Sin

Opening Services

… He preached that never could the sinner repent without the aid of the Holy Spirit, and yet he called upon every sinner to repent and believe the Gospel …

The Joint Heirs and Their Divine Portion

Romans 8:17

… can charge the members with sin; you may do so in the inferior courts of earth, but the bill will be ignored in the supreme court of heaven …

The Sciences as Sources of Illustration

… Some of our hearers are fully thirty feet under the waters of sin, if they are not even deeper down than that; but, by the grace of God …

Faith First, Confession Following

Romans 10:10

… As Paul wrote to the Romans, "If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness." And I …

A Prayer for Everybody

Matthew 15:25

… And, dear Friends, I can no more believe that Christ will repulse a sinner than I can look up to the sun and believe that it will ever …

First Printed Works.–Author, Publishers, and Readers

… I sought the Saviour, and, blessed be God, I found Him ; and now I am pardoned, I am free ; I am a sinner saved by grace. Though a …

Psalm 45

Psalm 45

… The house of our nativity is the house of sin—we were shapen in iniquity; the carnal mind is enmity against God, we must come forth of the …

Beholding God's Church

Psalm 48:12-14

… If they are incurable, what more need be said? Ah, the things incurable with men are curable with God! Sin is the malady that none can cure but …

“A New Departure”

… men of sin, never drive a Pharisee out of his own righteousness, never influence the guilty so that he casts himself as a lost sinner at the feet …

Lovely, But Lacking

Mark 10:21

… He did not know that an unchaste glance, or a causeless hatred, or a covetous desire breaks the Law of God and betrays the sin that lurks in …

Cheer for Despondency

Proverbs 27:1

… You say, "Ah, I have been hearing the Word a very long time and all that I have got from it is a sense of sin, or hardly …

Meeting Of The Neighboring Churches

… The Atonement on which we rest our hope is to be the open fountain here for sin, and for uncleanness. He, therefore, felt an interest in the building …

Ruth Deciding for God

Ruth 1:16

… Our Lord Jesus has told us that "there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents." And I always understand, by …

Early Criticisms and Slanders

… instrumentally, his is a heart-searching, a Christ-exalting, a truth-unfolding, a sinner-converting, a church-feeding, a soul-saving ministry?’ This is the point at issue …

Lecture V: The Sciences As Sources Of Illustration.

… Some of our hearers are fully thirty feet under the waters of sin, if they are not even deeper down than that; but, by the grace of God …

Preparing to Depart

2 Kings 2:11

… O Friends, I think I hear the Prophet charging them as before God and before His holy angels, to rebuke the sin of the age in which they …

Belief in the Resurrection

Mark 16:6

… This sin of sins— unbelief—is still at this very hour too common among the people of God. Suppose I talk to the mass of God's people …

Crossing the Jordan

Joshua 1:10

… Death has lost its terrors. "The sting of death is sin," and that is forgiven. "The strength of sin is the Law," and that is fulfilled. The black …

Independence of Christianity

Zechariah 4:6

… Sinner, unconverted sinner, thou hast often tried to save thyself, but thou hast often failed. Thou hast, by thine own power and might, sought to curb thy evil …

Attention!

… The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ought to have prosecuted that young sinner. How can farmers hear to profit when they have cows-on the …

'Christ Is All'

Colossians 3:11

… It is enough for us that Christ has lived, Christ has died and Christ has "spoiled principalities and powers" and trampled down sin, death and Hell even as …

John Ploughman's Talk

… 79 are the marrow of sin ; the malt that sin is brewed from ; the tinder which catches the sparks of the devil's temptations ! the churn in which …

Psalm 71

Psalm 71

… Already sin, Satan, and the world are vanquished, and the victory is ours. "Sin, Satan, Death appear To harass and appal: Yet since the gracious Lord is near …

Jesus, The King of Truth

John 18:37

… All men must have perished through sin had not Christ come into the world and been born to save. His birth was a necessary step to His redeeming …

Declaring the Works of the Lord

Psalm 118:17

… There will be the accent of conviction about your message and even if they do not believe you, then so much the greater will be their sin in …

Christ's Joy and Ours

John 15:11

… And when I had done so, I thought I heard somebody at a distance saying, "God be merciful to me a sinner," and he went home to his …

The Wide-open Mouth Filled

Psalm 81:10

… What a wonderful difference there is in the capacity of different individuals! I have heard it said that a sinner sucks in happiness, such as it is, with …

The King's Mowings

Amos 7:1

… What you have to trust in is this—that Jesus is God, that He became Man, that He suffered in the sinner' s place and that whoever believes …

Sin Subdued

Micah 7:19

… Sin poisons the wellhead! Sin is in our brain—we think wrongly. Sin is in our heart—we love that which is evil. Sin bribes the judgment, intoxicates …

His Name—The Counsellor

Isaiah 9:6

… If you want to know your election, thus shall you assure your hearts before God.—Do you feel yourself this morning to be a lost, guilty sinner? go …

Gospel Missions

Acts 13:49

… He had always been earnest, in his sin and in his persecutions; but after he heard that voice from heaven, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?” and had …

The Cedars Of Lebanon

Psalm 104:16

… He does not live in a world of holy and hallowed influence, preserving him from sin. He stands in the most exposed position, on yonder bare rock, where …

The Spur

Ecclesiastes 9:10

… Salvation from sin, and justification before God, come to us in connection with the work of the Holy Spirit within us leading us to faith in Jesus. And …

Established Work

Psalm 90:17

… Let one sinner be brought to Jesus and he will bring another sinner. Light one candle and you may light 50 candles from it. One person may be …

Citizenship In Heaven

Philippians 3:20

… The life of a saint should be altogether above and out of the same list as the life of a sinner. We should compel our critics not to …

Divine Surprises

Isaiah 64:3

… God's coming to a man convinces him of sin—he stands up for self-righteousness till the Holy Spirit constrains him to ask the Truth. Never did …

Portraits Of Christ

Romans 8:29

… can hear the voice of mortals— that sinner though I am, and groaning beneath the load of my inbred sin; mixed though I am with the sons of …

Morning, March 11

Ro 7:13

Morning, March 11 Go To Evening Reading “Sin ... exceeding sinful.” Romans 7:13 Beware of light thoughts of sin. At the time of conversion, the conscience is so …

'Pray, Always Pray'

John 16:26

… Our poor prayers are blotted, blurred and stained with sin. But our Great High Priest sprinkles them with His own most precious blood and so purifies them, and …

Why May I Rejoice?

Luke 10:20

… It makes His soul glad to see that sin has been overcome in many men and that many have been renewed in the spirit of their minds by …