4:1-11 Testing or Tempting? Jesus’ wilderness experience involved both testing and tempting. God tests his people, never in order that they will fail but rather that they will come to trust him in a deeper way. Satan tempts God’s people by using circumstances that they might fail in so they will lose heart. Christ resisted the temptations of the evil one—and so can we—by knowing the Scriptures deeply and understanding the desire of Satan to undermine our trust in God.