Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Alright, so I'm going to begin a new series today. This is a four week series and the name of the series is

Simplify. Simplify. Let me ask you this. I didn't even get the word Simplify, right? That's how complicated my life is right now.

So I need the series. I'm just the series. I'm just preaching for me and hopefully you'll get to hear it too.

But have you ever felt like that your life was too complicated or too busy and you would love to just simplify your life?

Well, there's a verse that we're going to be talking about and spring boarding off of in 2nd Corinthians.

And it is the Apostle Paul who wrote about a third of the New Testament 13 out of 27 books.

This verse talks about simplicity but it tells us this is amazing when I'm about to tell you.

It tells us the greatest Apostle who ever lived. It tells us his greatest fear.

It tells us of what he is afraid of the most. So, and we're going to look at that and it has to do with simplicity.

So, look at this verse, 2nd Corinthians 113, this is Paul speaking, but I am afraid.

I just think about those three words. Paul, I am afraid. I am afraid. I'm being honest with you. I'm afraid.

That as the serpent deceived Eve, now I just want you to notice the word as as the serpent so in the very same way, the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness.

Now this word in the great means sophisticated trickery.

In other words, Satan is not an idiot. I'll give him that. He's not an idiot. He's brilliant.

Sophisticated by his sophisticated trickiness, trickery. Your minds will be led away from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

The first, the title of this message is the enemy of devotion. We're going to talk about the enemy of simplicity, we're going to talk about some other things, but the enemy of devotion.

Now, I want to share something with you that might actually shock you, but this verse has been taken as like a put down to women, but it's actually not a put down to women, it's a put down to men.

Let me explain why. The Bible says that Eve was deceived, but it never tells us that Adam was deceived.

As a matter of fact, it tells us he was not deceived.

Let me show you, watch, 1st, 7214, and Adam was not deceived.

I told you I wasn't lying. Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived fell into true transgression.

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