God spoke of Satan’s defeat in Genesis 3 when the seed of woman (Christ) would crush the head of the Serpent. It reads, “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel (Genesis…
Desire is referred to in the New Testament in two different contexts. In and of itself, desire can be either good or bad, but the lust or desire of the flesh is the most common use of the word. But, as seen in Romans 7, there is also a desire of the mind or spirit….
Sin can always be avoided if proper preparations are made for it, but sin catches us unaware or with our guard down. Romans 7 “For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.” The sin is tempting the desires of the flesh to fulfill an appetite. James describes the process in…
Satan does not like opportunities of God’s grace and favor. His ordered human-centered system is anti-God and anti-Christ, and he sits at its head. Much of this world is religious, cultured, refined, and intellectual, but it is still anti-God and anti-Christ. But, his power in the dark world is not equal to God’s power. The power he…
That which makes the desires of the flesh appealing and inflates human pride is this world. The Bible identifies Satan as the god of this world. In addition, John explains, “and all that is of the world is the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life (1 John 2:15-17). These…
Adam and Eve went from a tranquil place of sweet fellowship with God to a place that would eventually become a den of iniquity, so bad that God would say He regretted ever making man. Human beings became enslaved by the prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2). This entire sequence of events…
Paul describes this warfare of the Christian whose desire is to please God. The desire is there. in Romans 7:21-24, “So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being, I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging…
The war that began at Eden when Satan deceived Eve is a war that the people of God continue to wage. A great victory has already been won by Jesus Christ. Satan is defeated, and our personal victory is assured if we fix our eyes on the captain of our salvation. For God’s people to…
Another theological debate that we often encounter during this discussion of the first sin introduced to the human race is the doctrine of personal election. To argue that God’s sovereignty requires His choice of certain individuals to be saved and others to be lost overlooks two truths. First, it ignores that man shared God’s image…
When God created Adam, He created a being neither good nor bad but with the capacity for either. Creating man in His image gave man the power to choose His own path, to create his own world, so to speak. The theological debate on Calvin’s inherited depravity assumes that Adam was created sinful or that…