We do sins because we are sinners by
nature. Sins are the fruit (hate, anger, murder,
drunkenness, selfishness, etc.)
My husband often uses this outline when teaching about Satan.
(1) Satan gives the cup that sparkles. (Go ahead, you'll enjoy it; there's nothing wrong with that.)
(2) He gives the cup that stupefies the mind; it gets dulled. The bodily appetites crave more and more. You no longer know right from wrong!
(3) He gives the cup that kills: A - (spiritually) in keeping you from accepting CHRIST; B - (physically) your body is racked with disease. Romans 6:23 "the wages of sin is death".
The serpent, the most subtle of the beasts, was used to bring Satan's temptation to Eve. "Old Serpent" is one of the names of the devil. (Rev 20:2) "And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years." We do not know that this was the first time the devil had tried to bring about the fall of man. I rather doubt it. Satan remembered that at one time, he had this same glorious fellowship with the Creator. But he sinned; he fell, and now, had become the Arch enemy of GOD; therefore, his fiendish desire was and is to get man away from GOD. Remember what Satan's sin was: "I WILL!" be like the most HIGH: I WILL exalt my throne above the Throne of GOD."
He wanted to be GOD! Now look at the temptation he is putting forth to Eve.
(Gen. 3:1-5) "Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD GOD had made. And he said unto the woman, 'Yea, hath GOD said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the Garden?' And the woman said unto the serpent, 'We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the Garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the Garden, GOD hath said, 'Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.' And the serpent said unto the woman, 'Ye shall not surely die: 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.'"(1) First, he puts doubt in her mind as to the truth of GOD'S WORD, "Yea, hath God said?" (This is a trick he had used down through the Ages.)
(2) Verse 3 We see the first addition to Scripture. Eve adds: "Neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die."
(3) Verse 4 - We have the first recorded lie, "And the serpent said unto the woman, 'Ye shall not surely die'. Now in Verse 5, Satan is putting the same temptation to sin, that he had fallen by, remember, he wanted to be GOD!! Verse 5 - "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." (Adam and Eve, if you disobey GOD, you will be doing it because you want to be as GOD!)
I think one of the saddest verses in the Bible, is the next, Verse 6 "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, when took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat." And they instantly died spiritually Verse 7, "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked;" the light went out. What does our memory verse say? (Rom. 5:12) "Wherefore, as by one man, (Adam, as the head of the Race), sin entered into the world, and death by sin; (spiritual and later, physical death) by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have SINNED!!" Also (Rom. 3:23) "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of GOD." As we inherit Adam and Eve's physical likeness, so do we inherit their sinful nature.
All the races of the world have descended
from Adam and Eve.
