(The Church in the Last Days) 01 - Tree of Life or Tree of Death — Milton Green

Revelation, Tradition, and the Word of God

When anyone receives revelation in the Word of God, it sometimes conflicts with what he has previously been taught. This causes you to have to deal with old traditions or wrong teachings. These tapes may contain some new light from God's Word, and it may be opposed to some traditions you have previously learned.

Therefore, follow through these messages in your Bible, in sequence, in order that you may be able to make a choice for the Word of God, rather than the traditions of men. This is tape number one in a series.

We urge you to listen to all the tapes in the series in numerical order, so that the whole teaching can be received and understood. Listening to a part of this series, or to the tapes out of sequence, can lead to a misunderstanding of the nature, the intent, and the importance of the series.

Praise, Liberty, and the Living Hope

...on a rock, making her footsteps firm. He's put a new song in her mouth. Revelation said he's going to sing a new song, didn't he? It's going to be a song of praise for our God. Because we're more concerned about praising him and what he thinks, and his approval, than we are of the approval of what anyone else thinks.

Just to be free in the Lord, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there's liberty. And there's liberty and freedom, and we've never seen praise. Brother John, like I believe it, God's going to show us about praise.

I don't think we've, just like everything else, that he wants to teach us and show us, as we just draw near. So many, O Lord my God, are the wonders that thou hast done, and our thoughts are toward us.

There's none to compare with you. Our ears thou hast opened up, and then we said, Behold, Lord, we come to thee. In the scroll of the book it is written of us. We delight to do thy will, O my God, because thy precious, precious, precious word is in our hearts.

Isn't that wonderful? Praise Jesus. That's good, isn't it? Praise our Lord. Praise our Lord. Praise the Lord. So, through this grace, and this love, and this divine appointment, and mercy of God, through Jesus Christ, through the cross, we've been born again into a living hope of the resurrection of Jesus, and our inheritance is incorruptible.

It's undeviled. Fadeth not away. It's reserved in heaven for us. We are kept by the power of God through faith and through salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. Now, right now, although we've never seen him, we love you, Lord, and although we don't see you right now, we trust you, and we believe you, and we rejoice with a joy unspeakable, full of glory, receiving the end of our faith, even the salvation of our soul, because we've been redeemed.

Hallelujah. Praise Jesus. Boy, it's good. Is that good? Praise the name of Jesus. We've been redeemed with the precious blood of Jesus, who without blemish, without spot, we've been born again, not a corruptible seed, but incorruptible seed by the word of God that liveth in about us forever.

Jesus Christ is a cornerstone. He's a living stone. He's been rejected of men, but he's chosen a God and precious, and we are lively stones. We are living stones that make up a spiritual house. That's that temple.

To offer up spiritual sacrifice is acceptable of God in Jesus Christ. We're a chosen generation, a royal priesthood. We're peculiar folks. To show forth praises unto the only one that deserves any praise, and that leaves out all repetitions.

Just continually praise him. Repetition, isn't it good, the word? You see, that's why you came here. I knew it'd excite you, because I know that's why you came here, to hear the word. And that's what I love so much about you.

Prayer for Grace, Healing, and Freedom

Let's just praise him, and just pray together with me. Let's pray about this meeting. And let's just honor the Lord, and you'll be free. And let's just close your eyes, and just shut out everything except the Lord Jesus Christ.

And let's just pray and praise him, and just be thankful, and just adore him, and just love him. I just thank you, Lord, for your presence here now, in Jesus' name, Lord. In the name of Jesus, I just want to bless you, Lord, and I just thank you for each one here.

I just thank you for the oneness that I sense here in Jesus. And Lord, I want to pray for each person here right now, Lord, that your grace and your spirit, Lord, we don't have anything that we can change anybody's life with, except to bring you, the life changer, the healer and the deliverer, and your word, that's going to perform its work in them.

And Lord, we just trust in you to do this, because we believe we're obedient in our hearts. And Lord, I just pray that you quicken this word to each person's heart. And Lord, I just ask you over each one right now, in the name of Jesus, would come liberty and freedom right now.

Folks, the Lord wants me to lead you in something. I'm telling you something, folks. It's something we're going to talk about in this meeting right now. Why don't you just lift up your head here just a minute?

I've got to tell you something. Folks, when you judge, you're judged right then. You've got a problem right then, with the powers of darkness, the moment it comes out your mouth. When you condemn, condemnation's on you right then.

