How important is it to know the scriptures?
Why?
What if you get some scripture right and then some wrong, or twist it a little,
is that okay?
Eve was deceived because of this very issue. If you know the word of God, the devil's lies will not be able trip you...
Genesis 3:3-5 (NKJV) 3 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’?”
2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’”
***God did not say she could not touch the tree, he
said she could not eat of the tree
4 Then the serpent said to the
woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it
your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
***imagine with me:
Eve thinks she can’t "touch" the tree.
What if she picked a piece of fruit from the tree,
and she noticed that nothing happened…
do you think at that point she might have
believed the serpent?
Eve might have said, Look he is right, I did not die...so then she took a bite of it
The command not to eat from the tree...
Gen 2: 15-17 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden
of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of
every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 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.”
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God told Adam don’t eat of the tree, lest you
die
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Eve added to what God said by saying- she couldn’t
even touch the tree
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The devil picks up on the mistake, the twist
that Eve added to the command
DIG
Take a Dollar bill, rip it in half, tape it with a fake dollar bill that has been ripped in half.
Is it real?How do you know – because you are familiar with it...
***just because it looks real, and it is taped to some real money doesn’t
mean it is real, it is still counterfeit
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Counterfeits have a little truth with a little
twist added
The same thing happens a lot of time with the word of God. We get bits and pieces of it through sermons
we hear, bible studies we go too, our pastors and teachers. We hear a lot of
information out there.
We need to be able to recognize the truth and when there is something
suspicious or a question about it, we need to figure out and separate the truth
from the lie.
===just like the money it may have some truth with the lie….if we are
not careful like Eve we can learn the hard way!
A lot of the times, the things we hear are from people, are people we trust and they are not necessary trying to give us wrong information, but they too must make sure what they say, do, and believe line up with the Word of God….
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I do not share this with you so that you can argue
about the scriptures with the people around you- that will do more harm than good
2. I am sharing it so that you can be confident and approved by GOD not the people around you.
You can have peace within yourself that you know what He expects and what His decrees are.
And furthermore you can avoid being ashamed . If know what God wants, says and expects then you can stand confidently against the lies....Eve was able to be tricked!
We do not need to learn the hard way like Eve did...We have the tools we need, and we need to utalize them. Cukture and trtaditions chage as well as everyday language changes from decade to decade....
1. The Holy spirit reveals and teaches us
2. Commentary's explain things to us about culture, ect..
3. Hebrew and Greek dictionary's explain the words to us...
Many times we just repeat what we hear from people that did not take the tyime to search it out.
The truth will set you free, but lies will bind you up, and trip you….it is important to find out what God says about the things your dealing with. If you believe every thing you hear, without testing it to the Word of God- you will end up being very unstable just like Eve.
James 1:8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
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Gods promises are Gods promises
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Same with His commands
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We need to know them, so that no counterfeit can
deceive us or trip us up, as it did with Eve!
Our
words, beliefs, and actions should never contradict what the Word of God says…
