Nullify The Pleasure Principle

Sunday, October 17, 2021

Scientists use the pleasure-pain principle in animal behavior experiments, by rewarding the behavior that they want repeated, and administering a shock to stop a behavior. The enemy is a master manipulator who uses the same principle to get you to do what he wants. He wants you to associate sin with pleasure: things like lust, alcohol, drugs, adultery, and promiscuity. And he tries to take the things of God that are good for you - prayer, the Word, worship, ministry, marriage; doing what's right, and associate it with painful things, so you'll think of the pain when you are thinking of the good things of God. But if you don't want to be manipulated or brainwashed by the enemy, you have to do something else - live not by pleasure or pain - but by what is right - righteousness. The Lord Himself will give you the strength to do as the great people of God did. Serve the Lord in righteousness, don't follow what is pleasurable, or avoid what is painful. Seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and you won't be the enemy's guinea pig.

From Message #1191 - The Pleasure Principle