WEDNESDAY April 15, 2026

The Passing Pleasures of Sin

...choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin....
Hebrews 11:25

Although privileged and enjoying a royal life in Pharaoh’s palace, Moses, by faith, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. Instead, he identified himself with God’s people. He made a willful choice to suffer and endure afflictions with the Hebrew slaves rather than enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.

Moses made such a good statement. What was it? He identified one of the issues of sin––it is a passing, temporal pleasure. Imagine if Moses chose to stay in Egypt where, it is believed, he could have stayed and become the next Pharaoh. He would have been tempted with all kinds of imaginable sins. Eventually, Moses could have ended up with nothing and perished in his sin.

Egypt is likened to the world and all its vices. It is true, the world is a lot of fun, and sin is pleasurable; but it is passing, and there is always a high price to be paid––death. The world is a dismal place––a worldly wilderness––there is nothing here for us. So many people have opted to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin instead of coming to faith in Jesus Christ. Again, sin is fun only for a season, but the consequences of sin are not. The reaping to your sin will always come, and the aftereffects are torturous. Sin bites like a serpent!

After committing sin, have you ever experienced pain, condemnation and mental torture? Allow the Lord to touch your life. He can free you from your condemnation, shame and guilt. Be free of sin and find mercy and grace, even though facing its consequences. Come to Jesus by faith.

Go to God's Word and you will find that sin is the most pressing, the most compelling, the most imperative problem in human life and society. The most pressing problem is not sickness. It is not war. It is not poverty. Sin is the basic problem because sin has to do with a person's soul. Sin does not relate merely to a person's short years on this earth. It involves that person's eternal future and the world to come.
~A.W. Tozer~

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