THE WICKED FREELY STRUT ABOUT WHEN WHAT IS VILE IS HONORED AMONG MEN They love to indulge in evil pleasures. 2 Peter 2.13 Their souls delight in their abominations. Isaiah 66.3 Proverbs 10.23 A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct. Evil conduct is the fool's bauble, the fool's fiddle. Fools take great delight and pleasure in doing evil. Sin and wickedness are a sport or recreation to a fool. It is a great pleasure and merriment to a fool to do wickedness. Proverbs chapter fourteen, verse nine. Fools make a mock of sin. They make a jeer of sin, which they should fear more than hell itself. They make a sport of sin, which will prove a matter of damnation to them. They make a pastime, a game of sin, which will make them miserable for all eternity. They make a mock of sin on earth, for which the devil will mock and flout them forever in hell. Justice will at last turn such fools over to Satan, who will be sure to return mock for mock, jeer for jeer, and flout for flout. Those who love such kind of pastime shall have enough of it in hell. All unbelievers are such fools, for they delight and take pleasure in sin, which is the most corrupting and dangerous thing in the world. And so all will be condemned who have not believed the truth, but have delighted in wickedness." 2 Thessalonians 2 verse 12. Well, sirs, sin is the poison of the soul, the nakedness of the soul, the disease of the soul, the burden of the soul. And if God in mercy does not prevent it, sin will prove the eternal bane of the soul. Oh, then, how great is their folly, who delight in sin and who make a sport of it. This Puritan devotional has been brought to you by Grace Gems, a treasury of ageless Sovereign Grace writings. Please visit our website at www.gracegems.org, where you can browse and freely download thousands of choice books, sermons, and quotes, along with select audio messages. No donations accepted. Thank you.
