Genesis
3:6 ¶ And when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be
desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave
also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and
they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made
themselves aprons. 8 And they heard the
voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam
and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees
of the garden.
The Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil had three qualities that presented themselves to Eve.
It could satisfy hunger, was nice to look at, and, at Satan’s suggestion she
and her husband would be God-like, being able to discern the secret of good and
evil. However, this was a trick, a con job. Adam and Eve had no lack of food.
Food was abundant most likely and delicious. The tree was beautiful as probably
many other trees were beautiful. These things drew her like a moth to a flame.
But the most important line Satan used was that they would know the secret of
good and evil, like God. This was the trick. Good is obedience to God,
believing what He says. Evil is disobedience to God in this context, denying
Him and His sovereignty over you.
There are warnings
and examples regarding lusting for food and not being patient and satisfied
with what God has provided, not waiting on and trusting in the Lord God, and
there were warnings and examples about worshipping things pleasant to the eyes.
Numbers
11:4 ¶ And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and
the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to
eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we
did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the
onions, and the garlick: 6 But now our
soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this
manna, before our eyes.
Here, food represented
dissatisfaction with what God had provided and a longing for the delights of
the time before you were pulled out of a world in rebellion against their
Creator as in, I wish I could drink a case of beer on a hot day again. What is
enough is far too often not enough to satisfy our lusts.
There were things
that were pleasant to the eyes to mankind that he grew to worship in place of
God.
Exodus
20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any
graven image, or any likeness of any
thing that is in heaven
above, or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the
water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not
bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of
them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Numbers
33:52 Then ye shall drive out all the
inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their
molten images, and quite pluck down all their
high places:
In the following we see that
this worship of things that our eyes see and admire is the very reason why God
unleashed so many sexual perversions on our society today which were
commonplace in the ancient world but had been forbidden and pushed into the
dark corners of society by the Christian faith.
Romans
1:19 ¶ Because that which may be known
of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the
invisible things of him from the creation of the world are
clearly
seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without
excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew
God, they
glorified
him not as God, neither were
thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was
darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be
wise, they became fools, 23 And changed
the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man,
and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to
uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own
bodies between themselves: 25 Who
changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature
more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile
affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is
against nature: 27 And likewise also the
men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward
another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in
themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God
in their knowledge, God gave
them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all
unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of
envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud,
boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers,
without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which
commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure
in them that do them.
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