Matthew 4:8-9

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”

From Background Notes [BN] for February 2^nd & 3^rd written by Pastor Bob Brown:

There is a seduction in the hustle of power. Power tricks, even as it tempts, laying out a whole world before our eyes, as Satan did with our Lord on the mountain of temptation, and then telling us it can be ours if we but worship the seducer.

 

We are led to believe things that are not true and that are not possible if we will but surrender our love to the world that dazzles us. In a real sense, we take power as our mistress and lose our minds in the process.  [BN, 1]

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* Saturday 6:00pm
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