Okay, see if you can, it might pop up here. That's weird. We are in the middle of our second lesson on the Holy Spirit, getting to know the Holy Spirit. That is not the Holy Spirit, just in case you're wondering. That is Irenaeus. So where we were last, because we began looking into the relationship between the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ. So just we'll glance back. We talked a lot about Jesus' early life, about the role of the Holy Spirit in the incarnation of Jesus Christ, why it's important for Jesus to be born of Mary yet without a human father, and what role the Holy Spirit had. in Jesus' childhood and not only in his conception, but in his childhood. And so we'll start here this morning, and we'll turn to the word in just a second. But as Jesus passed through his early years, of course, we don't have a lot of information about Jesus in his early years. And that's by the design, again, of the Holy Spirit who inspired the scriptures. But we do know that Jesus grew in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man. We know that about the time of his Bar Mitzvah, he hung out in the temple and just got some good face time with the priests. And he was growing in the Lord at that point. And I just want to talk about that situation for a minute because a lot of times I think we view Jesus in sort of a magical way and not in a realistic way. So we watch young eight-year-old or 10-year-old Jesus, we watch him in the temple and he's talking to these priests and they're astonished. So we should ask the question, what's going on there? What are we watching when we watch Jesus as an eight-year-old interact with these priests and they're astonished? Well, what's going on there is a genuine eight-year-old boy, who is filled with the Holy Spirit, whose mind is freed from sin, interacting with priests. This is not, again, we talked a lot about it, and we have to balance this out, that the divinity of Christ is not at the forefront of most of his earthly ministry. Mostly, it's the humanity of Christ. And so what we see is Jesus, as an eight-year-old boy in the temple, is what every eight-year-old boy should be like. Were they free from sin and full of the Holy Spirit? That it's not a magical thing. He shows us what a true human really looks like. And so that's why this lesson is so valuable to my heart. I hope we'll get some more of that as we go through tonight. But when we see Jesus and we understand in his earthly ministry, we understand that he is the way he is because he's full of the spirit, not simply because he's divine. He's a human who's filled with the fullness of the Holy Spirit, and it's the fullness of the Spirit that primarily powers his ministry. That can give us great encouragement, because then we can read the Gospels as something that can directly apply to us. That I can be full of the Holy Spirit, and I can obey, in a sense, the way Jesus obeyed. So here's how Irenaeus put this. He passed through every stage of life. He was made an infant for infants, sanctifying infancy. A child among children, sanctifying childhood. A young man among young men, becoming an example to them and sanctifying them unto the Lord. We'll move past his early years now and we'll go to the start of his earthly ministry. So if you have your Bibles, turn with me to the book of Luke. Chapter 3. There are various, of course, there's four gospels. Three of them we call the Synoptic Gospels because they carry basically the same stories and timeline. The three Synoptic Gospels all record the beginning of Jesus' ministry, which begins with His baptism. So somebody read for us Luke 3, verse 21. Now, when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized in the spring, then how He groaned. Can you read verse 22, too? Thank you. And the Holy Spirit descended on Him and bodily bore Him like a dove, and a voice came from heaven, You are my beloved Son, with You I am well pleased. Okay. First of all, this scene, this isn't the main point I want to make, but it's always worth making. that this scene is one of the clearest presentations of the Trinity in all of Scripture. It's a place where you directly see all three persons of the Godhead interacting with each other. This directly combats an ancient heresy called modalism, which says that God sometimes appears as a man and sometimes as the Son and sometimes as the Spirit, but never all three. No, no, no, he's all three here, all three persons of the Trinity are interacting here. That's not the main point we want to talk about, though. The point we want to talk about is the beginning of verse 22. And the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus in the form of a dove. Jesus was, we would say, anointed by the Holy Spirit. Well, just a minute ago, I said that Jesus, as a child, was full of the Holy Spirit, that he wasn't missing something as a child. So why was this necessary? If Jesus, from his conception, was in touch with, possessed by the Holy Spirit, why is it necessary that at his baptism, that he receive the Spirit in this new way? Heather. Feels comparable to an ordination, because why? What happens at an ordination? Right. It does feel a little like that, because it is a little. OK, no, you're right on track. You are definitely right on track, Christina. Okay. Okay, you're also on track. I don't know about