Sin is the great block and bar to our happiness, the procurer of all miseries to man, both here and hereafter. Take away sin, and nothing can hurt us for death, temporal, spiritual, and eternal, is the wages of it. Sin, and man for sin, is the object of the wrath of God. How dreadful, therefore, must his case be who continues in sin! For who can bear or grapple with the wrath of God?
No sin against God can be little, because it is against the great God of Heaven and earth; but if the sinner can find out a little god, it may be easy to find out little sins.
Sin turns all God's grace into wantonness, it is the dare of his justice, the rape of his mercy, the jeer of his patience, the slight of his power, and the contempt of his love. Take heed of giving yourself liberty of committing one sin, for that will lead you to another; until, by an ill custom, it becomes natural. To begin a sin, is to lay a foundation for a continuance; this continuance is the mother of custom, and impudence at last the outcome.
The death of Christ gives us the best discovery of ourselves in what condition we were, in that nothing could help us but that; and the most clear discovery of the dreadful nature of our sins. For if sin be so dreadful a thing as to wring the heart of the Son of God, how shall a poor wretched sinner be able to bear it?
[John Bunyan]
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Romans 5:8 … But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 6:23 … 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 5:6 … For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.❤
