When Satan came to Adam and Eve, he came with a question.

What was the question?

Half God set.

The circumstances for Adam and Eve's temptation when the Serpent came into Eden was that they were in the midst of a lush

garden where they had every imaginable food at their out sin in any way marring or disfiguring their interpersonal relationship, the fellowship

that they had.

And it was into that context that Satan came and put the temptation to the first Adam and Eve. Now the

second Adam comes and his test takes place not in a paradise garden but in this desolate wilderness and he's solitary

he is solitary he is absolutely alone with no human companionship or fellowship. And not only that,

his test takes place in the middle of a fast. He has a human nature remember and that

human nature now is ravaged by hunger and it's only after he's in this supremely weakened lonely condition

that the prince of hell comes to him and here's where the dissimilarity ends between Jesus and Adam and the

similarity begins because beloved the point of the test was exactly the same.

When Satan came to Adam and Eve, he came with a question. You remember?

What was the question?

Half God set. God said that if you eat of this tree you will surely die well I'm telling you

you won't die but your eyes will be open and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

That was the temptation. And Eve went for it, and Adam with her.

Remember?

So the issue in the Garden of Eden

that was presented before God's first human creatures was, are you going

to believe and obey my word.

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