When you don't minister mercy, when you're unmerciful, it'll come out your mouth. You can always tell when somebody's not merciful. This situation's on you right then. So I believe, if we're coming here before God, that we ought to have these things right before Him before we start in the Word here.

There's no use in giving the powers of darkness ground to ride in and interfere with confusion and all these other things. Because, something I need to confess to you right now. God's done a bunch to me since I saw you last time.

Repentance, Hostility, and Religious Manipulation

And I'm not going to justify it, but there's some things that was wrong in my life when I was here the last time. As a matter of fact, the last two times. The Lord had, ever since I've been a Christian, a young Christian, there had been opposition and things that I didn't understand.

Because I thought His people, it represented the Lord. And not understanding about the powers of darkness, you know it's always easier to see what's wrong with someone else than it is yourself. And I knew there was a hardness there.

It wasn't there when I was a new Christian. It wasn't there. Because I just, I mean, I just, a tree of life, love just flowed from me. And if any of you need to sit down, just go ahead and do it. And I'm not going to take very long.

But I'm just, I just need, what I need to repent right here in Oklahoma City. And so, in this situation, I got where I didn't trust a lot of people. I can look back now and I can see what the reason of not understanding some things.

But now, the word has become more clear to me. And about many things. And particularly, because of the love and people that's walking with me, have taken so many things off of me that I was holding, I had on me in the flesh.

And trying to work through. You see, when you find yourself in a bad place, you don't run from it. You just have to stand there and just look to God until He delivers you from it. So, what happened to me?

Hostility. And it harbored some things in my heart. Because, see, any time there's anointing, and there's religious folks around, I don't care who it is. If there are religious people around, they're going to box up that anointing and they're going to use it.

For whatever things, you know, and everything. And I was aware that, I was disappointed so many times. Because what I would think to be something very sincere. And then we'd get over in it a little while and I would see it was a point to someone but not Jesus.

And this was a very frustrating thing to me. I didn't understand when I moved to Texas just some time back. I didn't even understand how the denomination that I was in operated. I didn't even understand how it functioned.

Now that's how smart I am, see. I didn't understand it. And so these things were coming against me. And, see, these situations would lead me into situations where betrayal was in my heart. And I'd try to explain it and they'd come back with persuasive stuff.

You know, now, you know, shape up, you know. And sort of things. And these kind of things. And so, see, I couldn't express. And it would betray him what was in my heart. And God was, something, one thing's in my heart.

And I was being told I had to go another way. And so in this thing, now I'm not justifying it because I sinned. Because I built up anger, hostility. And I was critical, condemning. And when I took the precious word that God's grace let me have.

I would come up here and I'd stand up here kind of macho. You know, I was going to make it work. Chunk. And I stood up, you know, kind of like my old steel rigger days, you know, back there. You know, if not one person be away, now I'm going to say what God says.

But see, folks, there's a problem with that. Jesus, mercy and grace, they don't mess. It's been on all of you to some degree or another. But without love, see. And there's one thing I noticed. That in the very beginning when I started these seminars and things like that.

You know, I know 90 or more about the scripture that I was sharing, you know, months ago. But God was doing more. Because simply I hadn't built up all that hostility and things. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

So see, folks, it's not your will or my will. It's God's will. It's going to work. And I'm going to tell you it's going to work. I'm going to tell you it's going to work because I found out a secret. And I'm going to tell you what it is.

Boy, I just let Jesus make it work. And I'm going to tell you something. If you repent, and it doesn't bother me one bit. Because I'm zero coming in and I'm standing before you zero. The only thing is Jesus.

And I'm going to tell you something. His grace is all over this place right now. And I'm going to go ahead and tell you something else. This is going to be one of the most exciting ten days you ever spent in your life.

And I'm going to tell you right now. And let me tell you something else. I'm going to do things that you ain't never heard of before. I mean, it's just good. Now, I want to ask you, will you forgive me?

Will you forgive me? And, Lord, there's no false humility about it. I ask you to forgive me. And I ask the whole world to forgive me. And I just turn in my heart. And I'm truly, truly sorry. Because I want to see people come to Jesus with all their hearts.

Amen. And the reason I come back here to Oklahoma City, and I'll come back this soon, and I planned it even while I was still here, is because I saw the Lord doing such a work here. But I know that you're going to go through some things, just like I've gone through some things.

And we're going to learn something about overcoming and loving and helping one another. And I think we're in a lot better place than last time we were here. Because we know a lot of things we didn't know last time.

