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When the Enemy Misjudges
When the Enemy Misjudges
1 Corinthians 2:8
“None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”
When Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness, he wasn’t unaware of who stood before him.
He knew.
He had seen heaven.
He had known the presence of God.
He recognised the Son.
And yet, he still tried.
Why?
Because knowing truth is not the same as submitting to it.
Perhaps he saw Jesus in the flesh and thought weakness had replaced power.
That hunger could be exploited.
That limitation could be used.
That in human form, Jesus might be easier to sway.
But he misjudged.
The temptation was never about power.
It was about obedience.
Turn stones to bread.
Prove who You are.
Take the kingdom without the cross.
Each offer was an invitation to step outside the will of the Father.
But Jesus didn’t respond from need.
He responded from knowing.
He knew the Father.
He knew His identity.
He knew His purpose.
Where we are often drawn away by our own desires,
Jesus had none that were outside the Father’s will.
Every response was anchored in truth.
“It is written”
Satan may have recognised who Jesus was,
but he did not understand what God was doing.
If he had, Scripture tells us he would not have driven the events that led to the cross.
What looked like victory
was actually defeat.
What looked like weakness
was the greatest display of power.
What looked like the end
was the beginning of redemption.
Pride blinded him.
And in his blindness,
he helped fulfil the very plan that would undo him.
The cross was never an accident.
It was never a loss of control.
It was the wisdom of God,
hidden in plain sight.
Jesus was not shaken in the wilderness
because He was anchored in the Father.
And the same truth remains for us.
When we know the Father,
when we are grounded in who He is,
and who we are in Him,
the enemy’s voice loses its power.
Not because the temptation disappears,
but because truth stands stronger.
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