The temptations of Jesus and the classic sermon on the Mount contains a treasure of knowledge, great lessons that will shape the life of anyone who pays attention to them. For the temptations, it was all about identity and whether Jesus recognized who he was. I have discovered that every single temptations the devil still uses, even today, follows this same template, identity, do you know who you are? The sermon on the Mount were about confronting the culture and mindset of that time, and giving the people the true intentions of the scriptures they were given. To have been told that God needed them to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world would have been...
