Hebrews 11:25 “Choosing rather to
suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin
for a season”
This last weekend, I was reading a daily
devotion from Impact magazine and after listening to a teaching tape on my long
drive up the state, I find it so true that the temporal pleasures of sin
provide temptations that drive so many lives. The Kennedy/Newcombe said, “I believe the greatest deceit Satan
has ever perpetrated upon the human race, the most successful lie he has ever
used and which impinges upon our consciences from a thousand different
directions, is simply this: We shall find happiness and fulfillment through sin
and by disregarding the commandments and precepts of God, and it is by throwing
off the chains that bind, letting ourselves go, and following our own passions,
ignoring Christ and His Word that we find satisfaction and joy in this life.
Satan’s most successful lie would have us believed this lie a thousand times or
more in our lives.”
James 1:13-16 “Let
no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted
by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted
when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has
conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth
death.
Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.”
“Yet, the great truth of the Word of God is that
at the right hand of God there is joy forevermore. There is happiness in
holiness. It is through submission to the will of Christ (aligning our will
with His will) that man will find his true joy and fulfillment. These are two
totally and completely antithetical propositions. One is truth, the other a
lie.”
Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Sin against God is never happiness.
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