Section 9
Instead of waiting for the enemy to come to Him, the Lord Jesus, being led of the Spirit, went to the place where the enemy was. The enemy came to the garden to attack Adam, but Jesus went to the wilderness to attack the enemy. When He was led by the Spirit to the wilderness, He was full of God essentially and economically. Thus, He was ready and equipped to deal with the enemy. He went into the wilderness as a warrior and, in the highest standard of morality, He defeated Satan.
When the Lord Jesus went into the wilder ness to be tempted by the Devil, He was the high est kind of man. Not only was He a man created by God; He was also a man equipped with God. He was a God-man, the One in the highest stan dard of morality.
Suppose you were offered all the kingdoms of the inhabited earth with their authority and glory (Luke 4:5-7). What would you do? I do not think any of us would be able to resist this temptation. However, the Man-Savior, the One who lived in the highest standard of morality, could not be seduced or moved by anything. Only a life in the highest standard of morality, that is, a life in which the divine attributes are expressed in the human virtues, can withstand such a temptation.