Rich God, Poor God? Part 3 | Myron Golden

Rich God, Poor God? Part 3
by Myron Golden

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0:00 Introduction

"I fear, lest by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve." Your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity in Christ. God gave Adam and Eve a word in Genesis Chapter 2 Verses 16 and 17: "And the Lord God, commanded of the man saying, "Of every tree of the garden, thou may freely eat." Which tree? Every tree. How to eat? Freely eat.

"Of every tree of the garden thou may freely eat, but of The Tree." The Tree. How many is "The?" One. So God said, "Y'all can have everything but one thing."

"For the day thou eat it thereof, thou shall surely die." The word garden means "enclosure." So the Garden of Eden was God's protected place of provision and pleasure. God said of every tree. Does "every" denote abundance or lack? Abundance! Freely. Does that denote abundance or lack? Abundance.

2:02 Satan the Poor "god"

"Now the serpent was more subtle." Satan doesn't make big changes to deceive. He makes little changes. Satan's lies are not big lies. They're little lies. He takes one little word and adds a word, takes out a word or adds a word here, gets you to do the same. Now it has a totally new meaning.

"Now the Serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field, which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, "Yea, hath God said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden." He added the word "not" and took out the word "freely." Lack did not exist in man's existence until Satan brought it to their attention.

If I said to you, "Take all these hundreds all over the place. You can get as many as you want to for free, but you leave that $5 bill alone, that's mine." Nobody's gonna say, "I don't want those hundreds. I just want the five." Unless somebody who does not have your best interest in mind says, "I know you got all that, but did God say 'Don't you mess with that $5 bill?'"

"Hath God said 'you shall not eat of every tree in the garden?" She said, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden." she took out the word "every" and the word "freely."

3:24 We Don't Say What God Says

We don't want people to be offended, so we don't say what God says. We don't call it what God calls it. We make up a new word. We don't call adultery an abomination. We call it having an affair. Sounds like a party. Maybe I should dress up and bring a gift. God calls it "abomination."

Satan is the god of poverty. He can only promise you he's going to give you something he can't give you. He has nothing to offer you. So he can only promise to give you something he has no ability to give you. That's why so many people live in misery chasing the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life because Satan promised you it is gonna be fulfilling. But it's not fulfilling. The only thing appetites show us is that they only increase and never go away.

Satan was masterful. He had nothing to offer Adam. He got their attention off of all that they had. Adam and Eve are over here, minding their own business, blessed by the Lord with what? Everything for free. And Satan gets their attention off of all that they had. All of their abundance.

4:40 Living in Unthankfulness

Do you realize where you are living in a space of unthankfulness, you're doing the same thing? You're ignoring all of the blessings and focusing on what's missing. You are listening to Satan.

Instead of, "Lord, thank you for another day. I opened my eyes and they could see this morning. I heard a bird singing outside my window. I had food in my house and electricity and water. By the time I get downstairs in my house, I've opened up so many gifts that I've got to be thankful for. How in the world could I go through the rest of my day with anything but an attitude of gratitude?"

"We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, but the tree that's in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'don't eat of it. Neither shall you touch it unless you die.'" Now she's adding to the word of God. Not only does she not use the same words God used, she starts adding stuff. This is what people do, right?

5:46 Satan Turns You Against People

Here's what Satan said: "You shall not surely die. For God doth know." Satan is a master at making you think that your friends are your enemies and your enemies are your friends. He wants you to be for what's against you and against what's for you. He wants you to think that your friends are your enemies, and your enemies are your friends and nations and families have been destroyed because he got you to believe that somebody who was for you was against you.

We see it happen all the time, and it gets to the point where now every time you look at your spouse, you can only see the bad things. The things that rub you the wrong way.

Let's be grateful for all of the people that God brings in our lives and be thankful that God has blessed us with other human beings with which we can love and interact and have connection.

Rich God, Poor God? Part 3