases are very much alike. The i children of Israel were on probation j or trial and so was Christ.- It was a : trial of their faith in both Cases and | also it was by material hunger. It was | to bring out the faith in them. The j test showed that they were depending | solely on God. The "Word of God” is i here used Which means “Word of Pow der.” God had fed the sraelites byl his ■ word in sending them manna. But Christ meets thus the attempt j of the devil to cause Him to distrust i God because he was humiliated. Jesus 1 showed that there was absolute depen i dence on . the Father and there His faith was stronger instead of weaker. Man lives by a higher bread than ma terial bread. 2 The next strike the devil maiie was of a slightly different nature. “Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on the pin nacle 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.” The devil found that Jesus was going to oppose him with Scripture and so he in turn quotes Scripture also. The devil always '-'Cjni quote Scripture. But Jesus said unto him, “It is written again, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” Jesus hears the devil giving Scripture as a reference and he says “again It Is written.” The devil quotes Psalm 91: 11-12. Jesus refers to DSut. 6:16, Ex. 17, where the children of Israel wanted water and Moses smote the rock. It was not so much water that) they want ed because they feared that God could not bring them into .Canaan and so they were calling for a sign. Thus they were Experimenting with God. Moses tells them they are not to temp; the Lord their God. The case of Josus would be just like that refered to. He would be tempting God by asking that he bear him up. It would be very good to have a faitlh that was strong enough to cause one to lean on God that much, but when tMre was no need for it God would not he likely to bear anyone up that would do it Just to tempt him. The devil would have Jesus appeal to the multitude below by casting himself off the high pinnacle thus to prove to them that he was the Christ at once without a struggle. It was presump tion pure ^nd simple that God would be bested. 3. 'The third temptation was differ ent from the other two. Th» first was a trial of life amidst privation. The second was that of protection of life amidst danger. Both referred to the faith of Jesus. But in the third temp tation we have, (1) A suggestion of an open act of Sin, (2) Satain introduces an element of selfishness in the tran saction, (3) Satan suggests that the obedience and worship of himself would be only for the moment. “And again tihe devil taketh him up into an ex ceedingly high mountain, and showeth ! 1 j him all the kingdoms of the world, and j the glory of them; and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, If thou wilt fall doWn and worship me.” It was in this temptation that Satan ! forgot himself entirely and suggested* something that would not appeal to Jesus as much as the other two did.) If Jesus had worshipped Satan, it • would not have been just for the second, but for all time to come. He thought that Jesus would forget him- j self an,d thus be drawn into the net. | Satan was eager to catch the Master. | (a) The thing that Satan proposed was not sinful in itself, for all the . kingdoms of the world were one day 1 to be the Lord's. It was more than material kingdoms that Satan offered. t was the spiritual kingdoms that he , possesses in this world. Thus it was a real offer. ! (b) ’Then too Satan-was depending, on the momentariness of the vision to | sweep Christ off of his feet. He would I do away with the long hard road. It I was then a trial of the patience of i Christ. [ (c) n this critical hour Satan is un- , I der the control of that great principle ' ! which always governed him, namely ! substituting himself for God. At once Jesus sees the motive of Satan. If he j had done what he was told to do then ; he would have been the Messiah of Satan. The answer of Christ- rings cealr though. "Get thee behind me Satan; for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord, thy God, aim him only shalt thpu serve.” The reference : is to Moses warning Israel against j idolatry. Deut. 6:13. They are told , ! not go after other gods and this would j j have been the case with Jesus if he | j had done what the devil asked him to : do. The answers of the Master are | clear and to the point. j i Iteeause of His Temptations Jesus I» j i Able to Succour Us. t All the phases of the several tempta- \ I tions recorded then are real. We ate ; | also to remember that these are' only.) ; the ones that are mentioned at the end t of his period of fasting. There may I have been many more for all we know. 1 ; But anyway these three are enough, to | appeal to the body, soul and spirit of the Lord Jesus. By these temptations I Jesus is able to sympathize with us I and to know how we feel when we are \ '■ tempted. He had been tried as it were | 1 by fire and knew that it would burn, i He show® to us this great lesson that we must win by struggling against the devil with all the power of God in i Heaven possesses. That was what he idid to resist the onslaught of! Satan, j We are told that slaves used to be tracked and run down by.blood hounds. ■ But we can rest assured that no blood i hounds ever tracked its victftn as the 1 spirit of evil tracks the footsteps of j its slaves. The tempter is tilways be ! fore us. Let us remember that the best ! of Christians are always the targets " of the devil. He tempts them as he j would tempt none other.. Jesus was I about to enter upon a great work and j to be sure Satan wanted to stop the ' work. He does the same with many of i God’s people today. Let us remember ; also that temptations bring souls into ! need. People who are tempted need aid and support. That is just what ! Christ said that he would do for those j that are tempted. He is able and ready j I to help all of us who will go to him. j I ‘‘There hath no temptation taken you I ' but such as'is common to man: but God . ! is faithful, who will hot suffer you to ' j be tempted above that ye are able; \ j but will with the temptation also make i ; a way of escape, that ye may be able j to bear it.” Cor. 10:13. , i Satan is making his assaults upon us | today. He never leaves nor forsakes i us. Our best friends may leave us, our ! i father may let us go but the devil ever i I remains. That is the great reason why | we should always have with us this , ! one who is able to succour us when we ‘ | are tempted because he has been 1 ; tempted in all points like as we are j , and yet without sin. The Master won | i in Che battle with the devil. There is : I a remarkable little statement in Matt, i ! 