 Genesis 3 relates one of the most amazing stories in the Bible . Eve was convinced by a talking snake that she didn’t have everything she needed to make her Happy . How could this happen? 
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 It’s understandable how people today are discontent and looking for something , but Adam and Eve were Perfect . They were Living in a Perfect world with No Problems . How could they fall for such a line? 
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 One of the factors was that they didn’t really Know God . You may Think , <b><i>What , they walked and talked with God every day in the cool of the evening . Certainly they knew God !</i></b> 
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 But they didn’t really Know the Nature and Character of our Loving Father , or they would Never have Believed the Lie that God was keeping something Good from them . 
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 Before Satan could tempt Eve to eat the forbidden Fruit , he had to make her Believe that the Lord didn’t have her best interests in Mind . 
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 God had Never given Adam and Eve any Reason to Doubt His Love and care for them , but how did they Know there wasn’t something better out there? 
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 Since they didn’t Know what Bad was , they had No Way to compare how Good God was . They had Never had the thought that God loved them so much that He would Give His Only Son to Die for them . 
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 Their Knowledge of God was very limited compared to what we Now Know of God . 
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 This Is a startling Truth . We can actually Know God more completely and intimately than Adam and Eve did . 
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 God has revealed Himself to Us through His Word in a Way that makes Us infinitely more prepared to resist Satan’s Lies than Adam and Eve were . <b>wow</b>! 
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 Knowing God through His Word Is better than having some visible or audible experience . 
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 That’s what Peter said . In 2 Peter 1:15-21 , Peter was trying to assure his readers that the Gospel he had communicated to them was Not Just some fable or Tradition he had heard . He had known Jesus personally . 
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 He even saw Jesus on the mountain when he began to radiate Light , and the audible voice of God came out of Heaven saying , <b><i>This Is my beloved Son , in whom I Am well pleased ; Hear ye Him</i></b> ( Matt. 17:5 ) . 
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 That should be enough Proof for anybody , Right ? No , Peter doesn’t stop there . He goes on to Say , <b><i>We have also a more sure Word of Prophecy </i></b> ( 2 Pet. 1:19 ) . 
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 Wait! What could be better or more trustworthy than seeing and Hearing for yourself that Jesus was God . 
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 In verse 20 , he Says that the <b><i>more sure Word </i></b> Is the Scriptures . The Scriptures are more sure ( dict .-reliable ) than our own Senses . 
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 Most of Us have Not had this Attitude . In Fact , many people Only study the Word hoping that by doing so , they can attain to some experience . 
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 If that experience were to come , they would throw the Bible down in a second and revel in the experience . 
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 We have become so dominated by Sense Knowledge that in most people’s Lives , it overrules everything else . 
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 That was Eve’s Problem . She wanted to experience for herself what Good and Evil were . She wanted Knowledge that Only came by experience . 
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 God’s Word wasn’t Good enough . She had to Feel it . Sound familiar? 
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 Just as with Eve , Satan has Deceived Us into thinking that what we have Is Not enough . He has Us chasing an elusive Dream that doesn’t exist . 
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 Sure we can Feel and experience God in some tangible Ways , but that should Not be our goal . Through God’s Word , we can Know Him in a Way that Adam and Eve Never did . 
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 And if we truly Know Him , Satan Will be powerless to lead Us away from God because it’s the Goodness of God that leads Us to Repentance ( Rom. 2:4 ) . 
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 Herein Lies the real root Problem for everyone: We don’t Know God as we should . It’s Not God’s fault . 
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 He has been intricately involved in the affairs of men and has meticulously recorded His dealings in His Word . 
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 He has also given Us the Holy Spirit to reveal the Great Truths of His Word to Us . We Just haven’t been showing up for class . 
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 The Lord said , <b><i>My people are destroyed for lack of Knowledge </i></b> ( Hosea 4:6 ) . 
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 Specifically , the Knowledge about the very Nature and Character of God Is missing . Galatians 5:6 Says Faith Works by Love . 
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 If we really knew the Love of God in an intimate Way , our Faith would Work . 
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 Peter summed it All up in 2 Pet. 1:3 by saying , <b><i>According as his Divine Power hath given unto Us All things that pertain unto Life and Godliness , through the Knowledge of him that hath called Us to Glory and Virtue .</i></b> 
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 If we’re missing some <b><i>thing</i></b> that God has promised Us , then we have a Knowledge Problem . 
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 -- Andrew Wommack <br> Capitalization of keywords by Randy Lucas 