Now let's look at the greatest dragon slayer, serpent slayer who is Messiah.
And I'm going to read from Matthew 4. You can turn to it if you have it or you can listen. Matthew 4,
Verse 1. Then Yeshua, Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
Now he had just had a victory. It's the beginning of His ministry. You know one of the things the
enemy does is you have a victory he wants to counter strike. You've got a victory ... you have
a victory. Don't get prideful. Don't, don't get careless. Hold, keep your ground. Keep your thing
with God because sometimes he strikes, this kind of stuff. You know it's like in a war. Someone,
one, one side has a victory, the other one tries to strike back. So be aware. Be aware. But notice
something else. He goes after Messiah when? At the beginning of his ministry. Why? Because,
when did he go after mankind? At the beginning of it all. Why? Because if, if you can stop something
at the beginning you stop everything else. If you stop the seed you stop the tree. You got it?
So God has purpose ... with Moses when did, when, when was the first attack on Moses? When he was a
baby. You stop the baby you stop Passover. Okay. So therefore God always, I mean God has a plan
and He has a purpose but the enemy tries to stop it in your life before it happens.
You have a great calling when you, you know and so therefore you know so you have a calling ... when
God is calling you so the enemy will try to stop it. You're rising. He can try to, he can try to
discourage you. You're saying yes to God. He can try to tempt you. Yes to God. All hell breaks
loose against you. That doesn't mean you don't say it. Say yes to God because it's a good sign.
Or sometimes when God has something for you when you're rising the enemy tries to give
you a substitute. And after he had fasted forty days and for that, I was just, I was just talking
to somebody who you know, I won't say his name because, on the phone today, and you know him
um but he was saying, he was praying because he's going to be doing a, an outreach and
there's a lot of people into the occult in that city and there's all sorts of, he's, he's,
he's getting all these things he never had attacks like he had as he's getting ready to go there.
And he said, he said, he says but I, I believe it's for a reason because it's, I said yeah,
I said yeah because you know the greater the attack the greater the victory at the end. And the
enemy knows it so it's a good sign. So, so turn around those discouragements into encouragement.
All these things are happening? This is a good sign. That's a, wow, how big this victory is
going to be because of what the enemy is trying to do. He knows something that I don't know but
I'm by faith going to claim it. There is some, so turn it around. There is something great coming.
And after he had fasted forty days and forty nights he then became hungry. Messiah.
So what happens there? The enemy tempts him in that. See the enemy, it tells you what,
reveals something will seek to go after an unmet desire in your life.
An unmet hunger. You know there are some serpents that use their tails. They want to get the frog.
And so they use their tails to look like worms. And the frog says hey it's supper time. Let me
get a bite and the, and the frog becomes supper. Careful. Because the enemy seeks to use unmet
desire you have, in your life. If it's not, if, it's not that we don't have desires. But you need
to submit it to God. God it's your will. If you don't submit it the enemy tries to go after it.
And I can tell you story after story of believers who had an unmet desire and then the enemy just
came, for that. Doesn't matter. It could have been a desire to be married. It's not a bad desire
but if that's not submitted to God it can become a very bad desire. It could be anything even
something that is suppo ... of the Lord in one sense. Somebody wants to go to ministry but if
it's not submitted to God the enemy can have his own way. He can turn it all around. So don't give
him that. Meet your ... take your desires and meet it in God. Lift it up to God. Submit it to
God and get filled by God. Delight yourself in the Lord, He'll give you the desires of your heart.
The enemy will not have anything. So what does Messiah answer?
He says turn this bread, you know, He says, He answers man does not live by bread alone
but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God. What is He doing? He's, he's filling,
Messiah is saying you're tempting me with this but you know what I'm filled up with this. You
want me to get hungry here but I am focusing on getting filled by God. I'm filled up with
that. And also Messiah is, you know the enemy is trying to do a negative thing, he's trying to.
Messiah ... Messiah is focusing on the positive of God. I'm rejoicing in God's blessing. I don't have
to have the bread. I might, might have hunger but I am filling up right now on the Bread of
God. Rejoice in the Lord. It is a safeguard for you. If you don't rejoice in what is good
you'll end up rejoicing in what is not. Rejoice in the things of God. Rejoice in the presence of God.
Rejoice in the victories of God. Rejoice in the worship of God, the Word of God, the Spirit
of God, the blessings of God, the ministry of God, the people of God. Anything that's good.
Rejoice in that and the enemy won't have anything. And the tempter came to Him and said
if you are the Son of God command these stones to become bread. Now, now my sons have a strategy
with me to make me play with them. They'll say you're too weak, you can't do
this. And they want me to say oh yeah, I'll show you I can do this and then I'm playing with them,
which is, which is ... And they ... or, you can't do this and, because they want me to do it.
They're trying to provoke me. Well they mean it for play but the enemy uses the same thing for
evil. To ensnare you. He tells Messiah if you really are the Ben Elohim, the Son of God,
prove it. Messiah is not on a mission to prove that he's the Son of God. Messiah is on a mission
to save the world and He has, He is the Son of God. But see the enemy wants you to react
to him and to his provoking. He wants you to end up doing that because then you're following him.
Even if you're trying to go against him you're following him because you're following what he
said, not what God said. The enemy tries to twist what is good and turn it negative. And that's when
Messiah answers him though, he doesn't, see he doesn't say, you know see now he says if you are
the Son of God and the Messiah doesn't say yeah I'll show you I can do it. But if he's doing it
he's doing what the enemy told him to do. So he answers him and this, He just redirects it to God.
Man will not live by bread alone so He's talking but He's not engaging on the same level. He's
going right to God. And that is key in your life. The enemy might say hey you do that you know
he wants you, you know somebody's attacking you and you have to prove that you're good.
Whatever the thing is. You don't have to prove. You have to just do what God said.
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