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BIG Life Devotional | Daily Devotional for Women

1752 The Easy Way

BIG Life Devotional | Daily Devotional for Women

Pamela Crim | Daily Devotional for Women

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

5792 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re studying the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. The devil has swooped in when Jesus was weakest from not eating for 40 days, and he’s making his twisted offers. While the devil is convinced he is going to defeat Jesus with these temptations, Jesus knows he is here to defeat these temptations […]

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0:00.0

Congratulations. Your gift of a new day is here. Ready to live it big. You're listening to the Big Life

0:10.4

Devotional podcast. Now, here's Pamela to get you fired up for all God has available for you today.

0:16.7

Well, good morning, beautiful. Welcome to a brand new day of life. Happy Wednesday, my friends. I am

0:23.4

thrilled that I get to wake up today. I get a new day of life. And so do you? What? We're both

0:31.5

alive today. How amazing is that? Let's get the day started right. The title of today's episode of the Big

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Life Devotional podcast is The Easy Way. This week we're studying the temptation of Jesus in the

0:48.9

wilderness. The devil has swooped in when Jesus was weakest from not eating for 40 days, and now the devil's making his twisted offerings.

1:00.7

While the devil is convinced that he's going to defeat Jesus with these temptations, Jesus knows he is here to defeat these temptations and make a way out for you and I.

1:15.6

He faced it all so that you and I could make it through too.

1:22.5

Defeat is not our destiny.

1:24.5

There is an out.

1:26.3

That's what we've been talking about this week. Yesterday,

1:28.6

in episode number 1751, titled Twisted Offerings, reread of the first specific temptation

1:39.3

Jesus told about, the temptation to meet his legitimate need in an illegitimate way. He was

1:49.1

legitimately hungry. So the devil tells Jesus to turn the rocks into bread and eat. But that

1:57.6

would defeat the purposes for which Jesus was there.

2:02.0

He wasn't there to use his supernatural power to battle the devil.

2:08.1

He was there to show you and I how to overcome temptation when we ourselves are weak.

2:16.6

And here Jesus is showing us how we can be tricked into meeting real needs the wrong way.

2:26.1

Ah, Jesus is helping us untwist the offerings of the devil and see them for what they really are.

2:36.1

So Jesus, you just keep going.

2:38.8

Your girls are ready for more now.

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