It Is Written
Uranda January 12, 1949
Now we note a very interesting and significant
point. "But He answered and said,
It is written." Jesus could have
answered in words that had not been written before. He could have used His Own expression, but
His every answer to the tempter was a quotation from something God had already
expressed to the children of men through His Prophets.
Jesus did not find it necessary to say
anything that had not already been said and made available to the children of
men, in order to meet the temptations which confronted Him. The significance of this is shown, first, by
the fact that God had already made provision for the meeting of the tempter's
snares long before the coming of our LORD in the flesh; and, secondly He Who
was, and is, the LORD of Lords was ready and willing to quote from the Word of
God already expressed. He did not feel
that He had to make it original, and something peculiarly His own, to make it
effective.
The Word that had already
been written was the word that He used. "But He answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of
God." The significance of that
Word, in the fourth verse, which the Master quoted from the third verse of the
eighth chapter of Deuteronomy, should come home with a new realization to each
one here tonight. "Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of
God."
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