Sin

"Beautiful Forever"

Psalm 149:4

… be blessedly cheerful! How he can be dead against sin and yet full of holy love to the sinner—how he would not, to save his life, budge …

Surveying the Field

Nehemiah 2:12

… The hate of God against sin is as real and intense in their case as in others until they are born-again! When you sit down to breakfast …

Baptismal Regeneration

Mark 16:15-16

… What is the necessary connection between water and the overcoming of sin? I cannot see any connection which can exist between sprinkling, or immersion, and regeneration, so that …

The Old Man's Sermon

Psalm 71:17

… of him that believes in Jesus! How He smites for sin and yet smites not the sinner! How He is severe, relaxing none of the penalty, and yet …

Satan's Punctuality, Power and Purpose

Luke 8:12

… Fallen as he now is, he was once an angel of light and his superlative faculties, though perverted, defiled and dimmed by the blighting influence of sin, are …

The Righteous Holding On His Way

Job 17:9

… in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die." If it were possible for one who had …

What the Farm Laborers Can Do and What They Cannot do

… Their whole nature is renewed, so that instead of producing sin it yields repentance, faith, and love; but we know not how. How the Spirit of God deals …

The Keeper of the Vineyard

Isaiah 27:3

… Remember that the righteous God must punish sin, but that His Son, Jesus Christ, was punished in the place of all those who will believe on Him! To …

The Lord Leading—David Following

2 Samuel 5:24

… Christians should always be smiting the Philistines of sin, but there are certain times that call us to unusual action. And what are they? To me they are …

The Question of Questions

John 9:35

… Is it so with you? Has sin become bitter? Do you loathe it? Has holiness become sweet? Do you follow after it? I do not ask whether you …

A Singular Title and a Special Favor

Psalm 59:10

… The mercy which restrained you from many a deadly sin. The mercy which guided you into that road where happy and holy teachings were waiting for you. The …

The Sieve

Matthew 7:21

… And there were others who remained in the Church to discredit it by their impurity and to bring chastisements upon it by their sin. We shall never see …

A Round of Delights

Romans 15:13

… All idol hopes must perish beneath the wrath of the Most High! The god of unenlightened human nature is only sufficiently enlightened to discover its sin and is …

Psalm 35

Psalm 35

… for the time to come I will pray more against that particular sin than I have done, and watch more against that sin than I have done; through …

Eternal Faithfulness Unaffected By Human Unbelief

2 Timothy 2:13

… But soon with sin they grieve the Lord, And judgments lay them low." And what happened? Did God depart from His purpose to give the land that flowed …

Everyday Usefulness

John 1:42

… Time is hastening and men are perishing! The world is growing old in sin! Superstition and idolatry root themselves into the very soil of human nature! When, when …

Diamond Hinges - 'as' and 'so'

Isaiah 54:9

… all the wrath of God which was due to it because of its sin, but which was borne by its great Substitute and Surety, our Lord and Savior …

Thanksgiving And Prayer

Psalm 65:11

… Souls were moved as the trees of the woods are moved in the wind—spirits long dead in sin's tremendous sepulcher woke up at the quickening breath …

Golden Bowls Full Of Incense

Revelation 5:8

… In the best prayer that was ever offered by the holiest man that ever lived, there was enough sin in it to render it a polluted thing if …

The Great Reservoir

Proverbs 4:23

… Our heart is defiled by sin, and hence a taint if sinfulness cleaves unfortunately to everything we take in hand; and although, from the force of habit, this …

Finding and Following Christ

John 1:45

… Now, my Friend, are you a sinner? Then I have to tell you that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Are you lost? Then I …

Micah's Message for Today

Micah 6:8

… He felt himself to be, by sin, like the sweeping of a furnace, the ashes, refuse of no value whatever—and that was not because he was away …

Timely Reflections

Romans 13:11

… sinner believes And trusts in His crucified God, His pardon at once he receives, Redemption in full through His blood." Salvation, so far as the forgiveness of sin …

Foretastes of the Heavenly Life

Deuteronomy 1:25

… And we have learned to look up to Heaven as a place where we shall never, never sin—where our feet shall be fixed firmly upon the Rock …

Travailing for Souls

Isaiah 66:8

… What sin the moon sees! What sin the Sabbath sees! Alas for the transgressions of this wicked city. Babylon of old could not have been worse than London …

Christ's Curate In Decapolis

Mark 5:17-19

… By going away, He even saved them from yet greater sin. If He had not gone, they might have tried to plunge Him into the lake. When men …

The Church'S Love To Her Loving Lord

Solomon 1:7

… am a great sinner. Ah, but it is all washed away and gone forever. That cannot separate me, for it does not exist. My sin is buried— "Plunged …

To Die Or Not To Die!

2 Corinthians 5:8

… Let those fear to die who have heaped sin upon sin, who have rejected the atonement, have trampled on the blood of sprinkling, have cast behind their backs …

A Defence of Calvinism

… by His grace, what a great sinner I should have been! I should have run to the utmost lengths of sin, dived into the very depths of evil …

Psalm 80

Psalm 80

… Those were brave days for Israel, and would have continued, had not sin cut them short. When the church pleases the Lord, her influence becomes immense, far beyond …

The Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:26

… A hope so much Divine May trials well endure, May purge our souls from sense and sin As Christ the Lord is pure." I. First, I have to …

A Homily for Humble Folks

Proverbs 30:2

… Is it not written, "If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God"? If you were a little sinner and had little needs, God could only be …

The Keynote of the Year

Psalm 103:1

… Let us lament for sin but let us not complain because of chastisement. Indeed, some of us have nothing to complain of. We have everything for which to …

Confession With The Mouth

Romans 10:10

… For we mingle together, saint and sinner, godly and ungodly. And if this were the only profession of religion that we have made, it would not fulfill the …

Desires Towards God—a Sermon For The Weak

Psalm 38:9

… All should be open and aboveboard between a sinner and His Savior. What secrets can there be between a soul convinced of sin and a pardoning God? It …

Enquirers and Converts (Continued)

… Then he became communicative, and it appeared that he had left his wife for four or five months, and had been living a life of dissipation, sin, and …

Christ—the Fall and Rise of Many

Luke 2:34

… I beseech you never fall into the error of those who assert that unbelief is no sin and that to reject Christ is no fault of yours. The …

Praises and Vows Accepted in Zion

Psalm 65:1-2

… We may say of the best preacher upon the earth, “Give God the praise, for we know that this man is a sinner.” If we thought that you …

A Home Mission Sermon

Ecclesiastes 9:10

… me in paradise.” It is true that in our case sanctification is a long and continued process, and we shall not be perfected—the being of sin shall …

'The Time Is Short'

1 Corinthians 7:29

… So jealously did he watch his own heart and so far was he from falling into sin, that there were no dreary intervals spent in wandering and backsliding …