Sin

Things Present

1 Corinthians 3:22

… The sin is in ourselves and if we will but be right-hearted and ask God to enable us to behold His works with clear and anointed eyes …

Nevertheless, Hereafter

Matthew 26:64

… this word—"Hereafter!" I would gladly whisper it in the ears of the sinner fascinated by his pleasures. Come near and let me do so—"Hereafter!" I would …

Satan Departing, Angels Ministering

Luke 4:13

… had the notion that they were beyond temptation, that they had ceased to sin and could never transgress again. "Ah," says Satan, "this notion does my work a …

Conceit Rebuked

Job 34:33

… Does not Jesus Christ please you? God will never lay another foundation for a sinner to build his hopes upon, so you had better be pleased with God …

The Gazelles and the Deer

Song 2:7

… She knew that the best can interrupt fellowship as well as the worst and, therefore, she entreated even Zion's daughters not to sin against Zion's King …

Salvation by Grace

Ephesians 2:5

… For what is it to be saved? It is to have sin forgiven and to be "accepted in the Beloved." The moment a sinner believes in Jesus, his …

The Power of Christ's Presence

John 21:7

… If we have not those glorious days of ingathering, it is because some sin of ours still keeps the Master's Glory from us. Oh, let us turn …

Serving The Lord

Romans 12:11

… How should the thrice holy God be served by hands unwashed from sin? Lepers cannot stand at His altar, or the deformed dwell within His gates. Unregenerate man …

Fields White For Harvest

John 4:35

… loved Him! Oh, may God's Grace make you love Him now, tonight! Sinner, look to Jesus, and you shall be saved! Trust Christ now! Trust Him only …

Pleading Prayer

Psalm 119:49

… You have promised to forgive my sin; remember me by giving me a sense of pardon. You have promised to help Your servant and give me strength according …

A Royal Funeral

John 19:38-42

… This is an essential point, for if Jesus did not die, He has made no Atonement for sin. If He died not, then He rose not—and if …

Our Lord's Heroic Endurance

Hebrews 12:3

… THE SAVIOR'S ENDURANCE of the contradiction of sin against Himself. How did He endure this sore trouble? Brothers and Sisters, He endured it with singular courage and …

Meeting in the Unfinished Tabernacle

… I shall feel like a guilty sneaking sinner if I come here with even a hundred pounds debt upon the building. 'Owe no man anything,' will stare me …

John Ploughman's Pictures

… It is a sin to put people where they are likely to sin. If you be- 46 JOHN PLOUGHMAN'S PICTURES. lieve the old saying, that when you …

An Assuredly Good Thing

Psalm 73:28

… There is no sin in diligence—in fact, it is a virtue. But the tendency of business is, in many cases, to make a man covetous. In others …

Fearful Of Coming Short

Hebrews 4:1

… Hatred of sin always accompanies a sense of pardon. Faith is the inseparable attendant upon regeneration, even as light attends the sunrise. When faith comes into the soul …

The Church's Probation

Psalm 66:10

… One touch of the Cross of Christ, one drop of His precious blood can turn a sinner into a saint! "God is able of these stones to raise …

God's Innumerable Mercies

Psalm 71:15

… He is working out our deliverance from inbred sin as well as from outward temptation and trial. Very often the darkest days that we have are bright with …

Maroth—or, the Disappointed

Micah 1:12

… When a man thinks that happiness can be found in the ways of sin, he will be bitterly disappointed sooner or later. When a man expects that by …

Decision—Illustrated by the Case of Joshua

Joshua 24:15

… Both God and sin are imperious and monopolizing—they will have the whole or none— "God and Mammon! O be wise, Serve them both? It cannot be! Ease …

A Boundless Benediction

Genesis 49:25

… The sinner is never beforehand with God. If you begin to pray at this moment, it is because God's Grace has begun to work upon your heart …

Rejoice Evermore

1 Thessalonians 5:16

… Why should anybody be allowed a moment's quiet in a world so full of sin? Go through the world and impress people with the idea that it …

"A Peculiar People"

Psalm 4:3

… He is one who has learned to entrust his soul to the hands of God as unto a faithful Creator, one who has trusted his sin with God …

Paul, the Ready

Romans 1:15

… Is it not the case with you who are private members of Churches—do you not, sometimes, find it difficult to rebuke sin? Even profane swearing will come …

The Beloved Pastor's Plea for Unity

Romans 1:7

… He is "not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." God is willing that all should come to Him, repent of sin, believe …

How To Keep the Heart

Philippians 4:7

… Not to rejoice, remember, is a sin. To rejoice is a duty, and such a duty that the richest fruits and the best rewards are appended to it …

Good Cheer for the Needy

Psalm 9:18

… As it would be a sin, on their part, to be proud, it would be equally a sin, on your part, to be envious. It would be wrong …

Christ the Overcomer of the World

John 16:33

… It means the power of evil in the unregenerate mass of mankind, the energy and power of sin as it dwells in that portion of the world which …

Prayer Certified Of Success

Luke 11:9-10

… I as a Man have been heard of God." And yet, again, if the dread of sin should haunt us and our own sorrow should depress us, I …

Epilogue — The Golden Key of Prayer

… He understands what heavy hearts we have sometimes, when under a sense of sin. Satan says to us, "Why should you pray? How can you hope to prevail …

Paul's Doxology

Ephesians 3:20

… Our soul's hunger is not keen enough—sin has taken the edge from our spiritual appetites and, therefore, we limit and cramp our prayers. But, blessed be …

The Shameful Sufferer

Hebrews 12:2

… He in whom was no sin, and who had done no ill, was charged with sin of the blackest kind. He was first arraigned before the Sanhedrim on …

Faith Without Sight

John 20:29

… When you preach that men are condemned for sin of which they have not repented, I will make it to be so as a matter of fact. When …

Gratitude for Deliverance from the Grave

Psalm 118:17

… Next, faith comforts the tried child of God by assuring him of the forgiveness of his sin and his security from punishment. Please notice the very distant difference …

Comfort for Tried Believers

1 Corinthians 10:13

… Even with the temptation to sin, the Lord often sends to the tempted soul such a Revelation of the sinfulness of sin and of the beauty of holiness …

Joy, a Duty

Philippians 4:4

… sing unto the Lord as long as we live and, perhaps some weary sinner who has discovered the emptiness of sinful pleasure, will say to himself, "Why, after …

The Happy Duty of Daily Praise

Psalm 114:1

… I have praised God while I was in a world of sin and suffering and when I was weighed down by a feeble body. And now that I …

The Lord's Own View of His Church and People

Solomon 4:12

… Not only trusting in all points as we do, but tempted in all points like as we are, though without sin. He was, when He was here, evidently …

Love at Leisure

Luke 10:39

… It is written, "You are complete in Him" and however frail we are, yet we are "perfect in Christ Jesus," and in spite of all our sin, we …

The Hedge of Thorns and the Plain Way

Proverbs 15:19

… While some go down to perdition by one sin, others destroy themselves by another. The sluggard spent all his strength in tinkering one breakage and he had no …