Sin

Counting the Cost

Luke 14:28-30

… He who truly repents of sin is a renewed man, but if repentance of sin were only a transient thing and were soon over, the life which it …

Imitators of God

Ephesians 5:1

… Those who live godly and righteously in Christ Jesus, believing in Him, are God's children, and though the godly sin, yet they do not love sin, nor …

A Comforting Message for the Closing Year

Psalm 37:7

… Christ pleads on your behalf—it is not possible that all your past sin can ruin you, for it was laid upon the Scapegoat's head of old …

A Blow For Puseyism

John 6:63

… Trusting Him, I feel joy and peace, love and zeal, hatred of sin and love of holiness—and so as to my spiritual nature I am fed upon …

The Sound in the Mulberry Trees

2 Samuel 5:24

… their souls were fed by your sermon? Did you hear of any sinner convinced of sin? Have you any reason to believe that you have had a soul …

Faith—What Is It? How Can It Be Obtained?

Ephesians 2:8

… Get firmly to believe that "the blood of Jesus Christ, God's dear Son, cleans us from all sin," that His Sacrifice is complete and fully accepted of …

Sacred Memories

Jeremiah 51:50

… You know that in David's penitent cry, in the 51st Psalm, when he bemoaned his sin and sought the pardoning mercy of God, he could not close …

Overcome Evil With Good

Romans 12:21

… We must be babes in Grace and sadly carnal, still, if sin is allowed to master us. If we were stronger in the Lord and in the power …

Lecture IV: 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 …

The Dream of the Barley Cake

Judges 7:13

… Poor sinner, try faith! Poor backslider, try faith! Poor desponding heir of Heaven, try faith! This barley cake of faith will smite the power of sin, break the …

Psalm 131

Psalm 131

… Forgiveness implies sin; and should not the sinner clothe himself with humility? and when not for any desert of his, but simply by the free grace of Heaven …

'Nevertheless at Your Word'

Luke 5:5

… Time out of mind have we spoken to you about the precious blood of Christ that cleanses all sin and about the blessings that Jesus brings to you …

Good News For Thirsty Souls

Revelation 21:6

… I suppose if we could altogether see our desperate condition by nature, or know to the full the heinousness of sin, we would become mad! Do not, therefore …

Life's Need and Maintenance

Psalm 22:29

… Their sense of sin and personal unworthiness is so conspicuous—and so painful—that they are afraid to claim the privileges of the living in Zion. They fear …

Marah; or, The Bitter Waters Sweetened

Exodus 15:23-25

… And this was all the severer trial, because some of us had found a degree of pleasure in the ways of sin, and now it stumbled us to …

Lions Lacking—But the Children Satisfied

Psalm 34:10

… of their own, confessing their sin and depravity, they shall want no good thing. Is it not amazing? There is a poor sinner who has sinned against God …

Faith Justifying Speech

Psalm 116:10

… We believe that a great Atonement has been offered for sin, that by His death upon Calvary's Cross, Jesus Christ cleared the channel of Divine Mercy so …

Psalm 67

Psalm 67

… Forgiveness of sin is always the first link in the chain of mercies experienced by us. Mercy is a foundation attribute in our salvation. The best saints and …

The Growth of Faith

2 Thessalonians 1:3

… I think it is Brookes who said that "either sinning will kill our assurance or our assurance will kill our sinning." Sin indulged will prevent the full assurance …

Fellowship With Christ

1 Corinthians 10:16

… Sinner—I have often thought that a true description of Christ on the Cross would be a fine sermon to illustrate that hymn— "Come and welcome, Sinner come …

A Vision of the Latter-Day Glories

Isaiah 2:2

… Ye weary, heavy laden, sin-destroyed sin-ruined souls, ye that know and feel your need of Jesus ye that weep because of sin, ye are bidden to …

The Lord Blessing His Saints

Psalm 115:15

… The remains of sin within often make him feel that it is a dreadful thing to have been a sinner, even though he is now pardoned and "accepted …

The Voice from the Cloud and the Voice of the Beloved

Matthew 17:5

… But when a poor sinner, by faith, enters into Christ, then such is the Father's delight in Christ's Person, that He delights in all that are …

Particular Election

2 Peter 1:10-11

… Out upon an election that lets you live in sin! Away with it! away with it! That was never the design of God’s Word; and it never …

Knowledge Commended

Daniel 11:32

… I know enough of poison without drinking it and enough of sin without running into it. This much by way of introduction—we come now to the text …

Psalm 141

Psalm 141

… The present pleasure and commodity of sin is in high estimation with the sinner, and much sweeter to him than what he may lawfully enjoy; the pleasures of …

Psalm 8

Psalm 8

… A full list is given of the subjugated creatures, to show that all the dominion lost by sin is restored in Christ Jesus. Let none of us permit …

The Witness of the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:26

… Without shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. And until the blood has been poured forth, the flesh still remains and retains its life. But put …

Obtaining Promises

Hebrews 11:33

… Bilney, that blessed martyr of Jesus Christ, was much wounded in conscience, by reason of the great sin which, through the weakness of the flesh, he had committed …

A Wonderful Transformation

John 16:20

… We suffer today, but we shall rejoice tomorrow! "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning." But as for yonder laughing sinner, what weeping …

Serving the Lord With Gladness

Psalm 100:2

… To serve the devil, even when he gives us most of the sweets of sin, is intolerable bondage to a sensible, awakened sinner. But to serve Christ, how …

The Bible

Hosea 8:12

… The crime I charge you with is the sin of the text. God has written to you the great things of his law, but they have been unto …

Girding on the Harness

1 Kings 20:11

… If we had not sinned, we should have needed no clothes and therefore our garments are the symbols of our sin! And so it would be equally absurd …

Joy in Harvest

Isaiah 9:3

… sinner feels the pangs of conscience, he may well say, "This is what I sowed." When at last he shall receive the full retribution for his sin, he …

Church Increase

Isaiah 49:20

… Half the sin in the camp in the wilderness came not from the children of Israel, but from the riff-raff and rabble that went up out of …

A Prospect of Revival

Isaiah 51:3

… Jesus has put away the sin of his people by his blood, and by his Spirit he is daily renewing the nature of his children. Sin is the …

Letters to Father and Mother, January to June, 1850

… Truly, that will be a happy place where we shall get rid of sin and this depraved, corrupt nature. When I look at the horrible pit and the …

Trembling at the Word of the Lord

Isaiah 66:2

… They are not a profane people, that is clear—they neither mock sin nor God's Word. It is a terrible sign of hardness of heart when a …

The Best of Masters

John 14:27

… Doubtless there are many true-hearted men who bewail the sinner as much as they admire the genius, but the mass like him none worse for his faults …

The Royal Pair in Their Glorious Chariot

Song 3:6-11

… Tell me where the Church is not, and I will tell you where sin reigns; tell me where Christ and his Church are carried, and I will tell …