In continuing the series on the Lord's Prayer, we at Bronx Bethany are taking more time to consider the petition "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one" (see Matthew 6:13).
The devil is our enemy. As we discussed last week, his goal is to deceive us, disgrace us, and destroy us.
This week we will consider the enemy's strategy of deluding the people of God. As preparation for the rest of the week's blogs, let us re-visit the Genesis passage Pastor Sam used on Sunday (Genesis 3:1-7).
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’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
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