Satan's Plan: Doubt or Distort God's Word
John Barnett
Genesis 3:1-5
When Jesus met the Devil in the wilderness, His only resource was God's Word--and that is the weapon Satan fears. That is why Satan's original temptation with Eve centered on her coming to a place of doubting or distorting God's Word.
In a very real way each of us has within us the four basic spiritual flaws that Satan exploited as he introduced sin to Adam and Eve.
Jesus explained it this way in John 8:44 (NAS):
"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
Each of us are born into this world just like our father the devil. That is the terrible reality of our depravity. We are sinners by nature, by choice, and by the declaration of God's Word. Only Jesus and the divine transformation of the new birth can change all that.
Satan's plan as he tested Jesus two thousand years ago, and even to this day, involves his same lies from Genesis 3; these are the lies of Satan that seek to keep mankind from listening to the voice of their Creator. As we open in our Bibles to Genesis 3, remember...
Satan Doesn't Want You To Listen To God's Word Today
Satan is in an all out attack to make you and me doubt, reject and become deafened to the voice of Jesus. We are not listening to the voice of Jesus when we think wrongly about God! Will you listen to that voice? Adam and Eve chose to not listen to God.
Instead of following God obediently in Paradise, Adam and Eve disobeyed, fell into sin, and Paradise was lost. As a side note for you American History buffs, an amazing fact is that the first words printed in America were in the New England Primer. The first page opens with "In Adam's fall we sinned all".
Please stand and listen to the firs ...
John Barnett
Genesis 3:1-5
When Jesus met the Devil in the wilderness, His only resource was God's Word--and that is the weapon Satan fears. That is why Satan's original temptation with Eve centered on her coming to a place of doubting or distorting God's Word.
In a very real way each of us has within us the four basic spiritual flaws that Satan exploited as he introduced sin to Adam and Eve.
Jesus explained it this way in John 8:44 (NAS):
"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
Each of us are born into this world just like our father the devil. That is the terrible reality of our depravity. We are sinners by nature, by choice, and by the declaration of God's Word. Only Jesus and the divine transformation of the new birth can change all that.
Satan's plan as he tested Jesus two thousand years ago, and even to this day, involves his same lies from Genesis 3; these are the lies of Satan that seek to keep mankind from listening to the voice of their Creator. As we open in our Bibles to Genesis 3, remember...
Satan Doesn't Want You To Listen To God's Word Today
Satan is in an all out attack to make you and me doubt, reject and become deafened to the voice of Jesus. We are not listening to the voice of Jesus when we think wrongly about God! Will you listen to that voice? Adam and Eve chose to not listen to God.
Instead of following God obediently in Paradise, Adam and Eve disobeyed, fell into sin, and Paradise was lost. As a side note for you American History buffs, an amazing fact is that the first words printed in America were in the New England Primer. The first page opens with "In Adam's fall we sinned all".
Please stand and listen to the firs ...
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