Into The Wilderness

Matthew 3:16 - 4:1 (ESV)

16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; 17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

The Temptation of Jesus

1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

When we are baptized into the body of Christ, we then begin our walk led by the Spirit into the wilderness of the world which becomes a wilderness only because we have been transferred into the kingdom of heaven. We journey on the same earth with all of its temptations and trials, but do so as citizens of heaven sojourning in a place that is not our home.