You Will Not Surely Die

It is so obvious that satans tactic is to give us some truth wrapped in a lie.  To tell Eve, as he tells us that "You will not surely die" is telling Eve that sin does not cause death, but that she will have divine revelation and her eyes will be open to what He sees when she disobeys what her creator has told her to do.

Isn't that in essence what we do everyday when we sin?  We disobey our maker, our Father, our Savior, believing that we have better insight into life, believing that we have more wisdom than the Lord God almighty, when in fact the very thing that He has asked us not to do, He didn't ask us not to do out of law or authoritarian oppression, He asked us not to do because He loves us and understands that there are things that we simply don't want to see, there are things that having our eyes open to them creates an eyehold, foothold into an area of sin or bondage that could lead us away from Him  but will absolutely cause a barrier between us and Him.

Praise God that we have the blood to cover us and all of our sins have already been covered through His suffering, but that is not the point.  The point is that our love for Him should cause us to desire to obey all that He give us insight to so that we can know and understand the Heart of our Lord and Savior and walk in the cool of the day with Him all the days of our Life.

We can have the divine revelation, when we walk with Him daily and seek to know and understand His Heart.  And if, but only if, we Know Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior will we be able to say " we will not surely die".

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made.
 He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 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.

(Genesis 3:1-6 ESV)