In this part 3 episode we look at the Devil's final temptation of Christ.  In this final temptation the Devil didn't use any twisting of the Word of God, but appealed directly to any worldly desire within Christ, and Christ overcame, taking Devil's thought captive, resisted the Devil and rebuked the Devil.  The question is how is this temptation different than yours.  Well it all depends.  If you have been born again and received a new heart with new thoughts, the old evil thoughts crucified and removed; then it should be easy for you to identify the thoughts of the Devil and to resist them.  However, if you still have the old heart with its desires of the flesh; then you will find it difficult to distinguish between your wicked thoughts and the Devil's.  Worse, you may even find your own worldly desires which still live in you, tempting and luring you to have sinful thoughts; which when conceived and completed brings for your sin and death as discussed in James ch1.  When you have a new heart and the evil thought is the Devil's it will be easy for you to take captive the thought and rebuke it; the Devil will then flee.  But if you don't have the new heart; then most likely your own thought will remain and you will find yourself warring against yourself and the sin which still dwells in you.  

Passages covered:  Mathew 4:8-11;  Deuteronomy 6:13,  5:9,  8:19,  11:16,  17:3,  30:17;  James 1:2-6,  13-15;  1 Cor 10:1-13;  2 Cor 10:2-6,  11:1-4.