The One Trick Satan Uses (And How Jesus Defeats It)

📖 Lent 1 Old Testament Reading: Genesis 3:1-21

✅ You can always trust God to tell the truth.

🐍 Satan, however, can only lie — it’s his one trick.

❌ He can’t change God’s truth, so he tries to make you doubt it.

📜 In Genesis 3, you see this clearly. God speaks truth, but Satan responds with, “Did God really say?”

🤔 He wants you to question what’s true, good, and real.

🎭 Satan’s tactics haven’t changed. He starts with subtle doubts, then works up to outright lies.

🍎 This is what happened in Eden — Adam and Eve fell for his deception, bringing death into the world.

💔 Their sin of unfaith affected everyone. As Romans 5 explains, we all die.

✝️But God promised a Savior. Jesus Christ crushed Satan’s head through His crucifixion and resurrection, declaring “It is finished.”

💧 Through baptism, you’re buried and raised with Christ, clothed in His righteousness (Galatians 3).

🙏 When you fail, Jesus speaks forgiveness through absolution and through his body and his blood — driving away fear, guilt, and shame.

Contributor Tim Droegemueller is Senior Pastor at Living Faith Lutheran Church in Cumming, Georgia.

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