Why Does Resistance Come Right After You Obey God? (Luke 4:1-13) | Daily Devotional & Bible Study

Have you ever said yes to God and then watched everything get harder? Luke 4 shows us why.

We're starting Luke chapter 4 in our fall Bible study, and before we get to the three temptations, there's something in the first two verses most of us read right past. Jesus was full of the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit is the one who led Him into the wilderness. The hard season wasn't a detour from the assignment. It was part of it. Today we look at the forty days, why that number matters, and how Jesus fought as a Spirit-empowered man rather than by pulling rank.

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Bible Study Live is a small-group Bible study trip with Rachael Groll. Study Scripture where it happened in Rome, or slow down for a contemplative Bible study retreat in Maui. Dates and details at BibleStudyLive.org

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Questions we answer today

Was Jesus not already full of the Holy Spirit before His baptism?
Why does Scripture keep using the number forty?
Why did Jesus answer the devil with verses from Deuteronomy?
What does Israel's forty years have to do with Jesus' forty days?
Is the wilderness a detour or an assignment?

Timestamps

00:00 Starting Luke 4, and how this series works

01:00 Reading Luke 4:1-13

02:40 Prayer

04:00 Why the color method stopped me at "forty days"

05:00 Was Jesus always full of the Holy Spirit?

07:00 What Isaiah said about a Spirit-empowered Messiah

08:30 What actually happened at the Jordan

10:00 Fully God and fully human

11:30 Why His victory matters for us

14:20 A callback to Israel's forty years

15:30 Why all three answers come from Deuteronomy

17:30 God's son Israel failed, God's Son Jesus passed

18:50 Other forty-day seasons in Scripture

21:00 Predictable resistance after obedience

23:30 Tempted the whole time, not just at the end

24:30 The wilderness was the assignment

25:00 Prayer

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