{"id":5286,"date":"2016-08-16T03:18:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/sin\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:18:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:18:56","slug":"sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/sin\/","title":{"rendered":"SIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'><i>\u2014Rev. 18:5<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5702<\/b><b> What Is Sin<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Man calls it an <i>accident<\/i>; God calls it an abomination. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Man calls it a blunder; God calls it blindness. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Man calls it a defect; God calls it a disease. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Man calls it a chance; God calls it a choice. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Man calls it an error; God calls it an enmity. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Man calls it a fascination; God calls it a fatality. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Man calls it an infirmity; God calls it an iniquity. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Man calls it a luxury; God calls it a leprosy. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Man calls it a liberty; God calls it lawlessness. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Man calls it a trifle; God calls it a tragedy. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Man calls it a mistake; God calls it a madness. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Man calls it a weakness; God calls it willfulness. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'><i>\u2014Moody Monthly<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5703<\/b><b> Billy Sunday Fights Sin<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Billy Sunday, the baseball evangelist and reformer, never spared himself nor those he wanted to help in the vigor of his attacks on sin. He thundered against evil from the Gay Nineties through the Great Depression. He preached Christ as the only answer to man\u2019s needs until his death in 1935. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cI\u2019m against sin,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ll kick it as long as I\u2019ve got a foot, and I\u2019ll fight it as long as I\u2019ve got a fist. I\u2019ll butt it as long as I\u2019ve got a head. I\u2019ll bite it as long as I\u2019ve got a tooth. When I\u2019m old and fistless and footless and toothless, I\u2019ll gum it till I go home to Glory and it goes home to perdition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5704<\/b><b> Label It \u201cSin\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The late Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman used to tell of a Methodist preacher who often spoke on the subject of sin. He minced no words, but defined sin as \u201cthat abominable thing that God hates.\u201d A leader in his congregation came to him on one occasion and urged him to cease using the ugly word. Said he: \u201cDr. Blank, we wish you would not speak so plainly about sin. Our young people, hearing you, will be more likely to indulge in sin. Call it something else, as \u201cinhibition,\u201d or \u201cerror\u201d or a \u201cmistake,\u201d or even \u201ca twist in our nature\u201d.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cI understand what you mean,\u201d the preacher remarked and going to his desk brought out a little bottle. \u201cThis bottle,\u201d he said, \u201ccontains strychnine. You will see that the red label here reads \u201cPoison.\u201d Would you suggest that I change the label, and paste one on that says, \u201cWintergreen?\u201d The more harmless the name the more dangerous the dose will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'><i>\u2014The Bible Friend<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5705<\/b><b> Perfuming The Gas<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Suppose that instead of turning off the gas at bedtime, I blew it out. Then when my wife and I awoke choking, instead of opening the window and turning off the gas, I got a bottle of cologne, and we sprinkled ourselves. The fool principle of trying to overcome the poison of gas with perfume wouldn\u2019t work. The next day there would be a coroner\u2019s jury in the house. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Esther M. Tahmazian<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5706<\/b><b> When God Blushed<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>An old Welsh poem tells how the Creator once held a review of the heavenly bodies. One by one, sun, moon, stars, and all the host of heaven passed by, and as they passed by, their august Maker greeted them with a smile. But when the earth passed, God blushed! <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Yes, it matters not how fair the beginning of life, or how unclouded its early sky, every man comes at length within that shadow which is as eternal as human history, the deep, deep shadow of sin. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5707<\/b><b> How Heavy Is Sin? <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>A flippant youth asked a preacher, \u201cYou say that unsaved people carry a weight of sin. I feel nothing. How heavy is sin? Is it ten pounds? Eighty pounds?\u201d The preacher replied by asking the youth, \u201cIf you laid a four-hundred-pound weight on a corpse, would it feel the load?\u201d The youth replied, \u201cIt would feel nothing, because it is dead.\u201d The preacher concluded, \u201cThat spirit, too, is indeed dead which feels no load of sin or is indifferent to its burden and flippant about its presence.\u201d The youth was silenced! <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5708<\/b><b> \u201cWho Put Sin In Sinclair\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Dr. Walter Wilson, ever on the alert to speak to men about their souls and need of the Saviour, asked an attendant at a service station who had filled his car with gas: \u201cHow did sin get in Sinclair?\u201d pointing to the lighted sign atop the gas pump. \u201cI do not know, sir, how sin got into Sinclair; but, sir, I have wished many times that I knew how to get sin out of my life!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>It was then that Dr. Wilson had the opportunity to tell the young man of the One who is the sinner\u2019s friend and of whom it is written: \u201cAnd thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins\u201d (Matt. 1:21). <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Willis Cook<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5709<\/b><b> Augustine\u2019s Improving Prayer<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>In the early days of his struggle toward the truth, Augustine made a prayer, \u201cLord, save me from my sins, but not quite yet.\u201d Then sometime after that he prayed, \u201cLord, save me from all my sins, except one.\u201d And then came the final prayer, \u201cLord, save me from all my sins, and save me now!\u201d It was when he made that final decision against evil that the victory was his. There is no joy and strength and, for that matter, no peace, like that which visits the soul which has taken an unconquerable resolve against that which is evil. