The Temptation of Jesus is Good News for Us

Culduthel Christian Centre in Inverness (CCC) is a church we’ve enjoyed working with over many years. Their pastor, Alistair Macleod was an undergraduate theology student along with our Director, Andy Bannister a few years ago! In more recent times, our late colleague Jeff Howarth was a member of CCC.

I was invited up to Inverness to update the church about the work of Solas, thanks them for their support – and speak at their Sunday morning service. Aware that along with the church members, their would be a lot of people who are not yet believers in Christ – I took them to the story of Jesus’ temptation from Matthew 4.

Often we use this narrative as merely an example of what we ought to do when we are tempted. That’s fine as far as it goes, but I went on to try to show people that the fact that Christ didn’t sin when tempted means that he is able to rescue those of us who have fallen. The message of this text is liberating news for all those of us who have fallen for temptation. The talk is available below.

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