For A Drop Of Pleasure

(Thomas Watson, "The Ten Commandments")

"You shall not murder." Exodus 20:13

Many murder their own souls! They willfully damn themselves, and throw themselves into hell!

Who are those who murder their own souls?

They willfully murder their souls—who have no sense of God, or the world to come, and are past feeling. Tell them of God's holiness and justice—and they are not affected at all. "They made their hearts as an adamant stone." Zech 7:12. Sinners have adamantine hearts—nothing will work upon them, neither ordinances nor judgments. They do not believe in God; they laugh at hell. Thus they murder their own souls, and throw themselves into hell as fast as they can!

They willfully murder their own souls—who resign themselves to their lusts, let what will, come of it. "Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more." Eph 4:19. Let ministers speak to them about their sins, let conscience speak, let afflictions speak—they will have their lusts, even though they go to hell for them! Do not these murder their own souls? Many say in their hearts, "let our sins damn us—just so that they but please us!" Herod will have his incestuous lusts though it costs him his soul. For a drop of pleasure—men will drink a sea of wrath! These massacre and damn their own souls!

"A wicked man’s iniquities entrap him; he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin. He will be lost because of his great stupidity." Proverbs 5:22-23

Oh! take heed of murdering your own souls!

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Great Quotes to Ponder Today

"Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward and portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy" (Charles Haddon Spurgeon).

"Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority" (R.C. Sproul).

"I am persuaded that if the truth were known, we would be shocked to discover how small the remnant of true believers is" (Conrad Murrell).

"Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image, but idolatry is any concept of God that reduces God to less than who He really is" (A.W. Tozer).

"A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ" (George Whitefield).

"Though Christians be not kept altogether from falling, yet they are kept from falling altogether" (William Secker).

"Assurance is the result of a competent spiritual knowledge of the person and work of Christ as revealed in the gospel, and a consciousness of dependence on Him and His work alone for salvation" (John Newton).

"Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right" (Charles Haddon Spurgeon).

"Don't believe anyone who says it's easy to become a Christian. Salvation for sinners cost God His own Son; it cost God's Son His life, and it'll cost you the same thing. Salvation isn't gained by reciting mere words. Saving faith transforms the heart, and that in turn transforms behavior. Faith's fruit is seen in actions, not intentions. There's no room for passive spectators: words without actions are empty and futile. Remember that what John saw in his vision of judgment was a Book of Life, not a Book of Words or Book of Intellectual Musings. The life we live, not the words we speak, reveals whether our faith is authentic" (John MacArthur, from his book entitled 'Hard to Believe').

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