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As the church concludes its 21-day fast, this message finishes Jesus’ time in the wilderness by examining the final temptation in Matthew 4. Satan offers Jesus the kingdoms of the world in exchange for worship, revealing the true nature of idolatry and deception through half-truths. Scripture shows that all authority ultimately belongs to God, even when nations are temporarily handed over as discipline due to human rebellion and false worship. Jesus succeeds where Adam, Eve, and Israel failed. He refuses idolatry, stands firm on God’s Word, and remains faithful to the Father alone. Drawing from Deuteronomy, the prophets, and the New Testament, this sermon explains God’s zeal for covenant loyalty, the danger of prosperity leading to forgetfulness, and why worship belongs exclusively to the Lord. In contrast to Satan’s shortcut, Jesus later receives all authority legitimately in the Father’s timing and on the Father’s terms. His faithfulness in the wilderness and ultimately at the cross delivers us from idolatry and sustains us in our own seasons of testing. By God’s grace, we are called to worship the Lord our God and serve Him alone.