Deluding Ourselves And Others

2 Peter 2:13

"And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure

to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting

themselves with their own deceivings

while they feast with you;" 

   What Paul is saying here is not only religious truth but also sound common sense. The pleasures of the body are subject to the law of diminishing returns. They soon loose their thrill, so as time goes on it takes more and more of them to satisfy. There is self-destruction in fleshly pleasure! To make such pleasure the be-all, it will end-all! It is a suicidal way of life and in the end even the pleasure is lost. The point Peter is making is this, and it is eternally valid; If a man dedicates himself to these fleshly pleasures, in the end he destroys himself in bodily health, and in spiritual and mental character, that he cannot enjoy them. They are like blots on the Christian fellowship; and makes it unfit to be offered to God.
   My Friends, "The hand and the eye, are the brokers of sin." As Jesus said, such people look in order to lust "But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart," (Matt. 5:28). Today many men and women
have come to such a stage that they cannot look on anyone without lust in their heart and mind. Now is the time to put our trust in God. "We must lay everything on God's table to be sanctified, before we can sit at God's Glorious Table"   
Amen!

Reading: 2 Peter 2:12-14
Ref: HG SB; BDSB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry