O be careful little ears what you hear; O be careful little ears what you hear; There's a Father up above; And He's looking down in love; So, be careful little ears what you hear.
“You’re kidding.”
“No, I’m not. That’s what he said,” replied the woman.
“He really told you that fruit would kill you if you ate it.”
“Yes!” the woman cried. The serpent had been aggravating her for a long time about the Tree of Life. Of course, it was one of the most beautiful trees in the garden, and the fruit was so very tempting. However, she and Adam had been warned; she knew the consequences.
“You won’t die,” retorted the serpent. “God just doesn’t want you to be as smart as Him. As it is you are His pets. He doesn’t want you to have a mind of your own.” Oh, that devil was good. He preyed on the woman’s desires. She longingly looked at the tree in the middle of the garden every day; her mouth salivating at the aroma and sight of such succulent fruit. What the serpent said made sense. Maybe he was right. Maybe God just wanted to keep them in this garden all to Himself. What if it was true? What if she ate it? What if Adam did? What if …. What if …. What if.
She chose to hear the serpent over the words of God. It seemed the serpent was her friend; he persisted until she could not stand the chaos in her mind any more. Quickly, before she could lose her nerve, she plucked the fruit from the tree and took a bite. It didn’t really taste any better than the other fruit. However, suddenly she became aware she was naked … and she was afraid. What would Adam say?
What would God say?
In her blind panic, she talked Adam into taking a bite, using the serpent’s word to cajole Adam to eat the fruit. (Perhaps this was the first nagging wife.) … “Just take a bite, Adam. I did and I’m not dead.” Maybe he took a bite just to shut her up.
As we know, the results were disastrous for us all because of the words Adam and Eve chose to hear … They chose to hear Satan rather than obey God.
It has been a common thread through the millennia of history … a people have been moved to peace or violence from what they heard or from whom the words flowed. Evil is not always easily identified. For example: “Like a rising star you appeared before our wondering eyes, you performed miracles to clear our minds and, in a world of skepticism and desperation, gave us faith. You towered above the masses, full of faith and certain of the future, and possessed by the will to free those masses with your unlimited love for all those who believe”…”
Oh what words; what eloquent spokesman filled the writer with such faith and hope. Who do you think wrote those words? Apostle Paul concerning Jesus? … One of our Founding Father’s? … No, it was written in Munich, June 1922 by Joseph Goebbels concerning a speech by Adolf Hitler; the same Hitler that urged an entire nation to hate and to believe in the supremacy of the Aryan race. A man who led a nation in the murder of 6.2  million Jews. “The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic power of the spoken word, and that alone.”  - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf.
“See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ” (Col 2:8).  Be careful of what you hear; pray for understanding and God’s guidance. Without God’s wisdom, we are lost.
O be careful little ears what you hear; O be careful little ears what you hear; There's a Father up above; And He's looking down in love; So, be careful little ears what you hear.