THE TEMPTATIONS OF CHRIST IN THE WILDERNESS

Many claim that it was impossible for Christ to be overcome by temptation. Then He could not have been placed in Adam's position; He could not have gained the victory that Adam failed to gain. If we have in any sense a more trying conflict than had Christ, then He would not be able to succor us. But our Saviour took humanity, with all its labilities, He took the nature of man, with the possibility of yielding to temptation. We have nothing to bear which He has not endured.