Pigs Don't Know Pigs Stink
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Pigs don’t know pigs stink
Pigs don’t know pigs stink
They roll in the mud.
They are dirty.
They eat the sludge.
They stink.
If you’re a pig you don’t know you stink.
You smell like a pig.
It’s what you always smell.
All you smell are the smell of pigs.
There’s that pig over there.
He smells like a pig.
There’s that other pig over there.
He smells like a pig.
They all smell like pigs.
When it comes to being good, most people think they are good enough to go to heaven.
When it comes to being good, most people think they are good enough to go to heaven.
They look at their lives and they think:
“I’ve lived a fairly moral life.”
“I’ve never killed anyone.”
“Overall, I’m a fairly good person.”
They justify themselves by comparing themselves to other people.
Maybe that’s you.
You haven’t done anything too terrible.
You’ve never killed anyone.
You’re not like Adolf Hitler.
But you see, the reality is that pigs don’t know pigs stink.
You are like everyone else.
Pigs don’t know pigs stink.
Your standard is wrong.
You’re comparing yourself to everyone else.
You see, pigs don’t know pigs stink.
The standard to get into heaven is much bigger than comparing yourself to other people.
The standard to get into heaven is much bigger than comparing yourself to other people.
God isn’t saying be average.
God’s expectation is perfection.
In Matthew 5:48, Jesus said, ““Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
Perfection is the standard.
How are you doing at being perfect?
How many times have you lied?
How many times have you looked at someone with lust?
How many times have you called your brother fool?
How many times have you used the Lord’s name in vain?
If you’ve done one of those just once, you aren’t perfect.
You haven’t met the standard.
And you say:
“But no one is perfect.”
“Everyone lies.”
“Everyone’s sinned.”
And you are right!
When you say that, you are quoting a Bible verse, Romans 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,”
But you don’t realize how bad things are for you, because pigs don’t know pigs stink!
From your vantage point, you aren’t able to see how badly sin has infected you.
You don’t think sin’s that big of a deal, because all you know are other sinners.
You live in a world full of sinners.
Everyone you meet is a sinner.
You’ve grown accustomed to the stench of sin.
The offense of sin is no longer pungent to your nostrils, because it’s the world you’ve grown up in.
Think of it, we excuse away our sin.
People say lies are okay.
After all they’re only little white lies.
Stealing is okay, if you need what you take and who you take from doesn’t need it.
Marriages crumble, people get divorces, merely because they’re not happy.
We live in a world where sin is acceptable, because we don’t find it offensive.
It’s all we know.
Pigs don’t know pigs stink!
Sin is offensive to God.
Sin is offensive to God.
You may not smell the grossness of sin, but God does.
He still finds it rotten in His nostrils.
Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
God will not let sin go.
There will come a day when sin will be judged.
Revelation 21:8 says, “But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.””
There are some big sins there.
Then there’s the small sins.
Lying.
Lying is enough of a sin to condemn a person.
How many sins did it take to get Adam kicked out of the Garden?
Just one.
Those normal sins, the sins that all of us do, will be brought before God.
You will be brought before God.
Hebrews 9:27 says “And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,”
You will be judged.
What will you say?
“I was like everybody else?”
If there is sin, you will be condemned.
The wages of sin is death.
There is a lake that burns with fire.
This punishment is awful.
It’s where the worm never dies and your thirst is never quenched.
Hell is real.
It’s not a place where Satan rules.
It’s a place where God rules, and punishes all lawbreakers.
And if there is sin on your account, it’s what you deserve.
Are you realizing the offense of sin?
Are you realizing the offense of sin?
You realize your sin is offensive.
You realize you have a problem.
What will you do?
Isaiah 1:18 says, “‘Come now, and let us reason together,’ Says the Lord, ‘Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.’”
I love those words.
“Come now, and let us reason together.”
You are smelling the offense of your sin.
The holiness of God’s purity breaks through the smell of swine, and you realize that something must be done.
Your sins have stained your soul.
And what does God say, “Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.”
How does this happen?
By the death of Jesus.
He was judged in the sinners place.
He took the sinners punishment.
That eternity in Hell, Jesus received in a concentrated dose on the cross.
For all those that Jesus died for … the stain of sin is removed.
No longer are they a stink to God.
Now He embraces the sinner.
He loves the sinner.
He welcomes the sinner.
All because of what Jesus has done.
But there is a cost.
You’ll no longer be a pig.
The other pigs will realize you don’t smell like them anymore.
They will push you aside.
You’ll have the sweet fragrance of Christ.
To them, you won’t smell like pig.
II Corinthians 2 says you’ll have the aroma of death to them.
While in Christ it is an aroma of life.
Because you’re in Christ.
No longer destined for Hell, but for eternal life.
Youll no longer join them in the actions of pigs.
Instead you repent of your sins.
So what will it be?
The smell of pigs into judgment.
Or the fragrant aroma of eternal life in Christ Jesus?
You can no for sure when you repent and trust in Christ.
Won’t you do so today?