THE PLEASURE OF SIN DOESN’T LAST

 TUESDAY, 23RD JANUARY, 2024.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

 

TOPIC: THE PLEASURE OF SIN DOESN’T LAST 

MEMORIZE: “And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.” Luke 15:13.

 

SCRIPTURE READING:  Luke 15:11-16

“A certain man had two sons: 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.”

EXPOSITION:

Men are of different characters, though all related to God as their common Father. The father in this story had two sons, one of them a solid grave youth, reserved and austere, sober himself, but not at all good-humoured to those about him; such a one would adhere to his education, and not be easily drawn from it; but the other volatile and mercurial, and impatient of restraint, roving, and willing to try his fortune, and, if he fall into ill hands, likely to be a rake, notwithstanding his virtuous education. The prodigal son represents sinners, whom Christ is endeavouring to bring to repentance, while the older son represents the Jews in general, and particularly the Pharisees, whom he was endeavouring to reconcile to that grace of God which was offered to, and bestowed upon, sinners.

The younger son is the prodigal, whose character and case are here designed to represent that of a sinner, that of everyone of us in our natural state, but especially of some. Now we are to observe concerning him, His riot and ramble when he was a prodigal, and the extravagances and miseries he fell into. We are told, What his request to his father was (Lu 15:12): He said to his father, proudly and pertly enough, "Father, give me" --he might have put a little more in his mouth, and have said, Pray give me, or, Sir, if you please, give me, but he makes an imperious demand--  "give me the portion of goods that falleth to me; not so much as you think fit to allot to me, but that which falls to me as my due."

Note, It is bad, and the beginning of worse, when men look upon God's gifts as debts.  "Give me the portion, all my child's part, that falls to me;" not, "Try me with a little, and see how I can manage that, and accordingly trust me with more;" but, "Give it me all at present in possession, and I will never expect anything in reversion, anything hereafter."

Note, The great folly of sinners, and that which ruins them, is being content to have their portion in hand, now in this lifetime to receive their good things. They look only at the things that are seen - materials, that are temporal, and covet only a present gratification, but have no care for a future felicity, when that is spent and gone. And why did he desire to have his portion in his own hands? Was it that he might apply himself to business, and trade with it, and so make it more? No, he had no thought of that. Because he wants to be free from his father’s supervision, he went far away into a strange land and wasted it on riotous living. The pleasure of sin never last long, but the end of it is sorrow. Desist from it today and come back home to God through Our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

PRAYER POINT: LORD! Give me courage to do your will and to subdue nations before me in Jesus name.

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