Immanuel Lutheran High School, College, and Seminary
Eau Claire, WI

2014-03-11 ILC Chapel — Tests can be a good…

2014 Chapels -
Tests can be a good thing. Trust in God. Thanks be to Jesus for taking His test for us.

 

Date : 2014-03-11
Speaker : Joe Naumann

Matthew 4:1–4 (Listen)

The Temptation of Jesus

4:1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written,


  “‘Man shall not live by bread alone,
    but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

(ESV)

Matthew 6:25–34 (Listen)

Do Not Be Anxious

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?1 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Footnotes

[1] 6:27 Or a single cubit to his stature; a cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

(ESV)

Luke 22:42 (Listen)

42 saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

(ESV)

Romans 5:19 (Listen)

19 For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

(ESV)