And it's coming back. It's grace. And, you know, if we honor God and acknowledge where this comes from, ain't nobody has to have reputation in these kind of things. It's just God. Isn't it? If it's not God, you might as well go home.

Huh? Isn't that right? So ain't nothing anybody can boast about or manipulate about or anything else. Is there? And so I'm telling you what, he's changed my heart. I'm telling you what. Now, he's not through with it.

I see enough in the Word to see that I'm not where I'm supposed to be yet. But I want you to know I'm going to the light. Can you hear me from where you're sitting? I mean, I'm headed for the light. I'm repentant.

I'm, boy, I'm telling you what, I just have so much grace of Jesus on me, I can hardly stand it. I just might do one of those fits or something. When I get to thinking about the grace of God and how good he's been, you ought to have seen what God said to us last night.

You just ought to have heard it. I mean, boy, that's something. When God, say, tell a whole bunch of you at one time, now, say, he was going down the wrong fork and he moved over, and this is good. That's what he said last night.

I mean, God said it. He said it to all of us. Now, when you hear from what God's saying, when you hear what God's saying, folks, it just, you can do a whole lot of moving, can't you? The thing is hearing God.

Confession, Forgiveness, and Spiritual Warfare

Well, can we finish praying? Get back up again. Now, I want to tell you something, folks. Let me tell you something I know right here, and I want to ask the Spirit of God to bear witness. Our conversations of splendor and gossip and then nitpicking at things about people, our conversations of splendor, conversations of unforgiveness, criticisms, God has given me a course, folks.

You've got hell on you with these kind of things going on right now in your life. Is that plain? I want to tell you something, folks. You're wasting your time to walk around in things like that. Do you think you're going to get anything from God?

I want to tell you the powers of darkness are all over you, and I'm going to tell you right now it's going to set you free here. I mean right now to begin with, if you just really be sorry in your heart right here tonight.

I mean, you'll change right there. You'll just, things just going to flutter all off of you right here right now tonight. Now, is this a good way to come in before God? Who shall ascend to the heel of the Lord?

He that hath cleansed hands and a pure heart. Let's clean our hands and purify our hearts, and then let Spirit of God, we've heard enough men, let's hear from God, amen? Amen. And let's just get right before God.

Now, bow your heads again and close your eyes. Oh, I just praise God. Praise Jesus. All right, now I want you to be praying, now each one of you, to pray before God about unforgiveness you may have toward anyone.

Now, God's not going to answer prayer one for you until you get this ready, and so you can just keep from being hindered. This unforgiveness. And choose with your will to love and forgive everyone that's ever hurt you or disappointed, whatever.

Praise the name of Jesus. Praise God in Jesus' name. I pray a repentance, godly repentance will come over each one of us right now. Each one of us, Lord, in Jesus' name. Praise Jesus. All right, now with that unforgiveness, just ask him to forgive you that slander and criticism that went along.

When you're unforgiven it comes out of your mouth. When it's in your heart it comes out of your mouth. And the slander and criticism, ask the Lord to forgive you for that. Praise you, sweet Jesus. Criticism and slander.

Be sorry you spoke each word because you know who put that in your mind to speak each word against somebody? The powers of darkness. The powers of darkness put these things in your mind and then they get into your heart and then they come out of your mouth.

All right, the next thing is condemning others. Just deal with that condemnation and not showing mercy, kindness, being harsh. Boy, that was a way of life for me. Harshness. Oh, dear God. Do not condemn, you will not be condemned.

Pardon, and you will be pardoned. Be merciful, and your Father will be merciful to you. All right, now here comes the big one, folks, judging others. Folks, if you've got judgment you've placed on others, you've placed oppression on them.

You've sent the powers of darkness against them. Now, the only way for them not to be able to lie, or for them to be walking in love and blessing their enemies, which I do right now, just choose with your will to bless your enemies and ask the Lord to forgive you for judging others.

It's so easy to judge others because the enemy puts your mind full of it if you're not taking thoughts captive. Judging others. Really repent in your heart. Don't just acknowledge these things in your mind.

Really repent. Turn from it in your heart. It's not necessary. You've got all you can do to take care of your heart. You don't need, you're not the judge. God's the judge and the Word's the judge. Isn't that right?

I used to think I was the judge. And I like being free too much to do that anymore. Praise Jesus. I'm going to tell you a bunch that's going to come off of you. A lot of things are going to change right here.

