Sin

To Lovers of Jesus—an Example

Mark 14:6

… Her sin was put away long ago. Mary had sat at Jesus' feet and had chosen the good part. The matter of pardon for sin had been transacted …

The Great Catastrophe at the Surrey Gardens Music Hall

… I do not extenuate the sin, I only testify and declare that accidents are not to be viewed as punishments for sin, for punishment belongs not to this …

Cheer For The Faint-Hearted

Judges 13:23

… But when you see a man down, I would hardly talk to him about the sin of tumbling in, but pull him out first and brush him clean …

Psalm 16

Psalm 16

… The text while it shows our Lord's abhorrence of sin, shows also the sinner's greediness after it. Professed believers are often slow towards the true Lord …

A Wilderness Cry

Psalm 63:1

… The wounds of Jesus for my sin are still my soul's one hope—the precious blood of Your dear Son is my sole confidence! If such is …

Driving the Vultures Away from the Sacrifice

Genesis 15:11

… Savior, slain in the sinner's place. They are no brethren of ours who reject the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! We …

The Sheep Before the Shearers

… Nothing is our own except our God. “Why,” says one, “not our sin?” Sin was our own, but Jesus has taken it upon himself, and it is gone …

The Deceived Heart

Isaiah 44:20

… be as the worldling! Let me be as the sinner who openly lives and dies in his sin—but never suffer me to endure that double Hell that …

Seeing And Not Seeing—Or, Men As Trees Walking

Mark 8:22-25

… The old nature can never do anything but sin, and the new nature never can sin. They are two distinct principles, never confuse them. Do not see men …

Intelligent Obedience

1 Chronicles 28:8

… no flesh be justified." So far as the sinner is concerned, by the Law comes the knowledge of sin! The Law can do nothing more for him than …

Praise for Jesus

Genesis 49:8

… O you who are striving against sin, or seeking to win souls for Christ, after many disappointments may you be able to clutch this sweet assurance, "He shall …

Filling With the Spirit and Drunkenness With Wine

Ephesians 5:18

… God has guarded the sanctity of the Holy Spirit by causing a certain sin to be especially condemned and unpardonable—the sin against the Holy Spirit. Honor Him …

The Joy of Harvest

… When a sinner feels the pangs of conscience he may well say, “This is what I sowed.” When he shall at last receive the punishment of his evil …

Early Pastoral Epistles

… converts God hath given me ! O beloved, be steadfast ! Commit not the great sin of apostacy. Beware lest Satan take advantage of you: 'for we are not ignorant …

Laus Deo

Romans 11:36

… There cannot be any reason why He should not have created a world from which sin should have been forever excluded. And that He suffered sin to enter …

Psalm 37

Psalm 37

… Fretfulness lies upon the verge of great sin. Many who have indulged a murmuring disposition have at last come to sin, in order to gain their fancied rights …

The Enchanted Ground

… Once the thought of restoring a sinner from the error of his ways would have made you start from your bed at midnight, and you would have rushed …

The Saints Blessing The Lord

Psalm 103:1

… Holiness is the terror of unholy men! They love sin and count it liberty, but holiness is to them a slavery. If we are saints we shall bless …

Under His Shadow

Psalm 91:1

… Our lips were parched and our souls were fainting—we sought for shelter and we found none, for we were in the wilderness of sin and condemnation—and …

The Oil of Gladness

Psalm 45:7

… Let the sinner say what he likes, sin can no more dwell with real joy than the lion will lie down with the lamb. To be perfectly glad …

The New Park Street Pulpit

Ephesians 1:13

… When a man has long resisted the invitations of the Gospel, long gone from bad to worse, from sin to sin—a horror, an unspeakable horror—will seize …

A Lesson from the Life of King Asa

2 Chronicles 16:9

… We shall need to watch against temptation so long as we are in this wilderness of sin. Only in Heaven are we out of gunshot of the devil …

The Royal Prerogative

Psalm 68:20

… He is all leniency, gentleness, mildness and indifferent in the matter of sin. Justice is not in him and as for the punishment of sin, he knows it …

A Dirge for the Down-grade and a Song For Faith

Isaiah 66:10

… And original sin and imputed righteousness are both denounced. As for the Doctrines of Grace—they are ridiculed as altogether out of vogue and even the solemn sanctions …

Jacob's Waking Exclamation

Genesis 28:16

… Thou art, O God, even where man is most in his sin and blasphemy; thou art reigning over rebels themselves, and over those who seem to defy and …

The Gospel in Power

1 Thessalonians 1:5-10

… He purges them from this sin and that and He refines and renews them. He is in them as a Spirit of burning—consuming sin—a cleansing Spirit …

Psalm 49

Psalm 49

… Who, then, would envy or fear the proud sinner? Verse 15. But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave. Forth from that temporary resting …

The Relationship of Marriage

Jeremiah 3:14

… He is holiness and we are sin. He is Heaven and we are far more akin to Hell. In Him there is consummate greatness and we are puny …

Holy Violence

Matthew 11:12

… I am a sinner so vile, sir, that I know I never can be saved, therefore, what is the use? I never think about it now, except with …

Lovest Thou Me?

John 21:15-17

… It is well, especially after a foul sin, that the Christian should well probe the wound. It is right that he should examine himself; for sin gives grave …

'Oh, How He Loves!'

John 11:36

… and the Inspired Apostle wrote, "He has made Him who knew no sin, to be sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in …

Encouragement for the Depressed

Zechariah 4:10

… The punishment of sin seems to be according to the sin itself. If men will not hear God, neither will God hear them! 14. But I scattered them …

The God of the Aged

Isaiah 46:4

… We believe the blood of Christ avails to wash out seventy years, as well as seventy days of sin; that “with God there is no respect of persons …

The Multitude Before the Throne

Revelation 7:9

… Nakedness was revealed to man by sin. Before the time when he sinned, he was naked and not ashamed. But then he strove to make himself a dress …

At School

Psalm 143:10

… It is a holy prayer. "Teach me to do Your will." The man who utters this language desires to be free from sin, for sin can never be …

Where Can We Find Anecdotes and Illustrations?

… him to admit that sin is exceeding sinful; indeed, no human power can ever produce genuine conviction in the heart of a single sinner; it must be the …

Declension from First Love

Revelation 2:4

… Ah, remember my brother, thou art nothing now but a sinner saved through grace; remember what thou wouldst have been, if the Lord had left thee. And surely …

The Christ-Given Rest

Matthew 11:28

… Conscience makes cowards of us all, even those who are most daring in sin. With the child of God, there is no death of conscience. On the contrary …

No Compromise

Genesis 24:5-8

… Ah, then, I see how I may find beauty, too, among the sons of men! Marred as our nature is by sin, only the Holy Spirit can impart …

The Long Pastorate Commenced, 1854

… way whereby we are saved! God must punish sin. Christ said, ‘My Father, punish Me instead of the sinner;’ and His Father did. God laid on His beloved …