Beware if you still think some sins are enjoyable. That God has restricted you from some good pleasures in this world. Sin is a deception. It looks good or tastes good initially, but it is a poison that kills you slowly, taking you away from God and making you cold in your zeal for the kingdom, and intimacy with God. It leaves you with guilt driving you from God, seeing how horribly you treated Him after knowing what He did in Christ. You lose out on storing treasures in heaven.
All sins are a deception, do not be fooled they are not really fun or good. Even the so called legitimate pleasures of this world can be a trap if you live to enjoy them more than God and kingdom work. The pleasures of this world are for the people of this world. Be free to skip them to spend more time finding pleasures in work to advance the kingdom.
Has any sin ever left you satisfied, or only longing for more, as with all addictive poisons? God does not with hold Good from His people, rather He tells them no, only to keep them from the deception that only looks or feels good because the flesh is fallen, darkened and does not see reality. All His commands are good and pleasant, so mortify your temptations until the Spirit replaces all your fleshy desires with desires for holy works instead. It is a gradual process and each yield to sin slows the process.
And be warned, any sin may be the last on God bears with and cuts you off to hell sudden;y without warning. Prov 29:1 He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck Shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. ASV How many times has God warned you and convicted you of that sin already and you have gotten harder rather than mortified it? Will it really feel that good to taste it one more time? Haven’t you done it enough? If not when will you be done with it? If you have no date for the last one, then you are a trapped addict to it. Get help quickly.
(Thomas Watson, “The Doctrine of Repentance”)
“The deceitfulness of sin.” Hebrews 3:13
SIN is a mere cheat. While it pretends to please us,
it beguiles us! Sin does as Jael did. First she brought
the milk and butter to Sisera—then she pounded
the tent peg through his head! (Judges 5:26).
Sin first courts—and then kills!
Sin is first a fox—and then a lion!
Those locusts in Revelation 9 are fit emblems of
sin: “They had gold crowns on their heads . . .
They had tails that stung like scorpions, with
power to torture people!”
Judas pleased himself with the thirty pieces
of silver—but they proved deceitful riches.
Ask him now how he likes his bargain!