the arm, the hand thing, but the basic point is definitely right on track. That what we're, Mary. Right. That's right. It's the right age for him to become a priest, if he were of the tribe of Levi. He's not, but... That's the word I was looking for. Yes. Yes, that's exactly right. So put all those together, we're right on track. That Jesus was anointed by the Holy Spirit at his baptism, not because he lacked something, but because he was being set aside, anointed, and another word for anointed is, Christ, right, Christ the Anointed One or Messiah, right? So this is the point where we have him being anointed and given the observable signs of the Spirit, the hearing of God the Father, testifying that this is Jesus Christ, the High Priest. This is his anointing. And we would also argue that this is Jesus' anointing, not simply to the office of priest, but also to the office of prophet and king. So all three of those in various ways were offices in the Old Testament that God set people apart for in different ways. But here he is setting Jesus apart to be a prophet, priest, and king. So Sinclair Ferguson writes this, the coming of the spirit, therefore, is an anointing for the threefold messianic office prefigured by prophets, priests, and kings. We don't wanna limit it though to the merely external. because of what happens in this story here. So if you look at your Bibles, we read in chapter three, verse 22, that Jesus received the Holy Spirit, descended on him. And look at chapter four, verse one. Somebody read for us chapter four, verse one. Okay, so what was the first thing that happened after Jesus was anointed by the Holy Spirit? who is led, the book of Mark says, the Holy Spirit drove him into the wilderness. And so there's a connection here that the writers of the gospels are getting us to see, that as soon as this anointing happens, the Spirit does something new with Jesus. And so it's not the case that Jesus now has quantitatively more of the Holy Spirit, but now he has the Holy Spirit in a way that he maybe didn't before, in a way that enables him to do this ministry that he's about to embark on. And so the Holy Spirit is the one who's driving him into the wilderness and enabling him to face Satan there in the wilderness. So he has this new stage of ministry he's beginning, therefore a greater need of the Holy Spirit. And so as he goes on and he begins to be driven into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit, he is submitting now to the leading of the Spirit and thus the leading of his father. And so his baptism or his anointing and his anointing prepares him for being our king. prepares him for conflict by assuring him of the Father's love and presence. So he's about to be driven into the wilderness. And surely it's gonna help Jesus, not just everybody who saw it, but Jesus himself, to know his Father spoke from heaven. And to know that I am the one that's been set apart to go into the wilderness and fight Satan. This is a genuine help not only to us who observe it, but to Jesus himself. As he goes to battle, he goes now with the visible anointing of the Holy Spirit, the audible blessing of his Father in heaven, knowing that he is the one who's been set apart by the Father to go into this battlefield on our behalf. Okay, so let's go back to the book of Mark and keep reading some of this story. This is the short, short form of the story. Let's have somebody read Mark 1, verses 12 and 13. Okay. Why? Why is this the first thing that Jesus needs to do now at the commencement of his earthly ministry? Sam. Okay. So there's lots of biblical pictures going on as Jesus goes into the wilderness. We could spend a couple weeks just studying this story, but we're not gonna do that. But this is Jesus going into the wilderness to do what everybody else in the wilderness had failed to do. Adam was in the wilderness, so to speak, in the garden, and he failed to face up, he failed to defeat Satan. The people of God were in the wilderness, and to face up to the temptations of Satan. And then we have gone spiritually into the same wilderness. We've caved to the same temptations. We need somebody else to go in to win. So Jesus has just been set apart not only as our priest to represent us, but as our king to go into battle on our behalf. And here's how, again, Sinclair Ferguson writes about this. He says, Jesus was driven into the wilderness as an assault force. His testing was set in the context of a holy war in which he entered the enemy's domain, absorbed his attacks, and sent him into retreat. So Jesus went, he fasted for 40 days, he was weakened, and then at the height of his weakness, he was assaulted by Satan. And that's why he went. He didn't go just to have a 40-day prayer retreat, he went to go to battle. But he couldn't really go to battle until he was at his weakest. And that's when Satan came, and Satan tested him, and through true temptations, Satan tested him. How was it then that Jesus was able to win? By the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit. I'm glad somebody's here with me tonight. That's good. It is the power of the Holy Spirit that enabled Jesus to win. This is so important. We do not read this story and say, oh, Jesus beat him because he's divine. No, Jesus beat him because he was filled with the Holy Spirit, and he was filled with