"Sin"

Sin is worse than suffering; it is better to suffer than to sin. Every sin is an attempt to dethrone God in your heart. Sin never goes alone but leaves a stain wherever it touches.

[Richard Baxter]

Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, and the contempt of His love. Sin turns the soul into a dungeon of darkness.

[John Bunyan] 

Sin is infinitely worse than any affliction. One sin allowed, is enough to damn the soul. Sin is the soul's only sickness, and Christ is the soul's only Physician.

[Jeremiah Burroughs]

Sin in the heart is like Jonah in the ship it turns the soul into a tempest. Sin will usher in the greatest and saddest losses imaginable. Sin is Satan's firstborn.

[Thomas Brooks]

Sin is an offense against infinite holiness and deserves infinite punishment. Sin is a deicide every sin would kill God if it could.

[Stephen Charnock]

Be killing sin, or it will be killing you. The seed of every sin is in every heart. 

[John Owen]

The smallest sin is an infinite evil, because it is committed against an infinite God. Sin is the foulest evil it pollutes everything it touches. 

[Samuel Rutherford]

Sin is the cause of all suffering and the root of all sorrow. Sin is the disturber of Heaven, earth, and Hell. One of the greatest sins, is not to see sin as the greatest evil. Sin is the soul's enemy, the heart's wound, and the thief of eternal joy.

[Ralph Venning]

Till sin is bitter, Christ will not be sweet. Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages. Sin is a spiritual poison that would murder the soul. Sin is worse than Hell, because sin brought Hell into being.

[Thomas Watson]

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The Existence and Attributes of God

If every attribute of the Deity were a distinct member, holiness would be the soul to animate them. Without holiness His patience would be an indulgence to sin, His mercy would be a fondness, His wrath would be a madness, His power would be a tyranny, His wisdom would be an unworthy subtlety. Holiness gives balance to them all. 

The holiness of God is His glory and crown. Holiness is the blessedness of His nature. Holiness renders Him glorious in Himself, and glorious to His creatures. "Holy" is more fixed as an epithet to His name than any other. Holiness is His greatest title of honor. He is pure and unmixed light free from all blemish in His essence, nature and works. He cannot be deformed by any evil. 

The notion of God cannot be entertained without separating from Him whatever is impure and staining. Though He is majestic, eternal, almighty, wise, immutable, merciful, and whatsoever other perfections may dignify so sovereign a being yet if we conceive Him destitute of this excellent perfection, and imagine Him possessed with the least contagion of evil, we make Him to be an infinite monster, and sully all of His perfections. It is a contradiction for Him to be God and to have any darkness mixed with his light. To deny his purity, makes Him no God. He who says God is not holy, speaks much worse than if he said there is no God at all. 

Where do we read of the angels crying out Eternal or Faithful Lord God? But we do hear them singing Holy, Holy, Holy! God swears by His holiness (Psalm 89:35). His holiness is a pledge for the assurance of His promises. Power is His hand, omniscience is His eye, mercy is His heart, eternity is His duration, and holiness is His beauty! Holiness renders Him lovely and gives beauty to all His attributes. Every action of His is free from all hints of evil. Holiness is the crown of all His attributes, the life of all His decrees, and the brightness of all His actions. Nothing is decreed by Him and nothing is acted by Him, that is not consistent with the beauty of His holiness.

[Stephen Charnock]

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God's Judgment

Not all the vials of judgment that have or shall be poured out upon the wicked world, nor the flaming furnace of a sinner's conscience, nor the irreversible sentence pronounced against the rebellious demons, nor the groans of the damned creatures give such a demonstration of God's hatred of sin, as the wrath of God let loose upon His Son!

Never did divine holiness appear more beautiful and lovely, than at the time our Savior's countenance was most marred in the midst of His dying groans when God had turned His smiling face from Him, and thrust His sharp knife into His heart, which forced that terrible cry from Him, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me!" (Matthew 27:46)

[Stephen Charnock]

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The Remedy

God, apart from Christ, is an angry, offended Sovereign.  Unless we behold God in and through Christ, the only Mediator, the terrors of His Majesty would overwhelm us.  Because of our sins, we dare not approach the Father, except in Christ.  We first fasten our eyes upon Christ, then upon the Father.  If Christ does not bear our guilt and reconcile us unto God, we must surely perish everlastingly!

Before any man can think to stand before the face of God's justice, be admitted to the secret chamber of God's mercy, or partake of the riches of His grace he must look to one the Mediator, Christ Jesus.

Let us look upon a crucified Christ, as the remedy of all our miseries. His cross has procured our crown.  His passion has expiated our transgressions.  His death has disarmed the law. His blood has washed our sinful souls, spotless.

His death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and

the eternal testimony of divine love!

[Stephen Charnock]

1 Timothy 2:5 … For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;❤