Matthew 4:4
But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”

Application: 

The tempter started by saying, If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread. This shows us that the devil had been watching Jesus go without food. He knows what you’re up to, too, and he adjusts his temptations accordingly. In this situation, Satan questioned God’s provision: Jesus was hungry. God hadn’t fed him. Why shouldn’t Jesus just make what was needed?

4:4 How did Jesus respond? By quoting Scripture: It is written. If Jesus, the living Word, needed to use the written Word to face the enemy of the Word, how much more do we? He gave us the Bible so we can wield it like a sword (see Eph 6:17).

Jesus quoted from Deuteronomy 8:3: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. In this passage, Moses explains to Israel how they survived through the wilderness: by God’s provision. They didn’t survive merely because of the manna but because of the one who provided it. Was Jesus hungry? Yes. But he was willing to trust God to provide rather than act independently of him.

Reference: Tony Evans, The Tony Evans Bible Commentary (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2019), 869.

To God be the glory!

Our Lord Jesus Christ created everything! By Him, For Him!

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