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Pastor Chris Response Answer: Firstly, that particular encounter with Satan was for Jesus to prove Himself. Reminder, Adam failed but Jesus had to prove Himself. By obedience Adam failed to obey God, he disobeyed God. When Satan tempted Eve in the garden the bible says that Adam was right there and he did what God said not to do, he broke Gods word, he disobeyed God and that was the cardinal problem of man. Well Jesus obeyed God, he had to be tempted.<br> <p>I have to read some portion of the bible to you; you have to understand this Hebrews 2 :16-18 for verily he took not on him the nature of angles; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham.<br> <p>This scripture... Read More Pastor Chris Response Answer: Firstly, that particular encounter with Satan was for Jesus to prove Himself. Reminder, Adam failed but Jesus had to prove Himself. By obedience Adam failed to obey God, he disobeyed God. When Satan tempted Eve in the garden the bible says that Adam was right there and he did what God said not to do, he broke Gods word, he disobeyed God and that was the cardinal problem of man. Well Jesus obeyed God, he had to be tempted.<br> <p>I have to read some portion of the bible to you; you have to understand this Hebrews 2 :16-18 for verily he took not on him the nature of angles; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham.<br> <p>This scriptures talking about Jesus, that Jesus didn’t come in the form of an angle but He came as a seed of Abraham, He came as a man. A human being rather than in the nature of angles. Which means he was subject to the same things that man was subject to, but then he had to prove Himself. Now listen in verse 17 wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation of the sins of the people.<br> <p>He had to be proved, He had to be tempted to be able to help those that are tempted. So Jesus had to face the devil on the same plain as we have to face the devil. Jesus had to go through the same thing; Jesus had to face the devil as the first Adam has to face the devil.<br> <p>Hebrews 4:15 for we have not an High Priest which cannot be touched by the feeling of our infirmities but was in one point tempted like as we are yet without sin. <br> <p>So we have a faithful high priest who had gone through the same things like we do, but the bible says he was tempted on all point but the bible says yet without sin; and so He is a merciful and faithful High Priest.<br> <p>So in your question you are asking in whose name did he face Satan, was it in His own name; in other words, did He do that for Himself or did He do it for us? No He did that for Himself. He had to lay an example for us, He had to be proofed. That’s what the bible said he had to humble Himself even unto death. The bible said he was tempted and he has giving us an example that we should follow His steps, and so He said when He was tempted He didn’t sin, when He was persecuted He didn’t threaten, you see He went through all of that and put Himself in the hand of God who was able to deliver Him. So that was what He did. He did that for Himself even thou when He came; He came just because of all of us. He had to be a faithful and merciful High Priest. Less