Sin

Little Sins

Genesis 19:20

… As for murder, it is a masterly sin; but we do not often hear of it compared with the multitude of minor sins. The smaller the guilt, the …

A Searching Test

Titus 1:15

… Has a sinner health—then that health shall enable him to go farther into sin, or, at any rate, to indulge himself the more, for he will not …

Speaking on God's Behalf

Job 36:2

… When first we came to Him laden with guilt and full of woes, we found Him ready to pardon—a God with whom there is plenteous redemption— "Many …

The Tabernacle Opened

… We will preach Christ as the sinner’s Saviour, the Spirit of God as applying Christ’s truth to the soul, and God the Father in His infinite …

Israel at the Red Sea

Psalm 106:9

… Cry to him, and there shall not a sin of thine be left alive; he will sweep them all away; and the king of sin, the devil, he …

Expiation

Isaiah 53:10

… by a sin-offering? Undoubtedly, it was taken for granted by the offerer, that without shedding blood there was no remission of sin. Conscious of guilt, and anxious …

Sins of Omission

Jeremiah 11:8

… When the Holy Spirit convicts men of sin, what is the special sin which He reveals? The sin of adultery? The sin of robbery? No, of an omission …

Peter Walking on the Sea

Matthew 14:28-31

… They fancied that since they were born-again, and enlisted in Christ's army, they would never afterward have to fight with sin within—though, perhaps, they might …

Araunah's Threshing Floor

1 Chronicles 22:1

… But be assured, O Sinner, that if you build your hope on any theory which denies that debt must be paid, that crime must be avenged, that sin …

Jerusalem the Guilty

Luke 13:33

… sin as a child can. A servant and a son may both be guilty of the same offense, but there is a difference in the degree of guilt …

The Priceless Prize

Philippians 3:8

… condemned sinner and, before long you will be a sinner judged, sentenced and cast into Hell! Do you not know that? You are a diseased sinner. Sin is …

Our Magnificent Savior

Isaiah 53:11

… He imputes to us what Christ has done! He takes the righteousness of the Lord Christ and gives it to the sinner, blots out the sinner's sin …

A Song, A solace, A Sermon and a Summons

Psalm 136:1

… You and I can readily put up with offenses which do not touch us in the quick, or actually under our own eye—but the sinner's sin …

Effectual Calling—Illustrated by the Call of Abram

Genesis 12:5

… Predestination, according to the Divine good pleasure, is the wellhead of all the Covenant blessings which the Believer enjoys— "Never had you felt the guilt of sin, Nor …

Pleading With the Indifferent

Lamentations 1:12

… But He was not a sinner. In Him was no sin and neither suffering nor death could lawfully have been laid upon Him had He not made Himself …

The Good Man’s Life and Death

Philippians 1:21

… his sin, and of his desperate evil nature, and when by grace he is brought to see the dying Saviour making a propitiation for his guilt. From that …

The Light of the World

John 8:12

… He who could thus convince them, is able to convince the world of sin! He who lit up the deepest recesses of the heart is the Light of …

Good Cheer From Christ's Victory Over the World

John 16:33

… That they oppose us is little—but that they stumble at the great Foundation Stone upon which they will surely be broken, is terrible to perceive! They sin …

The Remembrance of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:24

… We forget him because we carry about with us the old Adam of sin and death. If we were purely new-born creatures, we should never forget the …

The Believer Not An Orphan

John 14:18

… God still kept His residence, notwithstanding all the foulness of David's guilt and sin! But, Beloved, in addition to this, Jesus Christ, by His Spirit, makes visits …

The Vanguard and Rereward of the Church

Isaiah 52:12

… It is but a rule of nature that holiness must be at enmity with sin. That would be but a mock purity which could lie side by side …

Discipline in Christ's Army

Joshua 1:11

… Their orders are clear—"Come out from among them and be you separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing." This battle of ours against sin …

Loving Advice for Anxious Seekers

James 1:5

… He does not say. “Ah! you sinner, how came you to commit such sin; I will forgive you, but —————.” The Father does not talk thus to the returning …

Hope in Hopeless Cases

Matthew 17:17

… of despair to a sinner! Christ unable to save? It can never be! Christ outdone by Satan and by sin? Impossible! A sinner with too many diseases for …

The Sages, The Star, and The Savior

Matthew 2:2

… Alas, when we preach most earnestly of Him, and tell of His sorrows as the Atonement for human sin, we are compelled to lament most bitterly the carelessness …

Good Cause for Great Zeal

Ezra 4:14

… Down with it! There is only one Priest and He is in Heaven!! And none of us have any power to offer any sacrifice for sin, or any …

Forward! Forward! Forward!

Exodus 14:15

… You are not as you used to be, a contented bondsman, but you pant to be delivered altogether from sin and its power and its guilt. You have …

Grace Abounding

Romans 5:20

… Paul says, "I had not known sin, but by the Law." He would have been just as truly a sinner in himself, but the sinfulness would not have …

Deliverance From the Power of Darkness

Colossians 1:13

… Deliverance from the power of sin is as much the work of God as deliverance from the guilt of sin! Where we look for justification, there must we …

Human Depravity And Divine Mercy

Genesis 8:21

… sin with eyes of mercy and though Justice says, "Destroy," He says, "No, I have punished My dear Son. I have punished Him and will spare the sinner …

The Sinner's Friend

Matthew 11:19

… No; the “friend of sinners” has put himself into the sinner’s place! and then, as if he had been the sinner, though in him was no sin …

Prompt Obedience

Psalm 18:44

… I do not say that you will not be tempted to sin until you die, but there will be no sin that you will love, there will be …

Pride and Humility

Proverbs 18:12

… In almost every other sin, we gather up the ashes when the fire is gone; but here, what is left? The covetous man hath his shining gold, but …

God Comforting His People

Isaiah 49:13

… Both our births bring us troubles! Our first birth brings us the troubles that are incident to sin and our second birth brings us the troubles that are …

Conversion and Character

Acts 16:24-34

… Still, it is not often that persons of this class are saved, for these very orderly people frequently think that they have no sin and so the warnings …

God in the Covenant

Jeremiah 31:33

… while he suffers the rest of the world to continue in sin, and to consummate their guilt by well-deserved punishment, and thus, while his relationship is the …

The Amen

Revelation 3:14

… There He is, the sinner's Substitute—what will the infinitely just Jehovah say now? The Law says He is accursed, for He has sin upon Him. Will …

Overwhelming Obligations

Psalm 116:12

… We had been awakened, and we felt the load and the guilt of sin—a grievous burden from which we feared we never could escape—a flagrant defilement …

No Illusion

Acts 12:9

… be delivered from the prison of sin. Your destiny hangs here—salvation or damnation—life or death. Dare you die, Sinner, dare you die? Dare you die with …

An Awful Contrast

Matthew 26:67

… of their guilt—it became incumbent upon the justice of God to treat Him as if He were actually a sinner. He was no sinner and He could …