Sin

Prayer Answered, Love Nourished

Psalm 116:1

… Looking into the future we see sin cast out, the body of sin and death destroyed, the soul made perfect and fit to be a partaker of the …

Ebenezer!

1 Samuel 7:12

… The field between Mizpeh and Shen would also refresh their memories concerning their sins, for it was sin that conquered them. Had not their hearts been captured by …

High Doctrine

… So with the sinner dead in sin, what can that sinner do? Unless the Scripture be an exaggeration, unless you are prepared to cast overboard that passage where …

'Accepted in the Beloved'

Ephesians 1:6

… and on their heads will be the guilt. We must first be in Him. Whether you are an open sinner or outwardly moral, remember you are not accepted …

Accepted of the Great Father

Ephesians 1:6

… been—the atoning Sacrifice can take all their guilt away—and the perfect Righteousness can justify the most heinous sinner before God. You may be accepted! Listen! If …

Peter's Shortest Prayer

Matthew 14:30

… There is hope for a sinner when he prays, "Lord, my case is urgent, save me now! Sin, like a viper, has fastened itself upon me, Lord, save …

A Proclamation from the King of Kings

Jeremiah 3:12

… It is the Heaven of His Heaven to receive a Hell-black sinner to His heart and put away his sin. "I am merciful," says the Lord. Did …

Thoughts and Their Fruit

Jeremiah 6:19

… If you think long upon any sin, the probability is that as soon as the temptation to that sin comes, you will commit it. I have known persons …

Words To Rest On

2 Chronicles 32:8

… These, who thus take for granted the heterodox words of their favorite leaders, though they do not acknowledge them, incur great guilt—and their leaders are doing grievous …

Blessings Manifold and Marvelous

Psalm 18:19

… Prone to sin, and prompt to participate in other men's sins, you mingled with them in their unhallowed pursuits. You were enemies to God and yet you …

The First and the Second

Hebrews 10:9

… No, they must come off before He will clothe us, so He takers away "the first" that He may give us "the second." O poor Sinner, be wise …

Deep Calls Unto Deep

Psalm 42:7

… offered up by Christ, that it meets the full extent of the guilt which any sinner who seeks Him may have incurred! Moreover, to meet the obstinacy and …

Sickness and Prayer, Healing and Praise

Psalm 107:17-22

… Ah, the way of a sinner, convicted of sin, is indeed a solitary way! He has a sorrow which he cannot tell to anybody else—a stranger intermeddles …

First Forgiveness, Then Healing

Luke 5:20

… declare the remission of sin. What Jesus said was spoken with Divine Authority. It is vain for a priest to say to a sinner, "I absolve you." What …

Salvation As It Is Now Received

1 Peter 1:8

… before the eternal Throne of God are not more clear of the guilt of sin before the bar of Infallible Justice than was the dying thief the very …

Christ Made a Curse for Us

Galatians 3:13

… He was regarded as if He had been the sinner! He actually and in very deed stood in the sinner's place. Next to the imputation of sin …

A Message From God

Judges 3:20

… really was not a sinner at all in her own estimation. It is marvelous how people who indulge in general confessions of sin attempt to exculpate themselves of …

Repentance after Conversion

Psalm 51:17

… for pardoned guilt, that we, the favorites of Heaven, should have so grieved the Lord! Go a little further. I want you to set sin in the light …

The Secret of Happiness

Matthew 9:2

… So, Sinner, pour out your whole heart before the Lord, for this is the way to be saved! Bring your heart all full of sin and sorrow—turn …

The Two Talents

Matthew 25:22-23

… live, and inasmuch as you die, without having improved the one talent, your guilt will be exceedingly increased by the very fact that your talent was but little …

A Clarion Call to Saints and Sinners

Micah 2:10

… You must, through Divine Grace, be ready to quit self and the righteousness that is of self—and sin and the follies that go with sin. "Arise you …

The Great Emancipator

Exodus 4:22

… filled with the living waters of Grace— "Never had you felt the guilt of sin, Or sweets of pardoning love, Unless your worthless name had been Enrolled to …

The Song of Songs

Isaiah 44:23

… Then, sinner, listen. Your sin can be blotted out. You have tried to remove the stain, but all in vain; that scarlet stain abides, and though you were …

Job Among the Ashes

Job 42:5

… In every respect in which we fall short of the perfect character of Jesus, in that respect we sin. There is no better description of sin that I …

Our King, Our Joy

Psalm 149:2

… Are we saved from the second death, are we delivered from the guilt of sin? It is all through Him! The old poem of one of our writers …

A Sermon From a Sick Preacher

1 Peter 2:7

… your soul, He is still precious, for your guilt will return to your conscience and you will yet sin, being still in the body, but there is a …

A Time of Finding for Lost Sheep

Ezekiel 34:16

… O poor sin-sick Soul, I thank God that you are afflicted with this sickness, for now you will have recourse to the Physician! O poor Sinner, I …

Craving the Best Things

1 Samuel 21:9

… that heart, dear Sinner, you may also come! "I am the Way," says Christ. If you look to Him bleeding, suffering, bearing the guilt of man, you are …

Our Lord's Triumphant Ascension

Psalm 68:18

… Death is no more the King of Dread—"The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the Law. But thanks be to God, which …

Right-hand Sins

Mark 9:43

… But what is salvation? Salvation is, in short, deliverance from sin, deliverance from the guilt of it, from the punishment of it, from the power of it. If …

God's Glory and His Goodness

Exodus 33:18-23

… He lays help upon One that is mighty and executes His vengeance upon the sinner's Substitute. You never see His goodness till you get into Christ. Nor …

Men Chosen—Fallen Angels Rejected

Hebrews 2:16

… you said, that you did not know but the sin of man was as great as the sin of Satan.” Well, I beg to repeat it; and I …

The Forerunner

Hebrews 6:20

… had really put away sin, surely it would never have needed to be offered again. If one sacrifice had put away the guilt of Israel, there would have …

The Prodigal'S Reception

Luke 15:20

… Every backslider finds it so and every penitent sinner knows that there is a bitterness in mourning for sin comparable to the loss of one's only son …

Three Decisive Steps

1 Samuel 7:2-5

… So have I known many go up to their closet to pray and they have said, "O God, if so vile a sinner can be forgiven, if there …

Majesty in Misery

Luke 22:63-65

… you have thus blindfolded God by your unbelief, you are, by your sin, imitating the guilt of these men who literally blindfolded Christ. And as we behold Him …

Both Sides of the Shield

Exodus 17:8

… On the one hand, notice that this attack upon Israel was Amalek's great sin, on account of which the nation was doomed to be extirpated. Because of …

The Loved Ones Chastened

Revelation 3:19

… to produce sin, and he comes and crushes it at once—nips the sin in the bud. Ah! we can not tell how much guilt Christians have been …

Christ's Care of His Disciples

John 18:8

… All the sinner's guilt was imputed to Me. All his unrighteousness is Mine and all My righteousness is his. I, the Savior, am the sinner's Substitute …

Christ About His Father’s Business

Luke 2:49

… The spirit was in him, and would work, just as the spirit of disobedience in the wicked impels them to sin. Lust, sometimes, drags the sinner on to …