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00:22Let us pray
00:26Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
00:29Who, when your disciples and friends deserted and left you
00:33Remained alone in the hands of sinful men
00:37Like a most gentle lamb
00:38Within the jaws of a ravenous wolf
00:43Strengthen my excessive weakness
00:45And confirm my too great unstableness
00:47By the support of your grace
00:49And join me to yourself with the bonds of love
00:53That I may neither have no wish nor the power
00:56Ever to depart or separate myself from you
01:01Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
01:04Who allowed yourself to be led around bound
01:07By an armed band and taken to Annas
01:12Allowing yourself to be stood before him
01:14As though you were a common criminal or robber
01:19O unspeakable gentleness of my Redeemer
01:22Look, while they take and drag and thrust you forward
01:27You uttered not a single word of complaint
01:30Or murmur or word of resistance
01:33But in silence you followed them wherever they led you
01:37Obeying their commands
01:39And permitted their wanton injuries to you
01:44Grant, O Lord, that these your virtues may shine in me
01:47To the everlasting glory of your name
01:51Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
01:54King of heaven and earth
01:55Who in great humility
01:57As poor and needy and of no account
02:00Was stood before the proud High Priest
02:03And most sweetly endure the dreadful blow
02:07Which his impious servant put upon you
02:12Restrain, I beg you
02:13In me all outbreak of anger and passion
02:17Suppress all acts of indignation
02:20And quench within me all desire of revenge
02:24That when I am provoked by injury
02:27I may not be disturbed
02:28I may offer no resistance
02:31May suffer no disquiet
02:34But endure everything with a quiet mind
02:36May I even repay evil with good
02:41Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
02:43Who permitted himself to be lead-boned
02:46In a shameful manner to Caiaphas
02:48That you might deliver us from the penalty
02:51Of eternal death
02:52Restoring to us true liberty
02:56Make me most ready
02:58To endure every reproach
02:59And all contempt for your name's sake
03:03Grant that in the very middle
03:05Of ridicule and outrage
03:06I may give you thanks with a perfect heart
03:09And by means of these trials
03:11May grow and increase more and more
03:14In your love
03:18Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
03:20Who, when three times denied
03:23By your apostle Peter
03:26Mercifully turned and looked upon him
03:28With kindness
03:29And brought him to repentance
03:31And holy sorrow for his sin
03:33In like manner
03:34May you turn upon me also
03:37Your eye of mercy and love
03:39That I may weep over my past sins
03:42With the tears of true penitence
03:44And may never again commit them
03:47May I never be found sinning
03:49Against your goodness in word or deed
03:54Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
03:56Who stood before the elders and the people of the Jews
03:59With a calm countenance and humble look
04:02Who did not refuse to be falsely accused
04:05And to suffer many injuries
04:09Give me grace never to say an untrue word
04:11Or to falsely accuse my neighbour
04:15But that I may bear with all quietness of heart
04:17The calumniers that are heaped upon me
04:21Casting all my troubles upon you
04:23May I always, in silence
04:25Look for the grave and consolation
04:28At your hands
04:32Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
04:35Who, when Caiaphas the High Priest
04:38Adjured you by the name of God
04:41Declared the truth
04:42And proclaimed yourself the Son of God
04:44And did not refuse to be counted by him
04:47And the rest who stood by as a blasphemer
04:50May I fully abhor this contempt and defence against you
04:54May I in every place
04:57Reverence the presence of your divinity and majesty
05:03May I think of you
05:04Adore, praise and love you
05:07Above all things
05:08Forever and for ever
05:11Amen
05:15O Lord, open our lips
05:17And our mouths shall sing your praise
05:26O be joyful in the Lord
05:30O be joyful in the Lord
05:32O be glad
05:33Turn the Lord with gladness
05:37And come before his prayers
05:40And with a strong
05:43Be sure that the Lord
05:47He is God
05:49It is he that shall fail us
05:53And not we ourselves
05:55We are his people
05:58And the sheep of his pasture
06:02To put your way into his peace with thy strength
06:08And into his God's great praise
06:13Be thankful unto him
