Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led around by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He became hungry.
And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”
And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.”’
Luke 4:1-4
Jesus was tempted just like us. The devil is a sneaky fellow who will try to make something that is wrong look right or even something that is legal, but that we morally oppose, into something we feel obligated to do to appease others or perhaps make our own lives easier.
Jesus’ answer to the devil’s suggestion that He turn the stone into bread was from Deuteronomy 8:3, “He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you manna which you did not know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.”
The laws and social customs of men change, the Word of God never changes.
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