The Enemy’s Schemes

 Genesis 3-5; Luke 2 

“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, ‘Did God really say, “You must not eat from any tree in the garden?”’ ’You will not surely die,’ the serpent said to the woman.’…But the Lord God called to the man, ‘Where are you?’ He answered, ‘I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.’”

Genesis 3:1, 4, 9, 10

The schemes of the enemy have not changed much over history. He still sows seeds of doubt and lies, and tries to separate us from the love of God. After they had sinned, Adam and Eve hid from God in fear and shame. This pattern has been repeated countless times throughout human history and in our lives today. Jesus came to set us free from the schemes of the enemy and restore our relationship with God. Jesus invites us to come away from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil where we are our own moral masters, and into a relationship of full surrender, faith, and obedience. Jesus has given us the Holy Spirit to empower us to resist the schemes of the enemy and to stand on the truth and authority of God’s Word.

This day, will we listen to the enemy, or to the Lord Jesus?

“Lord Jesus, deliver me from evil, for your glory.”