06:17And speak full of his name
06:21O the Lord is gracious
06:25His mercy is everlasting
06:31And his truth and joy
06:35From generation to generation
06:45Glory be to the Father
06:48And to the Son
06:52And to the Holy Ghost
06:56As it was in the beginning
06:59Is now and ever shall be
07:05World without end
07:13Amen
07:25Friends, not thyself
07:28Because of the ungodly
07:31Neither be nor any urge
07:35For the ungodly
07:39For they shall soon
07:42Be not done
07:43Like a cross
07:45And be free
07:47Lord
07:48Even as the green of earth
07:53Who's part like trust
07:56In the Lord
07:57And be doing
08:00Dwell in the land
08:03And there in him
08:04Thou shalt be fed
08:07Till I drown in the Lord
08:13And he shall give me
08:17Thy heart's desire
08:19Commit thy way unto the Lord
08:24And put thy trust in him
08:28And he shall bring me
08:32And he shall bring me to heart
08:33He shall live by righteousness
08:37As clear as the light
08:41And by just living
08:45As the moon day
08:48Hold ye still in the Lord
08:52And abide patiently upon him
08:58But bring not thyself
09:01That he moves with a cross
09:03Against the man
09:06That doeth after evil
09:10Aser
09:11Leave off from wrath
09:14And let good his pleasure
09:17Dress not thyself
09:21There shall come
09:23There shall come
09:24Be proof
09:24To do
09:26Give him
09:29Wicked do
09:31Shall we root them out
09:34And live that patiently
09:37Am I the Lord
09:39Though shall it merit the land
09:43Yet only to one
09:46And the ungodly shall be
09:50And the ungodly shall be
09:50Cleaning home
09:53Thou shalt look after his grace
09:57And the peace shall be away
10:01But the big city shall possess
10:06The earth
10:08And shall we be stretched
10:12In the multitude of peace
10:15The ungodly seeketh
10:18Counsel against the trust
10:22And national upon him
10:26With his feet
10:28The Lord shall love him
10:31To stop
10:33For he hath seen
10:36That his day is coming
10:39The ungodly hath drawn
10:42Out the soul
10:43And hath bent their womb
10:46To cast down the poor
10:49And leave
10:50And to slay such as
11:07The ungodly hath
11:14Something that the righteous love is better than great riches of the ungodly.
11:25Through the arms of the ungodly shall be broken, and the love of all of the virtues.
11:37The Lord knoweth the days of the godly, and their inheritance shall endure forever.
11:52We shall not become family in the greatest time, and in the days of death we shall have in love.
12:05As for the ungodly they shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall consume as the fat of land.
12:19Yea, even as the snow shall they consume away.
12:26We shall not be borrowed, and we shall not occur, but the righteous is merciful and living.
12:41Such as the best of God shall possess the man, and they that the curse of him shall be rooted
12:53out.
12:55The Lord ordereth a good man's glory, and maketh his way, and set a path to himself.
13:07For ye, for ye, for ye shall not be cast away, for the Lord of powereth him with his hand.
13:20Of ye shall not be fondly, and ye shall be free, and the glory of all of the virtues.
17:52Amen.
18:04A reading from the Gospel according to St. Luke chapter 4.
18:09Then Jesus, being full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River and was led by the Spirit into
18:16the wilderness, where, for forty days, he endured temptation from the devil.
18:24He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.
18:30The devil said to him, If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.
18:37Jesus answered him, It is written, man does not live by bread alone.
18:44Then the devil led him up into a high place and showed him in a flash all the kingdoms of
18:50the world.
18:51He said to him, To you I will grant this whole realm and the glory that goes along with it,
18:57for it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish.
19:03So then, if you will worship me, all this will be yours.
19:08Jesus answered him, It is written, You are to worship the Lord your God and serve him own.
19:17Then the devil brought him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple and said
19:22to him, If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written,
19:29He will command his angels concerning you to protect you, and with their hands they will lift you up so
19:40that he will not strike your foot against a stone.
19:44Jesus answered him, You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.
19:52So when the devil had completed these temptations, he departed from him until a more opportune time.
20:00This is the word of the Lord.
