Sin

Bright Prospects for Young Believers

Malachi 4:2

… They fear God just as much as this—that they would not willfully sin. They are checked from presumptuous sins by the fear of God and this is …

Compassion on the Ignorant

Hebrews 5:2

… And inasmuch as the ignorance here meant is the ignorance of sin, which is constantly described in the Old Testament as folly, so that every sinner is declared …

The Moral of a Miracle

Mark 11:22

… power if God will only allow me to stop a sinner in his mad career of sin! If a creature could put his finger on Vesuvius and quench …

Power With God

Genesis 32:28

… He wills not the death of a sinner, but delights to display His saving Mercy, to manifest the abundance of His Grace. The foundation of our power with …

Rejecters Of The Gospel Admonished

Isaiah 28:12

… O hardened Sinner! God help you to leave your sin! Come and trust Jesus this day. May God enable you to do so by His Holy Spirit, for …

Our Lord's Posture in Ascension

Luke 24:50-53

… sinner's wound." You may try all the royal hands in the world, but they cannot cure the true "King's evil"—the terrible evil of sin—till …

Good News for Seekers

Psalm 22:26

… Love that exacts the sinner's debt, Yet, in exacting sets him free. Love that condemns the sinner's sin, Yet, in condemning, pardon seals. That saves from …

The Hunger and Thirst Which Are Blessed

Matthew 5:6

… I am a sinner but yet I do not love sin—is not this delightful? Though I have to fight daily against corruption, yet I have received an …

The Divided Heart

Hosea 10:2

… God knows the circumstances of temptation in which a man may be placed, and though the force of temptation is not an excuse for sin, it may serve …

On Humbling Ourselves before God

1 Peter 5:6

… soul, just saved from sin, full of delight, and they envy him and cry out, "Why is a fuss made over such a sinner, when I have been …

Watch-Night Service

Psalm 90:1-22

… Where has your habitation been, ye sons of sin and daughters of folly? “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the …

A Look and Its Lessons

Isaiah 51:1

… Under the hand of the Holy Spirit, it makes us see the evil of sin. We might not have perceived sin to be sin if it had not …

Hypocrisy

Luke 12:1

… The minister often preaches a solemn, thundering sermon against sin. You get off all that; you are not a sinner, are you? not at all; who would suspect …

The Danger of Carnal Security

Judges 18:7

… She was glad to hear me earnest about sinners, but she was not a sinner—she had not been a sinner for a long time and any exhortations …

Eyes Opened

Genesis 21:19

… At any rate, the glorified know what we do here, for they rejoice over one sinner that repents! Evidently, too, it takes not long to travel there, for …

The Ploughman

… We must tell the sinner what God has revealed about sin, righteousness, and judgment to come. Still, brethren, we must not plough all day. No, no, the preaching …

Offended Because of Christ?

Matthew 11:6

… It is very wrong, they say, to sing that hymn— "Nothing, either great or small, Nothing, Sinner, no! Jesus did it, did it all, Long, long ago." And …

Though He Were Dead

John 11:24-26

… to the sinner it is an execution, to the saint an undressing. Death to the wicked is the King of terrors: death to the saint is the end …

Remember!

Deuteronomy 15:15

… Newton, "have never despaired of anybody since I was, myself, converted." So, you see, as he thought of this poor sinner at Bath, he was remembering that he …

One Aspect of Christ's Death

John 15:13

… Paul wrote to the Corinthians, "For He (that is, God) has made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the …

"A Man Under Authority"

Matthew 8:8

… him to start upon an errand." Think not of the sinner, or of the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior! I am …

Secret Drawings Graciously Explained

Jeremiah 31:3

… Sin is carried away by Jesus, even as the scapegoat bore away the sin of Israel. "They shall not be mentioned against you any more, forever." "I have …

The Great Itinerant

Acts 10:38

… I want to see you—a poor adulterous sinner—saved from sin." How else do we understand the words which He said to His disciples, when they wondered …

A Paradox

2 Corinthians 12:10

… You tell us that men must repent, and believe the gospel; that they must be renewed in the spirit of their minds, and must both overcome sin, and …

A Powerful Reason For Coming To Christ

Mark 3:8

… Come, then, to Christ, O my sin-stricken Hearers, because, be your condition what it may, He can meet it! Are you troubled with hardness of heart? By …

Oct. 26 — BECAUSE OF US

Matt. 24:22

… Many a sinner lives because of the prayers of a mother, or wife, or daughter, to whom the Lord has respect. Have we used aright the singular power …

"Lo, I Come"—Exposition

Psalm 40:6-8

… burnt offering and sin offering have You not required. Then said I, Lo, I have come—in the volume of the Book it is written of Me—I …

God'S Cure For Man'S Weakness

Hebrews 11:34

… The sinner, aroused in his weakness, sighs dolefully— "I would but cannot sing, I would but cannot pray. I would but cannot Break the bonds of sin. I …

The Joy of Redemption

Isaiah 44:23

… Man had sinned against his God and God, the Just One, must punish sin. But it was agreed that if a plan could be devised by which Justice …

Blessing on the Printed Sermons

… It aroused me to a sense of my utterly lost condition as a sinner of the deepest dye, and, at the same time, so encouraged me to seek …

Our Watchword

Psalm 70:4

… The sinner loves a salvation from hell, the saint loves a salvation from sin. Anybody would desire to be saved from the pit, but it is only a …

Eyes Opened

Genesis 21:19

… It is a very hard thing to bring a sinner to long after Christ—so hard that if a sinner does really long and thirst after Jesus—the …

The Paraclete

John 14:16

… If the Spirit of God makes us understand the doctrines of Christ, as, for instance His teaching concerning the pardon of sin by faith, and the love of …

Regeneration and the Holy Spirit

… I freely admit that the new birth is supernatural, and that it cannot be wrought by the sinner's own self. It would be a poor help to …

Psalm 18

Psalm 18

… est justus ultor, saith Augustine; "God is not the author of sin, but he punisheth the sinner justly."— Miles Smith (Bishop), 1632. Verse 26. "With the pure thou …

The Chief Physician and the Centurion's Servant

Matthew 8:7

… So can our blessed Master save a sinner as easily as His Spirit can come to that sinner—and we all know that His Spirit is a free …

Religion a Present Concern

… be unjust still?” Do we not know that in the heart of every sin condemnation slumbers? Is it not a fearful truth that the germ of everlasting torment …

The Lifting Up of the Bowed Down

Luke 13:10-13

… what has the Calvinist to say? He says that the sinner is bound by the infirmity of sin and cannot lift himself up and when he does so …

Christ the Maker of All Things New

… Shall sin create holiness? Shall death create life? Shall the devil create God? None of these questions are more absurd than the idea of the sinner's being …

The Unspeakable Gift

2 Corinthians 9:15

… We rejoice to speak of His bearing the sin of many, His being numbered with the transgressors, His being made sin for us, though He knew no sin …