Christopher Brenyo on the Sufficiency of Scripture
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A clip from Pastor Christopher Brenyo's sermon on Mark 1:12-13.
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- I was thinking about Satan wanting to see a sign, wanting to put
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- Jesus to the test. And Jesus has no need to put this to the test.
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- He has all authority. He has all power.
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- But he's not going to fall poor victim to the games that Satan is playing.
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- And he says, you shall not tempt, probably better test, you shall not put the
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- Lord your God to the test. And so Jesus is responding in each of these instances, these three main temptations, he's responding with truth about God directly from the
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- Holy Scripture. Now there's a big application here for us. The Holy Spirit speaks to us through the
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- Holy Scripture. That is the primary way in which the Holy Spirit communicates with the people of God.
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- It's through his word. We all want signs and visions, and we actually have
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- God's revelation and his voice ready to speak to us at every moment of every day.
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- We have to crack open the Bible or bring to remembrance a scripture that we've memorized, and the
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- Holy Spirit actually speaks to us as people. It's better than the charismatic chaos.
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- It's better that he speaks to us from his word. Better than some experience that we can have.
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- So in some way, Satan is tempting Jesus to have this amazing experience where he throws himself off the temple and gets rescued by the angels.