The 3-minute devotional of this post is a reading from the works of Thomas Watson by Grace Gems https://www.gracegems.org/
Thomas Watson: For A Drop Of Pleasure
Video is from the YouTube site: Christian Library
Highlights of 3-minute video
- Exodus 20:13 “You shall not murder
- Many murder their own souls
- Who are they, how can they be identified?
- They have no sense of God or the world to come
- Their hearts are unaffected when they are told of God’s holiness and justice
- Zechariah 7:12 They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of hosts
- They laugh at hell
- They relentlessly pursue their lusts without concern of consequences
- Ephesians 4:19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity
- Herod had his incestuous lusts gratified even though it cost him his soul
- Proverbs 5:22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. 23 He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.
- [He did not mention the following verses from Proverbs 5 which speak of deep regret of living for worldly things instead of Christ: 5:8b …do not go near the door of her house… 12 and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! 13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.]
If you’ve ever been addicted or know someone who has, then some of the above characteristics should be recognizable to you.
It is the object of advertising to make a psychological slave of us, for profit’s sake, especially in the areas of consumerism: phones, clothes, automobiles…; drugs, alcohol, sex, and gambling are some other major objects of addiction wherein the above types of behavior are easily seen.
The objects of addiction are seemingly limitless; but they all share at least one quality, they become the god of the addicted person.
The Holy Spirit, through the word, makes these things clear to the Christian who is abiding in His word.
There will be a few more very brief devotionals by Thomas Watson that will make this subject more clear.
Narrative that accompanied video:
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Sermons of Thomas Watson
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He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge,where he was noted for remarkably intense study. In 1646 he commenced a sixteen-year pastorate at St. Stephen’s, Walbrook. He showed strong Presbyterian views during the civil war, with, however, an attachment to the king, and in 1651 he was imprisoned briefly with some other ministers for his share in Christopher Love’s plot to recall Charles II of England. He was released on 30 June 1652, and was formally reinstated as vicar of St. Stephen’s Walbrook. He obtained great fame and popularity as a preacher until the Restoration, when he was ejected for Nonconformity. Notwithstanding the rigor of the acts against dissenters, Watson continued to exercise his ministry privately as he found opportunity. Upon the Declaration of Indulgence in 1672 he obtained a licence to preach at the great hall in Crosby House. After preaching there for several years, his health gave way, and he retired to Barnston, Essex, where he died suddenly while praying in secret. He was buried on 28 July 1686.
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