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Hypocrites and Backsliders: Lesson 013

Hypocrites and Backsliders: Lesson 013. 10 Steps to Temptation: The First Sin in Genesis 3:1-6. The Mechanics of Temptation. James 1:12-16

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Hypocrites and Backsliders: Lesson 013

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  1. Hypocrites and Backsliders:Lesson 013 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6

  2. The Mechanics of Temptation • James 1:12-16 • 12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. LWBC 01-13-08

  3. The Mechanics of Temptation • 14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. • Let us look at the mechanics of Temptation found in verse 14, by looking at the original Greek terminology: LWBC 01-13-08

  4. The Mechanics of Temptation • James 1:14But each one is temptedwhen he is carried away by his own lustand enticed. • but each one=hekastos= each individual • is tempted =peirazo(Pres Pass. Ind.) =receives a solicitation to do evil LWBC 01-13-08

  5. The Mechanics of Temptation • when he is carried away =ezelko=taken in tow, pulled • by =hupo= under the authority of • his own =idios= his personal or hisindividual • desire =epithumia= lust pattern • and enticed =deleazo=baited LWBC 01-13-08

  6. The Mechanics of Temptation • If we extract out the most basic elements we see: • Personaldesire + bait = Temptation • However, we must not miss the fact that it is the “Authority” of the Personal Desire that is towing us along toward the bait. • That “Authority of the Desire” is the key to understanding Hypocrites and Backsliders. • Let us look at the verys first Temptation and see how it works: LWBC 01-13-08

  7. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • Genesis 3:1-6 (YLT)1 And the serpent hath beensubtileabove everybeast of the field which Jehovah God hathmade, and hesaithunto the woman,is it truethat God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree ofthe garden? • 2 And the womansaithunto the serpent,of thefruit of the trees of the garden we do eat,3 and of the fruit of the tree which is in the midstof the garden God hath said, Ye do not eat of it,nor touch it, lest ye die. LWBC 01-13-08

  8. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • 4 And the serpentsaithunto the woman,dying,ye do not die,5 for God doth know that in the day of youreating of it your eyes have been opened, andye have been as God, knowing good and evil. • 6 And the womanseeththat the tree is good forfood, and that it is pleasant to the eyes, and thetree is desirable to make one wise, and shetakethof its fruit andeateth, andgivethalso toher husband with her, and he doth eat; LWBC 01-13-08

  9. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • Wiersbe says this about the first Temptation: • The tempter. • God is not the author of sin, nor does Hetempt people to sin; this is the work of thedevil (James 1:13). We have already seenthat Satan fell into sin prior to the work ofGen. 1:3ff. • He was a beautiful angeloriginally, rejoicing at God's Creation (Job38:4-7), but he sinned and was judged byGod (Isa. 14:12-17; Ezek. 28:11-19). (Wiersbe) LWBC 01-13-08

  10. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • The tempter. • Note that Satan came to Eve in the guiseof a serpent, for he is a masquerader andnever appears to people in his truecharacter. • In Gen. 3, Satan is the serpent whodeceives (2Cor. 11:3); in Gen. 4, he is theliar that murders (John 8:44). • We must take care to avoid his deceptiveways. LWBC 01-13-08

  11. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • The target. • Satan aimed at Eve’s mind (2Cor. 11:1-3;1 Tim. 2:9-15) and succeeded indeceiving her. • Satan uses lies. • He is a liarhimself and the father of lies (John 8:44). LWBC 01-13-08

  12. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • The tactic. • As long as the mind holds to God’struth, Satan cannot win; but once themind doubts God's Word, there isroom for the devil’s lies to move in. • Satan questioned God's Word (v. 1),denied God's Word (v. 4), and thensubstituted his own lies (v. 5). LWBC 01-13-08

  13. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • Note that Satan seeks to undermineour faith in the goodness of God-hesuggested to Eve that God washolding out on themby keepingthem from the tree of the knowledgeof good and evil. • When we question God's goodnessand doubt His love, we are playingright into the hands of Satan. LWBC 01-13-08

  14. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • Satan made the temptation soundwonderful by making an offer:“Youwill be like God! • Satan himself had wanted to be“Like theMost High”(Isa. 14:14), and centuries laterhe offered Christ“all the kingdoms of theworld”if He would worship him (Matt. 4:8). LWBC 01-13-08

  15. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • The tragedy. • Eve should not have“given place to thedevil”(Eph. 4:27); she should have held toGod's Word and resisted him. • We wonderwhere Adam was during this conversation. • At any rate, Eve took away from God'sWord by omitting“freely”(v. 2); she addedto the Word by adding“touch it”(v. 3); andshe changed the Word by making God's“You shall surely die”into“Lest you die”. LWBC 01-13-08

