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Matthew 4:1-11
What did Jesus do about temptation
Some possible answers:
- Beat it
- Overcame it
- Lived with it
- Refused to give in to it
- Struggled with it
- Gave in to it
- Not know about it – not really
- Sought it out
Notes:
Here are a few possible answers that you may have come up with – off the top of your head, so to speak.
We know that Jesus didn't succumb to it – because the Bile tells us in a number of places that He was without sin.
2Co 5:20-21
2Co 5:20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, s as though God were making his appeal through us. t We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. u
2Co 5:21 God made him who had no sin v to be sin 6 for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. w
His sacrifice on the cross, as the new Adam would not have been valid if he was a sinner like the rest of us.