3. THE EVENTS
• Who Was John?
• Isaiah 40:3
• Malachi 4:5
• The Message- Repent for
the Kingdom of Heaven is
at hand
• The Pharisees and Sadducees
came to John-
• He preached a message of
repentance- “fruit worthy of
repentance”
• Their relationship with
Abraham was not sufficient to
gain God’s approval
5. This is my beloved son in whom I’m well
pleased Luke 3:22
6. JESUS OBEYED GOD THROUGH THE
TEMPTATIONS
•Temptation 1- Turn
these stones to
bread
• Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.
•Temptation 2- Cast
yourself down from
the pinnacle of the
temple
• You shall not tempt the Lord
your God
7. One More Temptation for the Moment
• Temptation 3- Fall Down and Worship
Me
• You shall worship the Lord your God
and Him only shall you serve.
8. (ESV) Then the devil left him, and behold,
angels came and were ministering to him.
See 1 Peter 5:8
9. JESUS FOLLOWED A PATTERN OF
OBEDIENCE TO THE FATHER
Matthew 7:21
Not everyone that
says to me Lord, Lord
shall enter the
kingdom of heaven,
but the one doing the
will of the Father who
is in heaven.
Matthew 12:50
For whosoever shall
do the will of my
Father which is in
heaven, the same is
my brother, and sister,
and mother.
John 5:30
I can of mine own self
do nothing: as I hear, I
judge: and my
judgment is just;
because I seek not
mine own will, but the
will of the Father
which hath sent me.
10. JESUS FOLLOWED A PATTERN OF
OBEDIENCE TO THE FATHER
John 6:39
And this is the
Father’s will which
hath sent me, that of
all which he hath
given me I should lose
nothing, but should
raise it up again at the
last day.
Galatians 1:4
Who gave himself for
our sins, that he might
deliver us from this
present evil world,
according to the will
of God and our Father.
Hebrews 10:7
Then said I, Lo, I come
(in the volume of the
book it is written of
me,) to do thy will, O
God.
14. Romans 6:4
Therefore we were
buried with Him
through baptism
into death, that
just as Christ was
raised from the
dead by the glory
of the Father, even
so we also should
walk in newness of
life. Buried with Christ