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“So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit” (Genesis 3:6, NKJ). It’s interesting how the “prince of this world” Satan sells and packages sin to humanity. Take beer commercials for example. In many of the beer commercials we see today, they seem to send a message that if you drink a certain brand of beer, it will make you happy, fun to be around and life will be a great big happy party. Usually all the girls in the commercials have perfect bodies and are quite beautiful, and the men are usually buff or are portrayed as dimwits, but in a very innocent, cute kind of way. But all of the men and women look extremely healthy and happy because they are indulging in their beer. So if you drink this kind of beer, it will not only make you feel good, but might in fact enhance your social status, appearance and a whole host of other positives. It seems that these beer commercials are trying to convince you that unless you drink this brand, you will be incomplete as a person.
What the commercials and more so sin in general don’t show you though, are the consequences, or aftermath, if you indulge in it, or as Eve did, “take of its fruit.” The beer commercials do not show you the hangovers, the vomiting, the fighting, the DWI’s that may land you in jail or worse, the domestic violence it leads to, breakdown of the family, divorce, addiction, loss of jobs, etc. But you have to give the beer manufacturers credit, they do tell us to “drink responsibly.” Yeah, whatever. You would think that because of the destruction that alcohol has wrought on individuals and families, television advertisers would no longer allow alcohol businesses to advertise their ads on television like they don’t with the tobacco companies. But they don’t do they. The almighty dollar speaks much louder than does “love your neighbor.”
Next let’s take sex. You think alcohol is shoved in your face, sex is much worse. You cannot get away from it, it’s everywhere. It’s on most any television program, posters, newspapers, magazines, large bill boards and the list goes on into infinity. It’s meant to titillate and draw in consumers. It’s alluring, cunning, deceptive, but not so subtle any longer. Sex is good and it’s a gift from God to be enjoyed, but it’s only meant to be enjoyed within the confines of what God has joined together i.e., marriage.
But like the beer commercials, the selling of sex does not show you the effects of its power and allurement on mankind. It does not show you the influence it has had in creating the multi-billion dollar industry of pornography, unwanted babies who wind up being raised in single parent homes or worse, killed by means of abortion, the addictions, the tearing apart of the marriage relationship, HIV, STD’s and the taking of a gift from God and perverting it. Both alcohol and sex are sold as harmless, fun and if you are not partaking of them, you are living an unfulfilled life. Your missing out. Such is sin and the destruction of it. Remember, Satan does not come at us with a pitch fork and horns to scare us to death, but rather he usually always comes in the opposite way we think, to deceive and allure us. To make us long for something we do not have so we might begin to doubt God and His order of things, just like He did to Adam and Eve “Did God really say,” (Genesis 3:1). After all, the devil is the Father of all lies (See John 8:44).
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