Monday, July 31, 2017

Worse Than Devilish

Those who mock at sin, are worse than fools and madmen!


Tell them, as Lot told his sons-in-law of the danger and judgments which hang over their head and, as with Lot, you seem to them as one who jokes. They laugh at it, as if God were not in earnest when He threatens sinners and as if those who preach against sin were deranged.


There are some who sport themselves on their way to Hell as if sin were but a recreation! What fools are they who laugh at their own folly and destruction! It is a devilish nature in us, to mock at the calamity of others but to laugh at our own calamity, seems to be worse than devilish!


There are many, too many, who mourn under affliction yet laugh over their sins! They sigh and weep when they feel any burden on their body but make merry at that which destroys their soul! Can anything be more mad than this to laugh, mock and make sport at that which eternally wrongs and damns their own souls!


The wicked laugh over their sin now. But if they do not repent then they will weep forever in Hell over it!


Holiness is the beauty of earth and Heaven without which we cannot live well on earth, nor shall ever live in Heaven. Certainly those who jeer and scoff at holiness, will be turned into Hell.


[Ralph Venning]

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Genesis 19:14 ... And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.




Proverbs 14:9 ... Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.




Galatians 6:7 ... Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.❤