  16. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • In v. 6 (nkjv) we see the tragic operation ofthe lust of the flesh (“Good for food”), thelust of the eyes (“Pleasant to the eyes"),and the pride of life (“Desirable to makeone wise") See 1 John 2:15-17. LWBC 01-13-08

  17. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • It is difficult to sin alone. • Something in usmakes us want to share the sin withothers [as Eve did with Adam]. • Adam deliberately sinned andplunged the world into judgment (1 Tim.2:14 - “and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.”). • Wiersbe, W. W. (1993).Wiersbe'sexpository outlines on the Old Testament(Ge3:1). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books. LWBC 01-13-08

  18. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • So, what did we see in the Genesis 3 Temptation that relates back to what we learned in James 1:14? • Let’s start with the easy one: • What was the “Bait”? • What was the “Desire”? • Was there “Her own Authority of Desire” towing Eve? Fruit of the Tree Make me Wise No, so what substituted for her own “Authority of Desire”? Why? Satan LWBC 01-13-08

  19. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • Because she was still “Innocent”. • She had no “Authority” of Desire, yet. • She did not receive that “Authority” until she committed the first sin. • The first sin then “corrupted” her body, as we saw in the judgments last week all related to “Dust”, from which Adam was made and Eve derived. • The Fruit they ate caused a change in their cellular structure, which, not only gave them a new “Authority” inside them, it, we learned, would be passed down from generation to generation -- it’s Genetic. LWBC 01-13-08

  20. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • Since Eve had no “Authority of Desire”, we can study the passage to see the pattern of the First Temptation. • Part of it is internal in Eve, in her “innocence”, and part of it was external, from the serpent and the Tree. • But all of it came together to form a common, almost universal, pattern of temptation for all human beings, since. • We will look at the “10 Steps” and then look at them in the First Temptation: LWBC 01-13-08

  21. The 10 Steps Insubordination Approximation Speculation Consideration Conversation Misquotation –Omission –Addition –Substitution –Mitigation Contradiction Misapplication Rationalization Capitulation 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 LWBC 01-13-08

  22. 10 Steps to Temptation • 1. Insubordination: • Removing yourself from the authority and protection of Divine Establishment and Divine Assets. LWBC 01-13-08

  23. 10 Steps to Temptation • 2. Approximation • Placing yourself in a physical or mental position to be tempted. • Proverbs 4:14-15 (NKJV) Do not enter the path of the wicked, rind do not walk in the way of evil. Avoid it, do not travel on it: Turn away from it and pass on. LWBC 01-13-08

  24. 10 Steps to Temptation • 3. Speculation • (What if ...) • Letting your mind wander from God and His Word. LWBC 01-13-08

  25. 10 Steps to Temptation • 4. Consideration • a matter weighed or taken into account when formulating an opinion or plan • (Consideration of an alternative to the Word) LWBC 01-13-08

  26. 10 Steps to Temptation • 5. Conversation • Moral exchange of sentiments, observations, opinions, or ideas • To discuss alternatives to God's mandates with the world, the flesh or the Devil. LWBC 01-13-08

  27. 10 Steps to Temptation • 6. Misquotation: to inaccurately repeat a passage • Omission: to leave out or leave unmentioned • Substitution: the act of putting in or using in the place of another • Addition: the act or process of adding; to say further • Mitigation: to lessen the effects of LWBC 01-13-08

  28. 10 Steps to Temptation • 7. Contradiction • to assert the contrary of; take issue with LWBC 01-13-08

  29. 10 Steps to Temptation • 8. Misapplication • an act of misapplying: • to erroneously put into operation or effect LWBC 01-13-08

  30. 10 Steps to Temptation • 9. Rationalization • to attribute (one's actions) to rational and creditable motives without analysis of true and especially unconscious motives LWBC 01-13-08

  31. 10 Steps to Temptation • 10. Capitulation • the act of surrendering or yielding LWBC 01-13-08

  32. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • The Serpent Said ... • Genesis 3: 1 (YLT) • 1-And the serpent hath beensubtile(crafty) • above every beast of the field which Jehovah • hath made and hesaithunto the woman, 'Is it • true that God hath said,“Ye do not eat of every • tree of the garden?” • (Insubordination, Speculation. Approximation, • Consideration) LWBC 01-13-08

