disobedience^(1/1)

Actions in human wisdom lead to death

The first time Abram is given a chance to rely upon God’s promise instead of his own wisdom, he leaves the promised land and sojourns in egypt. Despite the LORD’s promise to make him a great nation, Abram leaves the land he’d been promised when a famine makes staying hard. When he approached Egypt, he ignored God’s promise to protect his family and used deception to protect himself. He achieved his own protection at the price of Sarai; the very woman through which God was going to fulfill His promise!…

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.…