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You don’t need more of God….
…. God needs more of you.

Acknowledge What God Has Given You

Colossians 2:1-3
You have all that you need – God’s given you everything.
 You need to acknowledge what is already given to you.
 Christ in you, the hope of glory.
 Satan has no power against you except deception,
fueled by ignorance

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 Beware – Colossians 2:8

 Be on guard – you’re in a war.

 ‘Spoil’ – strip you of everything you have.
 ‘Philosophy’ – system of thought, which
becomes an attitude

satan’s Weapon – Deception

 God’s Word must be personal and the
final authority.

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Overcome the Woman Through Words
and Discontentment - Genesis 3:1
A. Satan’s strategy
He used subtlety, deception, guile.
He used words.
He attacked God’s Word

B. Eve added to God’s Word and it

contributed to her deception.

C. Eve “saw that the tree was good

for food” – dissatisfaction.

Temptation is linked to what you think.

Hebrews 11:15

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 Genesis 3:1

 Satan caused Adam and Eve to begin to

question the goodness of God.
 Adam and Eve didn’t know God very well.

A. You can know God better through the Scripture

than through a vision, dream, etc.

B. Adam and Eve didn’t have Scripture to know the

true character of God.

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 How We Relate to God

 At the root of all doubt and unbelief is believing

that God is withholding good from you.

 If we had revelation knowledge of who God is

we would never doubt him.

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 God did not create us to be independent
or to run our own lives.

O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself:

it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
~ Jeremiah 10:23

Genesis 3:1-6
 Lordship of Jesus.
 Learn to obey God.

Pride – Proverbs 13:10, 17:14

 The only way that strife can come is through pride

and pride can be defined as self-centeredness.

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 One of the Secrets of Paul’s Life

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh

for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
~ 2 Corinthians 4:17

 Light affliction
 Eternal perspective
 Spiritual perspective

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