EZ Zwayne

God said, you can eat of every tree except for one.

But the way Satan angled it, he made it sound like God is like, look, you can't eat of every tree.

He said, you can eat of every except for one.

So he created discontent in them.

Then it was disbelief.

No, no, no, you won't surely die the way God said that they would.

And that's what Satan does.

He makes us think that the consequences for sexual sin aren't really what God says they're going to be.

You know, 1 Corinthians 6.18 says, "...every sin that a man commits, he commits outside of the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body."

So scripture is setting sexual sin apart as a distinct sin.

And why is that?

Because in the context of the chapter, he's saying that when you commit sexual sin, you're joining Christ with a harlot because we're the temple of the Holy Spirit and Christ dwells in us.

And so it's a serious thing.

And then finally, it's deification.

What did he end up saying to Eve?

No, you will become like God.

And that's the temptation of autonomy, of, you know, my body, my choice in a sense.

I can do what I want and it's destructive.

And then, you know, it leads to all kinds of cultural ramifications because we're not people of self-control.

We're not people who are walking in the fear of God.