Satan's main objective, after enticing the emotion with lust of the eye, and provoking the intellect with lust of the flesh to step outside of God's protection, is to gain the will. The belief that satan won Adam (male & female) to was that God's restriction was not an act of love and that they were better off without Him.
What Adam and Eve 'achieved' for the human race was loss of the ability to act in the way we were designed to. Our bodies house an intellect beyond that of any other creature in that we were made to comprehend the things of God. Satan said they (the old Adam) would become gods. In effect what happened was that without the divine fellowship and cooperation they had passed into a region where the essential powers of their being could no longer find the correct field of operation. None of the knowledge gained from the tree of knowledge of good and evil could bring them back.
The consequences? Their abode was no longer with God. Angel's were put in place to block the way. God had to came in incarnation as our tree of life! The only stipulation in place, to gain a proper character and conduct, was to abide in Him. Without Him we can do nothing.
Intelligence determines the action of emotion and the final attitude of the will.
When our essential being is operating in the wrong sphere the emotions are dwarfed having lost the perfect object, the intellect is bounded being severed from infinite knowledge and the will, in attempting mastership, has lost it's true spring of action. Emotions are set on love of material things. Intellect looks to physical things in semi-blindness, And the will, always attempting authority, is beaten and overcome. In using our own will we dethrone God and enthrone ourselves in separation from God.
As at the garden, as at Shiloh, and for many today, the covenant is violated and mankind is put outside of His protection. God is rejected. Genesis 3, 1 Samuel 8:7, John 5:19
So satan's main objective is to gain the will in use of the emotions and intellect. Thereby causing independant actions, ungoverned activity. Outside the sphere of God, away from the tree of life. And outside of the family of God.
We need that perfect fitness between the work to be done and the workman prepared. We're limited and we need to be complimented with the unlimited. Un-limited except by the constraints of God's love. Abiding in our proper sphere (confidence in God's love) the emotion, intellect and will are united with God. I believe that these three areas of self can be a constant in our lives due to our will being set on Him.
Jesus, as God, was the exact image while we are just the shadow. But we must never doubt God's love. Satan is a roaring lion looking for whom he can devour. Dear ones, created to be One with Him, don't fall into satan's food-chain in double-mindedness by doubting God's love. Bring yourself to the throne of grace where you are guaranteed grace and mercy by His sacrifice for you. And keep yourself there as is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1-3
What Adam and Eve 'achieved' for the human race was loss of the ability to act in the way we were designed to. Our bodies house an intellect beyond that of any other creature in that we were made to comprehend the things of God. Satan said they (the old Adam) would become gods. In effect what happened was that without the divine fellowship and cooperation they had passed into a region where the essential powers of their being could no longer find the correct field of operation. None of the knowledge gained from the tree of knowledge of good and evil could bring them back.
The consequences? Their abode was no longer with God. Angel's were put in place to block the way. God had to came in incarnation as our tree of life! The only stipulation in place, to gain a proper character and conduct, was to abide in Him. Without Him we can do nothing.
Intelligence determines the action of emotion and the final attitude of the will.
When our essential being is operating in the wrong sphere the emotions are dwarfed having lost the perfect object, the intellect is bounded being severed from infinite knowledge and the will, in attempting mastership, has lost it's true spring of action. Emotions are set on love of material things. Intellect looks to physical things in semi-blindness, And the will, always attempting authority, is beaten and overcome. In using our own will we dethrone God and enthrone ourselves in separation from God.
As at the garden, as at Shiloh, and for many today, the covenant is violated and mankind is put outside of His protection. God is rejected. Genesis 3, 1 Samuel 8:7, John 5:19
So satan's main objective is to gain the will in use of the emotions and intellect. Thereby causing independant actions, ungoverned activity. Outside the sphere of God, away from the tree of life. And outside of the family of God.
We need that perfect fitness between the work to be done and the workman prepared. We're limited and we need to be complimented with the unlimited. Un-limited except by the constraints of God's love. Abiding in our proper sphere (confidence in God's love) the emotion, intellect and will are united with God. I believe that these three areas of self can be a constant in our lives due to our will being set on Him.
Jesus, as God, was the exact image while we are just the shadow. But we must never doubt God's love. Satan is a roaring lion looking for whom he can devour. Dear ones, created to be One with Him, don't fall into satan's food-chain in double-mindedness by doubting God's love. Bring yourself to the throne of grace where you are guaranteed grace and mercy by His sacrifice for you. And keep yourself there as is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1-3
