耶稣做得对
我们很容易便会遇到试探，因为到处都有试探我们的事情 - 包括来自我们内心的和从各方面攻击我们的试探。
在创世记第3章，撒但提供了高级试探讲习班，它以提出神禁止我们享受某些美好事物来开始试探我们。“神真的说你们不可以吃园中任何的东西吗？你们真是可怜啊。”当我们感到我们错过了某些东西时，魔鬼便继续说下去：“你们可以放心这样做，不会有不好的事情发生的。”跟着，我们想得到的东西看来很吸引，我们又认为它对我们有益处。于是我们便说：“是的，那正是我想要的，我这样做应该不成问题。”
然而这个想法是说不通的，对与错的观念其实是宇宙的一部份。就如神创造时定了海洋和日夜的界限，祂也为我们的道德行为定了界限。第一条命令 - 不可以吃那棵树上的果子，是神第一次试验我们的祖先对祂的服从的道德诫命。这条诫命后来扩阔了范围，成为神对祂的子民的诫命；我们可以在出埃及记 20章、弥迦书 6:8、马太福音 22:37-40、和其他经文，看到这些诫命的撮要。我们往往会受到诱惑去违背所有的诫命；我们不尊重神和伤害他人；我们心存欲念、我们嫉妒、我们为琐事发怒。若在这些事情上屈服，便可能会导致奸淫、偷窃和暴力行为了。
感谢神，耶稣胜过了撒但所有的试探（马太福音 4:1-11）。祂在神的宝座前完全无瑕地代表了我们每一个人。
祷告
父啊，感谢你差遣耶稣到来，又把祂的完全无瑕归与我们。藉着祂作成的救赎大功，我们能够在你面前站立得住。阿们。
创世记 3:1-7
1耶和华神所造的，唯有蛇比田野一切的活物更狡猾。蛇对女人说：“神岂是真说，不许你们吃园中所有树上的果子吗？”
2女人对蛇说：“园中树上的果子我们可以吃，
3唯有园当中那棵树上的果子，神曾说：‘你们不可吃，也不可摸，免得你们死。’”
4蛇对女人说：“你们不一定死！
5因为神知道你们吃的日子眼睛就明亮了，你们便如神能知道善恶。”
6于是女人见那棵树的果子好做食物，也悦人的眼目，且是可喜爱的，能使人有智慧，就摘下果子来吃了；又给她丈夫，她丈夫也吃了。
7他们二人的眼睛就明亮了，才知道自己是赤身露体，便拿无花果树的叶子，为自己编做裙子。
Jesus Does What Is Right
"Jesus said to him, 'Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.'" - Matthew 4:10
It's easy for us to be tempted. There are temptations everywhere—within our hearts and coming at us from all sides.
Satan provides a master class on temptation in Genesis 3. He begins by suggesting that God is keeping us from enjoying something good. "Did God really say you can't eat anything in this garden? Poor soul." And when we feel we are missing out on something, the devil adds, "You can do this. Nothing bad will happen." Then the thing we want looks good, and we think it will do us good. And we say, "Yes, that's what I want. I'll try it. It won't hurt."
But it doesn't work out that way. Right and wrong are really built into the universe. Just as God created limits for the waters and times for light and dark, he also created limits for our moral behavior. The first command—don't eat the fruit of that one tree, was the initial moral law testing our parents' obedience. That has since been expanded into God's law for his people, summarized in Exodus 20, Micah 6:8, Matthew 22:37-40, and other passages. And we are tempted to break all of it. We dishonor God and hurt people. We lust, we envy, we get angry over trivialities. And yielding to these can lead into adultery, theft, and violence.
Thank God that Jesus resisted all of Satan's temptations (Matthew 4:1-11). He represents us in all his perfection before God's throne.
Father, thank you for sending Jesus and for crediting us with his perfection. Through his finished work we can stand before you. Amen.
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