Why Does Resistance Come Right After You Obey God? (Luke 4:1-13) | Daily Devotional & Bible Study

Have you ever said yes to God and then watched everything get harder? Luke 4 shows us why. We're starting Luke chapter 4 in our fall Bible study, and before we get to the three temptations, there's something in the first two verses most of us read right past. Jesus was full of the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit is the one who led Him into the wilderness. The hard season wasn't a detour from the assignment. It was part of it. Today we look at the forty days, why that number matters, and how Jesus fought as a Spirit-empowered man rather than by pulling rank. Links We visit Luke's house in Rome on our Bible Study Live trip. Bible Study Live is a small-group Bible study trip with Rachael Groll. Study Scripture where it happened in Rome, or slow down for a contemplative Bible study retreat in Maui. Dates and details at BibleStudyLive.org Listen ad-free, plus the full library of past series, on Patreon: patreon.com/HearingJesus Questions or prayer requests? Leave me a voicemail: SpeakPipe Questions we answer today Was Jesus not already full of the Holy Spirit before His baptism? Why does Scripture keep using the number forty? Why did Jesus answer the devil with verses from Deuteronomy? What does Israel's forty years have to do with Jesus' forty days? Is the wilderness a detour or an assignment? Timestamps 00:00 Starting Luke 4, and how this series works 01:00 Reading Luke 4:1-13 02:40 Prayer 04:00 Why the color method stopped me at "forty days" 05:00 Was Jesus always full of the Holy Spirit? 07:00 What Isaiah said about a Spirit-empowered Messiah 08:30 What actually happened at the Jordan 10:00 Fully God and fully human 11:30 Why His victory matters for us 14:20 A callback to Israel's forty years 15:30 Why all three answers come from Deuteronomy 17:30 God's son Israel failed, God's Son Jesus passed 18:50 Other forty-day seasons in Scripture 21:00 Predictable resistance after obedience 23:30 Tempted the whole time, not just at the end 24:30 The wilderness was the assignment 25:00 Prayer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices