Genesis 3:1 NIV - Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

2-Gen.3.3" class="scriptRef">Genesis 3:2-3NIV - 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

Proverbs 23:9 ESV - Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.
Proverbs 18:2 ESV - A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
Proverbs 14:7 CSB - Stay away from a foolish person; you will gain no knowledge from his speech.
Proverbs 26:4 ESV - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.
1 Corinthians 2:14 NIV - The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.


4-Gen.3.5" class="scriptRef">Genesis 3:4-5 NIV - 4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”


6" class="scriptRef">Genesis 3:6- NIV - 6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 

Temptation:
The Character & Integrity of God is questioned… Satan tries to create and establish doubt and distrust of God and His Word.
Almost always appeals to the Lust of the Flesh, the Lust of the Eyes and the Pride of Life!

15-1John.2.17" class="scriptRef">1 John 2:15-17 NIV - 15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.  16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

7" class="scriptRef">Genesis 3:7 NIV - 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
21" class="scriptRef">2 Corinthians 5:21 NLT - 21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
Ephesians 2:8 - For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.
Romans 6:23 NCV -  The payment for sin is death. But God gives us the free gift of life forever in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 John 2:2 NLT - 2 He himself is the sacrifice that atones (makes right, pays for, makes restitution) for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world.
6-John.3.18" class="scriptRef">John 3:16-18 NLT - 6 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. 18 “There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son.

John 14:6 NLT – “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.