Whiteboard Series (audio version): What Owns You? The Three Temptations & Get Behind Me, Satan

So the part six is what owns you and the three temptations from Matthew 4, 'cause that's what we're gonna talk about now, is because the three temptations are still alive, and this is very meaningful, okay? The first one is bread.

Turn stones into bread.

Okay? Now, I also want to highlight the Lord's Prayer, okay? Because we're gonna talk about...

We're gonna dissect why bread, okay? The first temptation is, if you rememberThe five parts that we've built so far.

This first temptation is all about the self.

How are you going to maintain and control yourself? What do you find valuable in life? Where are you spending your spotlight of attention to? This temptation is forcing you to live off of your here and now, your basic needs.

I'm not discounting some people live off of their basic needs because they have to.

I'm not discounting that.

I am saying you're going to live off of reaction, your reactivity, your impulses, the-- your here and now.

What grabs your attention? You're fragmented, and this is a big part of modern society, modern culture.

We've mentioned a little bit about how our reward system is built with effort first, and then you, you receive the reward.

You put in effort, you go pursue what you want in life, and then you maintain it.

You get that, and that reinforces the effort.

Now, modern life, you d- you can bypass the effort.

You don't have to put in any effort for get, to get this reward, reward, and it's false.

So this is basically living...

I'm gonna draw this box.

This box is meaningless as it is right now, but I'm gonna explain it.

Everything you know, everything you are as a living organism can be fit into this.

It's not fixed.

You can expand.

Humans have an infinite capacity to think, create, grow, change.

But are you willing to expand this, or are you living inside of this box your day to day? Are you just maintaining? Where are you setting your goals? What do you want to achieve? Do you have an upward aim? The three temptations is right before the Sermon on the Mount, and part seven is going to be about the Beatitudes.

This can be expanded.

You can continuously grow in life, or you can maintain.