In Proverbs, chapter fifteen, verse fourteen, in this day of technology, media communication, and entertainment, we must carefully guard our hearts and minds. We prove ourselves to be fools if we feed on what offends the Holy Spirit and profanes the righteousness of God. Wise persons will fill their thoughts only with what is good, honest, and pure.
On the other hand, human sinfulness is God’s condemnation of a condition equally as severe as the practice itself, such as approving the immoral and perverted practice of others. Many have the pleasure of sin in the sense of taking delight in immoral actions of others, as dramatized in books, cinema, videos, and TV entertainment, so condemned. The word “have pleasure” means “agree with,” “consent to,” or “sympathize with,” which points to the casual enjoyment of the sins of others that prevails in human society.
Today, the harm caused by the portrayal of immorality dominates the entertainment media. Yet many approve of it and derive pleasure from it. Being entertained by watching other people sin and engage in ungodly actions, even while you abstain, brings you under the same judgment as those engaging in such evil practices. Sin intensifies in any society where it meets with no inhibition from the disapproval of others.
Those who believe (and especially those who profess faith in Christ) who use the immoral action of others for entertainment and enjoyment are directly contributing to public opinion favorable to immorality and therefore to the corruption and eternal damnation of an indefinite number of other people. Such sin will be exposed and judged on the day of final judgment, in Second Thessalonians two, verse twelve, “That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” The result of fools who feed on foolishness.