My soul, do you feel this holy shuddering at
the sins of others? If not, you lack inward holiness. David's
cheeks were wet with rivers of waters, because of prevailing unholiness.
Jeremiah desired eyes like fountains, that he might lament the iniquities
of Israel. Lot, a righteous man, was distressed because of all the
immorality and wickedness around him. Those upon whom the mark was set in
Ezekiel's vision, were those who sighed and cried because of the
abominations of Jerusalem.
It cannot but grieve gracious souls to see what pains men take to go to Hell. They know the evil of sin experimentally, and they are alarmed to see others flying like moths into its blaze!
Sin makes the righteous shudder, because it violates God's holy law, which is to every man's highest interest to keep. Sin pulls down the pillars of the society!
Sin in others horrifies a believer, because it puts him in mind of the vileness of his own heart. When he sees a heinous sinner, he cries, "He fell today and, but for God's grace I may fall tomorrow!"
Sin is horrible to a believer, because it crucified his Savior! He sees in every iniquity the nails and the spear! How can a saved soul behold that cursed Christ-killing sin without abhorrence?
Say, my heart do you sensibly join in all this? It is an awful thing to insult God to His face. The good God deserves better treatment; the great God claims it; the just God will have it or repay His adversary to his face!
An awakened heart trembles at the audacity of sin—and stands alarmed at the contemplation of its punishment. How monstrous a thing is sin! How direful a doom is prepared for the ungodly!
My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries lest you come to smile at sin itself! Sin is your Lord's enemy, and your enemy, view it with detestation, for only so, can you evidence the possession of holiness, without which no man can see the Lord.
It cannot but grieve gracious souls to see what pains men take to go to Hell. They know the evil of sin experimentally, and they are alarmed to see others flying like moths into its blaze!
Sin makes the righteous shudder, because it violates God's holy law, which is to every man's highest interest to keep. Sin pulls down the pillars of the society!
Sin in others horrifies a believer, because it puts him in mind of the vileness of his own heart. When he sees a heinous sinner, he cries, "He fell today and, but for God's grace I may fall tomorrow!"
Sin is horrible to a believer, because it crucified his Savior! He sees in every iniquity the nails and the spear! How can a saved soul behold that cursed Christ-killing sin without abhorrence?
Say, my heart do you sensibly join in all this? It is an awful thing to insult God to His face. The good God deserves better treatment; the great God claims it; the just God will have it or repay His adversary to his face!
An awakened heart trembles at the audacity of sin—and stands alarmed at the contemplation of its punishment. How monstrous a thing is sin! How direful a doom is prepared for the ungodly!
My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries lest you come to smile at sin itself! Sin is your Lord's enemy, and your enemy, view it with detestation, for only so, can you evidence the possession of holiness, without which no man can see the Lord.
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
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Psalm 119:53 ... Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
Psalm 97:10 ... Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Proverbs 8:13 ... The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Amos 5:15 ... Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Romans 12:9 ... Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Jude 1:23 ... And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. ❤
