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Saturday, July 4, 2026
THE NATURE OF SIN (2): OFFERS TEMPORAL PLEASURE
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season?
Hebrews 11:25 (KJV)
Sin can be pleasurable. This is the hook that sin has used to trap many and to destroy their destinies. There is pleasure in using your pen in stealing from the government, then using the money to buy expensive ride and cruising around town. There is pleasure in taking a sexual partner to a five star hotel and having a full week of sexual experience. The pleasure of sin is the trap that sin uses to get its victims. This is also where the deception of sin comes in. It shows you pleasure and tells you that, that is all there is to it. But listen to our opening text again. The pleasures of sin are for a season. The Greek word translated ‘for a season’ is proskairos meaning ‘for the occasion only’. The pleasure of sin lasts for just the occasion only. But the consequences lasts into eternity. Why are you giving in for fleeting pleasures and exchanging it for eternity in hell? Why are you focused on the moment while ignoring the ultimate? The pleasures of sin are just for that occasion only which afterwards leaves you bitter and ultimately destroys one. It is your desire that draws you away to sin. James 1.14-15 says, “14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” This is what sin does not tell you that once it is finished, you are now a walking corpse. When the occasion of the pleasure is over, you are no longer the same person. You are now a corpse with hands and legs still going around.
The pleasures of sin would have made permanent the slavery of Joseph. He would have continued to receive favour both from Potiphar and his wife, being the second husband even though unknown to Potiphar. That sin of sleeping with Potiphar’s wife, would have gained him the favour of Madam Potiphar. But he would have forfeited his destiny of being a prime minister of Egypt. Whenever you are giving in to sin, you are forfeiting destiny. The pleasures of sin that is for a moment is always an exchange for the plans and purposes of the Father for you. Whenever you are being lured by the pleasures of sin which in any way is for a moment, you should remember that the cost of that pleasure is the great and mighty purpose and plans of the Father for you. Can you imagine the position of a head-boy in Potiphar’s house and the position of a prime minister of the whole Egypt. That is always the price of the pleasures of sin. Its opportunity cost is the greatness of the Father’s plans and purposes.
Beloved, if it is sin, the end result is death. Even if you cannot see death; even if you can only see pleasures now, please understand that the end therefore is death (see James 1:14-15). Selah!
REMEMBER: The pleasures of sin is for the occasion only afterwards it results in death.
CONFESSION: My desire is to please the Father. My heart is to know the Father. What sin calls pleasure is repulsive and utterly disgusting to me because the nature of righteousness is at work in me. Halleluyah!
PROPHETIC RELEASE: I decree today that the taste of sin dies in your life. That sinful appetite is destroyed now in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!
FURTHER READING:
Matthew 10:28
ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
Psalms 94:1-98:9; Acts 10:23b-48
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