SIN BEGETS SIN | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 25, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 12.

SIN BEGETS SIN.

ONE sin leads to another. If a man tell a lie for any cause whatsoever, he commonly has to back it up with other lies; and then he may think it necessary to swear to his statements, or to curse those who do not believe him. In fact, the man who deliberately tells a lie, who explicitly declares that which is untrue, by his very act of lying turns his back upon God—the God of truth; and his only hope of success rests on the devil—the father of lies. Cursing is, indeed, a natural concomity of lying. To lie, under any circumstances, or for any purpose, is to desert God's cause and to enter the devil's service. Praying is appropriate to God's service. Lying is incompatible with the service of God; it belongs to the service of the devil.—Selected.