Introductory Offer

 

Sin is like the cable company promotion.  Let me explain: the cable company has a great promotion.  If you sign up with them for just twelve months, they have such low prices and great introductory options.  The salesman sweettalks you into signing the contract.  But after the first few days, the service stinks, and the fees stack onto that low monthly payment, but the contract has you locked in for a full year.  And sin is so attractive at the beginning.  But soon, you realize that sin has consequences.  Solomon warned in Proverbs 23:31&32, “Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.”  Hey, the good times at the party are short-lived.  Drunkenness leads to ‘babblings’, ‘fights’, ‘bleary eyes’, ‘lewd women’, ‘unexplained wounds’, and ‘hangovers’.  Does that sound like fun?!  But the commercials paint such a beautiful picture!  Hey, that’s just to get you hooked.  Stop and think before you get involved in sin.  Trust what the dear Lord has to say in His Word.  Listen to parents, listen to teachers, and listen to preachers.  Don’t fall for the ‘introductory offer’ of sin.  It’s not worth it!