Points To Ponder 01/05/2011

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POINTS TO PONDER:
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So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others. - Francois Fenelon
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BIBLE QUIZ: THE GOSPEL ACCOUNTS OF THE LIFE OF JESUS
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Luke 4:1-13

How did Jesus resist the temptations of the devil? He quoted Scripture to him...and we can do the same.

4:1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, 2 where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.
3 The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread."
4 Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on ________ alone.'"

See Deuteronomy 8:1-5 to see the passage Jesus was quoting....
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