Instead of saying, “Ye shall not surely die,” what he said in effect was, “Ye certainly shall not die. Why, that is just absolutely impossible!”

He questions the love of God and the goodness of God: “If God is good, why did He put this restriction down?”

The serpent implies that God is not righteous when he says, “You will not die.”

And he questions the Holiness of God by saying, “You’re going to be gods yourselves, for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”

The thing that Eve did was to add to the Word of God.

The liberal and the atheist take from the Word of God, and God has warned against that.

The cults (and some fundamentalists, by the way) add to the Word of God, and God warns against that.

There are those who say that today we are saved by law.

They argue, “Yes, it is by faith, but it is faith plus something else”—and they are apt to come up with anything.

The Word of God says: “Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent” (John 6:29).

How important this is!

The serpent very subtly contradicts God, and he substitutes his word for God’s word.

The Book of Romans teaches the fact of the obedience of faith.

Faith leads to obedience, and unbelief leads to disobedience.

Doubt leads to disobedience—always.

It is time to open our hearts, minds, and souls to the Word Of GOD.



Our scripture will be coming from:



Genesis 3:4-5 KJV

[4] And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

[5] For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.



Now it is time for our verse break down:



Genesis 3:4
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

Ye shall not surely die — He proceeded, not only to assure her of perfect impunity, but to promise great benefits from partaking of it.

Proclaims an outright denial of the Word of God; as God had preached to Adam, Satan now preaches to Eve; Jesus called Satan a liar, which probably refers to this very moment [Jn. 8:44].

The first part of the book of Genesis is general history (also called primeval history).

As Moses introduced new people or nations throughout this section, the emphasis very quickly moved to the person or entity that he intended to feature at that point.

For example, the accounts of the first sin and the first murder are set forth in Genesis 3 and 4.



Genesis 3:5
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

your eyes shall be opened — His words meant more than met the ear. This caused Eve to be inquisitive.

In one sense her eyes were opened; for she acquired a direful experience of “good and evil” - of the happiness of a holy, and the misery of a sinful, condition.

But he studiously concealed this result from Eve, who, fired with a generous desire for knowledge, thought only of rising to the rank and privileges of her angelic visitants.

This suggests the attainment of higher wisdom.

This, in effect says, “You shall be Elohim.” It was a promise of Divinity.

God is Omniscient, meaning that His knowledge of evil is thorough, but not by personal experience.

By His very Nature, He is totally separate from all that is evil.

The knowledge of evil that Adam and Eve would learn would be by moral degradation, which would bring wreckage.

While it was proper to desire to be like God, it is proper only if done in the right way, and that is through Faith in Christ and what He has done for us at the Cross.