"It Only Feels Good For a Little While"

Hebrews 11:25

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy
the pleasures of sin for a season;

      This verse is a description of Moses' moral character told to us by
the writer of Hebrews. Moses was born during the time when Israel was in
bondage
in Egypt and at the time Pharaoh commanded that all new born Hebrew males be
killed. We are familiar with how Moses' mother and older sister arranged
that
he be found floating in the Nile by Pharaoh's daughter. Moses grew up in the
house of Pharaoh and was privileged to all the pleasures of royalty. These
many pleasures ranged from having fine apparel to wear to having all of the
sensual pleasures of heathen worship and habits.

      But one day Moses by faith at forty years of age decided that he
didn't want to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. Moses came to the
realization
that he would rather suffer the afflictions of his people than to continue
to enjoy the pleasures of the sins of Egypt for a season. That my friend was
a monumental decision for a grown man to make. He had experienced the
pleasures of Egypt but was able to make the right choise between good and
evil. He
came to understand by faith in God that there can be no true pleasures in
sin.

      Moses choose the good and that was to leave all of the wonderful
pleasures of money and the affections of beautiful women, he left a fine
home, he
left plenty to eat and to drink and to have servants wait on him hand and
foot, he left my friend, having the right to have men standing by to act
upon
his every command, he left being the next successor after Pharaoh. Moses
shunned all of these things of the world to go and suffer affliction with
his
people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

      What changed Moses' mind, the Bible says Moses by faith. Some how
faith in the God of Israel, faith in the God that his mother and sister knew
brought
this great change in the thinking of Moses concerning sin and was it all
worth the doing. Was it worth playing Russian roulette with his soul by
indulging
in the sins of Egypt. Saints and sinners let us learn what Moses learned
about sin and that was that "It Only Feels Good For a Little While".

      What do you mean?
That it "Only Feels Good For a Little While". No sin my friend has
continuous lasting pleasure,
like the old blues singer BB King use to say "Baby The Thrill Is Gone". What
Moses realized and what we must realize also is that any sin that a person
takes part in from, drinking and taking drugs to illicit sex as examples is
that "It Only Feels Good For a Little While".

      You drink and you get drunk and you only stay drunk for a little while
and if you what to get drunk again you have to start drinking all over
again.
So why waste your time and your money and risk the health of your body and
the salvation of your soul by having to do the same thing over and over
again
to get a short time thrill. Why make passionate love to a man or women that
is not your own and when that high point of excitement and thrill comes "It
Only Feels Good For a Little While" and then you have to start all over
again and you end up doing the same thing again and again.

      But my friend, whether you are saved or unsaved and caught up in a sin
or a bad habit, I believe by the same faith and wisdom that Moses had you
can
over come and be victorious over that sin that has so easily beset you. You
will realize that what you are doing, "It Only Feels Good For a Little
While"
and is a waste of your time and damning to your soul.

Hbr 10:32
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were
illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

Job 36:21
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than
affliction.

Psa 84:10
For a day in thy courts [is] better than a thousand. I had rather be a
doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Mat 5:10
Blessed [are] they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs
is the kingdom of heaven.

Mat 13:21
Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when
tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is
offended.

Act 7:24
And seeing one [of them] suffer wrong, he defended [him], and avenged him
that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:

Act 20:23
Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and
afflictions abide me.

Rom 5:3
And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that
tribulation worketh patience;

Rom 8:17
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if
so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified together.

2Cr 5:17
Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are
passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Col 1:24
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind
of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the
church:

2Th 1:3
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because
that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all
toward each other aboundeth;

2Ti 1:8
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his
prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to
the
power of God;

2Ti 2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

2Ti 3:11
Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at
Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of [them] all the Lord
delivered me.

Jam 1:20
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

1Pe 1:6
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in
heaviness through manifold temptations:

1Pe 4:12
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try
you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

Hbr 4:9
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Psa 47:9
The princes of the people are gathered together, [even] the people of the
God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth [belong] unto God: he is
greatly
exalted.

1Pe 2:10
Which in time past [were] not a people, but [are] now the people of God:
which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Job 20:5
That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite
[but] for a moment?

Job 21:11
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

Psa 73:18
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into
destruction.

Isa 21:4
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he
turned into fear unto me.

Isa 47:8
Therefore hear now this, [thou that art] given to pleasures, that dwellest
carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I [am], and none else beside me; I
shall
not sit [as] a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

Luk 12:19
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many
years; take thine ease, eat, drink, [and] be merry.

Luk 16:25
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy
good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and
thou
art tormented.

Jam 5:5
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished
your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

Rev 18:7
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment
and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no
widow,
and shall see no sorrow.


A fruitful harvest requires faithful service.
 Galatians 6:9 states,
And let us not be weary in well doing:
for in due season we shall reap,
if we faint not.
YBIC, Thomas, And YSIC, Linda.
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