Sin

Light at Evening Time

Zechariah 14:7

… Wave upon wave has triumphantly rolled in upon the land, covering the mire of sin, and claiming the earth for the Lord of Hosts. So rapid has been …

Backsliding Healed

Hosea 14:4

… a sinner, if I cannot as a saint. I want a Savior now as much as ever I did. I want new pardon for new sin. I thank …

Faith's Ultimatum

Job 13:15

… If He hates the sin in you, it is a good sign, for where do we hate sin most? Why, in those we love most! If you see …

God's Care of Elijah

1 Kings 17:4

… I do not know, but I am afraid that the worst place into which an unconverted sinner can go is into a Church. While you make no profession …

Two Advents Of Christ

Hebrews 9:27

… He came the first time with a sin-offering. That offering having been once made, there is no more sacrifice for sin. He comes the second time to …

A New Year's Retrospect And Prospect

Psalm 10:17

… I am guilty! Forgive me! I have been an enemy to You! Reconcile me! I am diseased with sin! Heal me, for You are the only Physician!" I …

Medicine For The Distracted

Psalm 94:19

… They have a horror of sin in any shape—it is a deadly poison—and they dread the very odor of it. If they thought that they had …

A Precious Promise for a Pure People

Isaiah 33:17

… In this world He fought the battle and so bravely did He fight it out that He could say, "It is finished." He made an end of sin …

Humility

Acts 20:19

… How much less, then, should the son of man, a creature full of sin, lift himself up and exalt himself as though he were something? Verily, man at …

The Principal Wheat

Isaiah 28:25

… sinner does so. When he comes to God, he is penniless and as much in debt as he can be. The Lord discharges his heavy arrears of sin …

Signs Of The Times

Luke 12:54-57

… The young girl is told to confess to a man every sin against purity and modesty, and she is told, (and I will quote the very words), that …

How to Become Full of Joy

1 John 1:4

… I have heard of a minister who once said that a Christian lost nothing by his sin—and then he added—"except his joy." Well, what else would …

A Caution to the Presumptuous

… Sin— a little thing! Is it not a poison! Who knows its deadliness? Sin— a little thing! Do not the little foxes spoil the vines? Sin—a little …

Notable Lectures and Addresses, 1857-1878

… your sin should proscribe you, and the law should denounce you, and the officer of justice should refuse you, and say, ‘You cannot come in, no sinner comes …

Soul Satisfaction

Psalm 35:3

… your salvation." Sinner, there is no hope for you anywhere else! "Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid." Your hopes, poor Sinner, shall be baseless …

Zealots

Luke 6:15

… right sinner, I hope he may make an upright saint. Some have come in here who have been ringleaders and have exceeded others in their sin, but instead …

Individuality, and Its Opposite

… I am myself a sinner, a sinner washed in the blood, and delivered from the wrath to come by the merit of my Lord and Master;—all this …

The Winnowing Fan

Hebrews 12:14

… to me, a sinner,' renew me, cleanse me, purge me. I hate my sins, deliver me from their power, keep me that I sin not against You. Hold …

“Alas For Us, If Thou Wert All, and Nought Beyond, O Earth”

1 Corinthians 15:19

… Shall the sinner, who has no part nor lot in Christ, call himself happy, and shall we go mourning as if we were penniless beggars? No, we will …

The Leafless Tree

Isaiah 6:3

… repent? Dost thou grieve over thy sin? That is thee bud that shows that there is life within. When a common sinner sins he repents not, or if …

"Eyes Right"

Proverbs 4:25

… Blessed are they that mourn because others abide in sin and reject the Lord! Now, concerning the salvation of our fellow men. We shall never compass it unless …

Psalm 64

Psalm 64

… Those who might have been bold in sin shall be made to tremble and to stand in awe of the righteous Judge. And shall declare the work of …

The Miracles of Our Lord's Death

Matthew 27:50-53

… Jesus died in the sinner's place, the Just for the unjust, a magnificent display of God's Grace and justice in one single act. Could we but …

A Holiday Pastime.—Essay on Popery

… Popery, the Religion of Fools, who make a Mock at Sin. ”               XVII. Popery, the Enemy of Science, and the Bane of the Human Race. *             *             *             * CHAPTER 3. POPERY, A …

"By All Means, Save Some"

1 Corinthians 9:22

… When I see an inquirer penitent for sin, I remember the time when I felt as he is feeling. And when I hear the seeker for the first …

The Model Home Mission and the Model Home Missionary

Acts 10:38

… I had a far more likely hearer in the man whose hunger was relieved than I could have had in the poor famishing sinner. Then, after the sermon …

A Family Sermon

Genesis 7:1

… You have nothing to do outside in the waters of sin and self and Satan. You need neither fish in the waters of sin, nor go boating upon …

Spring

Isaiah 61:11

… God's great mercy to us, of leading us gratefully to serve Him, is perverted into an occasion for greater sin. Alas that it should be so! But …

A Faithful Friend

Proverbs 18:24

… A man who had lived much in sin, one day casually entered a place of worship. Before the sermon, this hymn was sung— “Jesus, lover of my soul …

The Pastor’s Parting Blessing

Romans 16:24

… It could not bring to us the blessings which we now possess until Jesus had finished transgression, and made an end of sin. Both the grace implied in …

Women's Rights—a Parable

Numbers 17:5

… Some men's work will not bear looking at and tomorrow becomes all the worse to them because today was not considered and its sin repented of by …

Fourfold Satisfaction

Jeremiah 31:14

… First, we are satisfied with Christ as our Sin-Offering. Brethren, He did really take upon Himself our sin and He did make an end of it upon …

The Student's Prayer

Psalm 119:27

… Happy is he who knows the way of God's legal precepts and sees them all ablaze with Divine wrath on account of sin—and discerns the way …

Samuel—an Example of Intercession

1 Samuel 12:23

… The Apostle John puts the case thus—"If any man sees his Brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask and He shall give …

The Angelic Life

Matthew 22:30

… The angels are no more to be adored than saintly men, and neither the one nor the other can be worshipped without incurring the sin of idolatry. Take …

The Talking Book

Proverbs 6:22

… They sin with a vengeance who sin both against a father on earth and the great Father in heaven, and they exhibit a virulence and a violence of …

The Danger Of Doubting

1 Samuel 27:1

… Blessed afflictions, that drive him back to where he ought to have been all the time! Sin and smart go together. The child of God cannot sin with …

Honey From A Lion

Romans 5:15

… transgression, iniquity, sin and remembers not the iniquity of His people because He delights in mercy. Almsgiving needs a pauper and Grace needs a sinner! There is no …

A Mystery! Saints Sorrowing and Jesus Glad!

John 11:14-15

… freed from sin, I walk at large, The Saviour’s blood’s my full discharge; At His dear feet my soul I lay, A sinner saved, and homage …

Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Matthew 6:13

… It is the very word which one would employ if temptation to sin were intended—and I cannot believe that any other translation can meet the case. Doddridge …