Sin

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Matthew 22:2

… Do we not delight to believe that he, tempted in all points as we are, has never yet submitted to be stained by sin? Never such a man …

"Is the Spirit of the Lord Straitened?"

Micah 2:7

… Try that in a morgue before you pretend to create within a sinner, dead in sin, the spiritual life! Of regeneration we may say, "This is the finger …

My Own Personal Holdfast

Micah 7:7

… You are a sinner condemned by sin—Christ came into the world to save sinners—accept the Savior—trust your soul with Him and ask that, for His …

The Vital Force

Hebrews 10:38

… The ground of the sinner's acceptance in the first moment of his faith is the finished work of Christ and, after 50 years of earnest service, that …

A Call to Holy Living

Matthew 5:47

… If they say they continue in sin that grace may abound, their damnation is just. The salvation of Christ is not a salvation in sin, but a salvation …

The New Fashion

Mark 2:12

… graves? How can the dead in sin accomplish their own quickening? The power which can save does not lie in the sinner—it lies in his God! And …

Sin's True Character

Romans 7:13

… No man is there except for sin. No man that ever breathed was ever cast away except as punishment most just, for sin most grave! Sin is, indeed …

The Fifth Beatitude

Matthew 5:7

… He judges sin by a much sterner rule than other men do, but he always thinks kindly of the sinner. And if he could, he would lay down …

Divine Love and Its Gifts

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… It may be that in unregenerate hearts the love of God, if it could come there, would be turned into an excuse for sin, but it is not …

The First Setting Up of the Bronze Serpent

Numbers 21:4-9

… from all sin." In our lowest condition this is our cleansing! In our highest condition this is still our cleansing! The first time a poor sinner comes up …

Pride Catechized and Condemned

1 Corinthians 4:7

… For instance, we were dead in trespasses and sin, and we were quickened into spiritual life: my brethren, did that life spring out of the ribs of death …

Questions of the Day and THE Question of the Day

Matthew 22:42

… the fullest, putting away all sin by the Sacrifice of Himself—then you will know yourself to be a sinner, with sin to put away—and soon you …

The Fullness of Jesus the Treasury of Saints

John 1:16

… A fullness of quickening Grace, for "He quickens whom He wills." Here is a fullness ofpurifying Grace, for His blood cleanses us from all sin and a further …

Healing and Pardon

Isaiah 33:24

… Oftentimes when, by some sin of impurity, a sinner weakens his body and injures his health, his cure is much helped by his repenting and forsaking his uncleanness …

The Greatest Trial on Record

Psalm 2:2

… Sin is Barabbas; sin is a thief; it will rob your soul of its life; it will rob God of his glory. Sin is a murderer; it stabbed …

Morning, December 31

Jn 7:37

… The thirst may be bad in itself, and be no sign of grace, but rather a mark of inordinate sin longing to be gratified with deeper draughts of …

A Single Eye And Simple Faith

Matthew 6:22

… It is with that he looks to Christ— looks unto Him whom he has pierced and weeps for his sin. It is by faith that he walks; not …

The Captive Savior Freeing His People

John 18:8

… Christ Jesus will pardon sin, but He will never dwell in the same heart with sin. Though you may have been as base as base could be, it …

'And It Was So'

Genesis 1:7

… You remember the warnings that you received in your youth, when you were told that the ways of sin might be pleasantness at first, but would end in …

Life And Walk Of Faith

Colossians 2:6

… As a saint? "No, no," you say, "I came to Christ as a sinner." Come to Him as a sinner now, then. "Oh, but I feel so guilty …

Incense and Light

Exodus 30:7

… of my sin by some other process and then draw near to God. Let me come, sinner as I am, in the name of the sinner's Savior …

Prayer 14 — "Bless The Lord, O My Soul!"

… May the sinner see his sin and mourn it, see His Savior and accept Him, see himself saved and go on his way rejoicing. Father, do grant us …

The Lord No More Angry with His People

Isaiah 54:9

… He has made the same Covenant with you and your sins shall not disannul it! Sinner as you are, it is written—"If any man sin, we have …

Effectual Calling

Luke 19:5

… The sinner runs away from him, but free-grace pursues him, and says, “Sinner, come to Christ;” and if our hearts be shut up, Christ puts his hand …

A Present Religion

1 John 3:2

… Yet it was there before, for sin is hell, and to rebel against God is but the prelude of misery. So is it with heaven; I know that …

Psalm 5

Psalm 5

… A little sin is a great folly, and the greatest of all folly is great sin. Such sinful fools as these must be banished from the court of …

The Smoke Of Their Torments

Genesis 19:27

… Look, Christian, if you can look and see there THE EVIL OF SIN. Are you startled? That is the true harvest of the sowing of iniquity. Come, Sinner …

A New Year's Benediction

1 Peter 5:10

… But suppose the voice of sin should startle us ere that dream be concluded, and if as when one awaketh, we should despise the image which began to …

Sychar's Sinner Saved

John 4:10

… Salvation means salvation from sin. To the drunk, it is salvation from the drink. To the swearer, it is salvation from a profane heart. To the unchaste, it …

A Sincere Summary—and a Searching Scrutiny

Psalm 119:168

… worse sin, the fault was not in the Law, but in sin, and in me, the sinner." 13. 14. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death …

Jesus Affirmed To Be Alive

Acts 25:18

… our hostage. Sin was laid on Him and He was laid in the grave. But now the sinner's surety is as clear as the sinner himself—for …

Gadding About

Jeremiah 2:36

… Is not this unfaithfulness to the finished work and perfect merit of our great Substitute? We knew, at the first, when we were under conviction of sin, that …

Why Some Seekers Are Not Saved

Isaiah 59:1

… It is sin, after all, that lies at the door and blocks your way to the Savior. First, it may be unconfessed sin. Permit me to ask whether …

The Power of the Risen Savior

Matthew 28:18-20

… Listen to some of my Brethren—they say, "You must not preach the Gospel to a dead sinner because the sinner has no power." Just so, but our …

The Soul's Great Crisis

Romans 7:8

… why am I yet also judged as a sinner? Here is another objection—if it is so that, somehow or other, the sin of man is overruled to …

A Welcome for Jesus

Luke 8:40

… Go to Him, poor Sinner! Tell Him how bad you have been— you cannot aggravate or exaggerate your sin! Just lay it all open before Him and say …

Psalm 10

Psalm 10

… Indeed, they shall feel it; for God shall hunt the sinner for ever: so long as there is a grain of sin in him it shall be sought …

Who Should Be Baptized?

Acts 8:37

… godly sorrow for sin. No lips but your own can breathe the penitential prayer on your behalf, "God be mer- ciful to me, a sinner." You must be …

The One Thing Needful

Luke 10:42

… To depend entirely upon the sinner’s Saviour is the sinner’s salvation. God bring you to his feet, dear hearers. But it is equally needful for the …

Jude's Doxology

… When you have to deal with unclean professors, there must be an abhorrence and detestation of their sin even when there is great gentleness towards the sinner. We …