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Wilderness: Formed in the In-Between
Text: Deuteronomy 8
Big Idea: Jesus transforms our wilderness experience
Introduction
- How do we navigate the Christian life?
- Series Overview: Numbers
- The wilderness parallels the Christian life
- Deuteronomy 8
Wilderness presents testing and formation
- v.1-2
- Wilderness is a place of testing
- v.3-5
- God uses the wilderness to form and shape us
We fail the wilderness testing
- v.10-18
- We fail the wilderness testing
- We fail whether we have abundance or scarcity
- We need more than an external experience
Jesus succeeds in the wilderness
- Matt 4:1-11
- Where we fail, Jesus succeeds
- Jesus secures a transformation
Jesus transforms our wilderness experience
- v.6-9
- Trust Him and learn from Him
- What is God doing in me through the wilderness?
Conclusion
- Jesus transforms our wilderness experience