Now, just be praying. Judgment. Gossip. Gossip. Just always caring gossip this, gossip that. Put that gossip in there because that's just words. And being unmerciful. Y 'all ready to get that stuff off of you right now?

I mean, it's coming off. All right, just keep your head down. Keep your head down and your eyes closed and just close out everything except the Lord Jesus Christ right now. He's the healer delivered. Just close it all out now.

Everything's closed out of your mind now except Jesus. Now, you just have your focus on Him. Now, just follow me and let's just pray to the Lord. Heavenly Father. We come before the throne of grace. And we come to you with all of our hearts.

And if we come with all of our hearts, there's no room for unforgiveness, slander, judgment, condemnation, gossip, being unmerciful, and anger. Now, just put that anger and pride in there. Just ask the Lord to forgive you of those.

And now in the name of Jesus, Lord, we come to cleanse our hands, purify our hearts, confess our sins, possess the Lamb, and to receive healing and deliverance. And right now in the name of Jesus, Lord, before your throne of grace, to receive help in time of need, I ask your forgiveness for the unforgiveness that I've had toward others.

That I've harbored these things in my heart. That I've had resentment and bitterness, criticisms, slander, condemning, judging, gossiping, being angry, unmerciful, and walking in pride and selfishness, rebellion.

And in Jesus' name, Lord, I choose with my will to love and forgive everyone who's ever hurt me or disappointed me. And Lord Jesus, right now I want to ask you, Father, to forgive me for seeking the approval of men.

And when I seek the approval of men, Lord, and other things, I'm rejecting you. Forgive me, Lord, right now for rejecting you. And I trust your grace and I trust your word and mercy right now to forgive me of all these sins.

And right now in the name of Jesus, I receive forgiveness. I humble myself to receive grace. I choose with all my heart to walk in the fruit of the Spirit. And now in the name of Jesus, I lift up my hands to you, Lord Jesus.

I receive grace, forgiveness, the word, and the blood. And just say it, I've got it. And now in the name of Jesus, I'm releasing all these word curses, everyone I've spoken against. They're released now.

And now in the name of Jesus, I don't want these works of darkness working in me anymore. And right now in the name of Jesus, they're all sealed by the blood. They're separated. They're exposed by the blood.

And there they go. They're released right now. There they go. There they go. Just lift up your hands. Praise the name of Jesus. Hallelujah to the name of Jesus. Praise the name of Jesus. Praise the name of Jesus.

Hallelujah to the Lord. Hallelujah. Praise the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Praise you, Lord. Praise you, Lord. Bless the name of Jesus. Praise the Lord. We might as well get some more of them while we're at it, ain't it?

Deliverance, Religious Curses, and the Approval of Men

Now, did you notice something coming off you like a cubby of quail or something? Do you see this lightness and everything? God doesn't like sin. When you judge, you're a judge right then. Folks, go open your mouth and watch what happens about your life there.

See what happens when you go and condemn others and everything. I wish I'd known this a long time ago. And I tell you what, we're going to cover some of that in the Word. We might just do it today. Voice is good.

Now, let's get to confusion. Lord Jesus, forgive us of the sins. That's giving ground to these mind-binding spirits, distraction, mind-wandering, and all this oppression and confusion that's come to our minds.

Lord Jesus, we ask forgiveness. And right now, in the name of Jesus, from your throne, we have the mind of Christ. We lift up our hands. Lift up your hands. And in Jesus' name, Lord, we receive forgiveness.

And now we release them. There they go. Just say they're gone. Just say they're gone. Right now, in Jesus' name. Praise the name of Jesus. Hallelujah to the name of Jesus. Bless the name of the Lord. Confusion's gone.

All mind-binding spirits are gone. Praise the name of Jesus. Now, do you know something? A lot of folks have got some, How's this to be in me? Isn't that all right? Praise Jesus. Get what you can hear.

Amen? Now, listen. What about this spirit of harlotry? Did you think, many people haven't got freedom yet, they're still living with that thing, and let's just get rid of it. Just say, Lord Jesus, forgive me of my heart, trusting men, traditions, theology, intellect, academic, and all other things.

Any other things, rather. Besides totally trusting you, Lord Jesus. Now, Jesus is the head of every man. And now, in the name of Jesus, I renounce every cover that's not in the order of God. And I now renounce, and I no longer want these religious curses that come on me by letting men, church, denomination, or any of these things have my heart beside Jesus.

I renounce all idols. And in the name of Jesus, I receive forgiveness, Lord. And I renounce all these religious curses.