  33. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • BeforeThe Serpent Said ... • 1. She was not with God or her Man, the • only 2 she should have rapport with. (Insubordination) • 2. She wouldn’t be near The Tree, if she • wasn’t speculating about it. (Speculation) • 3. She was at the tree. (Approximation) LWBC 01-13-08

  34. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • Steps in Temptation • 1. Away from Adam (Insubordination) • 2. Looking at the tree (Approximation) • 3. Entering into discussion with temptation LWBC 01-13-08

  35. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 LWBC 01-13-08

  36. God Said: 16 And Jehovah God layeth a charge on the man, saying “of every tree of the garden eating thou dost eat freely; 17 and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it dying thou dost die.” The Woman Said:2 And the womansaithunto the serpent,“of thefruit of the trees of thegarden we do eat,3 and of the fruit of thetree which is in the midstof the garden God hathsaid, Ye do not eat of it,nor touch it, lest ye die.” 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 LWBC 01-13-08

  37. God said:“From anytree of the garden youmay eat freely” 2Ishahsaid:“fromthe fruit of the trees ofthe garden we mayeat,” (Conversation andmisquotationbyOmission) 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 LWBC 01-13-08

  38. God:“but from thetree of the knowledgeof good and evil youshall not eat..” Isha:‘but from thefruit of the tree whichis in the middle of thegarden. God has said.You should not eatfrom it or touch it” Misquotation by Substitution and Addition. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 LWBC 01-13-08

  39. God:“. . .for in theday that you eat fromit, dying you willdie.” Ishah: …”lest you die.”Lest: for fear that-used after anexpression denotingfear or apprehension.“Worried, lest sheshould be late” Misquotation bySubstitution andMitigation 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 LWBC 01-13-08

  40. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • Misquotation:3:2-3 • Eve was vulnerable to thissuggestion because she distorted theword of God. • She added to it“or touch it”(v. 3). • In her reply to [Satan’s] question, sheperverted and misquotedthree timesthedivine law to which she and Adam weresubject: LWBC 01-13-08

  41. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • Misquotation: • (1) She disparaged her privileges bymisquoting the terms of the Divinepermissionas to the other trees. • (2) Sheoverstated the restrictions by misquotingthe Divineprohibition. • (3) She mitigatedher obligations by misquoting the Divinepenalty. LWBC 01-13-08

  42. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • Misquotation: • God reveals His character through Hisword. • When we do not retain His word precisely,a distorted concept of God is the result. • This led Eve todoubtGod’sgoodness. • W.H. Griffith Thomas,Genesis: A Devotional Commentary,p. 48.fromTom Constable. (2003; 2003).Tom Constable's Expository Notes onthe Bible(Ge3:2).GalaxieSoftware LWBC 01-13-08

  43. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • The Serpent Elevates the Game • 4 The serpent said to the woman,“Yousurely will not die!” • (Contradiction) • 5“For God knows that in the day you eatfrom it your eyes will be opened, and youwould be like God. knowing good andevil.” • (Misapplication) LWBC 01-13-08

  44. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • Genesis 3:6 • When the woman saw that the tree wasgood for food, and that it was a delight tothe eyes, and that the tree was desirableto make one wise... • (Rationalization) LWBC 01-13-08

  45. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • John 2: 16 (NASB-95)16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the fleshand the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride oflife, is not from the Father, but is from the world. • 1 John 2:16 (NLT)For the world offers only the lust for physicalpleasure. The lust for everything we see, andpride in our possessions. These are not from theFather. They are from this evil world. LWBC 01-13-08

  46. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • Flesh, Eyes and Pride of Life • There is the lust of the flesh • The Flesh (notthe IGSNA, in this case) being distinguished fromthe eyes and the pride of life, suggests thepleasures of the bodyi.e, all those things thatexcite and inflame the pleasures of the flesh: • Lust Patterns: • Sexual Lust • Chemical Lust LWBC 01-13-08

  47. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • Flesh, Eyes and Pride of Life • There is the lust of the eyes… • The eyesare delighted with treasures: riches andrich possessions are craved by anextravagant eye. (This is the lust ofcovetousness). • Lust Pattern:Materialism LWBC 01-13-08

  48. 10 Steps to Temptation: The FirstSin in Genesis 3:1-6 • Capitulation • She took from its fruit and ate; and shegavealso to her husband with her, and he ate. • (Capitulation) LWBC 01-13-08

  49. Romans 7:15 • For what frequently works its way out of me, surprises me, because what I resolve to do, these things I am not continually practicing, but what I detest, these things I repeatedly do. Galatians 2002 LWBC 1-29-06 LWBC 01-13-08

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