Mr Hill is a strange man, he eats carrion By Charles Spurgeon We know that we have come to know him, if we obey his commands. The man who says, I know him, but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 1 John 2, verses 3 and 4. There are many who profess to be Christians and yet live in sin. Even worse, they go to sin to find their pleasures, I suppose that we may judge a man most accurately by his desires and where he finds his pleasures than by almost anything else. A man may say, I do not habitually frequent worldly gaieties, I am not always found where sin is mixed with mirth, and where worldlings dance upon the brink of hell, but I go there now and then for a special treat. I cannot help quoting the remark of Roland Hill, who, when he met with a member of his church who had gone to the theatre, said to him, I understand that you attend the theater. Not regularly. I only go for a treat now and then. Ah, that makes it all the worse. Suppose that somebody rumored about me. Mr. Hill is a strange man. He eats carrion. Then, one of my acquaintances hears the rumor and asks me, Is it true, Mr. Hill, that you live on carrion? Then suppose I answered him, no, I do not habitually eat carrion, but I have a dish of it now and then for a special treat. Why, he would think I was nastier than I would have been if I had eaten it regularly. In the same way, if anything that verges on the unholy and sinful is a treat to you, then your very heart is impure and you are seeking your pleasure and comfort in wickedness. You are still in the chains of sin. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. 1 John 3, verses 8 and 9.
