Sin's enormity!
Romans 12:9
If we took a survey of
everything on the earth--
we could not find anything
so vile as sin. The basest
and most contemptible thing
in this world, has some degree
of worth in it, as being
the workmanship of GOD.
But sin and its foul streams
have not the least part of worth
in them. Sin is wholly evil without
the least mixture of good--
it is vileness in the abstract.
Sin's heinousness appears in its author:
of the devil; for the devil has
sinned from the beginning."
(1 John 3:8a)
Sin is the devil's trade, and
he practices it incessantly!
Sin's enormity is seen in what it
has done to man: it has completely
ruined his nature and brought him
under the curse of GOD!
Sin is the source of all our miseries.
All unrighteousness and wretchedness
are its fruits. There is no distress of
the mind, no anguish of the heart,
no pain of the body--
but is due to sin!
All the miseries which mankind
groans under, are to be ascribed
to sin. Sin is the cause of all
divine punishments:
All unrighteousness and wretchedness
are its fruits. There is no distress of
the mind, no anguish of the heart,
no pain of the body--
but is due to sin!
All the miseries which mankind
groans under, are to be ascribed
to sin. Sin is the cause of all
divine punishments:
brought these things upon you.
This is your punishment."
(Jeremiah 4:18)
Had there been no sin, there would have been . . .
no wars,
no calamities,
no prisons,
no hospitals,
no insane asylums,
no cemeteries!
Yet who lays these things to heart?
"The deceitfulness of sin!"
Sin assumes many garbs.
When it appears in its nakedness--
it is seen as a black and
misshapen monster!
How GOD HIMSELF views it,
may be learned from the various
similitudes used by the HOLY
SPIRIT to set forth its ugliness
and loathsomeness.
Sin is likened to the scum
of a seething pot in which
is a detestable carcass, and
to a dead and rotting body!
Sin assumes many garbs.
When it appears in its nakedness--
it is seen as a black and
misshapen monster!
How GOD HIMSELF views it,
may be learned from the various
similitudes used by the HOLY
SPIRIT to set forth its ugliness
and loathsomeness.
Sin is likened to the scum
of a seething pot in which
is a detestable carcass, and
to a dead and rotting body!
There is a far greater malignity
in sin than is commonly supposed,
even by the majority of church
members. Men regard sin as an
infirmity, and term it a human
frailty or hereditary weakness.
The majority regard sin as
a mere trifle.
Tens of thousands of religionists
see so little filth in sin, that they
imagine a few tears will wash
away its stain. They perceive
so little criminality in it, that
they persuade themselves
that a few good works will
make full reparation for it.
All comparisons fail to set forth
the horrible malignity in that
abominable thing which GOD hates.
We can say nothing more evil
of sin, than to term it what it is!
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"Fear Not!"
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