“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.
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… that you're not going to die but God knows that in the day you eat it your eyes will be open and you will be like God knowing good and evil this is a seed that the enemy plants and he plants this seed that makes it seem like God's withholding something from them and because they think that God is withholding something from them they take action and let's see what happens when they eat from the fruit it says that their eyes were open both of them that's Genesis 3 verse 7 it says then the eyes of both of them were open and they knew that they were naked. Now, wait a minute. Before they ate from the fruit, they had no idea what they looked like. They weren't concerned about themselves at all. There is something that happens when they eat from the fruit that now makes them more conscious about themselves. That means that when God gave them eyesight, the eyesight wasn't meant to be centered on them. …
I'm in Genesis chapter 3, verses 5 through 7. I have to tell you, I gave them a different text this morning at 7 a.m. Then at 8.30 a.m., God gave me something different. And under normal circumstances, that would stress me out. But I only got four hours of sleep, and sometimes you got to choose between stress and standing up to it. So we're going to stand up to it. God's been speaking to me about this and I think I think it may actually be a series but I'm going to see what happens in the time that I've been given this morning but God's been speaking to me specifically about identity and I know it has a lot to do with what I am experiencing on the identity level but I've looked at it from so many different angles New Testament, Old Testament. So I'm going to just ask that you all would pray with me as I attempt to articulate what God has placed in my heart as it relates to our identities. For those of you who take notes, my subject is take another look. Take another look. I'm going to start in Genesis 3. …
… 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. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate. And the eyes of both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. And they heard the sound of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, Where are you? And he said, I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself. …
wow look at that wow look at that real quick I gotta teach it but look at that God immediately is connecting his dysfunction to his disobedience Thank you. He doesn't even litigate all of the confusion. He's saying there's a one-stop shop for your confusion, and it's disobedience. and your disobedience has opened now a Pandora's box, and more specifically, not just your disobedience, but your disobedience to the word I spoke. then the man said it gets even more dysfunctional then the man said the woman who you gave to be with me now he's blaming the lord he's so dysfunctional he is now accusing god of being dysfunctional it was a bad idea god you giving me that woman was a terrible idea god you ought to be look at how crazy we get how insane we get when we disconnect from the word. And the man said to the woman, the man said, the woman whom you gave to me with me, she gave me of the tree and I ate. …
… You're not going to surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. So I need you to understand that we had our original nature, God's original intention for our lives. And the enemy disrupted that original intention and that original nature by making us second guess God. If you second guess God, if you second guess whether or not his word can still apply to you, if you second guess whether or not he still has love for you, if you second guess whether or not he still has restoration, then you lose access to that original intention. I wish I could say that real, real good. Because that's all the enemy makes us, that's all the enemy does is he makes us begin to second-guess God. If you second-guess God, you'll second-guess yourself. Because now if I can't believe what God says about me, then I can't trust where God places me. …
… 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. So when the woman saw the tree was good for food, that it was a delight to the eyes, that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. So what's the action here? She and her husband took of the fruit and ate. Oh, it's not showing there. Okay, that says action. Sorry. Action. So that's what they did. They took of the fruit and ate. But don't miss the root. That worldly action was based in worldly what? Desire. she saw that the tree was good for food, that it was a delight to the eyes, that the tree was to be desired, to make one wise. Worldly desires that were grounded in worldly thinking, a lie from the devil that said God and his word are not good, and they believed it. …
… for God knows when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened. You will be like God, knowing good and evil. so when the woman saw the tree was good for food that it was a delight to the eyes the tree was to be desired to make one wise she took of its fruit and ate she gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate do you see it where did sin start not when they took a piece of fruit and ate it it was when they doubted the word of god in their minds when they thought i won't die if If I do this, I'll actually be better off if I do this. This is an anatomy of all of our minds. Sin starts with thinking our way is better than God's way. Or maybe choosing not to think about God's way at all. Either way, spiritual battle begins in your mind. How about one more example? How about the battle with worry and anxiety in this world? …
… of the garden and you must not touch it or you will die. You will not certainly die. The serpent said to the woman, for God knows that when you eat from it, your eyes will be open and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye and desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and she ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were open and they realized they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to them, where are you? And he answered, I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I'm naked. So I hid. And he said, who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from? And the man said, the woman you put here with me, she gave me some of the fruit from the tree and I ate it. And the Lord God said to the woman, what is this you have done? And the woman said, the serpent deceived me. And so I ate. …
… And then verse 4, then the serpent said to the woman, you will not surely die. for God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God knowing good and evil. God didn't really mean what he said that you're going to die. God didn't really mean that. That's a big challenge to our families is we reduce the impact of what God is saying. We minimize it. We say it's not a big deal And we're real good at that. Black people are real good at reducing what God said. Somebody say, we reduce what God said. Don't do that. Tell your neighbor, don't do that. Satan questions it. Now here what the devil does. He's good at highlighting the pleasures of disobeying God. He minimizes the consequences. She rejected God's command and ate it. She received the instruction from her husband where she didn't listen to it. Her husband told her what God said and she didn't listen to it. …