Sin

The Use of the Bow

2 Samuel 1:17

… If you learn of Jesus at this hour to repent of sin and to put your trust in Him, your soul will be awakened to say, "I will …

Victorious Faith

1 John 5:4

… there in both cases? The sinner sins in order to be happy, as he thinks—and the newborn man abstains from sin in order to be happy! Well …

The Great Change

Hosea 14:8

… Oh, that I were clean rid of sin!" So we sing, with Cowper— "The dearest idol I have known, Whatever that idol be, Help me to tear it …

The Rising Sun

Malachi 4:2

… Others may blaspheme, but they cannot; others may sin and make merry with it, but sin costs them dear; others may feast themselves without apprehension, but they cannot …

A Sermon For The Week Of Prayer

Colossians 4:2

… The merely convicted sinner, terrified by the Law, calls but once; the awakened heart, renewed of the Holy Spirit, never ceases to cry until the mercy comes! A …

The Whole Machinery of Salvation

Romans 10:14

… The fact that you often pray to Him for mercy, for the pardon of sin, for the renewal of your nature, proves that you have some degree, at …

Hidden Manna

Jeremiah 15:16

… When the divine promise assures us personally that our sin is forgiven, that our spirit is clothed in the righteousness of Christ, that heaven is for us, that …

Peace—How Gained, How Broken

Psalm 85:8

… Once they followed sin with all their hearts. They knew not God, neither served Him. But they have been turned away from folly, sin and shame—a change …

Meal-time in the Cornfields

… sinner that nothing short of an infinite atonement could wash my sins away, and no doubt you have felt the same; but we have had our sin removed …

'Grace and Glory'

Psalm 84:11

… will give Grace." The same may be said to every repenting sinner. If you abhor your sin, if you resolve in God's strength to give it up …

The Immutability of God

Malachi 3:6

… If every promise stands fast, and every oath of the covenant is fulfilled, hark thee, sinner!—mark the word—hear the death-knell of thy carnal hopes; see …

Deadness and Quickning

Psalm 119:37

… The sin itself seemed to come upon him all of a sudden, but the preparation for the sin had been in the making long before! Friends, if we …

Sealed and Open Evidences

Jeremiah 32:14

… What more could God do than He, here, promises? It looks like a trial of strength between sin and Grace! Sin was like a mountain, but the Lord …

Memento Mori

Deuteronomy 32:29

… Our sin, the sin of the human race, slays the race. We die because we have sinned. How this should make us hate sin! How we should detest …

Binding Up Broken Hearts

Isaiah 61:1

… God save me, God save you, my Brothers! God save you, my Sisters, from ever being allowed to sin a great sin against the living God! But if …

Earth's Vanities and Heaven's Verities

Psalm 39:6-8

… I am not sure that he did not sin then. We sin if we are silent and we sin if we speak, for we are such sinful creatures …

On Spiritualizing

… This is a sin against common sense. How dreadfully the word of God has been mauled and mangled by a certain band of preachers who have laid texts …

Man Unknown To Man

Proverbs 14:10

… I have known a sinner when under deep conviction of sin to seek the Lord with hunger of spirit and for a while he has been left in …

An Earnest Warning about Lukewarmness

… into a sinner’s heart, carrying the soul by storm, because the man is dead in sin, and Christ must do it all, or the sinner will perish …

Gray Hairs

Hosea 7:9

… And then I would, O that I might, A constant weeper be." Look at the great heinousness of the sin of departing from God! See sin in its …

"Take Heed, Brethren"

Hebrews 3:12

… But sin comes and rubs away that bloom and spoils the fruit. If you and I fall into sin, we shall have to weep bitterly over it. We …

The Marvelous Magnet

John 12:32

… The conscience sees with unspeakable delight the Victim provided! She gladly lays her hand on Jesus' head and sees her sin transferred to Him, punished in Him—and …

The Soul-Winner

Proverbs 11:30

… We must woo the sinner for Christ—that is how hearts are to be won for Him. Jesus is the Bridegroom and we must speak for Him and …

The Sad Wonder

Mark 6:6

… Has the Gospel saved you, my Brother? And you, Sister? Then whom can it not save? Ever since the day when I came as a burdened, desponding sinner …

Coming Judgment of the Secrets of Men

Romans 2:16

… The gospel is as truly a two-edged sword against sin, as ever the law can be. There is grace for the man who quits his sin, but …

An Inscription for the Mausoleum of the Saints

Hebrews 11:13

… Though they sin through infirmity, they shall not sin fatally, nor sin finally, but they shall persevere in holiness and in the love of God. If they wander …

Temptations On The Pinnacle

Matthew 4:5-7

… And because he hated them there was no sin in them—to him I mean. Of course there was sin to the person who made the suggestion, but …

Come From the Four Winds, O Breath!

Ezekiel 37:9

… shall not raise from the tomb of sin even the soul of a little child, or bring a single sinner to the feet of Christ! How, then, should …

The Church Encouraged and Exhorted

Isaiah 43:6

… Do you not feel that you want to go as far as you can to meet the sinner who is coming to Christ, to try to take away …

A Portrait No Artist Can Paint

Revelation 1:16

… death, then I saw what a sinner I must be—and I also saw what would be the result of my sin if Ihad to bear the penalty …

The Believer Catechized

John 11:26

… miserable sinner," when you are so no longer, but a blood-washed saint and a happy child of God? Why do you talk about your sin as if …

Perseverance in Holiness

Jeremiah 32:40

… Though they sin in measure, yet shall they not so sin as to depart from God. They shall still hold on to him, and live in Christ by …

General And Yet Particular

John 17:2

… Christ has this day as Mediator, power to convict of sin every living soul by His Spirit, if so He wills. And power to bring all men to …

The Doors of the Shadow of Death

Job 38:17

… youth, manhood, married life and to remember and to bring up sin. It is not every sinner that is such a fool as to be able to remember …

Knowledge. Worship. Gratitude.

Romans 1:20

… At once, then, let us look at this first sin, a sin very common in these days. THEY KNEW GOD, BUT THEY GLORIFIED HIM NOT AS GOD. Even …

"Where Are The Nine?"—or, Praise Neglected

Luke 17:15

… You have also heard what an instructive symbol it is in human flesh of what sin is in the human soul, how it pollutes, how it destroys. I …

A Happy Christian

Isaiah 58:11

… His sin is pardoned! He is reconciled to God! He is at peace with the Most High! The soul is never satisfied till it can place its head …

A Wonder Explained By Greater Wonders

Lamentations 3:57

… He died of set purpose for the bearing of our sin and the putting away of it by the endurance of the death penalty. Just think of it …

Onward!

Philippians 3:13

… I have known enthusiasts reach it by sheer intoxication of excitement, while Antinomians come at it by imagining that the Law is abolished and that what is sin …

The Tender Enquiry of a Friend

Jeremiah 47:5

… Every sin is a gash in the soul. The Lord will bring you back and save you, as I believe. But oh, how long will you cut yourselves …