"Me an Rev, we both dig the Temptations" (quote from Remember the Titans)

Temptations. We all know that Satan tempts people to disobey God. We also know that his first temptation started with Eve and Adam. As much as we don’t want to think it is, temptation is something very, very strong that can rule our lives if we let it, and we usually recognize temptation because it is almost always followed by a 'stab of conscience,' as some like to call it.

I just want to look at some of Satan’s tactics (as it were) that he used on Eve, and that he’s still using today. These we must recognize if we don’t want Satan ruling our lives.
“And [the serpent] said unto the woman, ‘hath God said, “Ye shall not eat of the trees of the garden?”’”(Genesis 3:1)
Well, God told Adam in the beginning…
“Of every tree of the garden thou mayest feely eat. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou mayest not eat of it” (Genesis 2:17).
So Satan started out by confusing Eve. He changed God’s Word around to be similar to the truth, but grossly inaccurate. Eve should have known God’s command well enough to be able to turn away the untruth by correcting the serpent with the exact command God gave her.

If you are a human, especially a Christian human that is trying to do God’s will, Satan will try this on you. He will plant thoughts in your head (yes, in your very own head, so that you think it’s actually YOU that’s thinking the thoughts) and they say something like this: “Did God really say that you could give this speech in front of everyone? Did He really say you could witness to your friend? Or pray every day? After all, you’ve failed at so many things before. So He’s wrong.” But the Bible says,
“I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13).
If you don’t know that scripture, you’re going to believe that God told a lie, just like Satan tried to get Eve to think God was unfair. It’s the same with any other scripture in the Bible. So know the Word of God! You will not be able to resist even this first plan of Satan if you don’t know what the Bible says!

Well, after Satan tried one thing and Eve still hadn’t sinned, he had to do something else. So he sparked off her pride. He said,
“For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5).
He was insinuating that unless Eve ate the fruit, she would be ignorant—he was telling her that, by not eating the fruit, she was missing out on something she should have. How many times have we people thought, ‘If I don’t watch/listen/do/say/wear this, people will just think I’m an idiot” (or something to that extent)? Then we think that if we do this thing we’re tempted to do, our friends (or whoever it might be) will know we are not stupid, or annoying or something like that. This is a lie from Satan. The Bible says we are supposed to be wise to what is good and ignorant to what is evil.

I know I’ve only mentioned two things Satan uses, but these are both very common ones he uses on us every single day! Beware of them and resist them.