Key Verse: 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.”
Key Words: and ye shall be as gods
The first thing Satan opposed is the Word of God!! All of us have choices, we choose to obey or disobey the Word of God.
Adam and Eve chose to believe Satan; they wanted to be a god. They wanted to be like God.
Remember the Nike commercial? “I wanna be like Mike.” They sold a lot of tennis shoes with folk wanting to be like Mike. They sold a lot of #23 jerseys because folk wanted to be like Mike. The problem is that it takes a lot more than tennis shoes to be like Mike! You got to be able to fly to be like Mike, because Mike is in a class by himself. He is unique among professional basketball players, so desiring to be like Mike and wearing the paraphernalia that gives the impression you’re like Mike does not make you like Mike, because he is too unique.
When Satan offered the possibility of being like God to Adam and Eve, he was offering impossibility. He told them that the reason why God set up a boundary is that He didn’t want them to be like Him. However, the truth is that boundary or no boundary; they could never be like Him. We can never be like Him. He is in a class by Himself.
His thoughts are higher than ours; His ways are better than ours. We can’t be like God, but we can love Him, serve Him and worship Him.
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞He who opposes God’s Word will never be like God, they will be more like a “fool.”
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