Sin

'Marvelous Things'

Psalm 98:1

… There is never a sinner so saved as to make God even seem to wink at sin. Since the creation of this world, there was never an act …

Five Fears

Ecclesiastes 8:12

… Now, sinner, if thou art sick of sin, and grieved at heart where thou standest, follow me in spirit in these words: “O Lord, I know my guilt …

Washed to Greater Foulness

Job 9:30

… of God made for their transgressions. "Ne'er had ye felt the guilt of sin, Or sweets of pardoning love, Unless your worthless names had been Enrolled to …

A Plea From the Cross

Luke 23:34

… There, and there only, is seen the way by which sin can be pardoned and the sinner accepted with God! And he who, finding pardon there, would seek …

The Second Time

Acts 7:13

… They had practically aimed at his murder and they confessed their guilt. And you, Sinner, have been guilty of the death of Jesus. Have you ever realized that …

Evening, February 13

Ro 8:1

… Believing in Jesus, thou art actually and effectually cleared from guilt; thou art led out of thy prison. Thou art no more in fetters as a bond-slave …

Evening, April 12

Ne 3:15

… This is the garden of gardens indeed, wherein the soul may see the guilt of sin and the power of love, two sights which surpass all others. Is …

Evening, December 3

Ps 24:8

… Every arrow of guilt which Satan might have shot at us is broken, for who can lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? Vain are the …

Morning, March 30

Is 53:12

… Now, when the sinner is brought to the bar, Jesus appears there himself. He stands to answer the accusation. He points to his side, his hands, his feet …

The Only Atoning Priest

Hebrews 10:11-14

… I have much to do by faith to overcome the power of sin in me, and to seek after holiness; but so far as the guilt of transgression …

Morning, December 24

2Co 8:9

… Poverty must be enriched by him in whom are infinite treasures before it can venture to commune; and guilt must lose itself in imputed and imparted righteousness ere …

The Lower Courts

1 John 3:20

… into court and says, "I admit my guilt, but I plead that Christ suffered in my place. I confess my sin, but I also claim that it was …

A Sermon and a Reminiscence

1 Peter 2:7

… What has He done for us? He has delivered us, first, from all the guilt of our past sins. You have not forgotten the day when— "Laden with …

Let Him Alone

Hosea 4:17

… then go on as you used to do, without incurring seven-fold guilt! Continuance in sin after admonition is that which provokes God to say, "He is joined …

Things to Be Remembered

… So, a sinner in his sin is like a man in the deep—he does not feel the weight of his sin. But get him out of it …

Evening, November 27

Eph 1:7

… my portion as a sinner—there is no possibility of my escaping from it while sin remains upon me—can the load of guilt be uplifted, the crimson …

Judgments and No Repentance— Repetance and No Salvation

Revelation 16:9

… I am a sinner through and through. And I know while I confess my sin that You know more about my sin than I do. I lay bare …

Evening, July 17

1Ki 18:40

… There is no place so well adapted for the discovery of sin, and recovery from its power and guilt, as the immediate presence of God. Job never knew …

Morning, December 23

Lu 14:10

… The soul conscious of guilt, and humbled thereby, is overawed with the solemnity of its position; it is cast to the earth by a sense of the grandeur …

Evening, December 25

Job 1:5

… speeches? Then confess the sin, and fly to the sacrifice. The sacrifice sanctifies. The precious blood of the Lamb slain removes the guilt, and purges away the defilement …

Morning, April 2

Mt 27:14

… this silence a type of the defencelessness of sin ? Nothing can be said in palliation or excuse of human guilt; and, therefore, he who bore its whole weight …

An Immovable Foundation

Psalm 11:3

… The vicarious sacrifice of Christ for the sinner. Christ suffering for the sinner. Christ's being made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of …

Evening, December 1

Ps 107:8

… from the depth of sin in which we were naturally plunged. We have been led to the cross of Christ—our shackles of guilt have been broken off …

Evening, May 3

Ps 46:1

… Has a sense of guilt returned upon thee? The pardoning grace of Jesus may be proved again and again. Come to him at once for cleansing. Dost thou …

Evening, April 11

Ps 25:18

… It is well, also, to take both sorrow and sin to the same place. It was to God that David carried his sorrow: it was to God that …

Cured At Last!

Luke 8:43

… No earthly surgery can take away the load of sin from the conscience. No hand of priest or presbyter, Prophet or philosopher, can cleanse the leprosy of guilt …

Individual Sin Laid On Jesus

Isaiah 53:6

… It meets every case in its distinctness It puts away sin in all its separateness of guilt as if it were made for that sin, and for that …

What Jesus Would Do

Matthew 23:37

… Oh, how sweet it is when, conscious of guilt and sin, we, nevertheless, can realize the sweetness of that promise which I have already quoted to you, "He …

Morning, October 30

Ps 9:1

… To be silent over God’s mercies is to incur the guilt of ingratitude; it is to act as basely as the nine lepers, who after they had …

Evening, February 1

2Sa 1:26

… me into the wilderness, stripped me there, and made me feel the guilt of my sin, and the burden of mine iniquity. Thy love spake thus comfortably to …

God'S First Words To The First Sinner

Genesis 3:9

… Mark the alienation of heart which sin causes in the sinner. Adam ought to have sought out his Maker. He should have gone through the garden crying for …

Evening, June 3

Php 2:8

… A sense of Christ’s amazing love to us has a greater tendency to humble us than even a consciousness of our own guilt. May the Lord bring …

Christ's Connection With Sinners the Source of His Glory

Isaiah 53:12

… But He had to stand as a sinner where we sinners stand—to suffer from the common laws of a sin-cursed world—though He was not, and …

Morning, August 27

Nu 14:11

… In thy case, O believer! it is most wicked, for the mercies of thy Lord in the past, increase thy guilt in doubting him now. When thou dost …

Morning, January 7

Php 1:21

… Spirit convinced him of sin, and when by grace he was brought to see the dying Saviour making a propitiation for his guilt. From the moment of the …

Unconditional Surrender

James 4:7

… Put thy lips down and kiss it, though it condemn thee, and say, "though it charges me with guilt and convicts me of deadly sin, yet it is …

Morning, April 3

Jn 19:16

… iniquity of us all;” “He was made sin for us;” and, as the substitute for our guilt, bearing our sin upon his shoulders, represented by the cross; we …

Evening, August 24

Ex 22:6

… sets men’s souls on a blaze with the fire of hell? The guilt is beyond estimate, and the result is irretrievable. If such an offender be forgiven …

Evening, April 28

Eze 3:7

… Before my conversion, I could sin and feel no compunction, hear of my guilt and yet remain unhumbled, and even confess my iniquity and manifest no inward humiliation …

Clearing the Road to Heaven

Isaiah 62:10

… Know assuredly that the Savior is greater than your sin and His merit is greater than your guilt— "If all the sins that men have done, In will …