Deceitfulness of sin

<p>Vaughan wrote that sin deceives us in three ways:</p>

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<li>We are deceived about the satisfaction we expect to gain from sin. &nbsp;Vaughn, "No man ever took a forbidden thing without thinking that it would make him happy, and no man ever found that it did."</li>

<li>We are deceived regarding the excuse that can be made for sin. Vaughn, "Every man thinks that he can put up a defence for doing the wrong thing; but no man's defence ever sounded anything else but futile when it was made in the presence of God."</li>

<li>We are deceived thinking we can probably escape the consequences of sin. &nbsp;Vaughn, "No man sins without the hope that he can get away with it. But it is true that, soon or late, our sin will find us out."</li>

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