Sin

The Dawn of Revival, or Prayer Speedily Answered

… I would have you school yourselves till you obtain a horror of the sinner's sin—surely not so strange a task if you remember your own former …

The Right Observance of the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

… And, as we come to the Table, each one feeling what a sinner he is—how unworthy he is to come—how unfit he is to sit with …

Mary's Magnificat

Luke 1:46

… praise that God who freely forgives the greatest sin and who is willing to cleanse the very blackest sinner, for He has given Christ to die, the Just …

Partnership With Christ

1 Corinthians 1:9

… Then, still more wonderful, He took upon Himself our sin. Though in Him was no sin, yet the Lord made to meet upon Him the iniquity of us …

Hold Fast Your Shield

Hebrews 10:35

… Confidence that I can walk with Him in the light as He is in the light—that the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses from all sin …

Psalm 15

Psalm 15

… A sinner in a gold chain and silken robes is no more to be compared with a saint in rags than a rushlight in a silver candlestick with …

Noah's Eminence

Genesis 7:1

… It was in this way that Noah's faith enabled him to look forward to Christ as the sin-atoning Lamb of God. And his faith, like that …

Psalm 28

Psalm 28

… thy name, such a sinner as to resist the impulses of thy grace, such a traitor as to withhold my testimony against sin, such a self deceiver as …

The First Beatitude

Matthew 5:3

… Let every needy sinner drink comfort from this well! Nor ought we to forget that this lowest note upon the octave of Beatitude, this keynote of the whole …

'Ever This Our War Cry—victory, Victory!'

Isaiah 53:12

… It is added, "and He bore the sin of many." This denotes His actual and literal Substitution—His acting as the Sin-Bearer. This is something more than …

My Restorer

Psalm 23:3

… Suppose that we should tell him that we fell into sin and were condemned to die, but that the great Maker of Heaven and earth condescended to take …

Strong Faith in a Faithful God

Psalm 57:2

… Depend upon it, if I cannot say of the whole of my life, "God performs all things for me," there is sin somewhere and evil lurks in the …

A Gracious Dismissal

Luke 7:50

… When they said that He could not forgive sin, would not she have liked to say, "But He did forgive my sin and He changed my nature! How …

God's Valiant Right Hand

Psalm 118:16

… Satan was conquered for us! Sin was overcome for us! Death was bound for us— "Hell and our sins obstruct our course, But Hell and sin are vanquished …

Speak For Yourself—a Challenge!

John 9:21

… He was born blind! So we were born in sin—sin had cast its blindness over our faculties from our very birth! We shall never forget the midnight …

God's Longsuffering: An Appeal to the Conscience

2 Peter 3:15

… They have been favored with a tender conscience, and with good instruction, so that when they sin they sin with a vengeance. I have known some who have …

Feeding on the Word

Isaiah 55:2

… Thirsty with sin, your sin is quenched with Divine Grace! May God grant us Grace to feed upon Grace, to live upon His Word and to feast upon …

Every Man's Necessity

John 3:7

… For first, every soul that is born again repents of its sin. If a man lives in his sin as he used to do, he must not pretend …

Jesus Christ's Idiom

John 3:5

… Christ has also told us very clearly that sin must and will be punished. There never was anyone else so kind in heart as He was, yet He …

Spring In The Heart

Psalm 65:10

… His prayers, perhaps, are not very long—they do not amount to more than this—"Oh!" "Ah!" "Would to God!" "Lord have mercy upon me, a sinner!" and …

Spring in the Heart

… All your other sins do not grieve Christ so much as the sin of thinking that he is unwilling to forgive you, or the sin of suspecting that …

The Wall Daubed with Untempered Mortar

Ezekiel 13:10-12

… You shall have pleasure though you sin. You shall have rest though you disobey, and it shall be well with you at the end even though you reject …

The Best Bread

John 6:48

… the dead lips of an unregenerate sinner, life comes into them! He brings life even to those who are dead in sin. He says, "Young man, arise," and …

The Best House-visitation

Mark 1:29-33

… Tell Jesus all about it, and he will come, fever or no fever, sin or no sin. I think perhaps they told him of her because it would …

Runaway Jonah and the Convenient Ship

Jonah 1:3

… When a man wishes to sin, it is always easy to sin and therefore the readiness of any mode of action is no argument in its favor. Satan …

The Father's Love to His Dying Son

John 10:17

… Now, sin having attached itself to manhood, the Christ, in becoming Man, took our sin upon Himself, as it is written, "The Lord has laid on Him the …

"Blessed in Him"

Psalm 72:17

… Is not that man truly blessed, then, who is made free from sin? David says, "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is …

Jesus At A Standstill

Mark 10:49

… Hearer, a longing for salvation? What else should a sinner long for? Do you desire forgiveness of sin? It is, of all things, most fitting that a guilty …

The Road to Honor

1 Samuel 2:30

… He sinned and he suffered after the likeness of his sin—you may see the sin in the punishment—as you see, today the footprint of the Egyptian …

The Objective of the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:26

… When I see Christ dying for my sin, I see the great motive for my dying for my sin. When I behold His griefs and pangs on my …

The Gospel Cordial

Proverbs 31:6

… but there she was." Now, poor Sinner, that spider was not as full of venom as you are full of sin! There is a greater storm coming on …

The Joy of Harvest

Isaiah 9:3

… Temptation might have led to sin, sin might have ripened into habit, habit might have gathered force until they became ringleaders in mischief—but they are washed, they …

Creation—An Argument For Faith

Jeremiah 32:17

… He commanded and it stood fast! The case of the sinner is a parallel one. You say there is nothing in the sinner? Yes, there is room here …

The Eternal Truth of God

Psalm 100:5

… After meditating upon the heinousness of this sin—the sin of making God a liar—after even thinking of it, horror took hold upon my soul and it …

A Luther Sermon at the Tabernacle

Habakkuk 2:4

… His sin has been freely forgiven him and now, in the hour of temptation, he cries, "How, then, can I do this great wickedness and sin against God …

Psalm 143

Psalm 143

… If such be the humble cry of a servant, what ought to be the pleading of a sinner? For in thy sight shall no man living be justified …

The Sluggard's Reproof

Proverbs 20:4

… LAZINESS is the crying sin of Eastern nations. I believe that the peculiar genius of the Anglo-Saxon character prevents our being, as a nation, guilty of that …

Christ's Triple Character

Isaiah 55:4

… He, who becomes to us our salvation from the punishment of sin, also becomes our salvation from the power of sin! Are you willing, then, to imitate Him …

Ears Bored to the Doorpost

Exodus 21:5

… Ah, Sinner, God knows how to deal with such as you are, for if you sin with Pharaoh, you shall perish with Pharaoh! If you say, "I will …

Two Visions

Zechariah 1:8-21

… of a priest of God and say over a sinner who has died in the very act of sin, that he buries him in sure and certain hope …