When Was This Written?

Introduction

last week-environment

this week-tactics of sin

a few cultural explanations

Where It Hurts

Sin uses any tactic

Cultural explanation - women in Roman Society

Is desire itself a bad thing?

• Desires themselves are not bad things

Desires themselves are not bad things

Created with desire - ordered desires - that enable us to have healthy relationships, healthy work, healthy worship

& 2

Sin uses our desires to separate us from God

Sin uses our desires to separate us from God

Sin uses our Desires to separate us from God

Desire is not the issues; it is the disordering of desires; when desires become warped from their original design

Oppositional

Sin openly opposes God

But it doesn’t always look like it

Did God really say? Gets Eve to quote God correctly

Jannes, Jambres, and Moses were all viewed as magicians

In the moment, they looked fairly evenly matched - how would you react if your opposition could also turn their staffs into snakes

the larger context shows differently

We can recognize sin by its opposition to God

That will involve stepping back and being able to see how what’s happening fits with God’s plans and character

Recognition

A little recognition can go a long way

We are better able to unmask sin when we are able to recognize nothing is off-limits

Love the church?

Love yourself?

Love your family?

Love a fight?

Love being the free or independent thinker?

What are the areas where I think I would not succumb?

We are better prepared when we are able to put all teaching into context