20:03Thanks be to God.
20:09This is one of the more mysterious but perhaps most suggestive passages in the entire history of the Christ.
20:21Without attempting to indicate all the points presented for reflection, let us consider that the temptation is necessary to the
20:30perfecting of Jesus as the Saviour of sinners.
20:35He is led by the Spirit into the wilderness, led for the purpose of being tried for the devil.
20:41In the solitudes and simplicities of the life in Nazareth, he had not known and could not have known this
20:49kind of trial.
20:51Now is to come the first distinct experience of the devil's power.
20:58God, may we so say, carried him away from the scene of baptism and opened the heavens and the divine
21:04voice and presented him to Satan, the prince of the power of the air.
21:12This is my beloved son, put forth your hand and touch him.
21:18Is this not perhaps a little strange?
21:22It is a very real link of communion between the Lord and the life to be set by sin and
21:28evil.
21:30By thy fasting and temptation, good Lord, deliver me.
21:37See it in a part, an essential part of that, in the making of Jesus to us, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification
21:46and redemption.
21:48Let us not overlook that the Son of God was shown that he might destroy the works of the devil.
21:56And now begins the great pitched battle between the kingdoms of light and darkness.
22:01The wilderness time is the girding of the sword on the thigh of the most mighty.
22:08We should not think of the temptation as an isolated experience.
22:12For at the end of the temptation, the devil departed from him for only a season, or until a season.
22:20He had been conquered, but he was not finished.
22:24He was not done with the conqueror.
22:26He only abided a better opportunity.
22:30The whole earthly ministry was a conflict with that hell which had all but dominated over the world of man
22:36for eight years gone by.
22:40And the conflict was concluded in victory only when the head was bowed on the cross.
22:46Through death, he destroyed him that had the power of death, that is, the devil.
22:53Ah, truly there is an infinite more lying behind all that is recorded.
23:02But temptation is necessary to human perfection.
23:06The hour of the leading into the wilderness is striking.
23:11St Luke amplifies the account given by the earlier evangelist.
23:17St Mark connects the event with the baptism and that which accompanied it.
23:24The former tells us of what is subjective, of the conscious plenitude of life and power.
23:29Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, is led.
23:33When the sense of the mighty force is strong within him.
23:37When the chords of the heart are vibrating in response to the voice from heaven.
23:41When the soul feels threatened until it enters on the great mission given to it.
23:47When he is ready, look, here comes this summons to the wilderness.
23:52This forcible taking of the anointed man.
23:55With the anointing still fresh and full to the dreary dead at place.
24:00Over whose surface the wild beasts groan.
24:05But is this not a way of God?
24:10Was not Saul of Tarsus in the morning of his life in Jesus' scent for three years to Arabia?
24:16Is not strength gathered?
24:18Is not character completed through contact direct and personal with the forces alike of good and evil?
24:27He who is made in all things to be like his brethren.
24:31Must have in that his human history.
24:34Which corresponds to facts and the necessities of ours.
24:39And the wilderness with its struggle.
24:42Its assaults on faith and obedience.
24:45Its glimpse into the outer darkness.
24:47Its resistance of the devil.
24:49Is a necessity in the education of the man as the son of God.
24:57The temptations of Christ recorded are a mirror of the temptations of his brethren.
25:04Mark the word recorded.
25:07Saint Luke tells us that Jesus was led during forty days tempted by the devil.
25:14What the forty days meant remain untold.
25:18Perhaps it could not be expressed in a language that would be intelligible to us.
25:23It was only at the end that the divine event becomes human enough to be made to appear.
25:31Until then the lower wants were in a condition of suspense.
25:35The hunger is the first sign of his coming back to us.
25:41Then the part of the temptation which we can understand begins.
25:46It will be remembered that we are dealing with a narrative of real transactions.
25:51It is not a poem nor a parable.
25:54Whether the acts were purely subjective.
25:57Consisting only of suggestions to the inner spiritual sense.
26:01Is a dreadful point.
26:03But there was a veritable attempting in the manner described.
26:08That we are regarding a chronical event of events.
