Monday | 25 May 2026
Satan masqueraded as the father of an alternative word. His aim was for his word to replace the word of God, together with its corresponding faith and hope that came from the Father, through Christ.
Eve was deceived and mesmerised, through enchantment, into believing that the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil would sustain her life apart from God. That is, she perceived its fruit to be good for food so that her life would not be dependent upon God. She also believed that it would give her power to fulfil her desires and expectations, being pleasant to her eyes. She, likewise, considered that the fruit would make her wise as a person who could judge between good and evil. Gen 3:6. She thought that this would become her role as the one who could make a difference between good and evil.
In contrast to the woman, Adam was not deceived. 1Ti 2:14. Rather, in disobedience to the command of God, he departed from the continued choice of faith, hope, and love. This was the culture of fellowship that he had with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit at the tree of life. This daily choice had been the expression of his freedom.
Through Adam’s disobedience, another law was established in the heart of every person who would be brought to birth through procreation. This other law brings them into bondage to the law of sin and death. Rom 7:23. Paul wrote, ‘Through one man [Adam] sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned [being in bondage to the law of sin and death, through the exercise of another law].’ Rom 5:12.
Sin‑sickness, leading to death, became an ‘infirmity’ afflicting every person who would ever be born. Even as Christians, as a result of ‘the other law’, our human infirmity is to misappropriate the word of God for our own ends. It is the drive to covet what we believe will give us life, and then exchange the word of our sanctification for a projection.
Further Study:
Romans 7
References:
Gen 3:6
So, when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
1Ti 2:14
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.
Rom 7:23
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Rom 5:12
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned.