First Sunday in Lent

Matthew 4:1-11

Satan Always Twists God’s Word

Never before had man won against satan, ever. But even in that first tragic

loss in Eden, God revealed an answer for sin and its curse of death. To the

serpent, the Lord God said, “He (That is the messiah, the savior the sin bearer,

Jesus) shall Crush- your head, and he shall bruise his heel.” Shortly after that

God removed them from Eden. They lived and died in this world of thorns and thistles. Yet

God’s promise remained of one who would come into this wilderness to crush the head of Satan.

In our Gospel text we find a little head bruising, a little grinding of the Savior’s heel on Satan’s

head. Never before had man won against Satan, ever. Thousands of years of experience were

behind the tempters’ actions and words in the wilderness. But, never before had Satan’s target

been this newly-baptized Son of God!