the word of God, and he knew, he trusted through the Spirit, he had faith in his father to bring about the blessings that God intended for him at the right time. I do love this story, though. It's a powerful story to examine the particular temptations that Satan gives, because they're all very important. What does he offer to Jesus? He offers him glory, he offers him worship, he offers him a throne. And he says, all you have to do is to bow down and worship me. Well, it turns out that the father had already offered those things to him. But what did Jesus have to do if he wanted to get them from the hand of his father? He had to die on a cross. Those are two different paths. It's a real temptation. Like, I can give you all of that and you don't have to suffer. You just have to bow down. And of course, Jesus is our savior because he's the only one there in the wilderness able to win that battle. Everybody else has failed and will fail. So, it's not merely an example for us to follow, but a cosmic battle being waged. The Spirit was the power of God by which Jesus fought this battle. His triumph demonstrated that the kingdom of God is near, and that the Messianic conflict had begun. Let's see here. Okay, so what we're saying then, and this is what Zachary already said, the Spirit's role in Jesus' ministry is now evident. He serves as the heavenly cartographer, I like this, this is against Sinclair Ferguson, and divine strategist who maps out the battle terrain and directs the warrior king to the strategic point of conflict. The Spirit is Christ's adjutant general in a holy war which is waged throughout the incarnation. The Spirit is the one who's always driving Jesus back into battle and making him victorious in battle. So that's the role of the Holy Spirit in the baptism and in the temptation of Jesus. Any questions about either his baptism or this temptation, Zachary? With the temptation, I've heard somebody say that, you know, It often gets taught as, this is an example of how to beat Satan. But I've heard people say, well, it's really not that. We're supposed to look at this and say, Jesus did it. But if Jesus is doing this because he was aligned with the Holy Spirit, is it both? Keep going, man. Preach. You're almost there. is doing as our Savior that we can't and won't do, but it also is something that we really, that we can do in our battle against temptation, our battle against Satan, because we're alive in the Holy Spirit. Yes. So let me just double down and say it again. The wrong way to teach or to understand the temptation of Jesus is to say, oh, look at Jesus use the word of God against Satan. I should learn some verses so that when Satan tests me, I can throw verses at him. Okay? That's not right. If that's all you get, you're not reading the whole story, right? The right way is to say Jesus went into the wilderness to win a battle nobody else could win. And he went by faith and the fullness of the Holy Spirit, using the word of God against Satan, and he won a battle. And in that winning of the battle, I'm freed from Satan's power. I'm freed because Jesus Christ has won. Now, because I'm free, I can be filled with the Holy Spirit. Because I'm free, now I can stand up to Satan, and I can use the word of God to do it. So now I can use it as an example. But if you don't go through the gospel first, this kind of gets to what I was saying this morning about gospel grammar, if you don't go through what Jesus has done, and you just get to what I need to do, then you're not in Christianity anymore. Christian obedience always goes through Jesus. and takes the gospel first, and then says, Jesus has done it, therefore I can now do it. So, yes, you're right, and it all hinges on us being filled with the Holy Spirit, by whom Jesus won this battle. Good question, or way to answer your own question. Any other questions about his baptism or temptation? Okay, let's go on to Jesus' ministry, look up some of these. verses together. We'll have some more to look at, but let's go back to the book of Luke. And somebody can stay in Mark and go to Mark 12, 28. Would somebody read for us Luke 4, 14? There it is. He'd won, and now he's back, and now he returns in the power of the Holy Spirit. I don't know all that that means, but it means something, and it's there in the word of God on purpose. so that we would see Jesus now full of the Holy Spirit operating by the power of the Holy Spirit. This sets sort of the frame or the background of everything that's to come. Luke wants us to understand that everything Jesus is about to do, especially his miracles but his teaching as well, everything he's about to do now comes from the power of the Holy Spirit. That's where it's all flowing from. It's not that he's somehow drawing on the bank of his own divinity to enable his power, to enable his obedience and his miracles. He's getting it all from the Holy Spirit. Would somebody look up and read really quick? I'll do it real quick. We're gonna, let me just read a few Acts 10.38. How God, this is the middle of the sentence, Peter says, you've heard about this, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit, and with power, he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. God was with Jesus, Peter says, through the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was the means by which the