Sin

Bringing the King Back

2 Samuel 19:10

… what Jesus suffered to put away my sin. It needs not that I should die, for Jesus died in the sinner's place as a full vindication of …

Buying the Truth

Proverbs 23:23

… Every sin must be given up. No man shall go to Heaven while he lives in and favors any one sin. A man may sin, and be saved …

The Wounds of Jesus

Luke 24:40

… Poor sinner, thou art troubled on account of sin. There is a sweet thought for thee. Men are afraid to go to Christ, or else they say, “My …

Good Cheer for Christians

Isaiah 25:6

… A sinner, though guilty in himself, no sooner believes in Jesus than all his sins are pardoned! The righteousness of Christ becomes his righteousness, and he is accepted …

Thrice Happy Day!

Haggai 2:19

… they have given up many sins, there is one favorite sin which they still hold. But, Sinner, you cannot love Christ and your sins too! I know you …

The Secret of Failure

Matthew 17:19-21

… It is long since we had a temptation to certain forms of sin—we sent them adrift in the name of the Lord. But there are certain others …

Storming the Battlements

Jeremiah 5:10

… I conceive that outward sin is not more abhorbed by one God than this most wicked sin of reliance on ourselves. May none of you ever learn your …

Faith in the Person of the Lord Jesus

… I believe in the fact accomplished on the cross; I am confident that sin was put away by Christ, and I rest on him.” If you would be …

The Right Kind of Fear

Proverbs 28:14

… I may be tempted to sin, but I shall be able to resist the temptation." Take a good look at that man, so that you will know him …

A Sharp Knife for the Vine Branches

John 15:2

… I wrap Your righteousness about my loins! I am a poor sin-sick, lost sinner—I look up to You on yonder Cross and I do believe that …

One Trophy for Two Exploits

Psalm 18:29

… Not merely sin in the mass, but sin in daily temptations of every kind and sin of every shade and form—not only from earth a host of …

A Timely Expostulation

Luke 24:5

… Whatever it is that is pure and lovely and uncorrupted with sin is as much yours as it is the portion of any other people under the sun …

To Those Who Feel Unfit for Communion

2 Chronicles 30:17-20

… Worse, still, we cannot even stay at home without finding sin in our own dwellings. Yes, the mass of sin within your own selves, "the body of this …

The Church and the World

… The life of a saint should be altogether above and out of the same list as the life of a sinner. We should compel our critics not to …

Psalm 9

Psalm 9

… Verse 16. "Snared in the work of his own hands." The wages that sin bargains with the sinner are life, pleasure, and profit; but the wages it pays …

Must He?

Luke 19:5

… He always calls them a people who are not a people and the first movement between God and the sinner is never on the sinner's part, but …

Fat Things, Full of Marrow

Isaiah 54:7-10

… offering for sin and laid on Him the iniquities of us all. The Father hid His face from Him and refused to smile on the sinner's Substitute …

The Spur

John 9:4

… not been a sinner and had I not been lost." Is not that the best light in which to see the saddest things? Sin, somehow or other, desperate …

Evening, September 13

Lu 15:2

… committed, should take upon himself the form of a servant, and bear the sin of many, and should then be willing to receive the vilest of the vile …

Wordless Prayers Heard in Heaven

Isaiah 41:17

… of sin cuts and wounds the conscience of each individual and there is a bitter cry uttered by each one as if he were the only sinner in …

Causes and Cure of Fainting

Isaiah 40:29

… First, I will endeavor to answer the question, WHAT MAKES US FAINT? We will first consider the case of the awakened sinner, the man who does not know …

Men Bewitched

Galatians 3:1

… most freely remit the sin of Believers and bid them go their way. Substitution—may we never stammer over that—Christ in the sinner's place! Beloved, if …

The Rainbow

Genesis 9:16

… been a real vengeance and a real punishment of sin—until there is a real anguish in the sinner's conscience, there is no Christ for him. And …

Young Man, Is This For You?

Luke 7:11-17

… Even so, you, O Sinner, cannot save yourself—neither can any of us—or can any of us save you. There is no help for you, dead Sinner …

Evening, February 2

1Ch 4:22

… sin, would they not be more ready to adore distinguishing grace? Let us both admire and adore tonight, as we sing— “A monument of grace, A sinner saved …

The Standard Uplifted In The Face Of The Foe

Isaiah 59:19

… Sinner—and may the Holy Spirit enable you—I beseech you to look to the slaughtered Lamb of God upon Calvary's Cross. There is Atonement for sin …

Morning, January 22

Eze 15:2

… hath made thee to differ? Great believer, thou wouldst have been a great sinner if God had not made thee to differ. O thou who art valiant for …

Christ's Ambassadors

2 Corinthians 5:20

… as God is God, He cannot trifle with sin! You may trifle with it if you will, O foolish Sinner, but it will be at your own imminent …

Consolation in Christ

Philippians 2:1

… The right of a sinner to come to Christ does not lie in the sinner, nor in any feelings which the sinner may have had; it lies in …

Hindrances to Prayer

1 Peter 3:7

… shoot, for this bow refuses to bend to hands polluted with unrepented sin. If a sinner prays for mercy for Jesus' sake he shall be heard, but for …

Voices from the Excellent Glory

Matthew 3:16

… Why needed He to be baptized? It is a sinner's ordinance—Jesus is no sinner and needs no washing, no death, no burial! But He takes the …

Psalm 79

Psalm 79

… and deliver us." As the conscience of sin useth to step in oftener between us and mercy, so must we call oftener for remission of sin; for earnest …

One Antidote for Many Ills

Psalm 80:10

… Cry out, then, ye Christians, “Turn us again, O God!” If others sin, I beseech you, do not you sin, remember how God is dishonored by it. What …

Evening, September 15

Ps 148:14

… It was as if the Lord in those early ages would teach man that sin was so utterly loathsome to him, that he must treat men as lepers …

The Church—the World's Hope

Acts 27:24

… the Fall, about the result of sin, about the Redeemer, about faith and about the sweet invitations of Christ to the sinner to come to him and live …

Boldness at the Throne

Hebrews 4:16

… Since Jesus Christ has taken upon Himself our nature and suffered in our place, the Throne to which the sinner is bid to draw near is a Throne …

The Holy Ghost—The Great Teacher

John 16:13

… So have I found some distressed about the unpardonable sin; but if God instructs us in that doctrine, and shows us that no conscience that is really awakened …

A Prayer for Revival

Psalm 85:6

… It is the prayer of a nation that is suffering for its sin. It is the prayer of a sinner who sees what God has done for His …

Restraining Prayer

Job 15:4

… The right-eye sin—happy is that Christian who has learned to pluck it out by confession. The right-hand sin—he is blessed and well taught who …

Morning, November 14

Zep 1:5

… The idolater who distinctly gives himself to his false god, has one sin less than he who brings his polluted and detestable sacrifice unto the temple of the …