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While we are prone to think of Jesus' temptation as an exercise of his divinity, it is really a revelation of his humanity. Watching how Jesus resists the devil teaches us how to respond to our own temptations as fully human and empowered by the spirit: embracing resistance that is not strong but weak, not clever but foolish, and not striving but restful. Pastor Lisa Elmers shares from Matthew 4:1-11.
By Church of the Advent Denver5
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While we are prone to think of Jesus' temptation as an exercise of his divinity, it is really a revelation of his humanity. Watching how Jesus resists the devil teaches us how to respond to our own temptations as fully human and empowered by the spirit: embracing resistance that is not strong but weak, not clever but foolish, and not striving but restful. Pastor Lisa Elmers shares from Matthew 4:1-11.

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