5/10/2023 0 Comments Empire of sin too sweet to pass upSweet is an unholy morsel in the mouth, but it will be wormwood in the bowels. Gild the pill as you may, iniquity is death. ![]() Be assured that sin is the root of bitterness. Leave a man to his own sins, and hell itself surrounds him only suffer a sinner to do what he wills, and to give his lusts unbridled headway, and you have secured him boundless misery only allow the seething caldron of his corruptions to boil at its own pleasure, and the man must inevitably become a vessel filled with sorrow. To bring torment to the guilty, there is little need that God should, literally in the world to come, pile up Tophet with its wood and much smoke, nor even that the pit should be digged for the ungodly in order to make them miserable sin shall of itself bring forth death. O that men would consider this, and turn from their delusions. The cup of sin, with rainbow bubbles on its brim, is black with deep damnation in its dregs. Sin is a dragon, with eyes like stars, but it carrieth a deadly sting in its tail. Sin, which at the first bringeth to man a specious pleasure, ere long turneth into bitterness, remorse, and fear. The transgressor's own sins shall take him, shall seize him they bear a warrant for arresting him, they shall judge him, they shall even execute him. The first sentence of the text also may have reference to an arrest by an officer of law. Having sinned, they become so bewitched with sin, that the scriptural statement is no exaggeration: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." Even so is it with the sins of ungodly men, they are at first a tempting bait, and afterwards a snare. You have seen the foolish fly descend into the sweet which is spread to destroy him, he sips, and sips again, and by-and-by he plunges boldly in to feast himself greedily: when satisfied, he attempts to fly, but the sweet holds him by the feet and clogs his wings he is a victim, and the more he struggles the more surely is he held. Evil habits are soon formed, the soul readily becomes accustomed to evil, and then, even if the man should have lingering thoughts of better things, and form frail resolutions to amend, his iniquities hold him captive like a bird in the fowler's snare. That which first attracted the sinner, afterwards detains him. The ungodly man first of all finds sin to be a bait, and, charmed by its apparent pleasantness he indulges in it, and then he becomes entangled in its meshes so that he cannot escape. ![]() HE first sentence has reference to a net, in which birds or beasts are taken. "His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins."Proverbs 5:22. Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, February 13th, 1870, byĪt the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
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