Paul Email -9June13- Matthew 4

How you doin? A much better nights sleep last night. Praise God! Stacey and I can't get over how different the N.T. sounds after completing the O.T. AWESOME!!!!! We read Matthew 4 this morning. This chapter could be 10 emails. Stacey and I laugh at the fact that it feels like we have a life changing encounter with the Holy Ghost once a week or more. God is that AMAZING!!!!!!! He has put a mark on us. COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!! I did want to share a couple of thing I got from the reading.

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted^[a] by the devil. (Matthew 4:1)
Matthew 4:1 The Greek for tempted can also mean tested.

Jesus was led by the Spirit. He wasn't there by accident. Chris Vallaton preached on this and said both God and Satan wanted Jesus in the desert. Satan wanted Him there to destroy Him. God wanted Him there to destroy the works of the Devil. COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.  News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed; and he healed them.  Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis,^[g] Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him. (Matthew 4:23-25)
Matthew 4:25 That is, the Ten Cities

So incredible. Matthew 4 is overwhelmingly AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! So much great stuff. Praise Jesus! I love how doesn't say He healed some of them. It says, "and he healed them". I read that as all of them. I also love the simplicity of Jesus' message, "proclaiming the good news of the kingdom". COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!