“Sin in a Christian is quite as much sin as it is in anybody else! Indeed, it is a great deal more sinful, for never does a black stain seem so black as when it falls on spotlessly white linen—and never is sin as sinful as when it is committed by one who is greatly [...]
To whom ought confession of sin to be made? I enter on this branch of the subject with sorrowful feelings. I approach it as a sailor would approach some rock on which many gallant ships have made shipwreck. I cannot forget that I have arrived at a point on which millions of so-called Christians have [...]
Woe is me, for I am ruined would be consider a really bad place to be… but for many of us it is just where we need to be. Isaiah was confronted with how holy God is and he realised just how sinful he was. A. W. Tozer who said in his book Knowledge of the Holy “What comes [...]
There will be no seeking after divine grace where there is no sense of sin. We may preach until we are hoarse, but you ‘good’ people who are not guilty of doing anything wrong, will never care for our message of mercy. Oh, that you felt your sins! Oh, that you knew your need of [...]
Some imagine that they can trust Christ and then live in sin as they like. You cannot live in sin after you have trusted Jesus, for the act of faith brings with it a change of nature and a renewal of your soul. The Spirit of God who leads you to believe will also change [...]
“What makes sin sin, what makes it so profoundly heinous, what makes it so deeply repugnant and culpable, is that it is [an] offense against God. We dare not forget that the first commandment, according to Jesus, is the commandment to love God with heart and soul and mind and strength. This the first sin [...]
