SHABBAT FEB 2009.pdf - Kanaan Ministries

When Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,they became the vessels which would nurture and bring forth the fruit of thistree.Every time they gave of the fruit to the children, they took the seed into thenext generation.Today we have false prophets who would have God’s children eat from thewrong tree, from a tree which rejects the principle of submitting to God’s Willand the living of an obedient lifestyle.Deuteronomy 13:2-4 “ 2 And the sign or the wonder he foretells to you comesto pass, and if he says, Let us go after other gods—gods you have notknown—and let us serve them, 3 You shall not listen to the words of thatprophet or to that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing youto know whether you love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heartand with your entire being. 4 You shall walk after the Lord your God and[reverently] fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice, andyou shall serve Him and cling to Him.Such a “false” prophet is the snake in the Garden of Eden.Genesis 3:1 “ 1 NOW THE serpent was more subtle and crafty than any livingcreature of the field which the Lord God had made. And he [Satan] said to thewoman, Can it really be that God has said, You shall not eat from every treeof the garden?“Serpent” – Hebrew 5175 – “nachash” – and means:• to hiss• to whisper• to practice enhancement• to use sorcery• to divine.We will study the story of Eve and the serpent in a little more detail but theprinciple that I want to state up front is this:• you must know (intimately) the Word of your Creator,• you must be able to hear (Sh’ma) clearly the Voice of your God,• you must cultivate of lifestyle of doing (asah) what God tells you to do.The false prophet / serpent came to Eve and “suggests” that he knows what’sgoing on.Those who don’t have this lifestyle, open up for the enemy to enter in.8