The first sermon in a six-week sermon series, titled, Becoming Hungry: 40 Days of Lent, this initial message is named Led up of The Spirit, and is an introduction to the Church Season and Liturgical Feast of Lent. In this Lenten fast, we strive to put aside the works of darkness, rebuke the evil one, and so decide to grow into a unity of The Spirit with Jesus Christ. As we prepare these 40 days toward Easter Sunday, we enter in to self-denial, self-sacrifice, and a maturing of the Christian life, to reach newness of eternal life on Eastertide. It is the joy of God to chasten us and this Biblical tradition and practice finds itself in Matthew 4:1-2. As we endeavor to discover God in Christ once more, this series hopes to convince all of the saving power of Jesus and the suffering of the Christian toward right repentance and truthful display, as we deepen our faith. A duplication of the Sunday night service preached (February 21) at Mount Hope Church, in Salisbury, North Carolina, this reproduction is a lesson for those Christian and non.