I lift up my hands to you, Lord Jesus. And I release all these religious curses right now. There they go. In Jesus' name, I renounce the spirit of heresy. There you go. The spirit of heresy is gone in the name of Jesus.

Praise the name of Jesus. Bless the name of Jesus. Praise Jesus. Folks, I'm going to tell you something. When you go back out, let me just tell you something. And you find your mouth.

Doing the same old thing of slandering and gossiping, criticizing and things. Don't do this. Why don't you just feel your head up there right now and feel a little lightness around it. The pressure, some of the pressure, you're not free totally, but some of the pressure's over you.

And I want you to know when you, I want you to remember that touch that you give right there and this freedom you have and I want you to know when you go slander and condemn and unforgiveness and don't walk in love, I want you to know it's gone.

And you're walking in rebelling to God in your heart. And this is why we manipulate things and call it church. As we sit around and count each other and everything, it moves and God's not doing nothing.

Now, folks, I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you something. We're going to learn so much more about grace and the love of Jesus in this time. You know, there'll be some new things in the world, but this is going to be the main thing that we have to share with you is walking, overcoming.

We've got some things to say about overcoming because we've been overcoming. We've got corn in our crib so we can talk about corn, can't we? And so we're all going to learn from one another. This is going to give us the opportunity to fellowship with one another.

What is God telling you? What's He saying to you? He just doesn't work through the man that comes to town. There's different ways. Let's all hear from one another and fellowship with one another. So, are you feeling free?

And that good? Do you want to walk in it? All right. You're going to hear about it. Now let's just pray and just thank the Lord for this, okay? Father, in Jesus' name, I just want to thank you for each one of us, Lord, for the grace and mercy that you have on us.

Lord, I just want to thank you for liberty and freedom. I just want to thank you for your word and I just want to thank you that, Lord, we can just love you and receive this grace as you lead us in all truth.

Now, Father, we ask for the anointing and the quickening of your word. We receive the fruit of the Spirit, the weapons of our warfare. We receive the works of Calvary, Lord, and we just receive this total liberty and freedom right now because, Lord, this time we want to cleanse our hearts.

We want to cleanse our hands and purify our hearts, Lord, that we can walk in a manner worthy of you to please you and bear fruit in all good works and continue to increase in the knowledge of your precious, precious word.

That's what we come to receive, Lord. And we just want to boast in you and I just thank you for each one here, all the works of darkness, every word, curse, and spell is now on these people. All the words, it's been spoken on them right now.

I break these word curses in Jesus' name. We choose to love our enemies. We release them right now in the name of Jesus. All the works of darkness is assigned in this meeting, against this meeting, are removed.

We hold the word, and the blood is a hedge. And now I speak your blessings, peace, grace, love, healing, and leverage here in Jesus' name. Folks, let me just... I tell you, just turn to Genesis with me.

Genesis, the Two Trees, and the Sin-Cursed Nature

We'll start there and then we'll go over to Revelation. Can we start in Genesis? Okay. Now, most of you, the things that I share, I'm just going to review some things because I want to tell you what. You cannot receive what's coming up unless you understand what the basic message is.

And this is something that's always kind of... that a lot of people... Just look at me just a second. A lot of people haven't understood what we've gone through in this thing because I'm so glad that most all of you have heard the basic message because, see, you just go through it, you go through it, and there's no way, there's no way that you can go on to other things if people have not got that part.

Now, if you have half of the congregation or something like that that's never even heard, you just blow them away. They don't even know where you're going or what you're saying. You understand what I mean?

And so this is... And I'm going to tell you something. Every time we go through it, I see it clearer. And this is what I hear other people saying, and we're not going to do too much of it, but I want you to remember something.

Even the basics of this thing is just changing tremendously all the time. So you don't... Don't let your mouth say, I already know, you know, and I already know, and I already know because the same scripture that I'm seeing over and over all the time are just changing tremendously these days.

The problem is that when we think we know, when you get where you know, you don't know what you ought to know. You know it? Okay. Now we started out. We just want to just deal with this sin-cursed nature.

There's just a few people here that haven't even... haven't been here before, and it's going to refresh your mind that if you don't understand what the sin nature is, you can't understand what repentance is.

And if you don't understand what repentance is, tell me how you can know Jesus. Just tell me how you can know Jesus. That would just be impossible. It's a form of godliness to think you know Jesus. When you don't understand the sin nature and you don't understand repentance.