Father was with the Son throughout His ministry. The flow of the story in Luke is very important. For Luke, the whole of Jesus' ministry after His baptism is exercise in the power of the Spirit, the Spirit's anointing and power. Now means that Jesus not only has power, but has authority to do what he needs to do. He has power now in his healing, in his preaching. He has dominion now over the darkness. Nothing is outside his dominion. Who has for us Mark 12, 28? Josh. I have the wrong verse there, I apologize. That's a really good verse though. I could sit here and try to come up with a way that it applies to what I'm teaching. Okay, I'll find that later and we'll come back to it. What does that say? Yeah, maybe. Yeah, so that could be it, that Jesus is doing these things by the authority given to him by the Holy Spirit. Okay. Okay, let's go back to, well, let's go to Isaiah chapter 61. Keep in mind what we read in Luke 4, that he's returning the power of the Holy Spirit. And we'll have somebody read for us Isaiah 61 verses 1 to 3. Andrew. The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news of the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound. To proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance. to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, an oil of gladness instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a faint spirit, that they may be called to the oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified." Okay, here we see that the Spirit of the Lord, this is of course a prophecy about Jesus Christ, the Son of the Lord, And he says in verse one, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because the Lord has anointed me, directly pointing to his baptism and anointing. Here, the anointing by the Holy Spirit is tied not directly to Jesus' priestly work, but here it's tied directly to Jesus' prophetic work. And so we see that that anointing applies to all three of his offices, prophet, priest, and king. And then in the following verse, and we could just keep going because it's a beautiful passage, all the things that Jesus came to do, all the ways that he came to preach and to free people, all of it he does in the power of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit was evident not only in the works of Jesus, but according to Isaiah 61, every time Jesus preached, He's preaching in the power of the Holy Spirit. That's where his authority of preaching came from. So that might bring us to the question that some people often have, which is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Because it does revolve around the relationship between Jesus and the Holy Spirit. If you have your Bibles, you can turn with me to Luke 10. Can somebody read for us Luke 10, verse 21? In that same hour, he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. Okay. Jesus elsewhere will go on to say that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is the one sin that cannot be forgiven. And when people read that, they get sort of rightly freaked out. And maybe you've talked to people who wonder if they've committed blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, this unforgivable sin. But we first need to understand what it is. Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is not simply a reaction, a personal reaction to Jesus, a personal rejection of Jesus, but a rejection of the Spirit's ministry And therefore, the evidence that the kingdom has come and the new age has dawned. In other words, when somebody not when somebody doesn't simply reject Jesus, but they reject the personal working of the Holy Spirit upon them, that's when they are in danger of committing blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. It's not simply turning away the offer of the gospel. That's not blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, but when the Holy Spirit genuinely works in a person and they they work hard to reject him There's a point at which they have committed blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. And it's this relationship between the Holy Spirit and Jesus that makes this blasphemy so bad. Because if you reject the ministry of the Holy Spirit, you're rejecting that which made Jesus what He was. You're you are in that rejecting Jesus himself, but at a very, very deep and personal level. Right. So I know that might not answer all the questions, but it is this relationship between the spirit and Jesus that makes blasphemy against the Holy Spirit so bad. When we reject the work of the Holy Spirit, we are rejecting all three persons of the Trinity. And we're in essence saying, I don't want anything to do with Jesus because the spirit and Jesus ultimately are one. And so I hesitate to, any questions about blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? Okay. Karen. Maybe this is a question for Greg. How does this work with predestination? If all of them that are in the Father will come to Him, and if somebody who's given, We do believe in effectual calling. The Holy Spirit, the God the Father has elected some to eternal life, the Son has died to purchase them, and the Spirit applies the redemptive work of Jesus Christ to those particular people. The Spirit's work is not confined to the elect. He has the right and the power to work among whom He will. The Spirit does a