Symbol: Sneaking
a Taste
Lesson: If
we know some conduct is wrong and do it anyway, our guilt is compounded.
Illustration:
A person walks in and immediately smells something delicious cooking. The cook
smiles and says it is for dessert after dinner. The observer tries to sneak a
taste and gets his hand slapped. "Don't touch that. You'll ruin it,"
says the cook. Then the cook leaves the room for a moment and the observer takes a second taste. The first taste may have been innocent enough, but now
with the second taste, that person is guilty not only of taking something they
weren't invited to try but also having completely disregarded the cook.
At Romans 7, we read the
following:
8. But sin, finding the
opportunity afforded by the commandment, worked out in me covetousness of every
sort, for apart from law sin was dead.... 13. Did what is good result in my
death? Certainly not! But sin did, that it might be shown to be sin working out
death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin might
become far more sinful.
Having the illustration of
the person who snuck a taste in our minds, we can now appreciate at least one
reason that the sins we commit are "far more sinful." Not only do we
commit the sin, but having been informed that it IS a sin and committing it
anyway, we add disobedience and pain God's heart with flagrant disregard for
his feelings.
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