0789. 771. Sin’s Indelibility

771. Sin’s Indelibility

“Some Men’s Sins… Follow After” 1Ti_5:24

While at the World’s Fair in St. Louis, I saw the telautograph—an instrument for electrically reproducing at a distance a person’s own handwriting or similar matter. I walked over to the booth, took up a pencil having wire attachments, and scribbled my name on a paper pad, when, lo! a miracle occurred. On a perpendicular white surface, about fifteen feet distance, an apparently invisible hand was tracing an exact duplicate of my copy. As I turned to leave the booth I destroyed the page upon which I had written, but there on the wall was that which was beyond my reach and power to destroy.

What a man does stamps itself indelibly on his own personality, and he carries with him the imprint of all his acts. We have many illustrations in the Word of the fact that sin’s impress is stamped upon the sinner, hence, in the characters produced we have warning adduced.

1. Pharaoh’s hardness of heart is a warning against unbelief—Exo_8:19.

2. Cain’s self-will is a beacon against self-action—Jud_1:11.

3. Korah’s pride is a danger-signal against self-inflation—Jud_1:11.

4. The disobedience of Lot’s wife and God’s judgment upon her is a warning against self-will—Luk_17:32.

5. Balaam’s covetousness is a beacon against greed—2Pe_2:15.

6. Saul’s self-action is a warning against the sin of self-dependence—1Sa_15:22, 1Sa_15:23.

7. Belshazzar’s downfall is a warning against the course of desecration and sin—Dan_5:22, Dan_5:30.

By: DR. F. E. MARSH