26:13Cannot be doubted.
26:15Nor is it a mere likeness of temptation that is set before us.
26:19The gospel story would be nothing to the heart.
26:23If we conceived of it as a series of visions.
26:26Which in no distinct way touched the citadel of the Lord's heart.
26:31It was not to him what temptation is to us.
26:34The contact of the soul.
26:36With some power and power of darkness.
26:39If it is asked.
26:41How can this be if Jesus was without sin.
26:45That it be remembered.
26:47That sin does not consist of an impression of what is evil.
26:51It consists in yielding to the impression.
26:54In receiving it and acting upon it.
26:58The sacred writers are careful to note that all suggestions come.
27:01Not from the soul.
27:03But to the soul.
27:04From a lying spirit outside the personality.
27:09When we speak of sinlessness.
27:11We do not mean that enticements to sin can never present themselves.
27:15Or be felt as enticements.
27:18We mean that they are never yielded to or consented to.
27:21And that there is a will.
27:23So perfectly loyal to the Father.
27:25That the wrong and the unchildlike.
27:27Are never in the purpose of Jesus.
27:31Note the three points or regions of the temptation recorded.
27:36The order is slightly different in the accounts of Matthew and Luke.
27:41That which is third is the one that is second in the other.
27:45Reminding us that too much stress is not to be laid.
27:47On the sequence of the events of the story.
27:51The first trial had reference to the urgent need.
27:55It came in the form of subtle insinuation.
27:58Son of God you are hungry.
28:00Why not use your power to satisfy the wants of your nature.
28:05You have no bread.
28:06You cannot buy bread.
28:07So why not bid these stones become bread.
28:11So plausible.
28:13And so true.
28:14That the deception can scarcely be discerned.
28:19It is addressed to the man.
28:21On the most pressing side of his human necessity.
28:25And Jesus meets it on as a man.
28:29Man's only life is not that by bread.
28:33But by every word which proceeds out of the matter of God.
28:38God's word made the stone a stone.
28:41He would not say the stone is a leaf.
28:45He must be throughout in harmony with the eternal word and will.
28:51And how subtle is the second attack.
28:54Adhering to St. Matthew's order.
28:56You are full of confidence in your God.
28:59You trust him to the utmost.
29:01So put your faith to the proof.
29:04The Jews expect that their Messiah will descend from the close.
29:09Ah, let us go to the top of yonder temple.
29:11Cast yourself down from them.
29:13Do something striking.
29:15For you know it is written.
29:16He will give his angels charge over you.
29:20How plausible the appeal to the Son of God.
29:23On the side of his faith.
29:25And once more repelled by the counter thrust.
29:28The counter scripture.
29:30You shall not try to the uttermost the Lord your God.
29:34Claiming a miraculous help for what is born of human pride and rashness.
29:41Mark the tact and the audacity in the final assault which the enemy makes.
29:46The love of power.
29:48That which is at once the strength and weakness of every level mind.
29:52Shall be the wedge.
29:55Son of God look down on the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them.
30:01You are seeking the sovereignty of man.
30:03I can give it to you.
30:05The force is yours.
30:07Use it at my instigation.
30:10The dominion of love is one of toil and pain.
30:13Take what I offer.
30:14Think what blessings to the world will at once be secure.
30:19The only condition is to fall down and worship me.
30:22Am I not the real king of the world?
30:27This is truly the very climax of devilry.
30:30And the temptation can go no further.
30:34Then Jesus said.
30:35Get you behind me Satan.
30:39It is the battle of man that is portrayed in man's law.
30:44For both he that sanctifies and they that are sanctified are all one.
30:50Here is the tempter who tempts us adapting the form of his solicitations to our tempers.
30:57Our endowments and our circumstances.
30:59Here are the characteristics of his approaches.
31:03His doubts.
31:04His ifs.
31:05If is a devil word which more better than any other loosens the hold of faith.
31:13His quotations from scripture when it suits his purpose to do so.
31:18His three great heads of temptation.
31:22That which seeks us through bodily need or fleshly appetite.
31:28That which seeks us through even our purer and higher instincts.
