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The temptation of Jesus shows us that temptation is not the same thing as sin. We also learn that sometimes, God himself leads us into times of difficult testing. Our circumstances are not a reliable guide to how God feels about us. He loved Jesus. He was pleased with Jesus. And he led him into a wilderness with no food where he was in danger from the devil and wild animals.

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The idea of Jesus as simply a good teacher is not an option given to us by Mark, or any of the other gospel writers. They clearly record that the eyewitnesses—those who personally knew Jesus—believed that he was God, who entered the world through human flesh. That may or may not be true, but this claim does not give us the option of thinking he was just a human being who was killed for being too nice.

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Mark and his cousin Barnabas are outstanding example for us of what it looks like to faithfully follow Jesus and encourage others to do the same.

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Paul closes the letter to the Philippians by thanking them for their financial support. Through his thanks, he also reveals the secret to contentment: learning to rely on Christ’s strength whether in scarcity or abundance, since both extremes can tempt us to put our trust in money rather than God.

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The bad news is that our brain tends to re-use the thoughts we frequently think. So, if we are prone to worry, it’s hard to think differently. But, the good news is that, through Jesus, our minds can be renewed into different patterns of thinking.

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Anxiety does not simply go away when we pray to God for our concerns. It goes when we worship God, thank him, and we allow him to be truly King of our lives, and of the Universe. When we worship and thank the Lord, we are undermining our reasons to be anxious. The bigger God is in our own hearts, the less room there is in our hearts for anxiety.

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The cross of Christ calls us to humility, and to look beyond this world to our eternal joy in fellowship with Christ. This is just plain weird to most of the world. We need the examples of other Christians to help us live this way, and at the same time, we should be willing to be that example for someone else. Above all, we focus on the promises of God for eternal life in the New Creation.

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God has taken hold of us. We are safe. We now have a righteousness that has nothing to do with us—with our good deeds, or our failures, or bad deeds. This is the righteousness of Jesus Christ. While holding that to be true, the apostle Paul tells us that it is also true that we should pursue Jesus Christ with all our being.

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