{"id":576,"date":"2008-07-18T06:08:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T13:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=576"},"modified":"2008-07-18T06:08:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T13:08:16","slug":"sin-sweet-and-pleasant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/sin-sweet-and-pleasant\/","title":{"rendered":"Sin, Sweet and Pleasant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
Reading:<\/font>
\nProverbs 9:10-18<\/font>
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That’s part of the nature and enticement of evil, at least in some of its phases.<\/p>\n

In verse 17, the simple woman declares:<\/p>\n

“Stolen waters are sweet.”<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

True!<\/p>\n

“Bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

True again!<\/p>\n

Oh the sweet, pleasant thrill of doing what I shouldn’t be doing!<\/p>\n

Long before Solomon wrote Proverbs, Moses made the choice to deny himself that sweet, pleasant thrill in Egypt:<\/p>\n

“Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season”<\/font><\/b> (Hebrews 11:25).<\/p>\n

That’s right — the sweet, pleasant thrill doesn’t last. Pleasure and sweetness have their season in the Sin Cycle. Then they’re gone.<\/p>\n

“Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel”<\/font><\/b> (Proverbs 20:17).<\/p>\n

Mark!<\/b> (There, I got my attention.)<\/p>\n

Remember that the Gravel Phase comes after the Bread Phase in the Sin Cycle.<\/p>\n

Always.<\/p>\n

\"[Be<\/a>
\nfrom Proverbs 9:12<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

A little bit more from Proverbs 9:<\/b> Is<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading: Proverbs 9:10-18 That’s part of the nature and enticement of evil, at least in some of its phases. In verse 17, the simple woman declares: “Stolen waters are sweet.” True! “Bread eaten in secret is pleasant.” True again! Oh the sweet, pleasant thrill of doing what I shouldn’t be doing! Long before Solomon wrote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hebrews","7":"category-proverbs","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-9i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}