Genesis 3
The serpent's threefold method of temptation. Interesting enough, he is still up to his same old tricks.
First, he brought doubt of God's love and discontent with our present circumstances.
(If you're moaning and groaning about something in your life today, stop and start praising God for the blessing. Look at your cup 1/2 full instead of 1/2 empty).
Second, the devil suggested that we can can away with our sin, without punishment.
(Wrong, If God says that there are penalities for sin, rest assured that they will come).
The devil caused Eve to lose her healthy fear of disobeying God and to doubt His Word concerning the consequences. Eve did die! We die! Are we going to die in our sins or are we going to have eternal life through Jesus Christ? That's the question to ponder.
Third, the serpent finally wedged open the door into Eve's heart. He excited her personal ambition to excel. She craved to appear wise and powerful, like God and to exert her independent will. Eve went for the deception and look what happened....
She listened to the deceiver, instead of running away, instead of keeping her eye on the blessing, instead of considering all that she had, she looked on the one thing she didn't.
She looked at what was forbidden. Are you spending time obsessing about what you know you should not have or do. Are you concentrating on something God has forbidden. Looking led to enchantment and infatuation with the fobidden thing as to blind her. Are you blinded? Drugs, sex, rock and roll, what's the forbidden fruit in your life that you need to flee from?
She took what wasn't hers. This was the final deliberate choice, the birth to sin. Are you at the point of making a fatal error of judgement?
She ate!
She gave! Funny how we still have a tendency to want to share sin with others. Sin done in secret still affects those closest to us.