The apostle Paul, writing to Christians in Corinth, remembered what happened in the Garden of Eden, this is repeated every time someone makes the same mistake as Eve. The same deception that occurred in Eden, by the mouth of the serpent (the first scam that happened in the world), thus happens every day somewhere in the world and, perhaps, in your own life.

 

“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” (2 Corinthians 11:3).

 

What was the devil’s strategy to deceive Eve? He used two strategies. First, he distorted the Word of God.

 

“Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” (Genesis 3:1).

 

The serpent threw the bait, drew attention in a generalised way and then got to the specific point. And Eve made the mistake of engaging in that conversation.

 

“And the woman said to the serpent, We shall eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, Ye shall not eat of it, nor touch it, that ye should not die” (Genesis 3:2,3).

 

Then, the serpent applied the scam, changing the narrative and putting another meaning in God’s words.

 

“Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:4,5).

 

I mean, it aroused curiosity within the woman. “You mean that God is hiding something from us? That’s not fair! I want to know what He is hiding from us.” Eve believed the serpent’s narrative.

 

First: the serpent distorted the Word of God. Second: it gave another meaning, another narrative to what God had said. And so, the serpent still works today.

 

How many people have fallen into distorted words (including through the Bible)? See that the devil used God’s words against God. The devil used Psalm 91 against the Lord Jesus in the desert. If the person doesn’t think, they fall into his story. So, people take loose parts of the Scriptures and form wrong opinions.

 

So you have to be careful with the words that come to you. In the Garden, only the serpent spoke to Eve. But today, the serpent is in many places.

 

An example: “I don’t need to go to church because God is everywhere”. There is some truth (so it’s convincing). God, really, is everywhere. But they are omitting that it was God Himself who created the church.

 

The Son of God himself said: “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:20). It was God who gave King David the blueprint of the Temple (1 Chronicles 28). The disciples met regularly (Acts 2:42-46 and 20:7).

 

Faith is not what you feel; it’s what you do. So, the person thinks they should leave if they don’t agree with something in the church. But the serpent promotes discord to create separations. Beware of the versions of the stories that come to you.

 

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