Know the Enemy

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Intelligence for Temptation
Genesis 3
Genesis 31-7
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He maximizes the restriction.

• Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of
  the field which the Lord God had made. And he
  said to the woman

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Indeed, has God said, You shall not eat from
any tree of the garden?
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From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may
eat but from the fruit of the tree which is in
the middle of the garden, God has said, You
shall not eat from it or touch it, lest you die.
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He minimizes the consequences of sin.
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You shall not surely die!
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He re-labels the action.
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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.
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• How does Satan persuade a person that sin is not
  a sin?
• He just gives it another name!
• He promises another outcome!

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He accentuates the desirability of sin.
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• 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 also to
  her husband with her, and he ate. (Genesis 36)

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He assumes the place of God.
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• The real evil of sin is seen not in the mere
  exchange of a right act for a wrong one, the
  substitute of one law for another law. The real
  evil of sin is in the assassination of the
  character of God!
• Satan could not kill Eve, until he had first
  killed God! And when he had successfully
  killed God, Eve was like putty in His hands!

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Dont let what happened to Adam and Eve happen to
you!