“DID GOD ACTUALLY SAY?”

 Genesis 3:1                                       (ESV)

The Fall of Man

“[1] Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD GOD had made. 

He said to the woman, “DID GOD ACTUALLY SAY”, ‘You shall not eat of ANY tree in the garden’?””

Hearing the noise of “this world” will never compare to what is being spoken to us by THE CREATOR!!!  It is IMPERATIVE that as Believers we implant THE WORD OF GOD into our minds and memories so that we are able to SEE the lies of “the enemy”.  Although “the enemy” will dress up what he is offering with glitz and glamor, TRUTH will reveal his deceit and the pain that comes with it. 

REFUSING to listen to anything other than what the HOLY SPIRIT says is akin to telling THE CREATOR that we know what is best for our lives?  “The enemy” attempts to get us arguing about what he lies about, when GOD ALMIGHTY simply speaks TRUTH.  The TRUTH is either accepted from GOD, or a distorted version submitted by the great deceiver is accepted by humanity.  We whose EYES have been OPENED are able to SEE difference between TRUTH and the lies of “the enemy”!

In Genesis 2:16-17 Scripture records “And the LORD GOD commanded the man (Adam), saying, “You may surely EAT OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.””  Adam was instructed to EAT OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN, BUT he was instructed AND WARNED NOT to eat “of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” or he would SURELY die!  We all KNOW as fact what the TRUTH was!

The TRUTH is that “the enemy” twisted the WORD OF GOD and birthed lying!  In John 8:44-45 JESUS speaks to “the Scribes and Pharisees” (John 8:2) when HE said “You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I tell the TRUTH, you do not believe ME.”  We need to VERY OFTEN ask ourselves “DID GOD ACTUALLY SAY” what is being credited HIM, for “the enemy” seeks to devour people EVERYDAY he can before the JUDGMENT!!!