lot of things in this world. And when He is working among unbelievers, the unelect, so to speak, they do have the power to reject Him. I don't know if that's clear enough. because I'm trying to be careful. We do believe in predestination, but we can't let the doctrine of predestination keep us from other parts of scripture. Let's say it is possible for somebody to be very close to the kingdom, very close, and to feel the work of the Holy Spirit, not only externally, but internally, and still not be born again. Saul was among the prophets. He looked like the most righteous man in the nation. And he, in time, probably committed maybe blasphemy against the Holy Spirit or something close to it. So it is possible to be very close to the kingdom and have the Spirit work in your heart. And this is what I think Hebrews 6 is really talking about, when it talks about that type of discipline, sins that can't be forgiven, things like that. Does that help a little bit? Okay. I'll take a little bit. Okay. Any questions about the ministry of Jesus and its relationship to the Holy Spirit? Okay, let's keep going and we'll finish up here. Scripture reveals to us that not only his incarnation and his life, but his death and resurrection and ascension are all intimately connected to the Holy Spirit. Would somebody read for us Hebrews 9 verse 14? Okay How did Jesus Offer himself unto death. How was he able to do that incredible thing setting his face to Jerusalem? Willingly going to the cross knowing what it would cost. How was he? How did he do that? I By the Holy Spirit. You guys, just give me one answer to the questions tonight. By the Holy Spirit. This is actually, interestingly, Hebrews 9 is the only direct reference we have tying the Holy Spirit to the crucifixion. But it's direct and it's clear enough, we only need one reference. That it is by the Holy Spirit that Jesus was able to offer himself up for our salvation. It was the Holy Spirit who gave him the strength to put one foot in front of the other as he carried the cross on the way to our salvation. So it was by the Spirit that Jesus was led to his death and empowered to walk toward his death. Well, what about his resurrection? Let's look up a couple of these other verses. I think I might have just skipped ahead of myself. But would somebody read 1 Timothy 3.16 and then somebody else get 1 Peter 3.18? Okay. So we see here in 1 Timothy 3.16 the phrase I'm interested in is that he was vindicated by the Spirit. Vindicated by the Spirit. Keep that in mind. And let's have somebody else read for us 1 Peter 3.18. Okay, he was made alive, he was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit or by the spirit? We're not exactly sure when we translate that passage, but he was made alive by the Holy Spirit. I don't have it up there, but somebody else read for us Romans 1, verse 4. Romans 1, 4. That's right. And was declared to be the Son of God, according to the spirit of holiness. Okay, the resurrection is the vindication of Jesus Christ. It is the Father's testimony that I have accepted his sacrifice. It's the vindication that Jesus was everything he said he was, and that his sacrifice was offered, and that he lives forever to reign over all that God has made, right? So that vindication then, how did it come to Jesus? By the Holy Spirit, Heather's with me. By the Holy Spirit, who raised Jesus from the dead? and the Father and Jesus. All right, we can find a reference for each one of them in the Bible, that the father was the one who brought Jesus out from the dead. Jesus was the one who walked out of the grave. And here we find in Romans and in 1 Peter that it's by the spirit. Well, which one is it? Of course, it's all three. We believe that God is triune. We believe that in each major act of redemption, each major thing that happened, all three persons of the Trinity are there and at work, and if they're not, we are not saved. So that's why this is so important. So that Jesus went to the cross by the power of the Holy Spirit. He was raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit, and therefore he was ascended into heaven by the power of the Holy Spirit. And so what, one of the things we can talk about, oh, do we have two minutes? Okay. Jesus received at his resurrection a spiritual body. He received a spiritual body at his resurrection. And this is important because it doesn't simply mean not an earthly body. What do we know about, if you have your Bibles, go to 1 Corinthians 15 while we're talking about this. 1 Corinthians 15. 44, 45. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there's also a spiritual body. Thus it is written, the first man Adam became a living being, the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. Mm-hmm, there's a lot there. It may even mean that Jesus and the Spirit of Paul are seeing them as one, not that they're indistinguishable, but they're so joined together that he became, in a sense, the Holy Spirit for us, or the one who brings the Holy Spirit to us. But what is a spiritual body? We have a natural body, we have a spiritual body. Well, we saw Jesus' spiritual body when it was on earth, he was raised from the dead. It was still physical, it still had material to it, but it was different. So here's what Ferguson says, the spiritual body is identified with the body that dies, but not