Was Jesus Tempted To Sin? Hebrews 4:15 Explained 🔎🔍
🎞️ · 30.06.2023 · 14:40:48 ··· Freitag ⭐ 0 🎬 0
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🎬 · 30.06.2023 · 14:40:48 ··· Freitag
😎 · 03.07.2024 · 15:40:29 ··· MiTTwoch
WAS JESUS TEMPTED TO SIN JUST LIKE US?
Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:14-16
Does this verse mean that Jesus was inwardly tempted in all the ways that we are inwardly tempted? Does it mean he was inwardly tempted to sin sexually? Perhaps even inwardly tempted with homosexuality?
Vine Greek Lexicon: peirazo (verb) signifies "to test, try, prove," in a good sense, said of Christ and of believers, in a bad sense, "to tempt" (a) of attempts to ensnare Christ in His speech and, (b) of temptations to sin.
The Greek and Hebrew words behind the concept of temptation are fairly limited, but they reflect a broad range of meaning. The Greek noun “peirasmos” and verb “peirazo” can be used in the NT in either a negative or positive sense. In a negative sense, the terms are rendered “temptation” and “temp”, indicating a hostile enticement intended to lead a person to a deliberate act of evil against Godor one’s neighbor. In a positive sense the word is rendered “test”. - Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels.
The Greek term for “temptation” could also be translated “test.” Human beings are tested to see if we will obey God when the chips are down (see Gen 22:1, the classic example of passing a test). We are tested to see if we will remain faithful when there is nothing to win (for example, Job 1–2). We are tested to see if our hearts are truly for God or whether we are trying to serve two masters. Hard Sayings of the Bible (p. 678).
If you put gold to the test, the test is not less valid because the gold is pure. Believer’s Bible Commentary
Since Paul is writing to fellow Jewish believers, he is saying that Jesus was tested in all points like us and yet without sin.
If Jesus had no desire to sin then how can he sympathize with us in our temptation?
Jesus felt hunger and thirst like any other man.
He felt the physical desire for comfort and luxury in the midst of poverty.
He felt what it was like to be rejected, mocked and persecuted.
His body desired the absence of pain and suffering.
He felt the desire relief and ease in the midst of suffering, especially during his suffering on the cross.
Yet, as he felt all these things he never once sinned or disobeyed God in order to obtain them.
He accepted his lowly state and circumstances perfectly.
(1) When he appears to be starving will he, like Israel, demand that God feed him? He passes the test and refuses, being willing to trust God to the point of death if necessary. As long as God has said, “Fast,” he will fast. (2) Could he be certain that God would care for him? Why not test God to be sure that he would come through? Jesus passes this test because his trust in God is unshakable. He will not put God to the test, for he has genuine faith. (3) Will God really give him the kingdoms of this world? Does that not look impossible, since Satan controls them? Is not God’s way an unlikely and difficult one? One little compromise is all it will take to bring the kingdom without pain. Jesus again passes the test because he refuses to compromise with evil, however enticing or even spiritual it may seem. Thus Jesus demonstrates he is God’s true Son, as Israel in the wilderness proved to be a false son. Hard Sayings of the Bible (p. 678).
Wasn’t Jesus tempted by the devil and not just tested by God?
The Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil externally but at no point was he actually tempted internally by inward sinful desires. The devil tried to tempt him externally but he failed.
So, Jesus was tested in all the ways Israel was tested, yet he was without sin.
What about James 1:15?
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully matured, it brings forth death. Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. James 1:13-16
James is referring to the temptation of inward sinful desires, not the external temptation of the devil.
God cannot be tempted in that sense because he has not inwardly sinful desires. God is light and in him is no darkness.
Vine Greek Lexicon: apeirastos (adjective) "cannot be tempted," "untemptable".
When James says God is untemptable, he is not saying that someone cannot try and tempt God externally, he is saying that God has no inward desire to sin.
God is untemptable, and the very reason why God allowed Satan to tempt Jesus externally was to test him and to prove that Jesus was untemptable.
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