Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Enemy of God is Real

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

The devils job is to tell you that God isn't good, to tell you that God's intentions are not good. This is sin itself, the ultimate core of pride and arrogance. For the human to agree with the devil and accept this lie is sin. This is why we are sinful, our very nature is sinful to the core. To go against the very nature of, "good" shows that we have a problem. In the garden Adam and Eve went against all that is good to follow their own lust, we do this everyday, opposing God which is sin. Look how beautiful God is, He doesn't sit back in shame as if the devils accusations are true, no the very lie the devil tags on God, God being good deems it sin which leads to death. This shows that God's nature is good always. Everything about Him is good. God defeated sin, death, and the devil at the Cross of Jesus. Jesus being Perfect, pleasing the Father in every way, even when being tempted by the wicked dreadful devil, the Lord remained sinless, He was obedient even to the point of the Cross to die for sinners. God crushes Jesus at the Cross to show that He is good on our behalf(2 Corinthians 5:21), He raises Jesus to show that He remains good, and He gives life to those who would turn and trust in Jesus, so that through regeneration, being born again by the Spirit they will truly see that God is good, submitting to His goodness. Yes God is good. The Spirit points to Jesus and Jesus points to the Father. Will you trust in the Only One who is Good? The devil is a lie, sin is death, God is good. Repent and Believe in the Christ. 

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