Fleeting Pleasures of Sin

Bulletins

Michael Hickox
09/15/24 - General

Hebrews 11:24-25 says, “By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;”

The ESV refers to the pleasures Moses rejected as the “fleeting pleasures of sin.” Sin’s consequences are lasting, but its pleasure is not.

Consider the description of strong drink given in Proverbs 23:31-32: Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

This is the nature of sin; not only of drunkenness, but of sin in general. It promises fun, yet its end is destructive.

This is often true even in a temporal sense, as Proverbs 23 alludes to. Consider the temporal hardships that have resulted from fornication, adultery, gossip, dishonesty, and the like.

More significant though are sin’s eternal consequences.

May we, like Moses, see through Satan’s deception and realize that sin “bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper” in the end.