woman, ‘Did God say …?’ ” (Gen. 3:1). When Satan comes to me, when he comes to you, his first point of attack is to get us to question the Word of God—to get us to doubt whether God said it. If the devil can win the battle at that point, he has won the war. However, that’s not usually the end, because often Satan doesn’t win there. And so the passage goes on in verse 2: “And the woman said to the serpent, ‘We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but God said, “You shall not eat of the
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