4:11, "Then the devil leaveth him, and! i behold angels came and ministered i ! unto him.” Yes the angels came ,to i • Jesus and so will he send them to us. j j If Satan tempt our hearts to stray i ; And whisper evil things within, So did he, in the desert way, j Assail our Lord with thoughts of sin, When worn and in a feeble hour I The tempter came with all his power, i "For in thftt he himself hath suffer-! ed, being tempted, he is able to sue- j cour them that are tempted." I I When You Need Automobile or Truck SPRINGS Any Car—Any Model—Any Year ! COME TO \ N Mobely Spring Comp’y i No. 7 Princess Street, Just Off Front 1 Telephone 888 General Automobile Repairing by Expert Mechanics .... Prepare for the Glorious Fourth by Getting a NEW STRAW TOPPER! LATEST MID-SUMMER STYLES : Chas. Finkelstein Front and Market Streets ■irfls T ORGANIZED RESERVE CORPS ■ 1/ U S. ARMY IfjBy A. Hj Young, 355th Engine* :ers. The Organizedvjleeerve corps is now a recognized organization and will have a number ofjiregular army ofrieers assigned to eacRjj unit, an.! the units have been assigr^B the designations as tut as practical}|ie of our World war units tha.t made ouch wonderful records in Filance. 4|'j The officers vfSfjo served in the late war piay be commissioned in tire re serves in the iyghest .grade held by them during theS(var. Ex-offioers are therefore urged apply for such com missions withoutjjdeiay, in order" to be asured of earlyg preferment, for they may be appointim upon their records Without further^ examination. Tlieir moral and matei^i|i assistance in build ing up .the orgarvized reserves is a very important factoipin the state of effi ciency and preplpfedness of the United States army. jfe It :s the poiitpl of the war- depart ment that each j^fficer of the reserves be assigned to f^nits, within the di vision area in w||ch he resides. To as sign officers oujiS'ide the area of .thfeir unit special aijij-iority must be ob tained from hB§idquarters. In some .cases where anjfxeess of officers re side in a unit ar0|, it may be necessary to attach them i^emitorarily; this may be done by t3e organization com mander, as i.n tLi| cade of assignments. In the event tha#‘a full complement of officers havef'ijio’t been asigned to a particular orgaiij&ation, It will be un derstood that the requisite quota is not available, and it is hoped that enough ex-officers of the Woria war, or others eligible fo rappointment,■ may be in duced to-apply for, their commissions,, those who reside in the organization area and thus be assigned to it to make up the quota. It is by the pro motion of ex-officers that the higher grades should be filled, leaving the lower grades to be filled by graduates of the R. O. T. C. and C. M. T. C. train ing institutions. It is especially urged that each of ficer assigned to an organization, ir respective of rank, aslf such eligibles as they may HQiow presonally or by reputation, to apply for their commis sions, as ex-offifers of the World war should not lose touch and trace of each other but should retain their organiza tion. If all ex-officers of the late war held reserve commissions they could on occasion be of material assistance to one another, politically, socially, and in a business way. The benefits of the nation would be that preparedness and security would be assured for the present, and for the future, as it is expected that military cadets of the R. O. T. C. and C. M. T. C. training corps will follow your ex ample and try for commissions in the officers reserve corps, thus creating a force sufficient to protect our shores. No reserve officer will be called to active duty for training without his own consent. A reserve officer called to active duty for training purposes during any calendar year and upon whom such duty, for business or ether good reasons, would work a hardship, will upon his own request be exempted from such tour of duty. The war department is engaged in forming and establishing definite poli cies for the training of the reserves. When this is done reserve officers will have a better understanding of their obligations, duties, and privileges, arid will be better qualified to assist in the organization of the Organized Reserve corps, especially to the development of the units to which they are assigned. Not only officers of the late war but also enlisted men are eligible for a commission in -the officers reserve corps, especially those men who were graduates of training camps and re ceived recommendations for commis sion, but were not appointed due to the signing of the armistice. Until November 11, 1923, the exami nation of persons who served in the late wa ras officers of the U. S. army, navy, or marine corps, at any time be tween April 6, 1917, and June 30. 1919, will consist of an examination of the applicant’s military record and a physi cal examination only. After that date, all ex-service men will be required to pass the prescribed examinations. Original appointments in the reserve corps will then be made only in the grade ot^second lieutenant from among the selected graduates of R. O. T. C. and C. M. T. C. training camps.® The time will pass quickly, November 11 will soon be here and the opportunity will be lost. Officers who have friends who are eligible for a reserve commis sion should get them interested in this matter before the opportunity to be come identified with tbe Organized Re serve corps is lost. communicate witn tne local offices of the U. S. army at the customhouse^ .where information on this subjeot drill* gladly be ‘ given. 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