Three Steps to Overcome Temptation -Matthew 4

by Chuck Adair on July 04, 2025

Three Steps to Overcome Temptation -Matthew 4

Read Matthew 4:1

Today’s Truth

We’ve all been tempted. Sometimes it’s something small, like a delicious dessert when trying to lose weight. Other times it’s something big, like believing that God could not possibly love us or we’ve been too sinful for Him to care anymore.

Lies and temptation have been coming our way since Satan convinced Adam and Eve that God was holding out on them, and they fell for it.

Discussion Questions

What are you most tempted by?
Jesus was hungry, so Satan tempted Him with food. Satan knows our weaknesses, and like Jesus, we can defeat temptation by knowing God's promises. Find a Bible reading plan and do this devotional every morning? What is your plan to daily devote?

Application

If we give up and give in, temptation leads to sin. But this doesn't have to be the case! Jesus gives us the Holy Spirit to lead us and remind us whose we are. God is faithful to protect and provide an escape plan. The question is will we be faithful and take it?

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About the Author

Chuck Adair

If you ask Chuck his favorite thing in life to do, he would tell you it is the teaching and preaching of the scriptures and to call all people to engage in the great adventure of abiding with Christ. He desires to connect people with the richness, adventure, and fullness of life that comes through Christ alone and to reach the unchurched, de-churched, dead-churched, and unmoved. Chuck is married to his best friend Kristin and has two adult children, Taylor and Linley. Kris and Chuck believe the quality of their marriage rises and falls, not on circumstances or feelings, but based on their daily abiding with Jesus (Jn 15.5).

Three Steps to Overcome Temptation -Matthew 4