Sin

Reasons for Seeking God

Amos 5:8

… IDOLATRY has been, in every age, the besetting sin of mankind. In some form or another, the unregenerate are all given to it and even in God's …

The Way To Honor

Proverbs 27:18

… When we were sold under sin. When by the justice of God we were condemned to die. When we were utter slaves, He purchased us and redeemed us …

Jesus and the Lambs

Isaiah 40:11

… But you should not do so, for our Lord would have you begin with these lessons, "I am a sinner. Christ stood in the sinner's place. I …

The First Sermon in the Tabernacle

Acts 5:42

… He hath, by one sacrifice, for ever put away sin. We shall never preach Christ unless we have a real atonement. There be certain people nowadays who are …

The Sorrowful Man's Question

Job 3:23

… He had not sinned so as to be now suffering the result of his sin. He had not committed a crime, otherwise he would have understood the punishment …

Concerning Prayer

Psalm 86:6

… But with the Mediator, what a wonderful fellowship a worm of the dust is permitted to enjoy with the infinite God! What condescension there is in a sinner …

The Saint's Trials and the Divine Deliverances

Psalm 77:1-20

… If I have lost the light of Your Countenance, why do You hide Yourself from me? For what sin is it that You are rebuking me? What Grace …

Jesus Declining the Legions

Matthew 26:53

… He must die because He became the great Sacrifice for sin. But apart from that, no necessity of death was on Him. They scourged Him, but they could …

"The Wedding Was Furnished with Guests"

Matthew 22:10

… No sinner will ever come to Christ apart from the quickening, enlightening, drawing, converting power of the Holy Spirit supernaturally exercised upon the conscience and heart. Let us …

Divine Gentleness Acknowledged

Psalm 18:35

… May I ask you to turn to an early page in it? Do you remember when your heart was broken with a sense of sin? A truly broken …

Compassion for Souls

Genesis 21:16

… Hear the groans of spirits who are feeling the sure consequences of sin, where sin’s cure will never avail them. Let this stir you, my brethren, to …

A Pressed Man Yielding to Christ

John 9:35-38

… Then He died and by that death He forever put away the sin of His people. He took upon Himself the sin which He had never committed. He …

Our Glorious Leader

Luke 19:28

… He had a sense of sin in dying. He was made a curse for us, as it is written, "Cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree," but …

The Hairs of Your Head Numbered

Matthew 10:30

… But the great God, somehow, mysteriously, quite clear of all complicity with human sin, effects His own purposes, which are always good and right. He it is who …

Heedful Hearing

Luke 8:18

… Hence, how great is the sin of a vast proportion of the inhabitants of this city who utterly forsake the ministry of the Gospel, who never hear it …

The Sealing of the Spirit

Ephesians 1:13

… I, being a sinner, believe that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners and I rest my soul upon Him, believing that He will save me …

God's Glory in the Building Up of Zion

Psalm 102:16

… Christ ordained His Church to be His great aggressive methodi n combating with sin and with the world that lies in the Wicked One. It is to be …

The Disowned

Matthew 7:21-23

… They cast out devils, but, at the same time, they did not, themselves, escape from the power of the devil by giving up sin and following after righteousness …

The Sea! the Sea! the Wide and Open Sea!

Psalm 95:5

… The sea is the Lord's and, therefore, I may confess my sin to Him when I am out on the oceanand He will hear me, for He …

"Forever With The Lord"

1 Thessalonians 4:17

… We shall be so with Him as to have no sin to becloud our view of Him! Our understanding will be delivered from all the injury which sin …

Lessons From a Dovecot

Isaiah 60:8

… First, because you are in present danger Should not the dove fly at once to its windows when the hawk is after it? And Sinner, sin is after …

Our Place—at Jesus' Feet

Luke 7:38

… Turn to my text and see that it is a very helpful posture for a weeping penitent. "Behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when …

Psalm 44

Psalm 44

… When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied? Just as in all free nations men delight …

The Hope of Future Bliss

Psalm 17:15

… Sinner is your Christian name, and lost is your surname; therefore, why not come? It says, “lost sinner;”—is not that enough? “This is a faithful saying, and …

Fathers In Christ

1 John 2:13

… Yonder is the blessed Christ and I, a poor sinner, look to Him just as He comes to me—and I am lightened and become one of His …

Witnessing Better Than Knowing the Future

Acts 1:6-8

… When these men are in any company, they check sin without a word, they incite to righteousness almost without a sentence! They carry everything before them, not by …

More and More

Psalm 71:14

… Some years ago thou wast in thy sin, and death, and ruin; he called thee by his grace. Thou wast under the burden and curse of sin; he …

Effects Of Sound Doctrine

Matthew 24:24

… There are many who have Grace enough to convict them of sin, but not light enough to see the Savior, who for a long time are kept in …

A Very Early Bible Society

2 Chronicles 34:15

… His thoughts upon our sin and the ruin that comes of it. His thoughts as to how we may be saved and what shall come out of that …

The Hand of God in the History of a Man

Job 7:1

… Lastly, there is the sinner's inference. "My time, my warfare and my service are appointed, but what have I done in them? I have waged a warfare …

The Tender Pity of the Lord

Psalm 103:13

… I mean not only their sinless weaknesses, but those in which sin was in some degree present. Remember their weakness in the garden? He was in agony, and …

The Sieve

Amos 9:9

… I ask whether such Divine Grace could have been shown to such a sinner! Most men's experience, when it is put into the sieve, comes out very …

A Distinction with a Difference

Luke 1:18

… Brothers and Sisters, may I not apply this to myself and to you? Brother ministers, if we are unbelieving, we, in our unbelief, do not sin so cheaply …

Mysterious Meat

John 4:31-38

… I hope we sometimes get into this state of entire absorption under the influence of a burning desire to bring sinners away from sin to their Savior and …

Constraining Love

Psalm 31:23

… He has dwelt in our poor hearts; He has been our Comforter, our Instructor and our daily Teacher; it is He who convicted us of sin when as …

Public Meeting Of Our London Baptist Brethren

… We know what took place in the Middle Ages; that, when the Man of Sin was to be revealed and Popery established, the influences of the Spirit were …

Owl or Eagle?

Psalm 102:6

… Here is a man under sense of sin. He has discovered that he is a lost soul. The arrows of God drink up the life of his spirit …

Everlasting Love Revealed

Jeremiah 31:3

… Will you take a faith-view of Jesus at this time as dying for sinners and for you as a sinner in particular? Say, "Yes, 1,800 years …

Magdalene at the Sepulcher—an Instructive Scene

John 20:10-16

… But I can also, at the same time, talk to the sinner. For she was Magdalene, and that name has somehow become connected with penitent sinners." I pray …

Love Stronger Than Death

John 13:1

… Our sin was pardoned as before a Judge, but we need it to be taken away as before our Father, for we are now under His loving discipline …