i. to help participants understand what the Broadway is all about and how deceitful it is.
We greet all our mothers today, as they celebrate the Mothering Sunday. We wish them blissful years ahead in Jesus name. Grammatically, Broadway simply means "a large open or main road". In our text today, we read of how Eve was smoothly deceived and lured into disobeying God. The Lord Jesus used the term, 'broad' to refer to a kind of Christianity where everything goes freely and smoothly with little or no caution to such way of life. This study will help us understand the broad-way not just as dangerous but also deceitful.
1. What do you understand by "the deceitful way" in the context of our study today? Compare with Prov 26:24-26
2. From the words of Christ "...for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it" in Matt. 7:13; identify the "Broadway elements" from the discussion between the serpent and the woman in Genesis 3:1-8.
3. Discuss how the devil deceives Christians today through the "Broadway" concept. 2Cor. 11:13-15. What is the way out?
4. In the context of 2Tim 4:1-3, discuss the need for genuine discipleship in our Churches today as a remedy for the devil's "sweet" deceits.
The devil indeed is subtle, as recorded in the Scriptures. He knows that the way to achieve his purpose is to portray evil as good. Therefore, we must not be ignorant of the devices of this dangerous being that deceitfully appears as an "angel of light".
All that glitters is not gold.
2Cor. 11:14: "And no wonder, since Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light".