Matthew 4:1-11 – “Finding Peace When We Feel Something Is Missing” – January 20, 2019

January 20, 2019

 

Why are we tempted? What lies beneath our temptations? Today I will suggest that beneath our temptations is a deep sense that we are lacking something; that we are incomplete as we are, and so we are searching for something out there to complete us; a sense that we have a hole within us and it must filled if we are to be at peace. 

But, before we dig into that idea too deeply, just one theological point about the text in general. 

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