And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That Man Shall Not Live By Bread Alone, But By Every Word Of God. Luke 4-4 Scripture Insight
Scripture Insight By The Fresh Bread Ministry
We see in this verse of scripture Jesus having a conversation with the evil one (Satan) during the time Jesus was in the wilderness. Scripture reveals to us the Spirit lead or guided Jesus into the wilderness and that He was full of the Holy Ghost. The word of God also states that Jesus did not eat anything for forty days during the time He spent in there.
However on the last day when Jesus was finishing the forty day wilderness journey that devil approached him with a proposition and attempted to persuade Christ to change stone into bread in order to satisfy his apparent hunger. Jesus being filled with the Holy Ghost was able to discern the tactics of Satan and fought him off by using the Word of God as His weapon by quoting the scripture that was recorded during the wilderness journey of Moses and the Children of Israel.
In the Book of Deuteronomy Chapter Eight these words are spoken; “ And thou shall remember all the way which the LORD the God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger,and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.” Deuteronomy 8:2-3
There will be times when we the Believer are tempted to do things that are contrary to the Word of GOD, when people approach us with proposition that will lead us down the path of destruction. It is at these times that we ought to rely on the Holy Spirit to lead, guide and direct us. There will also be times when we the Children of GOD will have to do as Christ Jesus did and use the Word of GOD to combat the enemy and remind them: “That we do not just live for the material things of this world but by every Commandment, Standard, and Word that proceeded out of the mouth of Our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.”