# SPB Sermons || Lent || Grace In The Wilderness || Matthew 4:1-11

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Podcast: [St Pauls and St Barnabas Belfast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/st-pauls-and-st-barnabas-belfast-6574291)
Published: 2026-02-22T17:05:31+00:00
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Duration seconds: 1162

## Resource

Part of our Lent preaching, this episode takes us into Matthew 4:1–11 where Jesus is led into the wilderness and tested with hunger, spectacle, and power. The devil’s first move is to unsettle identity: “If you are the Son of God…” but Jesus stands firm by the Word, answering again and again, “It is written.” This sermon calls us to Word-saturated endurance in the ordinary pressures of life, where comfort can become danger and shortcuts can look sensible, and it re-centres us on who we are in Christ as we return to faithful mission in our city.

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