Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Liar, Liar, Mouth on Fire! - #8360

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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My friend David is from Mexico, and the hotter his food, the more he likes it. So one day, one of his friends asked him to try a pepper that he’d never tried before. He warned him it could be a little hot. David said, “Sure, man! The hotter the better!” So, he gobbled it down. He said, “It tastes good, but it’s a little lame, man. Pretty mild.” For about five minutes, at which time the fire broke out. My friend with the asbestos taste buds was about ready to put a hose down his throat. Yes, this pepper has a little delay mechanism built into it. But when it fires up, it’s like a 911 for your mouth. And when he could finally talk again, David asked what they called that pepper. His friend said, “Oh, we call it The Liar.” I guess.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and that’s exactly what we should call sin. It is “The Liar” because it tastes good for a little while. It doesn’t seem to be hurting anything, and then suddenly it goes off on you. But by then it’s too late to get out.

One Biblical expose of sin’s treachery puts it this way, “After desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death” (James 1:15 ). Notice the delay mechanism built into sin’s consequences. First, it’s just the “want to” of doing the wrong thing. That seems pretty harmless. But inevitably the “want to” of desire grows into the “got to” of doing the wrong thing, followed inevitably by the fire.

Sin always kills! So don’t be deceived by sin’s delayed destruction. No matter how good it tastes at first, it will inevitably detonate and destroy.

This radio program references: James 1:15