Satan - And - Jesus Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

When Satan confronted
Jesus, he did not pick
Him up and throw Him
off the pinnacle
of the temple.

Nor did he turn the
stone into a loaf of
bread and stuff it
in Jesus' mouth.
He did not have the
power to do that.

He had to appeal to
Jesus and then wait
for Jesus' response.

What was that response?
It was not, "Who do you think you are?
Do you know who I am?
I am the Son of God,

Jesus responded
with the Word of God.

Rather than speak on
His own behalf,

He used the Scriptures
to respond to Satan.

He spoke them directly
to him, using the authority
of God's Word to defend
Himself against Satan's
attempted deceptions.

All three temptations
received the same response:

"It is written. It is written. It is written."

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