Satan Challenges What God Said, Part 2 (TMF:1181)

Monday, July 29, 2019
Peace to Live By: Satan Challenges What God Said, Part 2 (TMF:1181) - Daniel Litton
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       First, Satan starts with the only part of what he said that is not true. That’s right, the beginning here is the only part of Satan’s statement where he lied. He said, “You will not surely die.” He lied to Eve, and went against what God had said, in fact, challenging what God had said. He basically said that God is a liar, for God had said that in the day they ate the fruit they would die. Recall that the Apostle Paul had told us God cannot lie (see Titus 1:2, ESV). It’s impossible for him to lie. If God ever lied, even just one time, he would be undermined and, again, lose his authority. But really, in part here, it was not only true that eating the fruit would cause physical death, but it would also cause spiritual death—which is really the larger of the two issues. Spiritual death meant separation from God, and that was exactly what Satan wanted to accomplish.