Jesus, being led by God's spirit (Matthew 1:1), after fasting for forty days was, of course, very hungry. He was tempted by Satan to turn stones into bread so as to have something to eat, but he replied to Satan with what his God (Micah 5:4) had Moses to write in Deuteronomy 8:3. Jesus, thus, applied the words given to the children to Israel to himself, that he cannot live by bread alone, but that he also needed the words of Jehovah. Jesus, throughout his ministry, relied on his God, whether by means of the written word or as given to him by spirit. In effect, Jesus was saying to Satan, 'I cannot be complete, even if I have all my material needs, except that I rely on the words of my God.'
We also, who are sons of God through Jesus (John 1:12; Ephesians 1:5), need to apply this principle to ourselves. The physical food only sustains the physical body until it dies. The spiritual food can sustain for eternity. And yet for the child of God in the present evil age, the lack of attention to the words of Jehovah brings a form of sickness, a spiritual sickness that could only be corrected by the spiritual disciplining of our Heavenly Father through Jesus, lest such become willful sin for which there is no sacrifice. Eventually, any who would live forever must feed on -- not just some -- but all of Jehovah's words, whether spoken through the prophets of old or through His son. (Hebrews 1:1,2) This should be the goal of every Christian in this evil age.
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