Deception, The Enemy's Tactic!

Genesis 3:4-5 And the serpent said to the woman, "You surely shall not die! "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good from evil." 

Our enemy, the devil, has one goal in mind, to separate us from God. The New Testament tells us that he has come to rob, kill and destroy. This was his tactic in the beginning and still is his tactic today. 

God spoke to Adam and told him that if he ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil he would surely die. The devil, working through the serpent, tells Eve that "she surely will not die." He promises her that if she does eat of the fruit she will become like God. Now here's the problem, Eve already was like God because she was created in His image and likeness. She just wasn't God and that's what the enemy deceptively  promises.  

Eve takes a second look at the fruit and the scriptures tell us that it was a delight to her eyes. Even though the fruit was desirable to her what would have kept Eve in the midst of temptation was to hold to what God had already spoken, "You will surely die if you eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." Now, Adam is not without blame because he is with Eve the whole time the temptation is taking place and he also takes and eats.  

The enemies tactic is still deception and the weapon we have to war against that deception is the word of God. Something may seem desirable to us, we may have rationalized in our minds that what we're about to do will not hurt anyone, but the standard we must keep in place is, "what has God said."

God's intent is to bring us life and life flows from an unhindered relationship with the Father.