Sin

Psalm 66

Psalm 66

… All the saints must go to the proving house; God had one Son without sin, but he never had a son without trial. Why ought we to complain …

'Our Light Affliction'

2 Corinthians 4:17

… Sin is our great curse and anything that can help to deliver us from the dominion of sin is a blessing to us. It seems that in the …

Christ's Past and Present Witnesses

John 15:27

… If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin. He that hates Me, hates …

"As We Have Heard, So Have We Seen"

Psalm 48:8

… Many of us have not only heard but we have felt the evil result of sin upon our minds and hearts. We know that sin dwells in us …

Fever and Its Cure

Luke 4:38

… There is nothing more putrid in the natural world than sin is in the moral world. Flee from sin as you would from a reeking dunghill of rottenness …

God's Will About the Future

James 4:13-17

… Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin." James 4:13-17 ["It is remarkable that the sermon selected …

A Discourse Upon True Blessedness Here and Hereafter

James 1:12

… One sin will often kill another sin, as the miser shuns profligacy because he is too mean to spend his money riotously. But to abstain from sin because …

'Love and I' A Mystery

John 17:26

… God hath not put away sin without a sacrifice, and hath not winked at sin nor waived his justice in order to indulge his mercy, but he remains …

Gracious Renewal

Psalm 51:10

… Especially will it be incumbent upon you to do this after any sin, after any such sin, I mean, as may have grieved the Holy Spirit, or brought …

The Source

John 4:11

… I am nothing but a mass of sin and misery—not even feeling my sin as I ought to feel it. Look upon me, O Savior, in love …

Encouragements To Prayer

Psalm 81:10

… It covers a very large surface of the realm of sin and it is always cropping up in some form or other. Idolatry is not merely the bowing …

The Spiced Wine of My Pomegranate

… Nay, worse than this, how often doth the believer pervert the gifts of Jesus into food for his own sin and wantonness! We are not free from the …

A Grateful Summary of Twenty Volumes

Ephesians 3:8

… One friend asserts that he has ceased from known sin for some months. Then another Brother, to go a little further, asserts that the very being of sin …

Concentration and Diffusion

John 12:3

… There is an evil smell of sin perpetually reeking towards Heaven—and it needs that you Christians should live Christlike lives in public as well as in private …

Jacob Worshipping on His Staff

Hebrews 11:21

… a strong delusion has been given—and then the spectacle of a presumptuous sinner passing away in his iniquities is one which might make angels weep. It is …

Abijah, or Some Good Thing Towards the Lord

1 Kings 14:13

… It strikes me as a wonder that he should make Israel to sin but could not make his child to sin. All the land feels the pestilent influence …

Ecce Rex

John 19:14

… But we shall not think of them in order to blame that unhappy nation, but to remind ourselves that we, also, may fall into the same sin. As …

A Description of Young Men in Christ

1 John 2:13

… The most terrible threats of God's Word against sin are the best helps for Christians when they are tempted to sin—"How can I do this great …

The Solar Eclipse

Isaiah 45:7

… Many a sinner has sought the Saviour on his sick bed who never would have sought him anywhere else. Many a merchant whose trade has prospered, has lived …

Hands Full of Honey

Judges 14:8

… There is, first, our sin. A horrible lion that! But it is a dead lion, for Grace has much more abounded over abounding sin. Oh, Brothers and Sisters …

Unparalleled Loving Kindnesses

Psalm 89:49

… Now, thirdly, WHY ARE WE NOT ALWAYS CONSCIOUS OF THE SAME FLOW OF MERCY TOWARD US? Sometimes we miss our former comforts as the result of sin. Sin …

Wakeful and Watchful Eyes

Psalm 121:4

… God never gave His people leave to sin—and sin in them is worse than sin in any other people, for they sin against more light, more love …

A Prophetic Warning

Matthew 24:12

… So much sin, so much the less of holiness, so much the less of every Christian Grace! Sin is like a poisonous atmosphere—if a man has to …

The Covenant

Psalm 111:5

… No such necessity can be imagined with our God! The Lord was under no compulsion—He might have left men to perish because of sin—there was no …

"Herein Is Love"

1 John 4:10

… Oh, that it may come to be true, that you may prove to be one of His chosen people whom He loves even though in sin and whom …

Pure Fun

… God; while, at another time, I may laugh the laugh of sarcasm against sin, and so evince a holy earnestness in the defence of the truth. I do …

Unparalleled Suffering

1 Peter 3:18

… But "Christ suffered" in a very special sense because "in Him was no sin." He had never done anything worthy of death, or of bonds. He suffered "for …

Our Service For Christ Never Finished

Luke 17:7-10

… We are such dependent creatures that we must give ourselves up to be either the servants of sin, or the servants of righteousness. We were once the servants …

Beginning to Serve the Lord

… By degrees we get familiar with sin. I am fearful that even preaching against sin may have an injurious effect upon the preacher. I frankly confess that there …

Love Abounding, Love Complaining, Love Abiding

Isaiah 43:1-4

… I chasten you for your sin, but fear not that I will disown you, for you are Mine. My countenance is dark with anger against your iniquities, but …

The Heavan of Heavan

Revelation 22:4

… But up yonder they not only do not sin, but they cannot sin—they are not tempted, for there is no space for the Tempter to work upon …

The Problem of the Age

Mark 8:4

… A man who does not know Christ is a wretched man! A man who has never been renewed in heart, who lives in sin and loves it, is …

"Return, Return, O Shulamite; Return, Return!"

Song 6:13

… Whence come these voices? There are voices from the vasty deep of sin and hell, voices from the tombs which we have quitted, voices from the Egypt from …

The Way of Wisdom

Job 28:7

… But when an Arminian says that when a man sins, the sin is his own, and that if he continues in sin and perishes, his eternal damnation will …

The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death

Psalm 23:4

… No sin is necessarily connected with sorrow of heart, for Jesus Christ our Lord once said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful even unto death." There was no sin …

Prayer 23 — The Look of Faith

… Dear Savior, we do take Thee to be everything to us, our sin-bearer and our sin-destroyer. We have not a shadow of a shade of a …

'Tempted of the Devil'

Matthew 4:1

… Though you become ever so sanctified by the Holy Spirit and destroy sin after sin and lust after lust, you will have this great dog of Hell still …

Christ's Glory Turned to Shame

Psalm 4:2

… Stand in awe, and sin not This is good advice to ungodly men! Let them feel aright the awe of God's Presence and they must turn from …

The Powerful Truth of God

Acts 19:19

… And then there was the Word of God prevailing over sin, for it made men burn their foolish books of magic. To begin then— I. THE WORD OF …

Holy Longings

Psalm 119:20

… God's revealed plan of salvation is God's decision upon man's destiny—God's judgment of condemnation against human sin—and yet His judgment of justification …