Listen to God first!

Six thousand years ago God placed Adam in the garden. As a test of obedience, he placed two trees, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Then God said to the first man Adam, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:16–17).

God put before Adam the way of life and the way of death. Then God showed Adam he was alone (no animal was made in God’s image), so God made the first woman (Eve) from his side.

Now the devil in the form of a serpent came to Eve (Adam was with her) and tempted them to disobey God and eat the fruit they were told not to eat. Note we read in Genesis 3:6, “So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.”

Eve (and obviously Adam who was there) looked at the evidence—the fruit. It looked good. They decided to listen to the devil and interpret the evidence themselves and determined it was good for them to eat. But they should have remembered what God said and obeyed his Word and rejected the temptation to eat. Because Adam disobeyed, death came into the world.

It’s a reminder we should always listen to God first and judge what others are saying against God’s Word and not the other way round.

Today, so many of our Christian leaders/academics listen to what fallible man says about the origin of life and the universe, and they trust man’s interpretation of the evidence. It looks good to them. Then they accept the lies of the devil and reinterpret God’s Word and partake of compromise that undermines Scripture and causes many to reject God’s Word thus leading to death, second death—eternal separation from God.