identical to it. It is powerful, it is not weak, it is no longer subject to death. It is brought about by the direct working of the Holy Spirit, not through human generation. You will receive a heavenly spiritual body. It will be related somehow to the body you have now, but it will be directly made by the Holy Spirit. It will not come from your parents. It will be directly made by the Holy Spirit, but somehow have some relationship to the body you have now. And if you want an answer for how could that even be, read all of 1 Corinthians 15. and then come back and ask me, because that's the question that Paul's dealing with in that whole chapter. But that's what we're going to have, the same type of body that Jesus has. I remember talking with Keith Evans as he was kind of trying to explain this to his girls, and he's like, what can Jesus do after his resurrection? He can kind of walk through walls. What are you gonna be able to do in heaven? You're going to walk through walls. I don't understand that fully, but you are going to have a body, every bit as spiritual as Jesus' body. He does not have something post-resurrection that you won't have post-resurrection. You get a body, there's a lot of mystery to this, but you get a body that is a spiritual body like Jesus' body, that is not weak, but it's strong, and it is of the Holy Spirit. It's a gift from God that will come to us on the day of resurrection. There's a lot we don't know, but we do know that we'll get a spiritual body, and it's not weak, it's strong, it's not infected by death, it's freed from that. It doesn't come from your parents, it comes from the Holy Spirit. All right, any questions about that? That I'll just won't be able to answer, but you can ask. Okay. Let me go to my main points again that I mentioned last week. These are the main points for this whole lesson. Two main points. Our salvation is literally dependent on the Spirit's ministry to the incarnate Jesus. If the Holy Spirit didn't create him in a sense, create his human nature in the womb of Mary. The Holy Spirit didn't fill him as a boy, anoint him on the day of his baptism, drive him into the wilderness, empower his victory, give him the ability to preach, give him the ability to die, bring him from the dead, raise him to heaven, we wouldn't be saved. The Holy Spirit was not involved in the life and ministry of Jesus, we have no salvation, period. So while we exalt the name of Jesus as the only Savior of men, we have to acknowledge that we are always exalting the Holy Spirit at the same time. Now, the Holy Spirit loves Jesus to be exalted. He doesn't mind, in a sense, being the light that shines on Jesus as we exalt Jesus. But we need to understand that there's no salvation if the Holy Spirit is not working in the life and the ministry of Jesus Christ. Secondly, Jesus' incarnate relationship to the Holy Spirit is the model of your incarnate relationship, your relationship to the Holy Spirit. Jesus received the Holy Spirit, you've received the Holy Spirit. Jesus, his human nature was powered by the Holy Spirit to obey. You have the Holy Spirit, so now you can go obey. The Holy Spirit gave Jesus power to do what he was called to do, so now you're gonna have power to do what you were called to do. So when we see this working, we're not reading about something that doesn't matter to us. We're reading about the model of what it looks like to be filled with the Holy Spirit and to walk with the Holy Spirit. There are lots of other good models. There's lots of other people in church history and scripture we can look at and say, there's a man, there's a woman filled with the Holy Spirit. But the best one is Jesus. This is the only one where we have, where we see what it really looks like for somebody to be free from sin and to walk fully with the Holy Spirit. So whatever he did with the Holy Spirit, whatever the Holy Spirit did with him, is what he does with you. And that's good news. And that's something that's worth thinking about and praying about for quite a while. Any questions before we quit? All right, let's pray. Holy Spirit, we thank you for being with us tonight. We thank you for your word that you inspired and for how you helped our Savior, Jesus. Lord, in his human nature, he came to identify with our weakness. We know that he was without sin, but Lord, Holy Spirit, he needed your help in some way, maybe that we don't even understand, but we just delight and rejoice in how you empowered our Savior to become and to be our Savior. And we want to lift high the name of Jesus, and we want you to help us do it. And Holy Spirit, we pray that you would be with us in the same way you were with him. Father, Son, and we pray that you would send to us your Holy Spirit, and that you would direct him to minister to us the same ways he ministered to Jesus, that we would be empowered to do and to be all that we have been called to do and be. We pray for it in Jesus' name, amen. So I've got the devil tempting Jesus. Why? You should see yourselves here. Because they quote Psalm 91, Jesus knowing full well that he was going to come and really destroy all of them. And I mean, it's not a joke. The devil would have spoken right after they came to know that Jesus knew the devil. And John is right there with them. That's all. Yeah. Yeah. Birthday? Oh. September 1st. Ah, yes.