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Blasphemy in Our Genes

Author: Martha Kilpatrick

24 September 2008

The Second Part

There is a second part of the Lie.

Satan made another suggestion
that caused Eve to draw another conclusion.
If he had said this outright, she would have said,
            “Why no - that’s not true!”

He came to attack God’s character with the suggestion:
“God has withheld something you need.”  (Gen. 3:5)

And anytime in your life that you have had
            a void,
            or a want,
            or God has withheld something…   
                                     that Lie has come to you!

The suggestion has come:
“God has withheld something from me that I really need.” 

Actually, in Eve’s case, what He withheld could be stated this way:
“Eve, don’t eat the arsenic! I am withholding it from you.”

God withholds arsenic from us and Satan suggests that it is what we need-
that it is the one thing we need!

So again, he suggested something to Eve that caused her to draw
             a conclusion about God.

             “He withheld something good, Eve.”
             Eve’s conclusion: God is not good.

Blasphemy in our Genes

So that is the Lie: God is not good.
You were born with it.
It is in your very nature.

If you recognize it and know the plot, you are way ahead to be able
to diffuse the power of that Lie – because it is the power,
              as it did in Eve’s life,
              and then in Adam’s life,
              and then as it did in your and my life…
                                        to destroy life. 

               You are left to deduce and you will do it
               just like your mother, Eve, and your father, Adam.

If Satan had come to Eve and said, “God is a liar,”
               she would have said, “That’s a lie!”

If he had said, “God is not good,” she would have refuted it,
               standing in the middle of paradise.
                                         But it is much more clever than that. 

“God is great. God is good. Let us thank Him for our food.”
We have said that from childhood.
And you know, we believe we believe it.
We believe that we believe He is good, and He tells the truth.

But pounding us from the womb - day in and day out,
                is the effort of the enemy to awaken that Lie
                              and connect us to… that old Lie.

It is a lie about God’s character - His very being.
                Satan started with a lie about the obvious, 
                and it became a lie about God’s very being.

                                        You need to know who He is.

We were born with blasphemy in our genes,
and it will surface in our reactions in a split second.
                 It does in mine… and I know it does in yours.

It’s natural.  Do you understand? 
This Lie is a natural conclusion in life. 
                 And it comes into play in practical places…
                                             with events and people and things:

                 Things don’t go the right way.
                 That is, they don’t go the way I think they should go.

                 Things haven’t turned out right or they haven’t turned out at all,
                 or they’ve turned out to be a mess,
                 and worse than that, a mess I can’t solve.

                 The things I feared would happen, didn’t happen. 
                 But the things I never feared, happened!
                 And the things I just knew would happen, didn’t.
                 And the things I needed to happen, didn’t happen -
                 or if they did, it was too late.

                              I am not where I meant to be by now.
                              I am not who I wanted to be.
                              I am less than I ever was; I know less than I ever knew
                              and I am going backwards all the time.

I am putting it this way so you will understand that it is very practical. 
It is about your family, your household, your job, your life.

                              We secretly believe God has made many mistakes
                                           and failed to show up many times. 
                       
                                                                      And that is… a lie!        
   
We believe He made a mistake about us and toward us -
and that the people He gave us - He is not doing right with!

We need to learn the game that Satan plays with us.
           We need to learn the Lie -
                       and we need to learn to refute it.

ISBN 978-0-9665929-2-4

The Great Lie Copyright © 1986, 2008 - Martha Kilpatrick.
Knowing God Booklet Series. First Printing.