2 Corinthians 11:1-4 ESV
I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
The deception of Eve in the Garden is replicated and played out every day. Many voices ask the same question the serpent asked in the beginning. "Did God really say that?" Each of us stands in Eve's place as a member of the Bride of Christ. We hear the smooth words of the world that seem to make sense and can tempt us into choosing from the wrong tree.
When Jesus encountered temptation in the wilderness, He responded with the written word of God. He showed how to overcome the world, and that by using the word of God we can turn Satan away.
We must be prepared to give an answer for the hope within us, for the question will be asked. We will find it in the word of God. Jesus called us to be different, to be in the world and not of the world. When His word becomes ours, we manifest His Spirit in these bodies of flesh. The union of heaven and earth has begun.
May the meditations of our hearts be found pleasing to the Lord.
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