Posted on 12/04/2022 1:04:11 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence” (Proverbs 4:16-17 KJV).
“For they sleep not, except they have done mischief,” they are so twisted, and so perverted, and so warped that they do not enjoy life until they are messing somebody else up. They are so messed up themselves and perverted that they have to hurt people. Now, that is a pervert. Do you know how people get to be like that? People don’t start out like that, they get like that with sin and wickedness and reaping it. They just get so mad at life and at themselves that they just take it out on people. And then that’s the only joy they get. Do you know what the final joy of the Devil is? All the souls he has damned to hell. The book of Ezekiel says that he just laughs over the multitudes that he has damned. These people described in verse 16 are just like their father the Devil.
If a man allows sin to pull him in and drag him down, he’ll get to the point where he can’t enjoy right things. The only thing that he will enjoy in this life is misery. He’ll enjoy misery and he’ll enjoy making other people miserable. “Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them” (Romans 1:32 KJV).
That is the end of a person, when they just allow themselves to indulge in the path of the wicked and the way of sin—they get to the point where they just can’t live without it. They are so tainted, and so wicked, that they can’t sleep, except they are doing mischief.
“. . . and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall,” their consciousnesses are seared of righteousness. “Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron” (I Timothy 4:2 KJV).
“For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence,” they thrive on it. They get so wicked that that is all they live for. From one moment to the next, they live to hurt somebody. They want to do somebody in, to hurt somebody.
Matthew Henry wrote:
“Godly parents have often been afflicted with wicked children; grace does not run in the blood, but corruption does.”
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Sounds like many in our world today.
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