Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

pleasure of sin is only for a season and that Satan has a payday coming, as the “wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23). I am reminded of the number of famous Hollywood celebrities and world-renowned singers and musicians who all died young during my own lifetime; some under fifty and others under forty years of age. Payday came when their hearts could no longer take the stress of the highs and lows of narcotics flowing in their bloodstream. They departed this life before they should when the adversary knocked on the door—John’s pale rider called Death (Rev. 6:8) galloped into their homes and hotel rooms calling their names and shooting the arrows of death in their direction, ending their time on earth. God Himself ensures that His followers experience pleasure in His presence—and not just for a season but for eternity! Job may give the best summary of the difference between serving the Lord and rejecting His love, when he wrote: “If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. But if they do not obey, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge” (Job 36:11–12). David understood this truth when he penned, “You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore” (Ps. 16:11). As a former drug addict once said, “There is no high like the Most High!”