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Does this mean that Christian believers should not be involved in secular governments or the politics of the world or seek to advance the values and truths that proceed from the word of God in the secular, humanistic, and materialistic political and cultural arenas of our times? Not at all! But let us recognize that the Jesus way of advancing those values and truths—of advancing the kingdom of God, of securing public support for a spiritual agenda—is fundamentally different from the way urged upon him by Satan in the wilderness. More on this Jesus way in subsequent chapters.

44 Matthew 4:8–9. Luke also quotes Satan as saying “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. If you worship me, it will all be yours” (Luke 4:6–7).

45 John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11.

46 Matthew 4:10.

47 Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 250–251.

48 Matthew 4:10, emphasis added.

49 Matthew 4:10, emphasis added.