Sin

Bands Of Love

Hosea 11:4

… Nor could we be free, struggle as we might, until that pierced hand which took away the guilt of sin also released us from its power. By Jesus …

Nominal Christians—Real Infidels

John 8:46

… Oh, Sinner, how then, can you be at ease in an unconverted state? How is it that you can remain so careless, when Heaven is barred against you …

Only Trust Him! Only Trust Him!

Luke 17:12-14

… We see here the abounding fruit of sin, for here were 10 lepers in a group and the abundance of Divine power to meet it, for they were …

Open Heart For The Great Savior

John 1:12

… He came to purify men from sin. He stood before God offering a sacrifice of propitiation by which the guilt of man is removed. If I am not …

A Second Word to Seekers

Jeremiah 29:13

… The sinner is at a distance from God and guilt divides him from his God. He longs to draw near to the heavenly Father and to be reconciled …

The Dying Thief in a New Light

Luke 23:40-42

… I would tell him that, though he was as near to dying as the thief upon the cross was, yet if he repented of his sin and turned …

The Children and Their Hosannas

Matthew 21:15

… If ever any lad knew the guilt of sin, I did. I was tenderly cared for and kept from all sorts of evil company, yet the great deeps …

Ezekiel'S Deserted Infant

Ezekiel 16:5

… What mischiefs waylay him! What crimes beset him! What follies haunt him! As God only knows the fullness of the guilt of even one sin, so His infinite …

Feeble Faith Appealing to a Strong Savior

Mark 9:24

… It is a great sin for anyone to say, "The Spirit cannot regenerate me. There is no hope for me." Is it possible that you, poor despairing Sinner …

Man'S Thoughts And God'S Thoughts

Isaiah 55:8

… The most grieved, broken, and contrite sinner does not perceive all the blackness of sin as God perceives it. And I am afraid the most of us, though …

Bad Lodgers and How To Treat Them

Jeremiah 4:14

… My heart with loads of guilt oppressed, The seat of every sin. What crowds of evil thoughts, What vile affections there! Envy and pride, deceit and guile, Distrust …

Christ's Work No Failure

Isaiah 42:4

… Man is inveterately a sinner. You cannot cure him of rebellion—he is desperately set on mischief. Even when the consequences of his sin wound and afflict him …

Pardon for the Greatest Guilt

2 Chronicles 33:2

… some great sinner, in whom despair has fixed itself, who has said, "Because there is no hope for me, therefore I will go farther into sin," will be …

Hezekiah And The Ambassadors—Or, Vainglory Rebuked

2 Kings 20:12

… Many a sin which the Believer has committed God has pardoned, but the consequences come all the same. You may have the guilt forgiven but you cannot undo …

The Sprinkling of the Blood of the Sacrifice

Leviticus 4:6

… There is not that intensity of evil in a sin of ignorance which is to be seen in willful, deliberate transgression, but still, there is sin in it …

From Death To Life

1 Samuel 2:6

… Such is the state of the sinner when under a sense of guilt. He feels that deadly swoon of death into which Adam threw all his children. Now …

Tell It All

Mark 5:33

… no one what sinners we were until Divine Grace reclaimed us. Sin is our disease. Sinner, acknowledge it. Go, show yourself, in all your foulness, to the Great …

The True Gospel Is No Hidden Gospel

2 Corinthians 4:3

… Is it sin that burdened him? Let him see Jesus Christ bearing sin in His own body on the Cross and let him believe in this same Sin …

Our Change of Masters

Romans 6:18

… When fully dressed in Satan's uniform the sinner is abominable, even to his fellow sinners. If you want to see sin's uniformed servants dressed out in …

God's Law in Man's Heart

Hebrews 8:10

… felt the guilt of sin! It would have done so, I sometimes think, if I had continued much longer in that terrible condition. O Sin, Sin, I have …

Grace Exalted—Boasting Excluded

Romans 3:27

… As a sin, His holiness hates it. As a treason, His sovereignty detests it. As a rebellion, the whole of His attributes stand leagued to put it down …

The Holy Spirit's Threefold Conviction of Men

John 16:8-11

… Your sham sinner is a horrid creature, but a man truly convinced of sin by the Spirit of God is a being to be sought after as a …

Fellowship With God

1 John 1:3

… You have seen his grace in forgiving the sinner, but you have seen his holiness in avenging sin upon the substitute. You have seen his truthfulness acting in …

A Golden Prayer

John 12:28

… The sin lies not in the conflict but in the defeat, if there is defeat. The guilt is not in the shrinking from pain, but in permitting that …

Under Arrest

Galatians 3:23

… I were a sinner and nothing else but a sinner. If I opened my mouth, I spoke amiss. If I sat still, there was sin in my silence …

Preparation for Revival

Amos 3:3

… he would be unwilling that sin should go unpunished. He feels that the sanctions of law, however terrible, are absolutely necessary, and required to be severe. Above all …

"Clear Shining After Rain"

2 Samuel 23:4

… We must preach plainly against sin. In our ministry there must be rain—we must have the clouds and darkness, and Divine justice bearing heavily upon the sinner …

The Backslider'S Way Hedged Up

Hosea 2:5-7

… sinner seeking Christ, but, if possible, there is more in a backslider returning from the error of his ways—for he has not only the guilt of sin …

A Singular Plea in Prayer

Psalm 41:4

… Christ died for nobody but real sinners, those who feel that their sin is truly sin— "A sinner is a sacred thing, The Holy Spirit has made him …

Cries From the Cross

Psalm 22:1

… rests the guilt of every penitent—transferred from him to You and You must expiate it by Your blood. Because You stand in the sinner's place, I …

Secret Sins Driven Out By Stinging Hornets

Deuteronomy 7:20

… When the guilt of sin is gone then the power of sin becomes obnoxious and we begin to strive against it. Every now and then we hear of …

The King-Priest

Zechariah 6:13

… When He subdues your iniquities; when the power of sin is taken away as well as the guilt of it, then you shall know the perfection of peace …

Fearing and Hoping

Psalm 147:11

… a sinner—but who also hopes in God's mercy! He is sure of sin, but equally sure of sin's forgiveness. He is humbled by guilt, but …

The Last Year at Waterbeach and Cambridge

… He who trusts in Jesus is pardoned for all his offenses against God From the guilt and charge of sin, so that we become innocent in the sight …

The Lord's Name and Memorial

Isaiah 55:13

… present sin is, the more the mercy of God will be seen in pardoning you! Come, then, with your sin! If you are the biggest sinner that ever …

The Physician Pardons His Palsied Patient

Matthew 9:2-7

… He gives to a sin-sick sinner, lying on a bed before Him, waiting to be healed. Oh, the tenderness of Christ to sin and misery! He puts …

The Lion and the Bear—Trophies Hung Up

1 Samuel 17:36

… He came, at last, to His Cross, and there the stupendous load of human guilt was laid upon His shoulders and He bore it all! As in righteousness …

Hope for the Worst Backsliders

Jeremiah 3:22

… There is also a godly sorrow which comes after sin has been committed and which is not merely occasioned by the sin, but by the love of God …

God's Work Upon Minister and Convert

Acts 26:16-20

… When the love of sin has gone, the guilt of sin has gone, also. Full conversion carries with it full pardon. The same moment that we receive Christ …

The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear

… Remember that, as the receiver is as bad as the thief, so the hearer of scandal is a sharer in the guilt of it. If there were no …