"God Knows..."

July 17, 2016

“God Knows…”

Blessings folk!

The serpent told the woman “you shall not surely die”.
A lie.
A countermand of the Word of the Lord.

Then the serpent doubled down.

Gen 3:4-5

The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die!

“For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”


Lie 1 - “You surely will not die”.

Lie 2 - “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Well!
Of course God knows.
The serpent was presenting this in such a was as to paint the Lord as withholding something of value. Of not being totally truthful and forthright.
Their eyes would be opened, but, that was not good.
They would know “good and evil’, but the Lord created them for not evil.

Lie 3 - “you will be like God”
Another deception.
They would be “like God” in knowing good and evil”
They would not be “like God” in other ways.
Again, the serpent was accusing God of “holding out” on His creation.

So, we see the pattern of the enemy…
Forthright lie. “you surely will not die”
Subtle perversion. “God knows”, “eyes open”, “be like God”,
Speaking to pride. “you…will know good and evil”. Speaking to the pride of man.

Know the Lord.
Know the strategies of the evil one.
Rest in the Lord.
Resist the evil.