Sin

'The Oil of Joy for Mourning'

Isaiah 61:3

… to the sinner?" Well, I have all the while been speaking to the sinner, too, because all this is for you if you repent of sin and believe …

Perfection in Faith

Hebrews 10:14

… He brings a sin offering, and it is offered, and the man sees it burn and goes away. He has got faith—faith in the great sin offering …

Warning and Encouragement

Solomon 5:2

… I may compare the sleep of a sinner to the sleep produced by opium which gives its victim dreams of the most magnificent character, carrying the soul up …

Sowing in the Wind, Reaping Under Clouds

Ecclesiastes 11:4

… Though we may think that there is no sin in it, there is great sin in foolish fear. God has commanded His people not to fear—then we …

The Fainting Warrior

Romans 7:24

… I know that every time I commit sin I am guilty, and yet I am quite certain that I must sin—that my nature is such that I …

Asleep and Yet Awake—a Riddle

Solomon 5:2

… The mystery is all solved, the saint would be a sinner if it were not that he is one with the sinner's Savior—the living Believer would …

Why Christ Is Not Esteemed

Isaiah 53:3

… lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return." You may go to the very worst haunts of sin and vice in this city or anywhere else …

Life In Earnest

2 Chronicles 31:21

… We have dealings with the sinner's sin and long to see it washed away with the precious blood of Christ. We have dealings with man's natural …

The Sparrow and the Swallow

Psalm 84:3

… And when it falls to our lot, through our own sin or neglect, or in the inscrutable wisdom of Divine Sovereignty, to be, for awhile, spiritually in the …

Life More Abundant

John 10:10

… When under conviction of sin a man has felt himself to be less than nothing, a sinner unworthy to lift his eyes to Heaven, a leper fit to …

Fallen Angels a Lesson To Fallen Men

2 Peter 2:4

… taste of sin, will soon reveal the tiger in him. Wash a Russian, and you find a Tartar; tempt a moralist, and you discover a sinner! The thin …

Joyful Transformations

Isaiah 42:16

… I was tempted in all points like as you are, though without sin." Who can tell the encouragement given to the heir of Heaven by the fact that …

The Call of 'Today'

Hebrews 3:7

… You begin to be familiar with the neglect of them and nothing is more injurious to the mind than familiarity with sin! To be acquainted with sin is …

Job's Regret and Our Own

Job 29:2

… Go to Christ as a poor guilty sinner. When the door to heaven seems shut to me as a saint, I will get through it as a sinner …

The Two Yokes

Jeremiah 28:13

… Say any of you of sin'''Tis sweet'? Ah! and so are many I poisoned things. Your nature goes after it. Yes, and many a sick man's …

Awakening

… to be satisfied with a sense of sin; and another trick of the same deceiver to insinuate that the sinner may not be content to trust Christ, unless …

Christ Our Passover

1 Corinthians 5:7

… Let us, brethren, go back to the day in our experience, when we abode in the land of Egypt, working in the brick-kilns of sin, toiling to …

Dwell Deep, O Dedan!

Jeremiah 49:8

… It is highly important, Beloved, that every one of us should have a deep sense of sin and a profound horror of it. Those who have but slight …

Psalm 12

Psalm 12

… To oppress anyone is sin; but to oppress the oppressed is the height of sin. Poverty, and want, and misery, should be motives to pity; but oppressors make …

Recruits for the King

1 Samuel 22:1-2

… I have sinned and God has said that the sinner shall die. Yet I cannot afford to forfeit my life. How can I dare to die? I have …

Fruitless Faith

James 2:17

… Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. There is the history and pedigree of sin! God save …

The Philosophy of Promise

Isaiah 42:9

… Their first sincere thought towards Him is caused by His having thought of them!— "No sinner can be beforehand with Thee. Your Grace is most sovereign, most rich …

A Tempted Savior—Our Best Succor

Hebrews 2:18

… His detestation of sin must have been much more deep than ours. A word of blasphemy, a thought of sin must have cut Him to the very quick …

Two Ancient Proverbs

Proverbs 29:25

… The sinner remains a sinner, after all Providential chastisements, unless Sovereign Grace interposes. 23. Be you diligent to know the state ofyour flocks, and look well to your …

Jesus The Shepherd

Isaiah 40:11

… The earth opened her mouth to receive Abel's blood and Jesus' sacrifice has blessed this poor, sin-ruined world. Abel received Divine witness to his righteousness and …

Good Cheer From Christ's Call and From Himself

Mark 10:46-52

… some cavilers, but indeed it is a blessed intrusion upon a sinner, slumbering in his sin over the brink of Hell, to disturb his slumber and awaken him …

The Little Dogs

Matthew 15:26

… Therefore, Lord, let me have the crumbs." Do you see, dear Hearer? You admit that you are a sinner and a great sinner, but you say, "Lord, I …

The Greatest Folly in the World

Romans 3:11

… And if we have not fallen into one form of sin which men agree in despising, yet we may have gone further in some other form of sin …

"My Redeemer Liveth"

… At His word the soul which is bound by the cords of sin and condemnation can be unloosed in a moment. He stretches out the silver scepter, and …

Joy in God

Romans 5:11

… That God is reconciled to him is certain, or else the man would not be reconciled to God, for no sinner was ever beforehand with God. And if …

Love's Labours

1 Corinthians 13:7

… I know that he is a sinner, else I should not seek his salvation; but if he happens to be one who has fallen very low in the …

The World On Fire

2 Peter 3:10

… The sinner finds a reason for sin when he says, "God is not here. Everything goes on in the ordinary way. God does not care what men do …

The Power of the Holy Ghost

Romans 15:13

… He can “Speak with that voice which wakes the dead And bids the sinner rise; And makes the guilty conscience dread The death that never dies.” He can …

The Ministry Of Gratitude

Luke 4:39

… Perhaps this poor fevered woman might have made some shift to have done something for the Savior, but the unconverted man is dead in trespasses and sin—he …

The Scarlet Line in the Window

Joshua 2:21

… Faith is the hand which touches the head of the Great Sacrifice and lays sin upon it, that sin may no longer lie upon the sinner. Faith grasps …

Keeping the Soul Alive

Psalm 22:29

… ribs of death, that a sinner may grow into a saint of himself, that the man who is as full of sin as the leopard is full of …

The Love Of Jesus—What It Is—None But His Loved Ones Know

Ephesians 3:19

… now. "Oh but I am a black with sin!" Come and be washed. "Oh but I am a naked sinner." Come and be clothed. "But I am lost …

The Seed by the Wayside

Luke 8:5

… Every sin makes room for another sin and it is always easier to sin again after you have sinned once. No, more—I might even say that it …

How To Meet the Doctrine of Election

Matthew 15:24

… souls! The Lord does not, all at once, let the sinner know the full extent of his sin, nor does He give him a full idea of the …

God's Nearness To Us

Acts 17:27

… If I seek Him, He is seeking me for certain, or else I would never have sought Him! When the sinner seeks God and God seeks the sinner …