that I hate!" Jeremiah 44:4
If we took a survey of everything on the earth--
we could find nothing 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:
for the Devil has sinned from the beginning."
(1 John 3:8)
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 eternal curse of GOD!
Sin is the source of all our miseries.
All evil 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!
All evil 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:
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
no eternal Hell!
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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