Hunger Pangs A Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Hunger Pangs Keywords: "temptation" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Matthew 4:1-4* 1. Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2. And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry. 3. And the tempter came and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread." 4. But He answered and said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" Questions 1. Have you ever missed a meal or two (or several in a row)? Remember how you felt when you were hungry? At the moment of your hunger, did anything look better to you than food?   2. Notice where Satan did not aim his temptation of Jesus? Not at a soft feather bed for rest's sake and not at a beautiful woman for sex's sake. He aimed his deadly arrow at Jesus' heightened sense of hunger for food.   3. How did Jesus respond to Satan's temptation?   Practical help Temptation comes to many of us in waves. There comes a season of temptation, which, if resisted, subsides. Many men who face the temptations thrust at them by the Internet know the almost frantic "hunger" to view what they know they should not view. However, if they will resist that wave of temptation, it will depart. How to resist? Look at what Jesus did. He retreated to the Word of God and found strength to stand firm against the temptations Satan threw at Him. When He had stood firm, "the devil left Him" (verse 11). When you are tempted to log on to that off-limits site, find strength to resist in the Word of God, as your Savior did. No victory will ever be "once and for all" in this life, but you will find that, as for Jesus, resisting leads to the freeing and joyful (even if temporary) departure of temptation. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2000, 2004 by eXXit *Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission. ----