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God's wisdom and truth comes with the fruits of His spirit - kindness, long-suffering, love etc. That's what makes the difference between information from the world and from God. We can turn the truth into a lie by eliminating His influence. This is the worldly wisdom spoken of in the word of God. God was left out of the conversation between Eve and Satan. Had she eaten of the Tree of Life first, she would have had the ability to filter the information through God's view and

The tree of good and evil held only information. It included all information in all forms. It was information without the touch of God's character on it and without His influence. That's what made it wrong. It was information that led Eve into the fallen state by being self dependent. She exercised her will without cooperating and harmonizing first with her Creator. She was now in disharmony with Him and out of relationship. Then through the information offered by the tree, s

Before Satan's question, Eve had never had the pressure to act independently of God's voice. Through the pressure to answer the question, she was over stimulated in her mind and emotions and overwhelmed and clouded in her spirit. It captured her will. The result was that she was confused without God's voice and could not answer Satan properly. She responded immediately but incorrectly. She was separated from God and without His truth for the first time in her life. It would h

Let us look closer at these questions because this is paramount to our spiritual progress. The question from Satan was the first new sound Eve had ever heard. She only knew the voices of Adam and God. Satan's voice came from the garden, the same place God's did. I'm sure it was both a surprise and thought provoking to hear this and possibly brought fear to her. This question could have been about anything. It was not just another sound, but it was meant to engage her. And eng

As God’s children we should always expect to make progress spiritually, as it is promised us throughout His word. It is our Father’s will and He has provided for it. At a time such as this, where the truth remains so distorted, we have a mandate to not only review and understand our hope of becoming His expressed children, but realize it in every way. It is a time to uncover any obstacles hindering us from reaching this hope, and finally make a renewed commitment to rectify

First, we must consider why Satan chose to come to Eve with a question. Before we look at the content of the question, we have to look at why the question. What do questions do? What effect do they have on us? They compel us to respond. In other words, they put pressure on us to answer and think on things that we normally wouldn't. We truly can say, "I would not have thought of that without being influenced to or asked to respond to that." These questions distract us and enga

When you add kindness and the other fruits of the spirit ( love, joy, patience, long-suffering, goodness, etc ) to information, you see things differently. When you take in information through the lens of the Holy Spirit, it's amazing how different it can be interpreted. It is the very difference between truth and lies. A lie does not only come through the devil but can come through our natural senses. If we are left to ourselves to interpret information that we gather withou

What happened in the garden of Eden was not a mistake. God had a plan, and it was perfect. God created the trees in the garden. When He created them, He said, "it was good." So the trees, all of them were good in His eyes. There was no evil tree. They all had an intentional purpose . God does not make mistakes. These trees had one thing in common. They were sources of food. Unfortunately for us, the first tree that Eve ate was of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In

"The church must remember: the guide to God's greatest blessings often come in the form of trouble". Stay awake and watch!!

Satan beguiled Eve in the garden of Eden. Simply put, he tricked her. He is still doing it today to her descendants, men and women. Just how did he beguile Eve? Satan's main methods are distraction and deception. The word of God does not credit sin to Eve. Only the fact that she was beguiled. She was enticed, charmed and captivated through her five senses. Adam was the one that sinned. That is why Adam is referred to as the first sinner. We often think that if we do not sin,

Satan has had a long time to practice his destructive mission to mankind. He knows a person's nature inside out. He knows you, has your name, and knows all your compulsions and desires. They are not hard to know. We voice them continually. He can manipulate you in a moment. He is not one to fear because we know his Creator, God, and God loves us. At the same time, he is one to respect as an arch enemy. He is strong and has servants / demons who he uses to manipulate us. If it

We find ourselves like Adam and Eve caught in the middle between Satan and God because of Satan's jealousy. We are God's sons, and Satan is not. He is a fallen angel. We will replace him and the angels as the ruling class of God's kingdom. Because of the enmity between God and Satan, Earth has not been a pretty scene, to say the least. It will get worse before it gets better; however, we can get better. We will see that we are no longer subjects to Satan's powers. Satan's pla

The aim of Christ’s coming was to provide what was necessary to bring forth children that “walk as He did” (John 21:1). The goal and process for us then is to eventually be transformed, where we are so much as He is that we are described as being “in Christ.” Christ being in us is only the beginning of our walk with Him; in other words, it is not enough having the Holy Spirit in us, but having the sense that we are also in Him. We must gain harmony with Christ in these days

After the fall, Satan is continually watching and waiting to once again disrupt God's kingdom by his distractions to mankind. He has been very effective until now. God knew Satan would come and distract Adam and Eve from His voice. God knew all things from the beginning; therefore, the only conclusion we can come to is that God has something better planned for mankind than a voice walking in the garden. In God's New Testament environment, we become the very garden of God. (Ez

We can imagine life, as Adam and Eve had it, with the voice of God in the garden. When we receive the word of God into our spirit and the Holy Spirit resides inside of us, we become like the garden of Eden. Only then can we have fellowship and the abiding life without any distractions. It is the inside-out life. Is it possible? Of course it is. The word of God promises it. The abiding life is the promised land of rest described in His word This peaceful life of rest in God is

Jesus came to give us the "salvation package". When each part of this package is continually applied to our lives by faith in this process properly and each at the appropriate time, we can live the life that He came to give us. Some are be able and committed to this new life and I certainly want to be one of them. Some will settle for the "Carnal life" because it is easier and less disciplined. First, we must be frustrated with our own inabilities, and become desperate for

Adam and Eve were aligned perfectly with the voice in the garden. Their minds and emotions were tranquil. Can you imagine how tranquil and peaceful it must have been just hearing His voice and nothing else? Their wills were unchallenged by any information. They had only information and revelation from the Father's voice. There was no second opinion. Can you imagine starting out life with this ability and then losing it? How horrible. We start out our life in this fallen state

We, like Adam and Eve are born void of the Holy Spirit's voice inside of us. We are left to respond alone without God's voice to translate for us the fallen world we live in. Without this connection, the Holy Spirit offers us in salvation, our spirit is cut off from the voice of God and therefore without any knowledge from Him. God's voice no longer can speak above the voices coming through our five senses from this fallen world to our soul. This is why He gave gave us the Bi

As God’s children we should always expect to make progress spiritually, as it is promised us throughout His word. It is our Father’s will and He has provided for it. At a time such as this, where the truth remains so distorted, we have a mandate to not only review and understand our hope of becoming His expressed children, but realize it in every way. It is a time to uncover any obstacles hindering us from reaching this hope, and finally make a renewed commitment to rectify

It wasn't until later, that God's voice is described in the scriptures as thunder. It was at Mount Sinai with Moses. Sin and shame, as they enter from the outside of us, have a noisy effect on our ability to hear Him in our spirit. We are full of fear and it changes the sound of God's voice. Jesus will come again ruling and reigning one day in the New kingdom from the outside, as well as inside out through the Holy Spirit. Until then, He influences us from the inside out thro