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! Introduction:
The world is full of lawlessness, crime, immorality, adultery, drugs, drunkenness, lying, stealing, cheating, greed, covetousness, extravagance, indulgence, murder, assaults, war—all kinds of sin and evil.
But this has not always been true.
There was a time when the world was perfect, a time when there was not a single act of violence or evil upon earth.
In fact, an evil deed had never been committed.
The earth was perfect; both man and woman were sinless.
They knew only harmony and peace, satisfaction and fulfillment, love, joy, and peace—all the fulness of life prevailed.
Perfection ruled and reigned.
What happened?
What destroyed the perfection and caused such devastation and lawlessness upon earth?
What corrupted the heart of man?
This is what I want to talk to you about.
This passage reveals so much about temptation and sin.
!! A.           The serpent (v.1a).
!!! 1.            “The serpent was more cunning that any beast of the field…”  (v.1a).
!!!! a)            The devil, Satan himself, is called the serpent *(Revelation 12:9)*.
!!!!! (1)           Some questions that need to be asked:
!!!!!! (a)           Does this mean that Satan possessed or energized a real living serpent and spoke through the creature?
Many great commentators hold to this view.
!!!!!! (b)           Does it mean that Satan actually transformed himself into a serpent (NIV)?
!!!!!! (c)           Could this just be a picture of Satan himself?
!!!!!! (d)           Is it possible to know which is meant?
Is Scripture clear about how Satan tempted man?
 
!!!!! (2)           In determining just who or what the serpent was, these facts need to be noted:
!!!!!! (a)           The serpent—when first created—apparently walked upright and was a most magnificent creature (Genesis 3:14).
!!!!!! (b)           The craftiness of the serpent is compared to the craftiness of the beast of the field.
Scripture says the serpent was more “subtle” (crafty, clever, shrewd) than any of the animals upon earth (Genesis 3:1).
!!!!!! (c)           Scripture gives examples where Satan had the power to use people as his tools and speak through them.
*(i)            **Peter (Matthew 16:22-23).*
(ii)            Demon-possessed people (Matthew 8:28-34; Acts 16:16-18).
!!!!!! (d)           All creation was created perfect by God, even the serpent.
(i)             If we say that the serpent was a literal serpent used as an evil tool by Satan, then we have a problem explaining how creation was perfect: how could an animal be used as an evil tool in a world of perfect animals?
(ii)            This is the reason some interpreters say that Satan actually transformed or clothed himself as a serpent (NIV, Genesis 3:1).
!!!!! (3)           Jesus Christ Himself tells us that Satan was behind the tragic fall of man (John 8:44):
*Speaking to the Pharisees, Jesus said *"You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do.
He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it."
(John 8:44, NKJV)
!!!!! (4)           Paul also says that Satan was behind the fall of man (2Cor.11:3,
14).
*Speaking to those in Corinth he said *"But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ…”  "And no wonder!
For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light."
(2Cor.11:3,
14)
\\ !!!!! (5)           Satan had been the most exalted angel ever created by God but sinned and fell *(Is.14:12-15)*.
!!!!! (6)           The Bible teaches that Satan has some control over the earth *(2Cor.4:3-4)*.
!!!!!! (a)           Scripture calls Satan the god of this world (2Cor.4:3-4).
!!!!!! (b)           Scripture calls Satan the prince of this world (John 12:31; 14:40; 16:11).
!!!!!! (c)           Scripture calls Satan the prince of the power of the air (Eph.2:2).
!!!!!! (d)           Scripture calls Satan the ruler of the darkness of this world (Eph.6:12).
!!!!!! (e)           Satan is the king of a kingdom (Matt.12:26).
!!!!!! (f)            Satan has his grip upon the whole world (1Jn5:19).
!!!! b)            The Bible teaches that Satan struggles and fights against God and His will.
!!!!! (1)           Satan’s purpose in fighting against God is twofold.
!!!!!! (a)           Satan’s purpose is power and worship: Satan wants to receive as much of the power and worship of the universe as possible (Daniel 3:1ff).
!!!!!! (b)           Satan’s purpose is to hurt and cut the heart of God.
Why?
(i)             Because God has judged and condemned him for rebelling against God.
Therefore, Satan does all he can to get back at God. 
(ii)            The best way he can do this is to turn the hearts of people away from God and lead them to sin and to follow the way of evil.
!!!! c)            Satan was to be used by God.
!!!!! (1)           Satan was to be used by God to test man, to give man the opportunity to choose God by exercising his free will.
!!!!! (2)           You have the most powerful thing on the face of the earth *YOUR FREE WILL TO CHOOSE*.
!!!!! (3)           In order to exercise his free will /for God/, man had to be tempted.
So God had to create a situation whereby man could exercise his will and choose to obey and follow God.
And what better way than to demand that man not eat from one of the trees in the Garden
 
!! B.           Step 1: Being confronted with suggestive, enticing, and tempting thoughts (v.1b).
!!! 1.            “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden…’?
(v.1b).
!!!! a)            Temptation involves our thoughts.
!!!!! (1)           Several things are immediately noticed about Eve and the temptation that attacked her:
!!!!!! (a)           Eve was alone.
She had gone off without her husband, Adam.
!!!!!! (b)           Eve was where she did not belong.
She was standing by the forbidden tree.
!!!!!! (c)           Eve was apparently thinking about the tree and its delicious looking fruit.
!!!!!! (d)           Eve was not keeping a watchful eye against temptation.
!!!!!! (e)           We have someone else in Scripture who did the same thing:
(i)             Achan *(Joshua 7:20-21)*.
(ii)            David *(2Sam.11:1-5)*.
!!!! b)            Temptation involves questioning God’s Word.
!!!!! (1)           Note that Satan misquoted God’s Word (3:1).
The thought was planted in Eve’s mind, the suggestive thought...
!!!!!! (a)           that she was missing out on something.
!!!!!! (b)           that the most delicious fruit was the very thing being forbidden.
!!!!!! (c)           that something good was being withheld and kept from her.
!!!!!! (d)           that she must not miss what looked good and would probably feel and taste good.
!!!!!! (e)           that perhaps God’s Word is causing us to miss something that is delicious.
!! C.           Step 2: Entertaining and discussing the thoughts (v.2).
!!! 1.            “The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees…”  (v.2).
!!!! a)            Controlling your imagination (1 Peter 1:14).
!!!!! (1)           Before you were a believer you really were subject to the fancy of your own lusts.
You had no real ability to control your heart, your mind, and your desires, no ability to control your imagination.
!!!!! (2)           Let's begin to understand our imagination by going to *(Genesis 6:5)*: When God looked down at man He saw that his imagination was evil continually.
!!!!! (3)           Over in the eighth chapter of Genesis we find a second reference to this *(Gen.8:21)*:
Again God diagnosis man as having an evil imagination.
!!!!! (4)           Now the Bible talks about the heart and when the Bible talks about the heart it means the mind, particularly the Old Testament.
The heart is the idea of the mind.
The heart of man is desperately wicked, it's deceitful...its wicked… that's the mind.
!!!!! (5)           Now in the mind is a place, it's not an actual location, but in the mind is a capacity for imagination.
And imagination is the place where sin is conceived, where is fantasized and where sin is energized.
If we are going to control sin, it has to be controlled in the imagination.
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