The Serpent speaks the truth?

Does the serpent speak the truth? What I’m going to suggest to you is that the serpent speaks the truth. Now you say, “Wait a minute Marcus.

  Let’s read this.

It says, “Now the serpent,” Genesis chapter 3, verses 1 and following: “Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord had made.” The word “crafty” can be translated as “shrewd.”  I like “shrewd” better. “He said to the woman: did God really say you must not eat from any tree of the garden? The woman said to the serpent: we may eat of the fruit from the trees in the garden but God did say you must not eat from the fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not touch it or you will die. You will not surely die, the serpent said.

For God knows that when you eat it, your eyes will be opened.”

Question, when they ate it, does it say that their eyes were opened? Yes it does.

Is Satan telling the truth? Yes, the serpent is telling the truth.

Let me finish this: “your eyes will be opened and you will be like God.” Does God in chapter 3 verse 22 say: ”the man has now become like one of us.” “Your eyes will be opened, you will become like God and you will know good and evil.” God says, “man is now become like us, knowing good and evil.” Does Satan tell the truth?

Satan does tell the truth.

Does Satan quote Scripture? When Satan comes after Jesus in the temptation in the wilderness, does Satan quote scripture?

He takes Christ up to the pinnacle and says, “throw yourself down, for the Psalm says, ‘His angels will bear you up.’” Satan is quoting Scripture. Are scriptures true? Yes, does Satan speak the truth?

Now let me just tell you a secret about Satan. When you put out rat poison, you put it in good bread, Now is that bread good hamburger that you could eat? Ninety-nine percent of it is good bread. But what’s the problem?

It’s one percent poison, the rat eats it and what gets it? The one percent. The other ninety nine percent is that good healthy bread? Yes
That's Satan for you.

So what I’m saying is Satan is really subtle, shrewd, and tricky. He is very evil because what happens is he embeds evil in things like the truth. He embeds evil in things like righteousness, goodness, and all those things but in the inside there’s this thing that’s devastating.