0445. The Fool Who Mocks at Sin

The Fool Who Mocks at Sin

"Fools make a mock at sin" (Pro_14:9).

There are two translations of this verse. The first one is, "Fools make a mock at sin;" the second is, "Fools make a mock at the sin offering." Let us notice these statements one at a time.

1. Fools make a mock at sin.

(1) Fools have no fear of sin’s power. They invite its ravages, they leap into the waves of its roarings, they approach its pit-falls, play over its abysms, and mock its intrigue.

(2) Fools take no warning of sin’s slaughter. They see many strong men wounded, they behold the earth made a wilderness and yet they rush in, thinking that they, with the arm of flesh, can meet the enemy.

(3) Fools sing and laugh while sin robs them of every vestige of honor and life and peace. They fiddle while Rome burns. Around them the pathway lies strewn with human wreckage. On every hand there is sorrow and suffering, madness and murder, sickness and suicides, broken hearts and blasted homes, divorce and despair, yet they mock and laugh and sing. Fools shout with glee while their coffins are being builded, while death’s "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin" is being written over their heads.

2. "Fools make a mock at the sin-offering."

(1) The sin-offering is the Lord Jesus Christ. He suffered the "Just for the unjust," He "was made a curse for us." So also "Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many."

(2) Fools mock at Christ. They refuse His mercy and will none of His grace. They despise and reject the only One Who can save them.

Illustration: Some one saw a man rushing toward East River in New York city, intent on suicide. The man threw himself from the bridge into the river. Quickly a rope was thrown him. But, the man grasped the rope, and throwing it away from him cried: "I’m done." Thus he died.

(3) Cain is a Bible example of this fool. He cried to God, "My punishment is greater than I can bear." And yet God had said to Cain: "A sin-offering coucheth at thy door" (marg.). Cain was cursed because he refused, in the first place to offer upon his altar a true token. He brought of the fruits of the field, and refused the offering of blood. After his murder of Abel he still refused the sin-offering.

Before every unsaved sinner, God has placed salvation through the Blood of the Cross. Every one who refuses the shed Blood is lost.

Let those who deny God, and defame the Word of God, beware lest they set at naught the Blood of Christ. Let them remember that God says, "Fools make a mock of the sin-offering."

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR