Evil conduct is the fool's bauble, the fool's fiddle. Fools take great delight and pleasure in doing evil. Sin and wickedness are a sport or recreation to a fool. It is a great pleasure and merriment to a fool to do wickedness.
Proverbs 14:9, "Fools make a mock of sin." They make a jeer of sin which they should fear more than Hell itself, a sport of sin which will prove a matter of damnation to them, a pastime, a game of sin which will them miserable to all eternity, a mock of sin on earth for which the devil will mock and flout them forever in Hell.
Justice will at last turn over such fools to Satan, who will be sure to return mock for mock, jeer for jeer, and flout for flout. Those who love such kind of pastime, shall have enough of it in Hell.
All unbelievers are such fools for they delight and take pleasure in sin, which is the most corrupting and dangerous thing in the world. "And so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth, but have delighted in wickedness." (2 Thessalonians 2:12)
Well, sirs! Sin is the poison of the soul, the curse of the soul, the disease of the soul, the burden of the soul! And if God in mercy does not prevent it sin will prove the eternal bane of the soul.
Oh, then, how great is their folly, who delight in sin, and who make a sport of it!
[Thomas Brooks]
Psalm 12:8 … The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Isaiah 66:3 … He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
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;❤
