Today we contrast of 2 Adams. The first Adam in the garden. The second Adam in the desert. These readings are important to us, because they reveal how the devil works. His tactics he used with Adam and Eve, and Jesus have not changed. Now recall, just a few weeks ago, Jesus was baptized by John in the Jordan. And we heard God the Father proclaim, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” and right after that baptism, Jesus was led immediately into the desert to begin his ministry. This is where the devil went first with Jesus in the desert, he tried to get Jesus to questioned his sonship. “So, you are the Son of God are you..” He called Jesus’ sonship into question from the moment he began his ministry stepping out of the Jordan all the way to when he was forsaken and dying on the wood of the cross. The temptation came over and over again. Satan hounded him at every turn, every moment in his ministry. He came to him through the mouths of friends, and enemies, and even his disciples. The attempt the devil took with Jesus was to get him to doubt that he truly was the Son of God. He uses this same tactic with Eve in the garden, “Did God really tell you not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?” He caused Eve to question what God really said. “He didn’t really mean that.” You certainly will not die! No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is evil.” The devil will do the same to us. He will try to get us to question our own sonship of baptism with God. When bad things come into our life his attempt will be to get us to question Gods love for us. How could God allow you to suffer like this? Where is your God now? God hasn’t cured your illness, and you are on the verge of bankruptcy about to loose everything. That doesn’t sound like a loving God. And the devil will do everything possible to get us to put God as Fr. Riccardo says, “On the docket.” We put God on trial. We call his Lordship into trial. And every time we do this almost always God will loose.