Click here for linkBeloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.
1 Peter 2:11
Why does Peter say fleshly lusts wage war against the soul? Because the result of war is death and the result of sin, fleshly lusts, is death.
Let’s go back to the first sin in human history. Genesis 3:1-7:
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’” The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die! “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 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. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.
God had created a good world, given Adam and Eve everything they needed for an abundant life, put them together naked in paradise and essentially said, “Have fun! Just don’t eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or you will die.” Satan came along and told them they wouldn’t die but would be like God. They believed Satan over God and chose death over life. We’ve all been doing the same ever since.
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