Proclamation and Healing
Turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 4 as we continue our study in Matthew’s gospel. In chapter 1, we saw the identity of our Lord set forth through His genealogy. In chapter 2, we saw Him worshipped by shepherds and by the Gentile, the Magi from the east who had come to Him. In chapter 3, we saw His baptism, and in that baptism and in that baptism, God’s acknowledgment of His person and His ministry and His commission to Him to be the lamb of God, who would take away the sins of the world. In chapter 4, in the first eleven verses, we saw our Lord enter into a contest with Satan himself in the wilderness. The very battleground of the covenant of grace. Reliving not once, but thrice the temptations of Adam, and yet being victorious every time. We said two weeks ago that when…