<TITLE>08. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 Satan, in Eden when he first come to these attacks, to attack the person, knowing the children of God was fortified with this Word, Satan attacked the Word. See? He never attacked the being; he attacked the Word first. Look at that sneaker, lizard, what he does today. The first thing, he can't lay it on, saying, "Well, that's not a good person." That's a good person. See? But the only thing he tries to do--no matter how good the person is--is to get them to deny that Word. That's just the only thing he wants to do: get you to deny that Word.
So Satan tried to--to attack the Word in the garden of Eden. So he had to have something, now, that he could use to--to the human being would look better than that Word. See? He had to have something that would look better to the human being than Word. And do you know what he used? Reasoning, just what we'd say, common sense. See? So that's what he used and he succeeded. So that's what he's used all along.

L-25 But God can't give nothing else but His Word, because that's what He chose first. And when God makes a decision, it has to ever remain that way.
And Satan took reasoning, and took the reasonings and attacked the Word, and shook Eve off the path. That's right--by reasonings, human reasoning.
Now, the only way that he--she could've got to disbelieve God's Word, it had to be appealing. And Satan knows how to make reasonings appealing. It has to appeal to you, and sin is very appealing. And there's only one sin, and that's unbelief. So it's really appealing. Satan makes sin so appealing to you.

L-26 Just stopping here for a few minutes... I've often thought, as a young man, and read about different nations and the morals of the country; and I'd heard different people tell me about, especially down in France, down in the place called Pigalle, and how that the people was so immoral. Well, I thought if I ever go in there, I'll see them people down there, women coming out, you know, reprobates with such a old haggy look, you know, and mean. And--and I went down in Pigalle, the first night, me and three more ministers. Brother, what a surprise we got. Now, Satan's too smart for that. He isn't going to produce something like that. But some of the prettiest girls I ever seen in my life was there: appealing. Certainly. Sin is appealing and attractive.
Satan hasn't got forked hoofs and a--and a--and a pointed tail, and--and like that. He isn't old John Barleycorn out with coat hanging up and--and ears hanging down; he's a slicker--appealing. Sin isn't just rude, like you think it is; it's very appealing. Therefore, we have to watch it close. (We'll just get to that in a little bit; I thought of something else.)

L-27 So how Satan makes it look so real, it's appealing to them. But if they would've just stayed fortified with the Word, let the Word be their fortress, then see, they'd have been fortified. They'd have been behind the Word. The Word would've been in front of them always: THUS SAITH THE LORD, THUS SAITH THE LORD, THUS SAITH THE LORD, right or left, THUS SAITH THE LORD.
Like those Angels down there that day when Isaiah met in the temple, he thought he was getting along pretty good: a fairly good preacher, the king liked him real well. But the king was taken from him one day. And he knelt at the altar and fell into a vision, and saw Angels with wings over their faces and over their feet and flying with two wings, singing, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty."
See, every which way they went, Ezekiel saw the picture of the vision. This a way the Spirit of God was moving; it had the face of an ox; this way it had the face of a lion; and every way it went it had a face. Everywhere it went it was fortified. The Word of God there's no way around, fortified all the way around everywhere THUS SAITH THE LORD, THUS SAITH THE LORD.


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