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1. God’s command wasn’t an unnecessary temptation to evil. It was a necessary invitation to blessing!

2. God’s prohibition wasn’t meant to produce a destructive fall. It was meant to produce a defining faith.

3. A meaningful life requires an awareness of what is most valuable and enduring in the universe.

4. God’s love and His ways are perfect; so loving obedience to Him is always in our best interest!

5. The universe is Christ-centered (Colossians 1), and in a Christ-centered universe self-centeredness is a false center that distracts us from reality.

6. The oldest temptation is the impulse to pride - the illusion we know better than our Creator.

7. The delusions of pride often endure despite mountains of evidence to the contrary!

8. Evil is always better in imagination than in reality, while holiness is always better in reality than in imagination!

9. Where human pride sees restrictions God-birthed humility sees protections.

10. Refusing God’s commands doesn’t enable us to soar; it leaves us grounded!

11. In a universe where Christ is the center pride is the ultimate disorienting sin.

12. Pride is a blindness we choose. It renders us incapable of seeing reality.

13. Our feelings are not God. God is God. And our feelings don’t define truth. God’s Word defines truth.

14. The sin that birthed man’s rebellion will be at the forefront of the rebellion’s final days.

 

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