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io ' THE KING ’! with a difference—to the moral nature of Jesus. , , { The first appeal was along’ a low line; it was a coarse appeal compared with* the other two. Jesús was faken up; with spiritual things. He forgot ttf’éat. He was hungry. There is no sin in being hungry ; hunger is a sign of health, i Pity the man who !nevef- gets hungry! I am sorry for him if- he gòes to the table just because the bell had rung withqút-any appéfíte; There is a hunger -and thirst aïfëî- righteousness t|iat means health of* soul, ' and hunger of body means good physical health. '-There is- nothing’ wrong in gratifying hunger of body;' in eating bread. It is wrong .not to eat it under certain circumstances. Satan tells Jesus to do a right thing. “ You are hungry; you need bread. I know, though the people...about you may not know, that thou art.Creator, that Thou didst speak worlds into ex istence, that Thou- didst make thè; fields that make the bréad: I know* that you have .power -Just to speák: to these stones and they will become 1 bread. •Speak, and satisfy your hun-- ge_r.” It was a request to do a right thing on the wrong side,..a right thing under the Devil’s auspices, a right thing within-Satan’s circle. If Christ had obeyed Satan He would have moved Hipjself from-the circle of God to the circle of Satan. Moses, you.rememberj did a wrong thing on the right side. He looked out and around and seeing nobody, he-, killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. He did not happen to look up ;., if he had, perhaps he would not have: done it. The next dâÿ two Israelites- were quarreling. -He tried to settle the quarrel between -thèm, and they said, “ You will kill one of us as you- did the Egyptian yesterday.” He had lost his influence. He did wrong on the right side, and then was u-nablé to dò right on the right side when the op-: portunity came. That is the experi-
É f l g sJjfetë ft ’ enee of not a few. The Devil would have Its, either do wrong on the right side o f fight on the wrong side—and it make's no difference‘to him which! Bq^a good thing in connection with a. bad thing, and the g ood . thing wilt have the. quality o f the bad. You put. a.;drop of clear water in a glass. ;of ink; and it makes little impression.; but you put a! drop of' ink ill a glpss o f clear wafer and you have ink .as- to result. The Lord Jesus refused to .obey Satah,-eveii to satisfy hunger ; and ,He' appealed to the §cripture fQr ffis au-, thòrity. I think'yod will'find ft sug-' gestive to turn over to Genesft 3:1, thè Devil’s first question, “ Yea, hath God 'said,-'Ye shall not eat o f ’ ëvéfÿ tree o f the Garden ?” jg “ Hath God. said ?”—calling- ip|question thé' fact o f revelation. That is the little aper ture through which sin entered thé world. Eve replied, “ God hath. said;” , and the Devil saw-it was^ not worth' while- going on that-line any further,- so he flatly denied the truth of revela- tiqri—“ Ye shall surely not die.” : Now'the Lord Jesus comes at Satan' with the sw'ord that He.'had tried to. set aside; . Satan called in. question the fact that God had spokèn at all, and. the„Lord comes back at Him with the ' sword that he would ‘have laid afeide . when he knew that the one thing ‘ stronger' than he was the revelation- of God. Jesus said, “ it is written,- Man shall not -live by bread alone, but' by every word that proceedetb out of the mouth o f God.” “ Man shall not' live by bread alone.” He can have a physical existence by bread but ex istence is not life. I can imagine this stand existing a million years just as dead then as it is now. Perpetuity- of existence is not eternal life. Im mortality is not eternal life ;-“ This is- eternal -life that you know God, and Jesus.. Christ whom He hath sent." • And on this side of the grave or the other eternal life is knowing; God, - Man shall live not by the bread that
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