Satan's First Line of Offense

Have you ever wondered where attacks from Satan will come first? Don't think that he'll appear as a guy in a red suit with a pitchfork, or even as some hideous looking demon. No, Satan will disguise himself as an angel of light (in fact his name: Lucifer, comes from a Latin word for 'light bringer').

There are many lines of attack: our own flesh, temptation, lies, and even sometimes frontal assault. But I think some instruction from the first book of the Bible is revealing:

Genesis 3:1 "Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?""

You know the story from there - Eve got in a theological argument with the serpent and ended up making a mistake that has cost each one of us a great deal. But I want to notice how the attack came - and make no mistake - this was an attack.

Satan questioned God's Word. "Did God actually say ..." He wanted Eve to doubt something God had said. Satan still does that to this day. I hear people all the time claim that the Bible is not the Word of God. I reject that for a number of reasons, including the fact that Jesus Himself validated the Old Testament, and His apostles (eye witnesses) validated the New Testament as Scripture.

While there isn't space here to debate that topic I just want us to be aware that when doubts are brought up about the validity of the Bible as God's Word, the source of the doubt may not be an honest intellectual or spiritual pursuit of truth (that's great when it happens) but a diabolical attempt to get you to do like Eve: doubt the word of God. Don't make that mistake, it can be fatal (in more ways than one!).

Pastor Tom