31:32And that which would draw us into the net by stirring up the pride of life.
31:38Ah there is no sleeping with this tempter.
31:41Watch and pray.
31:43Yet you enter into temptation.
31:49But the victory of Christ is our encouragement.
31:54Blessed is the assurance contained in these words.
31:57Get you behind me Satan.
32:00The devil is behind Jesus.
32:03The captain of our salvation.
32:06What is our position towards our captain?
32:09Apart from him?
32:11Ah we may tremble.
32:12With him.
32:14In him.
32:15He is between us and Satan.
32:18We can do all things through him strengthening.
32:21Be of good cheer.
32:22For I have overcome.
32:28In a way it's reassuring to read of Jesus being tempted.
32:31Because it shows him as being like us.
32:35However there remains a massive difference.
32:37Because Jesus did not succumb to temptation as we would.
32:42But told the devil to get lost.
32:46In the final verse though.
32:47We learned that the devil had merely gone to bite his time.
32:51He would be back.
32:53Coming for another year.
32:56And we need to remember that regardless of how we grow spiritually.
33:00We too will always be under attack.
33:02And not always openly.
33:06Sometimes and especially as we get more mature in our faith.
33:09More often than not.
33:12Temptation is subtle.
33:14Crafty.
33:15And as we have seen.
33:17Initially.
33:18Innocuous.
33:19And very deceptive.
33:20It can involve just one tiny sin.
33:23Just something so small.
33:25That perhaps we do not really appreciate it at the time.
33:28But maybe we feel bad about it soon afterwards.
33:31And the devil.
33:33Is then a foothold in our life.
33:35And unless we go quickly for repentance and forgiveness.
33:38He will follow up the game.
33:40With a bigger offensive.
33:42That could have us really.
33:48We are told that Jesus went into the desert.
33:50In the company of the Holy Spirit.
33:53We are not told what he did when he went there.
33:56But it can safely be assumed.
33:57That he spent time in prayer, meditation and communion.
34:00With his father.
34:03He was not alone.
34:04And when the attack came.
34:05He was prepared.
34:06And he had the support of the Holy Spirit.
34:11For us.
34:11It is important.
34:13Also.
34:13To have the fellowship of other Christians.
34:15In our lives.
34:16For when we are alone.
34:18It is easy for us.
34:19To be led off the true path.
34:21Onto a side road.
34:22Away from the truth.
34:23And to quickly become lost.
34:27The passage also serves to remind us.
34:30That we are always under attack.
34:33Especially after a spiritual high.
34:35As Jesus was in.
34:38No sooner had he been baptized.
34:40And received his father's blessing.
34:42Than we read of his temptation.
34:46I can remember many years ago.
34:48When I was a student.
34:49Going to a wonderful service.
34:51One Saturday afternoon.
34:53And then spending the rest of the weekend.
34:55In fellowship.
34:56With a number of Christian friends.
34:57I had known.
34:59Since I was at school.
35:01I travelled back to college.
35:03On the Monday morning.
35:04And no sooner had I stepped off the bus.
35:07Than the devil hit me so hard.
35:09I was left wondering.
35:11What had happened.
35:13So let us be alert.
35:15Always.
35:16And let us pray.
35:17For the spiritual strength.
35:19To withstand.
35:20The expected.
35:22And oncoming attack.
35:24Time and time again.
35:27Relentlessly.
35:32Let us pray.
35:36O God.
35:37The strength of all.
35:38Who put their trust in you.
35:41Mercifully accept our prayers.
35:44And because through the weakness.
35:45Of our mortal nature.
35:47We can do no good thing without you.
35:50Grant us the help of your grace.
35:52That in keeping your commandments.
35:55We may please you.
35:56Both in will and deed.
35:58Through Jesus Christ.
36:00Our Lord.
36:02Amen.
36:07May the Lord bless us.
36:10And keep us from all evil.
36:12Bringing us to everlasting life.
36:15Amen.
36:16Now we must Ziplin.
36:16To all the way.
36:17How about you.
36:18To all the way.
36:18To all the way.
36:18Where the truth.
36:19How about you.
36:22To all the.