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We shall find on careful study that though the outward terminology and verbiage
that he employs may vary from time to time, the underlying principles of his approach
are the same from generation to generation. If these basic principles are mastered by

the power of the Holy Spirit we shall be able to detect his hand in many things where
otherwise it might be unobserved.
He opened his conversation with the woman, “Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat
of every tree of the garden?” A question always implies doubt, and what Satan is most

concerned to do is to bring us to doubt whether God has ever spoken. This is
invariably his starting point, and if he can thrust his wedge in here, the rest of the
process will be greatly facilitated! “Yea, hath God said?” Now we see who was the
founder and the first charter member of the fraternal order that has had more members

than any other—the Y.H.G.S. Club! Satan and all of his ilk are concerned to insinuate
that God has not spoken nor ever revealed Himself or His will. His purpose is to
impugn ultimate fundamental authority. He must get rid of the Word of God at all
costs, because it is that Word that reads his title clear, that tells of his origin and fall. It

is that Word that speaks of the eternal God and His love and compassion to all His
creatures, and that speaks of the Incarnate Word, the Redeemer, and the Satan-bruiser.
It is the Word of God through which we are born again, and that liveth and abideth

forever, an incorruptible seed (I Pet. 1:23).

In every age of history there have been a multitude of those who, being of their
father the devil, have echoed his insinuation that God has not spoken and even that He
does not live! Pharaoh shouts, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice? I know

not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go!” Sennacherib vaunted himself before
Hezekiah saying, “Let not thy God in Whom thou trustest deceive thee! Have the gods
of the nations delivered them which my fathers destroyed?” “And who is that God that
shall deliver you out of my hands?” hisses the king of Babylon to some splendid

Hebrew youths, and “What is truth?” loftily inquires the Roman governor of Him
Who was the truth.

The arrogant doubt toward the word and person of the Creator comes to a great

crescendo in this latter age when iniquity comes to the full. Truly it is the day in which
blasphemy is the name that is written over the leaders of every department of human
activity. Satan-inspired college professors, authors, editors, and playwrights join in the

chorus of scoffing at the idea that there is any ultimate inspiration or authority. And
were it not tragic it would be droll that a world of self-conceited prattlers with breath
in their nostrils consider themselves “modern” and “up-to-date” and “progressive” and
“liberal”! They are just as “modern,” we reply, as their spiritual progenitor who first
wheezed, “Yea, hath God said?” back there in the Garden!

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