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R.C.H. Lenski · Citado em PreceptAustin
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Lenski - The cunning of the temptation is doubled by the devil's use of Scripture. By himself quoting Scripture the devil would block any further resort of Jesus to Scripture; he would wrest the sword of the Spirit from Jesus' hand. The devil here shows himself an expert in handling Scripture. Luther well calls him a doctor non promotus sed expertus. The passage he quotes seems to fit the proposal he makes in the most perfect way. Read the entire Psalm and see how all of it fits quite exactly. All that Satan has done is to invent an act to match the two verses quoted, one in which God's angels can bear a man up and prevent him from crashing his feet on the stones beneath. They will catch him under the arms and let him light on the rocks below as gently as feather down. The devil's art of quoting Scripture has been spread far and wide in the devil's school, and some of his pupils and graduates are doctors that are quite as expert as he is. In this case the deception does not lie in misapplying to Jesus what really does not apply to him. Psalm 91 applies to any son of God and certainly also to this Son. Satan abbreviates by omitting the line, "to keep thee in all thy ways." Some find the deception in this omission as though the promise of God were conditional: to protect us only when we walk in the path of divine duty. But then the words should read, "to keep thee in all his ways." If the deception lay in omitting this line, it would have been rather easy to overthrow Satan. A misquotation is removed by the corrected quotation. Jesus, however, makes no correction, does not point to the omitted line but accepts the quotation as being substantially correct. The deception in the use of this quotation by Satan lies in setting one Scripture against another. One statement is stressed, and others that should go with it are quietly disregarded. The trick is constantly practiced, often on a large scale, when a mass of passages are combined in such a way that it makes the Bible say what it most certainly does not say, in fact, openly contradicts elsewhere in the plainest language. This type of deception easily catches the unwary, especially the devout who regard the Scriptures highly; it is also the delight of those who love to harass devout believers while they think they are fortifying themselves behind impregnable walls. (See The Interpretation of St. Luke's Gospel) Thomas
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Lenski - “In the power of the Spirit” does not mean that the Holy Spirit led Jesus into Galilee as he led him into the wilderness to be tempted but that, being endowed with the Spirit’s power in his human nature, he proceeded to Galilee and wrought there in this power by word and by deed. “In the Spirit” thus goes back not only to v. 2 but even to Lk 3:22. God’s great purpose in bestowing his Spirit upon Jesus was being completely fulfilled. (See The Interpretation of St. Luke's Gospel) S Franklin Logsdon - Here is a glimpse of His return from the wilderness temptation. What was true of Jesus in this instance, may it be the triumphant experience of the Christian! To encounter the foe under the leadership of the Spirit guarantees a victorious return in the power of the same conquering One. It is a rather forbidding venture to attempt an analysis of the extent to which Jesus surrendered His power while in the body of humiliation. Apart from His work on the cross, it is not evident that Jesus operated apart from the Spirit's power. His many miraculous ministrations were, as we noted-earlier, in the anointing of the Spirit. (The Spirit at Work) Blight - This means that everything Jesus did was as one who was filled with the Holy Spirit. (An Exegetical Summary of Luke 1-11) Hendriksen on the power of the Spirit - - Spirit endowed: Jesus performed his task as One who was filled with the Holy Spirit, who had descended upon him in connection with his baptism and had been his Guide in the wilderness (Lk 3:22; 4:1). (Borrow Exposition of the Gospel According to Luke) NET Note on in the Spirit - Once again Jesus is directed by the Spirit. Luke makes a point about Jesus' association with the Spirit early in his ministry (Lk 3:22, 4:1 [2x]; Lk 4:18). Arno Gaebelein - As God manifested in the flesh our Lord had power over all things. He had omnipotence and omniscience. But the Spirit of God also acted in Him and through Him. His words were the words of the Spirit, of life and of power. His works were also done in the power of the Spirit. Luke quotes Isaiah 11:1-2. Adrian Rogers - Jesus went to face the devil under the leadership of the Spirit. Jesus defeated the devil and came out of that temptation experience in the power of the Holy Spirit.....If Jesus overcame the devil as God, then He's no example to me. But if Jesus overcame the devil as a man filled with the Holy Spirit, the same Holy Spirit that was available to Jesus is available to me. Amen? YOU can say "Amen." It won't hurt. I've got to tell you. I preach till I think you understand. If you start saying "Amen," I'll quit soon. Now, listen, folks. Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit.....Now my dear friend, I don't want to be braggadocios tonight, but I am telling you that all of the power that was available to Jesus Christ there that day is available to Adrian Rogers, and is available to you. And there is a principle—that you must, you must, you absolutely must be spirit filled. To be spirit filled is not a suggestion, not a request, it is a command, Ephesians 5:18. "Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess, but be filled with the Holy Ghost." Jesus full of the Holy Ghost overcame Satan. You're no match for Satan, but dear friend, the Holy Spirit of God who is resident in you is. And unless there is that principle of sonship, there can never be that principle of submission. And unless there's that principle of submission, there can never be that principle of spirit filledness. Because God does not give His Holy Spirit in full power to rebels. There must be that principle of spiritual power.....It's very obvious that Jesus is Spirit filled. Jesus is anointed, friend, it is foolish and wicked for you to try to overcome Satan's ploys without the dynamism and the dynamic of the Holy Spirit in you. Jesus said, concerning the Holy Spirit, "Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world." J D Jones - Up to now Jesus had lived a quiet, normal life at Nazareth; but after the baptism a change is to be noticed. He is equipped with the power of the Spirit. It was in the power of the Spirit He went into the wilderness to battle with Satan; it was in the power of the Spirit He came teaching and preaching in Galilee; it was in the power of the Spirit He healed the sick and cast out devils and did His many mighty works. God summoned Him to a stupendous task. But He also equipped Him for it; "God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him" (John 3:34). (Mark Commentary) French Arrington - Just as the third Gospel relates the life and ministry of Jesus, who executes His mission in the power of the Holy Spirit, the sequel to Luke's Gospel, the Acts of the Apostles, records the life and ministry of the early church as it is empowered by the Holy Spirit to bear witness to the saving works of Jesus from Jerusalem to Rome. That is, Jesus and His Spirit-filled ministry is the model for the Church; the Spirit-anointed ministry of Christ foreshadows and prepares for the worldwide mission of the Church (Davies, 1966, 244). The same anointing of the Spirit that rested on Jesus is poured out on the community of believers at Pentecost (Acts 2). The anointed Jesus becomes the giver of the Spirit ( Acts 2:33). That outpouring of the Spirit is pivotal to the future mission of the disciples, for they become heirs and successors to the Spirit-anointed ministry of Jesus, in that they become empowered to continue to do and teach what "Jesus began to do and to teach" (Acts 1:1)....Through the empowerment of the Spirit at Pentecost, God's people are able to execute the mission of the Church....The empowerment of Jesus by the Spirit provides a pattern for believers' experience of the Spirit.(The Spirit Anointed Jesus) Life Application Commentary - Throughout this Gospel and the sequel, the book of Acts, Luke pointed out that Jesus and his followers were submitting to the leading of God's Spirit. That submission to God's will and the Spirit's guidance should characterize believers' lives today. (Luke) Warren