Hypocrites and Backsliders: Lesson 015 10 Steps to Temptation: The First Sin in Genesis 3:1-6.

Hypocrites and Backsliders:Lesson 015

10 Steps to Temptation: The First Sin in Genesis 3:1-6

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Temptation• Genesis 3:6 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 desirable to make one wise she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

• James 1:12-16 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

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The 3 Elements of Resisting Temptation

• 1. Knowing the mechanics of temptation.

• 2. Identifying Temptation when it happens, by knowing Sin Categorization.

• 3. The capability of Resisting through Biblical Alternative Thinking.

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The Mechanics of Temptation

• 14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

• Let us look at the mechanics of Temptation found in verse 14, by looking at the original Greek terminology:

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• James 1:14 But each one is tempted when he is carried away by his own lust and enticed.

• but each one = hekastos = each individual

• is tempted = peirazo (Pres Pass. Ind.) = receives a solicitation to do evil

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• when he is carried away = ezelko = taken in tow, pulled

• by = hupo = under the authority of

• his own = idios = his personal or his individual

• desire = epithumia = lust pattern

• and enticed = deleazo = baited

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Authority of the Desire

• If we extract out the most basic elements we see:• Personal desire + bait = Temptation• However, we must not miss the fact that it is the

“Authority” of the Personal Desire that is towing us along toward the bait.

• That “Authority of the Desire” is the key to understanding Hypocrites and Backsliders.

• Let us look at the very first Temptation and see how it works:

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal

Representation

The Spiritual Response The IGHNA ReactionThe Volitional Interlude

Spirituality CarnalityOR

Bait

Authority of Desire

Temptation

The Temptation Sequence

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• Genesis 3:1-6 (YLT) 1 And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?

• 2 And the woman saith unto the serpent, of the fruit of the trees of the garden we do eat, 3 and of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden God hath said, Ye do not eat of it, nor touch it, lest ye die.

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• 4 And the serpent saith unto the woman, dying, ye do not die, 5 for God doth know that in the day of your eating of it your eyes have been opened, and ye have been as God, knowing good and evil.

• 6 And the woman seeth that the tree is good for food, and that it is pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make one wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat;

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Soul Diagram

Thinking DecidingBeing

“and breathed into him the breath of lives and man became a living soul.” Gen 2:7

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• So, what did we see in the Genesis 3 Temptation that relates back to what we learned in James 1:14?

• Let’s start with the easy one:• What was the “Bait”? • What was the “Desire”?• Did she have “Her own Authority of Desire” towing

Eve?

Fruit of the Tree

Make me Wise

No, so what substituted for her own “Authority of Desire”?

Satan Why?

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• Because she was still “Innocent”.• She had no “Authority” of Desire, yet.• She did not receive that “Authority” until she committed the

first sin.• The first sin then “corrupted” her body, as we saw that the

judgments all related to “Dust”, from which Adam’s body was made and Eve derived.

• The Fruit they ate caused a change in their cellular structure, which, not only gave them a new “Authority” inside them, it, we learned, would be passed down from generation to generation -- it’s Genetic.

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• Since Eve had no “Authority of Desire”, we can study the passage to see the pattern of the First Temptation.

• Part of it is internal in Eve, in her “innocence”, and part of it was external, from the serpent and the Tree.

• But all of it came together to form a common, almost universal, pattern of temptation for all human beings, since.

• We will look at the “10 Steps” and then look at them in the First Temptation:

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• The 10 Steps • Insubordination • Approximation • Speculation • Consideration • Conversation

• Misquotation • – Omission • – Addition • – Substitution • – Mitigation • Contradiction • Misapplication • Rationalization • Capitulation

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10 Steps to Temptation

• 1. Insubordination:

• Removing yourself from the authority and protection of Divine Establishment and Divine Assets.

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• 2. Approximation

• Placing yourself in a physical or mental position to be tempted.

• Proverbs 4:14-15 (NKJV) Do not enter the path of the wicked, rind do not walk in the way of evil. Avoid it, do not travel on it: Turn away from it and pass on.

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• 3. Speculation

• (What if ...)

• Letting your mind wander from God and His Word.

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• 4. Consideration

• a matter weighed or taken into account when formulating an opinion or plan

• (Consideration of an alternative to the Word)

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• 5. Conversation

• Moral exchange of sentiments, observations, opinions, or ideas

• To discuss alternatives to God's mandates with the world, the flesh or the Devil.

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• 6. Misquotation: to inaccurately repeat a passage

• Omission: to leave out or leave unmentioned• Substitution: the act of putting in or using in

the place of another• Addition: the act or process of adding; to say

further• Mitigation: to lessen the effects of

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• 7. Contradiction

• to assert the contrary of; take issue with

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• 8. Misapplication

• an act of misapplying:

• to erroneously put into operation or effect

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• 9. Rationalization

• to attribute (one's actions) to rational and creditable motives without analysis of true and especially unconscious motives

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• 10. Capitulation

• the act of surrendering or yielding

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation

The “Obedience” Response

The “Disobedience”Reaction

The VolitionalInterlude

Communion SeparationOR

The Sequence of Temptation for The Sequence of Temptation for EveEve

Genesis 3: 1 (YLT) And the serpent hath been subtile (crafty) above every beast of the field which Jehovah hath made and he saith unto the woman, 'Is it true that God hath said, “Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?”

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• Before The Serpent Said ...

• 1. She was not with God or her Man, the only two she should have rapport with. (Insubordination)

• 2. She was at the tree. (Approximation)

• 3. She wouldn’t be near The Tree, if she wasn’t speculating about it. (Speculation)

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation






Insubordination

Approximation

Speculation

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation






Consideration

…he saith unto the woman, 'Is it true that God hath said, “Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?”

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation






•2 Ishah said: “from the fruit of the

trees of the garden we may eat,”

Conversation and misquotation by Omission

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation






•‘but from the fruit of the tree which

is in the middle of the garden.

God has said. You should not eat

from it or touch it”

•Misquotation by Substitution

and Addition.

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation






…”lest you die.”

Misquotation by Substitution and Mitigation

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation






Contradiction

The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die!”

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation






Misapplication

“For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you would be like God, knowing good and evil.”

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation






Rationalization

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 desirable to make one wise...

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