READ:
ROMANS 3:14-16
The devil
is a smart propagandist. He is no foolish. If he comes to you with an outright
lie you are likely to detect his antics. But when he coats falsehood with
grains of truth you are not likely to suspect him. Whenever the devil is about
to deceive he comes with a deceptive propaganda. Actually, what he does is he
adds a bit of lie to the truth. When he was talking to Eve, in Genesis 3:4, he
started with his own gospel: “And the serpent said to the woman, You will
not surely die.” Here, he told a bit of truth and a bit of lie. What he
was saying was that Adam and Eve would not die immediately after eating the
fruit. He knew that they were going to die in the long run. He knew that the
moment they disobeyed God, they would die spiritually. When Eve ate the fruit,
she did not die physically. Since she did not die, this seemed to have
confirmed Satan’s statement that they would not die. With this confidence, Eve
approached Adam with the fact that they would not die. Satan usually tells
people that it is not possible to be absolutely holy. He would tell you just to
do the little you can and that, as long as your good outweighs the bad, you
will make heaven. However, this is not the case. What God says is that you
should keep all the commandments, and not the convenient ones. Once you do not
keep one, you have failed in all. The devil has continued to sell his lies to
men and women who are gullible. However, believers who are discerning are not
ignorant of the devices of the enemy. Shun the devil’s lies. Buy the truth and
sell it not.
MEMORIZE:
GENESIS 3:4 –And the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die.
