Ask him now how he likes his bargain!

Ask him now how he likes his bargain!

(Thomas Watson, "Doctrine of Repentance")

"The deceitfulness of sin" Hebrews 3:13

Sin is a mere cheat. While it pretends to please us, it beguiles us!

Sin does as Jael did. First she brought the milk and butter to Sisera--then she pounded the tent peg through his head! Judges 5:26

Sin first courts—and then kills!

It is first a fox—and then a lion!

Whoever sin betrays—it kills!

Those locusts in Revelation are fit emblems of sin:
"They had gold crowns on their heads . . .
They had tails that stung like scorpions, with power to torture people." Revelation 9:7-10

Judas pleased himself with the thirty pieces of silver—but they proved deceitful riches. Ask him now how he likes his bargain!