Sin

The Plowman

Isaiah 28:24

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

Going Home—A Christmas Sermon

Mark 5:19

… Tell them how you were once a lost abandoned sinner, how the Lord met with you, how you bowed your knees, and poured out your soul before God …

Peace By Believing

Romans 5:1

… There is a natural disposition of sin to defile, but the blood of Christ speaks peace in the conscience. There is a constant tendency of the world to …

A Drama in Five Acts

1 Corinthians 7:29-31

… stand, sinner, in the day when the Lord cometh to make inquisition for sin, and to avenge their iniquity upon the heads of the unpardoned? Fly, sinner; God …

True Prayer—True Power!

Mark 11:24

… shed his blood,” and you shall prevail, sinner. But do not go to God, and ask for mercy with thy sin in thy hand. What would you think …

Fire—the Need of the Times

Luke 12:49

… and expose every false way! The Gospel is merciful to the sinner, but merciless to sin! It will not endure evil, but wars against it to overturn it …

A New Creation

Revelation 21:5

… He has made His soul to be an offering for sin." That dolorous pain, then, of the Master, was the world's new-making! It was then and …

How Faith Comes

John 4:39-42

… grandly, too! What if you have been converted from great sin? Be careful and watchful that you sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto you, but …

Despised Light Withdrawn

John 12:36

… are pardoned—your sin is gone! All that is said in the Word of God to sinners in general is meant for each sinner in particular when he …

Two Wilderness Incidents

Numbers 21:1-6

… If you have never looked to Him who hung upon the Cross, sin-bitten Sinner, look to Him, now, and you shall be saved at once! If you …

Christ's Loneliness and Ours

John 16:31

… Which is the head of all sin, the root of all sin, the sin which lies in front of the door of Mercy and blocks the sinner's …

The Drawings of Love

Jeremiah 31:3

… And whoever of the whole human race, penitent for past sin, will turn to Jesus, the Savior of sinners, he shall find in Him pardon for the past …

Concerning Saints

Psalm 145:10

… Who, then, are saints? Some will tell us that they are persons who are totally free from sin in thought, word and deed. But where will you find …

The Preacher's Last Sermon for the Season

John 7:37

… Have you any desire after God? Have you any will to be rid of your sin? Have you any anxiety to escape from the wrath to come? Have …

Our Glorious Transforming

Ephesians 2:13

… The moment a sinner believes, all that mountain of sin ceases to be. Can you see those hills—those towering Andes? Who shall climb them? But lo! I …

Saints In Heaven And Earth One Family

Ephesians 3:15

… the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents." Do you ever cry out against sin and groan because of the power of error in …

Lacking Moisture

Luke 8:6

… He who has never wept because of his sin, has never really had his sin washed away. If your heart has never been broken on account of sin …

Christ Asleep in the Vessel

Mark 4:38

… The other application is to the sinner. It may be that there is someone here who is in a desperate plight. He feels his sins, like hungry waves …

The Light of the World

Matthew 5:14

… And the holiness of Believers reveals the wickedness of sin. Our light also reproves the deeds of darkness and condemns them. Even though we were never to use …

Strangers and Sojourners

Psalm 39:12

… feared." Sinner, there is such potency in a penitent's tears that you may prevail with God if you will come to Him weeping over your sin and …

The Lord's Famous Titles

Psalm 146:7-9

… even the blackest sin! I say again, I would like to ring this text like a silver bell in the ears of every penitent sinner here, and say …

The Christian's Motto

John 8:29

… From a sinner comes nothing but sin—an evil tree brings forth evil fruit—a foul fountain pours forth polluted waters. It is vain, therefore, to think, any …

Christ's Prayer for Believers

John 17:20

… There are none so sunk in the depths of sin and wickedness that if they are His by the Covenant of His Grace, do not even now share …

Facts and Inferences

Psalm 37:35-37

… the heels of sin—the guilty one has been caught red-handed—and swift justice has been meted out to the criminal. But suppose, Sinner, that for years …

Soul-winning

Proverbs 11:30

… In a saved sinner there is as much of God to be beheld as in a universe rising out of nothing! And we, then, who are to be …

The Last Census

Psalm 87:6

… Through their sin they had not been multiplied. So many had fallen in the wilderness, that notwithstanding the natural increase, the population stood at very nearly the same …

A Mighty Plea

Psalm 27:9

… David could look back to the days of his boyish conversion, when he fought hard with doubt and fear, and sin committed and sin dwelling within him, and …

Psalm 114

Psalm 114

… Even thus do mountains of sin and hills of trouble move when the Lord comes forth to lead his people to their eternal Canaan. Let us never fear …

The Bellows Burned

Jeremiah 6:29

… Now where Divine Grace comes with these afflictions, it often happens that this good result is answered and like Manasseh, the sinner being taken among thorns, seeks unto …

Loved and Loving

… A polluted sinner may love the perfect Savior, for there is no word in Scripture to forbid. Yes, if a sinner would be wedded to the Lord of …

Great Joy In the City

Acts 8:8

… Philip preached Christ to them as the one Sacrifice for sin, telling them that Jesus died, the Just for the unjust, to bring them to God. He preached …

The Oil and the Vessels

2 Kings 4:6

… While there is one soul conscious of sin and eager for pardon, Grace will flow. Yes, while there is one heart weary of indifference and anxious to be …

The Feast of the Lord

… For here is the main business—show his death to your own heart till your heart bleeds for sin; show it to your own faith till your faith …

The Strait Gate

Luke 13:24

… He never will savingly believe till he has been thoroughly convinced of sin. But many say, "I will never stoop to that. Unless I have something to do …

The Greatest Wonder of Grace

Ezekiel 9:8

… One who has been a public sinner, when she is saved, will not be able to think of it without astonishment. Indeed, each saved man is a marvel …

Covenant Blessings

Ezekiel 36:26

… That is just what God does when He saves a sinner! He begins at the origin of the sinner's sin and deals with his heart. My Brothers …

The Dejected Lover

Solomon 3:1-4

… We think so lightly of unbelief, as though it were an infirmity and not a sin, whereas of all evils, it is the chief! What can be more …

The Upper Hand

Romans 6:14

… The first stone of Divine Grace laid in a sinner's heart secures the top stone of the sacred edifice, let Hell and sin say what they will …

Peter After His Restoration

Luke 22:32

… The more God loves you and the more you love God, the more expensive will you find it to sin. An ordinary sinner sins cheaply—the child of …

Faith and Its Attendant Privileges

John 1:11-13

… That is the death which Adam died and which every impenitent sinner will have to die. No, that is the death which every sinner is under now, for …