Part of our Lent preaching, this episode takes us into Matthew 4:1–11 where Jesus is led into the wilderness and tested with hunger, spectacle, and power. The devil’s first move is to unsettle identity: “If you are the Son of God…” but Jesus stands firm by the Word, answering again and again, “It is written.” This sermon calls us to Word-saturated endurance in the ordinary pressures of life, where comfort can become danger and shortcuts can look sensible, and it re-centres us on who we are in Christ as we return to faithful mission in our city.