Autor: felipe | Publicado: 2012-05-20T13:26:00-07:00

&nbsp;Sin began in the Garden of Eden. It is written, AND THE LORD GOD COMMANDED    THE MAN, SAYING, OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN THOU MAYEST FREELY EAT: BUT OF    THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, THOU SHALT NOT EAT OF IT: FOR IN    THE DAY THAT THOU EATEST THEREOF THOU SHALT SURELY DIE-Gen 2:16,17. Adam could    eat of every tree, except one. God had given Adam a command. Sin is disobeying    God’s commandments. God also warned Adam of the consequences of disobeying His    command. The penalty for disobedience was death. Adam’s obedience was going    to be tested. We are to fear God-ref Lk 12:5. For it is written, BY THE FEAR    OF THE LORD MEN DEPART FROM EVIL-Pv 16:6. We need to understand that THE WAGES    OF SIN IS DEATH-Ro 6:23.
&nbsp;&nbsp; NOW THE SERPENT (which is also    called Satan, the devil, and Lucifer) WAS MORE SUBTIL (or crafty) THAN ANY BEAST    (or wild animal) OF THE FIELD WHICH THE LORD GOD HAD MADE. AND HE SAID UNTO    THE WOMAN, YEA, HATH GOD SAID (or did God really say), YE SHALL NOT EAT OF EVERY    TREE OF THE GARDEN?-Gen 3:1. The serpent, which is also called Satan, now begins    a process of causing Eve to be confused, deceived, to doubt what God had said,    and, ultimately, to cause her to disobey God’s command. You and I hear that    same voice today in our thoughts. Also note, that the serpent did not use God’s    words in this case, but rather used an evasive, deceptive approach by saying    "HATH GOD SAID", and then using the words, "YE SHALL NOT    EAT OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN?" 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; AND    THE WOMAN SAID UNTO THE SERPENT, WE MAY EAT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREES OF THE    GARDEN: BUT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE GARDEN, GOD    HATH SAID, YE SHALL NOT EAT OF IT, NEITHER SHALL YE TOUCH IT, LEST YE DIE-Gen    3:2,3. Note confusion as to what God had said seems to be setting in. In her    thoughts, she must have begun to question God’s Word. Eve had said certain words    which God had not said, such as NEITHER SHALL YE TOUCH IT. Her response to the    serpent was a general impression of what she believed God had said, rather than    God’s exact words.
&nbsp;&nbsp; AND THE SERPENT SAID UNTO THE    WOMAN, YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE-Gen 3:4. God had said, "THOU SHALT SURELY    DIE."
&nbsp;&nbsp; Here is the conflict. It is    between the truth of God’s Word, and the lies Satan puts in our thoughts. It    is between the truth of God’s Word, and our emotions. It is between the truth    of God’s Word and our fleshly desires. We are in a battle between the TRUTH    of God’s Word and the lies of the devil. There is a battle going on in our thoughts    between the truth of God’s Word and the traditions of men, pastors, churches,    denominations, and our own wrong thinking. Satan is a master at confusing us,    deceiving us, and causing us to doubt.
&nbsp;&nbsp; The serpent then said, FOR    GOD DOTH KNOW THAT IN THE DAY YE EAT THEREOF, THEN YOUR EYES SHALL BE OPENED,    AND YE SHALL BE AS GODS, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL-Gen 3:5. Note Satan’s words,    "FOR GOD DOTH KNOW." This gives the impression that it is all right    in the eyes of God, and that God misled her for these reasons.
&nbsp;&nbsp; Then he continued by saying,    "THEN YOUR EYES SHALL BE OPENED." The serpent is arousing her    curiosity.
&nbsp;&nbsp; Satan continued with the words,    "AND YE SHALL BE AS GODS." What a wonderful promise the serpent was    giving her, "YE SHALL BE AS GODS." To be a god is to be able to do    whatever you want and have to give an account to no one. To be a god is to be    something special, to control your own destiny, and certainly it is something    many people want today. It is a form of preaching that abounds today in many    churches.
&nbsp;&nbsp; Then the serpent adds these    words, "KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL." Satan was telling the woman that the    path to knowledge is to bypass God’s Word. The woman must have wondered, "What    is good and evil?"
&nbsp;&nbsp; The serpent had used    only about 46 words which changed the history of the world.    Do not underestimate your enemy, the devil. Satan knows just what thoughts to    put in our mind to tempt us. These thoughts are just what our heart wants to    hear. It is written, "SATAN! YOU...HAVE IN MIND...THE THINGS OF MEN"-Mt    16:23 NIV.
&nbsp;&nbsp; AND WHEN THE WOMAN SAW    THAT THE TREE WAS GOOD FOR FOOD, AND THAT IT WAS PLEASANT (or    pleasing) TO THE EYES, AND A TREE TO BE DESIRED TO MAKE ONE WISE    (or desirable for gaining wisdom) Gen 3:6. The verse said, item one-THE    WOMAN SAW...item two-THAT IT WAS PLEASANT (or pleasing) TO THE    EYES (the lusts of the eyes began to prompt her to sin}. Sight can be a pathway    to lead us to sin. She saw, item three-that the TREE WAS GOOD    FOR FOOD. The lusts of the flesh begin to prompt her to disobey God. Food can    be a pathway to lead us to sin. Satan tempted Jesus regarding food. She saw    that the tree was item four-TO BE DESIRED item five-TO    MAKE ONE WISE.
&nbsp;&nbsp; SHE TOOK OF THE FRUIT THEREOF,    AND DID EAT-Gen 3:6. The woman: she saw, she desired, she took, and she ate.    The woman had sinned. She had disobeyed God. AND ADAM WAS NOT DECEIVED, BUT    THE WOMAN BEING DECEIVED WAS IN THE TRANSGRESSION-l Tim 2:14. At this point,    she did not yet seem to be conscious that she had done wrong.
&nbsp;&nbsp; She now wants her husband to    share in what she considered to be her good fortune, in her wicked sin. Many    times we may do something wrong, and then we want to get other people involved    also. We want other people to see it "our" way. AND (she) GAVE ALSO    UNTO HER HUSBAND WITH HER; AND HE DID EAT-Gen 3:6. Adam had become the follower    of his wife rather than a follower of the Lord God. Adam, who was the leader,    became the follower of the woman. It seemed right to Adam to follow his wife’s    word, rather than God’s Word.
&nbsp;&nbsp; Sin had now entered into the    world. Adam (the man), from which the blood line comes, had sinned. WHEREFORE,    AS BY ONE MAN SIN ENTERED INTO THE WORLD, AND DEATH BY SIN; AND SO DEATH    PASSED UPON ALL MEN, FOR THAT ALL HAVE SINNED-Ro 5:12. THEREFORE AS BY THE OFFENSE    OF ONE JUDGMENT CAME UPON ALL MEN TO CONDEMNATION...FOR AS BY ONE MAN’S DISOBEDIENCE    MANY WERE MADE SINNERS-Ro 5:18,19.