The Deceitfulness of Sin

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Hebrews 3:13 “But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called ‘Today,’ lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.”

It says here that sin is deceitful because it promises much, but delivers nothing. In fact even more than that, it can actually harden your heart to God’s call. I don’t know of any Christian that suddenly makes a decision to go back to the world. Going back to the world happens quite slowly through the deceitfulness of sin.

I once heard a taped sermon by Hal Lindsey entitled “The Peril of Unconscious Decay.” It was on the life of David. He talked about David’s sin with Bathsheba and how it didn’t just suddenly happen. David had been slowly, and maybe even unconsciously, slipping away from his regular duties and his walk with God. He stopped going out to battle with Israel, and even when he spotted Bathsheba it was when he had just got up out of bed in the evening! Sin was deceptive. A little dabble here, a little dabble there and before long David was a murderer and an adulterer!