Sin

A Psalm of Remembrance

1 John 4:16

… would have mercy on such a sinner as I am.” “I cannot conceive,” says another one, “though I know my guilt, I cannot conceive that the love of …

Repentance Must Go With Forgiveness

… Which, think you, is the greater privilege, cleansing from the guilt of sin, or deliverance from the power of sin? I will not attempt to weigh in the …

The Great Change.—Conversion

… I desired to hear how a poor sinner, under a sense of sin, might find peace with God; and when I went, I heard a sermon on, “Be …

"It Is God That Justifieth"

… None but the great God, against whom we have committed the sin, can blot out that sin; let us, therefore, see that we go to Him and seek …

The Believer's Challenge

Romans 8:34

… yet it is within reach of every truly penitent sinner. If you are now led to repent of sin; if you will now cast yourself on the blood …

Concerning Deliverance from Sinning

… which we are delivered from the guilt and the defilement of sin. If, however, you are troubled about the power of sin, and about the tendencies of your …

Fragrant Spices From the Mountains of Myrrh

… He is acquainted with her sin, in all its heinousness of guilt, and desert of punishment. That sin He does not shun to reprove. His own words are …

Justification, Propitiation, Declaration

Romans 3:24-26

… All this He has endured as if He were my sin, and is it not so? "He has made Him who knew no sin to be sin for …

An Earnest Entreaty

Psalm 2:12

… And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner In a particular sense, a sinner—one whose very trade was sin. 37. 38. When she knew …

Man Humbled, God Exalted

Isaiah 2:17

… Its very first promise is forgiveness, which implies sin. It begins to talk with man of pardon and justification, which implies guilt and a lack of righteousness. If …

A Mighty Saviour

Isaiah 63:1

… Sinner! black as thou art with sin, Christ this morning is able to make thee whiter than the driven snow. Thou askest why. I will tell thee. He …

Assurance Sought

Psalm 35:3

… results of our own transgressions, from the penalties due to our guilt, the indwelling power of sin and the domination of our corrupt nature. You all know this …

A New Year's Benediction

Hebrews 13:5

… He might so sin against God that it would only be just to leave him utterly to himself." Now, I am free to grant that a child of …

'Repentance and Remission'

Luke 24:47

… O Sinner, if you really repent of your sin and believe in Jesus, the sinner's Savior, you are saved with an everlasting salvation! Remember that you have …

The Men that “Sell the Books”

… by the silent conviction which irresistibly subdues the conscience to a sense of guilt, and by the love which is displayed in the Redeemer’s becoming the great …

The Enemies of the Cross of Christ

Philippians 3:18

… you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them," it is a strange fantasy of human guilt that men should say, "We will even take the …

Praise for the Gift of Gifts

2 Corinthians 9:15

… ordained that we should walk in them."— "All that I was, my sin, my guilt, My death—was all my own. All that I am, I owe to …

Dilemma and Deliverance

Psalm 9:10

… Do you remember when you were in sin, before you had received pardon, your guilt was heavy upon you, and you sought God and cried to him. Did …

Faith's Way of Approach

Romans 10:17

… now! Our witness is that He does save—He saves from the guilt of sin, He saves from the dread and wrath of Hell, He saves from the …

Over the Mountains

Song 2:16

… caverns of our sin and sorrow. He carried the whole of our transgression and so became aware of the tremendous load of our guilt. He is quite at …

'Going and Weeping'

Jeremiah 50:4

… I desire never, in this world, to be free from a deep sense of the bitterness and guiltiness of sin. Even though freed from the guilt of sin …

God's Unspeakable Gift

2 Corinthians 9:15

… The general sin of the race, the special sin of the individual—all gathered, heap upon heap, mountain upon mountain—and laid by God on Christ! We sometimes …

Mercy, Omnipotence, and Justice

Nahum 1:3

… Sin is still punished, though the sinner is delivered. But, you say, this has scarcely proved that he will not acquit the wicked. I hold it has proved …

An Unalterable Law

Hebrews 9:22

… Just as sin may be regarded as a debt incurred to God, so that debt may be blotted out, cancelled and obliterated. The sinner, God's debtor may …

The Privileged Man

Ezekiel 16:9-14

… the guilt of sin is removed—and then by the energetic power of the Holy Spirit. We have been washed from the impurity and power of sin so …

Soul-satisfying Bread

John 6:35

… Jesus was the Substitute for human guilt, he says, "He is the Substitute for my guilt. If He came and took sin upon Himself, then I trust Him …

Salvation to the Uttermost

Hebrews 7:25

… Sinner, Christ is “able to save to the uttermost;” by which we understand that the uttermost extent of guilt is not beyond the power of the Saviour. Can …

Christ's One Sacrifice for Sin

Hebrews 9:26

… For in that He died, He died unto sin once: but in that He lives, He lives unto God." The sinner for whom Christ died is free because …

Turn or Burn

Psalm 7:12

… Sinner! thou art so desperately set on sin, that I have no hope thou wilt ever turn from it of thyself. But listen! He who died on Calvary …

Mr. Fearing Comforted

Matthew 14:31

… Day after day I have added to my guilt; and since my pretended conversion,” says this doubting one, “I have been a bigger sinner than ever I was …

Heman's Sorrowful Psalm

Psalm 88:13

… a sense of sin, "God cannot be angry with me for crying to Him for mercy! Surely that cannot be an increase of my guilt—that I dare …

Real Contact With Jesus

Luke 8:46

… they ought to feel their sin. And if not, they may expect the chastisements of God to visit them. But, O Sinner, as to coming to Christ—which …

Sanctified Sorrow

Isaiah 54:11

… The arrows of adversity are blunt in comparison with those of guilt! Afflictions, without sin to aggravate them, are as a knife without an edge—they do not …

Unreasonable Reasons

Matthew 14:31

… a sinner's sin, I say, "How can this ever be washed away?" But when I look at the Savior's blood, I seem to say, "Sin is …

Christ Seen as God's Salvation

Luke 2:30

… that He who redeemed me from the guilt of sin would quite as certainly redeem me from thepower of sin That He who set me on the rock …

Prodigal Love for the Prodigal Son

Luke 15:20

… it is then that we confess most truly because we know the guilt of sin most really! Then do we plaintively sing— "My sins, my sins, my Savior …

The Pleasures of Piety

Psalm 104:34

… to pray for every sinner, however great his sin may be! We know that "all unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death." 18. We …

A Sense of Pardoned Sin

Isaiah 38:17

… a man who uniformly hates sin. There never was a believer who loved iniquity; such a strange thing as a pardoned sinner who still loved to be in …

The Touch

Mark 5:30

… You, too, must come to Jesus with the view of being delivered from the guilt, penalty and power of sin. And you must get into contact with Christ …

Broken Bones

Psalm 51:8

… There is forgiveness with God, that He may be feared! Great as your sin may be, whether as a sinner or as a fallen Christian, yet still it …