SUNDAY September 5, 2021

Do You Doubt God’s Word?

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
Genesis 3:1

In the Garden of Eden, Eve encountered Satan. He saw an opportunity to deceive her. She was the weaker vessel. Satan used the serpent to enter into a conversation with Eve. The word serpent is an interesting word. It means ”dragon,” which is another name used for Satan: So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him (Revelation 12:9). At first, the serpent actually stood upright, but after the curse, then he was placed on his belly (Genesis 3:14).

In Satan’s conversation with Eve, he challenged the Word of God. What did he do? He raised a doubt in her mind about what God had said. “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” Where did the woman go wrong? It was when she added to the Word of God: “ ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die’ ” (Genesis 3:2).

God never said that! Satan was able to take advantage of Eve. He was able to play with her mind and successfully placed doubts in her mind. Eve believed the lie and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. She gave the fruit to Adam who was with her (Genesis 3:6). For the first time, sin entered their lives.

Satan will try to bring doubts into our minds concerning the Word of God. Think of all the Christians who constantly doubt their salvation. As they sit in service, Satan makes them feel condemned. They doubt God’s love, grace forgiveness. When the devil whispers his lies, they question the promise of His redemption through Christ. They often feel the need to get saved again, when, in reality, a person can only be saved one time.

Sin has turned the world upside down; the earth has become quite a different thing to man from what it was when God made it to be his habitation.
~Matthew Henry~

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