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SATAN THE TEMPTER & HIS APPROACH (I)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 26
Genesis 3:1-15

John 8:44

 

“He is a liar, and the father of it.”

 

SATAN THE TEMPTER & HIS APPROACH (I)
 
Satan is the great dragon, the old serpent, the Devil, the accuser of our brethren (Rev 12:9-10), a liar and the father of lies (John 8:44), the adversary of believers (1 Pet 5:8), the tempter (Matt 4:3; 1 Thess 3:5), etc. He is very subtle and cunning (Gen 3:1; 2 Cor 11:3), he “deceiveth the whole world” (Rev 12:9). Satan’s purpose is to draw us away from the Lord and His Word, His truth and salvation (Luke 8:12; 2 Cor 4:4; 2 Thess 2:8-10) and to tempt us to be independent from God by doing what we please according to our lusts “as gods” (Gen 3:5).
 
God’s Word is truth (John 17:17) while Satan is a liar, so he has attacked God’s Word since the beginning.
 
(a) Satan cast doubt on God’s Word with a question, “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” (Gen 3:1). God said, “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 shall surely die” (Gen 2:17).
 
(b) Satan twisted God’s Word, “Ye shall not surely die: 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 3:4-5). Sadly, Eve was deceived, and Adam listened to her and fell too!
 
(c) Satan misused God’s Word to tempt our Lord Jesus to cast Himself down from the top of the temple, omitting “to keep thee in all thy ways” and adding “at any time” (Ps 91:11-12). Today, Satan still attacks God’s Word, particularly the perfectly inspired and perfectly preserved Hebrew and Greek texts underlying the KJV and through modern English versions with many additions, subtractions, misinterpretations, and modifications based on corrupt texts, dynamic equivalence technique of translation, and ungodly translators. For example, Mark 16:9-20, John 7:53-8:11, 1 John 5:7 are cut off or doubted. The term “only begotten Son” is replaced with “one and only Son” (John 3:16) to undermine Christ’s eternal Sonship, etc.
 
THOUGHT: God’s Word continues to be the target of Satan’s attack.

PRAYER: Father, help me to listen to Thy Word only.

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