I mean, if you don't have a repentant heart, really. All right. Now, in the beginning, Adam was created, and God has never created anything that He tests the heart. Now, He made Adam in His image and likeness, which we know in verse 1...

I mean, chapter 1, Genesis 1, 26. God said, Let us make man in our image and our likeness. Now, let me explain that image and likeness, what it was. This Adam walked like... and talked like God. He walked and talked like God.

In other words, this man is holy and blameless. Adam is holy and blameless. Now, that's important that you remember that, because that's what you're told to be. Is that right? He had... In other words, what he had is a pure heart.

He didn't have his heart going after... I mean, Jesus... I mean, well, the Father had all His heart. Amen? The Father had all His heart. Now, that's what holy and blameless is. Nothing else has your heart except the Lord.

Amen? Now, we see him... They were in chapter 2. He tells him about the two different trees here. Out of the ground, the Lord God calls to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food, the tree of life, also in the midst of the garden, and also the tree of knowledge and good and evil.

Now, what is that tree of knowledge and good and evil? You know that's a tree of death. Now, folks, it's still around today. You, too, have a choice. You know that he's going to go eat off the... Well, Eve is going to eat off the tree and she gives it to him.

But this is something you encounter every day, the tree of life and the tree of death, as we'll see. All right, now we know the river flowed from Eden to water the garden. Now, let's look at verse 15.

Then the Lord God took the man and He put him in the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it. And 16, and the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Eat nothing from any tree of the garden you may freely, but from this tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat from.

And the day that you eat from it, what do you think is going to happen to you? He didn't say you might die or perhaps you could die. He didn't say lest you die. You know what you're looking at? The gospel right there.

He says, you shall surely die. Folks, please don't forget that. When God says that something a certain way, it's the enemy through traditions and many things like that that wants to bring a contradiction to what God says.

The enemy brings the opposite of everything that God said. He brings the opposite in your heart and your will gets to choose between them. But He said, Don't eat off this tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Does everyone here know that Satan led Eve to eat off of this tree? He led her to eat off this tree? What's on this tree? The lust of flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boast of pride and life. What is the lust of flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boast of pride and life?

That's all rebellion to God. Every rebellion there is to God is within the realm of the lust of flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boast of pride and life. What other task would Satan have but rebellion to God?

So how's he going to do it? He's going to come and tempt, he will come and entice, as we see over in chapter 3. Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the beasts He ate the field which the Lord God had made, and he said to the woman,.

And here opens the mouth of Satan, Hath God really said? And so then he perverts the word of God and said, You have not eaten from any tree of the garden. God didn't say that. He's always perverting God.

I mean, the powers of darkness are perverting the word of God today. And the woman, well, let's just look and see in verse 3. He said, From, this is Satan, from the fruit, this is Eve saying, 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 lest you die.

God didn't say, Lest you die. He said, You would surely die. Now I want you to look at me here just a second. She's having an encounter with Satan, and Satan is going to test, her heart is being tested to whether the Lord has all her heart or whether not.

And so Satan is leading her to this tree of death. And he says something totally opposite of what God said. Now here's your first doctor of demons. Would you think doctrines of demons would be a doctrine opposite of what God's gospel was?

Well, another gospel, another doctrine, well you're fixing to see it right here. Here's the first doctrine of Satan in the word right here in verse 4. And the serpent said to the woman, A direct contradiction to the word of God, the gospel, You surely shall not die.

Now, You surely shall not die. You can go participate in rebellion in your heart. Now look at me, folks. It's okay for you to go over. You don't have to be holy and blameless. I know that Jesus is coming after a holy and blameless bride.

That's the one He's going to come after that eagerly awaits Him. But, You surely shall not die. You can be in rebellion to God. You can walk in rebellion to God. You can have idols in your heart. You surely shall not die.

And so we see in the verse there that the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes are both a pride of life. The woman saw that the tree was good for food. There's the lust of the flesh and the delight of the eyes.

There's the lust of the eyes and the tree was desirable to make one wise. And there's the pride of life. Sin and rebellion came on Eve. She gave to Adam and rebellion came into their heart. They were no longer innocent.

They were no longer pure. As a matter of fact they went to hide and they realized they were naked. Is that correct? Now, Adam was cursed. They were cursed because their heart chose rebellion to God. And so what happened is that all mankind received the nature of Satan.

The world today has the nature of Satan. And in this nature of Satan is the people walk and talk like flies. And they're fruit. Let me tell you something. I want you to understand something. See, it's with the heart that man believes unto righteousness.