The Continuing Question

Adam and Eve have disobeyed God, recognized their nakedness and have sewn fig leaves together to hide their nakedness.  Then they hear the LORD God walking in the garden and they hide among the many trees. I believe that this was one of the LORD’S favorite times – to walk in the garden in the […]

Quietness with the LORD God

In sub-tropic and tropical climates the cool of the day is in the early morning hours. “Watch” the time the LORD God walked in the garden, the time He spent with Adam and Eve: (NASB) Genesis 3:8 “They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day…” […]

Covered by Fig Leaves?

  The temptation: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (NASB) Genesis 3:6 “When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave […]

The Process of Temptation

(NASB) Genesis 3:6 “When the woman saw that the tree (of the knowledge of good and evil) was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with […]

Listening, Looking, Desiring, Taking, Eating

Genesis chapter three is often titled “The Fall”.  The fall into sin, this is sin against God. (NASB) Genesis 3:6 “When the woman saw that the tree (of the knowledge of good and evil) was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make […]

Prayer of the Week

(NASB) Psalm 51:10-12 10 “Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit.”

What Leads You Away From God?

Satan tempted Eve with what was important…to Satan.  Satan wanted to be worshiped, he wanted to be like God…and he still does. The serpent said to Eve: (NASB) Genesis 3:5 “For God knows that in the day you eat from it (the tree of the knowledge of good and evil) your eyes will be opened, […]

Satan’s Temptations Then…and Now

Satan hasn’t changed…he still tempts us.  It is how we deal with the temptations which lead us away from God or closer to God.  We have that choice.  We make that choice. (NASB) Genesis 3:4-5 “The serpent said to the woman, ‘You surely will not die! 5 ‘For God knows that in the day you […]

Escaping Temptation

What God said: (NASB) Genesis 2:16-17 “…From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.” What Satan said: (NASB) Genesis 3:4 “Indeed, has God said, […]

The Subtlety of Sin

Sin is subtle.  Satan’s aim is to be worshiped.  Satan’s aim is to have ‘one up-man-ship’ over God, the Creator, the LORD God Almighty. Notice that Satan approached Eve, not Adam. (NASB) Genesis 3:1 “NOW THE serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.  And he said […]