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Selected<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5710<\/b><b> Psychiatrists And Sin<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cSin,\u201d really does exist, according to Dr. Karl Menninger. The famous psychiatrist is distressed that modern society tries to figure out its problems and talk about morality without ever mentioning the word \u201csin.\u201d He is convinced that the only way to raise the moral tone of present-day civilization and deal with the depression and worries that plague clergy, psychiatrists, and ordinary folk is to revive an understanding of what \u201csin\u201d is. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'><i>\u2014Pastor\u2019s Manual<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5711<\/b><b> Sin And Remorse<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Fears may die, but not remorse. John Randolph, when he was dying in Philadelphia, kept repeating, \u201cRemorse! Remorse!\u201d He demanded that a dictionary be brought so that he could study the meaning of the word; and, when no dictionary could be found, he had the physician write it out for him on a piece of paper\u2014\u201dRemorse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Remorse is like the ground swell in the ocean after a storm. The storm has subsided, the sky is blue, the air is balmy, there is not a whitecap to be seen; but the ship heaves and tosses and leaves the traveler in misery because of the mighty swell that has remained after the original commotion has subsided. So remorse heaves the soul as the tides heave the ocean. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014C. E. Macartney<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center; line-height:normal'>THE WAGES OF SIN<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5712<\/b><b> Some Things We Can\u2019t Do<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(1) Sow bad habits and reap a good character. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(2) Sow jealously and hatred and reap love and friendship. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(3) Sow wicked thoughts and reap a clean life. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(4) Sow wrong deeds and live righteously. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(5) Sow crime and get away with it. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(6) Sow dissipation and reap a healthy body. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(7) Sow crooked dealings and succeed indefinitely. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(8) Sow self-indulgence and not show it in your face. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(9) Sow disloyalty and reap loyalty from others. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(10) Sow dishonesty and reap integrity. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(11) Sow profane words and reap clean speech. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(12) Sow disrespect and reap respect. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(13) Sow deception and reap confidence. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(14) Sow untidiness and reap neatness. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(15) Sow intemperance and reap sobriety and temperance. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(16) Sow indifference and reap nature\u2019s rewards. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(17) Sow mental or physical laziness and reap a responsible position in society. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(18) Sow cruelty and reap kindness. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(19) Sow wastefulness and reap thriftiness. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(20) Sow cowardice and reap courage. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(21) Sow destruction of other people\u2019s property and reap protection for our own. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(22) Sow greed and envy and reap generosity. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(23) Sow neglect of the Lord\u2019s house and reap strength in temptation. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(24) Sow neglect of the Bible and reap a well-guided life. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>(25) Sow human thistles and reap human roses. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014James Nankivell<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5713<\/b><b> When A Smuggler Suffocated<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>A passenger on board a plane bound from Zurich to Beirut cried out that he was suffocating. The plane landed at Athens and Joseph Pasatour was taken to a hospital where he died. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Undressing him, hospital attendants discovered that he was a smuggler and had on a corset with 1,500 valuable Swiss watches. Closer examination revealed that the contraband merchandise had restricted his breathing and caused his death. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5714<\/b><b> Entangled Among Sausages<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>According to the St. Petersburg <i>Times<\/i>, a thief grabbed some sausages in a meat market but discovered to his sorrow that they were part of a string forty-five-feet long. He lost his balance, stumbled again over the string, and finally became so entangled that he couldn\u2019t get up to escape. When the police arrived, the thief was trying to untangle himself from the sausages. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5715<\/b><b> Point Of No Return<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The scene of this awesome tragedy was in Georgia at Stone Mountain, the largest boulder in the world. Atop the mountain, a young man walked unsuspectingly along, oblivious of the gradual and almost imperceptible downward curvature of the domelike mountain. Suddenly, he became aware of the fact that he was powerless to retrace his steps to safety. He had gone to the point of no return. Frantically, he cried, \u201cHelp! Help!\u201d His piteous plea was to no avail. Horrified spectators saw him hurtled to his death below. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5716<\/b><b> Rembrandt\u2019s Two Pictures<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Twenty years later Rembrandt painted another picture of himself. As a young man he determined to deny himself no pleasure. He, therefore, sought out every delight and followed his appetite. Hence, one by one the torches of his life went out. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Having been untrue to himself, he lost faith in others. In middle age we see the artist shrunken, an old rag around his throat, weakness in his chin, the mark of the beast upon his brow, the eyes heavy and dull, without vision or beauty. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>There are two pictures. The second shows the result of sin. His body was ruined by his own wickedness. In his youth he lived for his own ideals and for God. Twenty years later, after living for self and sin, the lights had gone out of his life. His body was a noble mansion given over to darkness and decay. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Lee Roberson<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5717<\/b><b> Christ And Judas In \u201cLast Supper\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>When Leonardo da Vinci was painting his masterpiece The Last Supper, he sought long for a model for his Christ. At last he located a chorister in one of the churches of Rome who was lovely in life and features, a young man named Pietro Bandinelli. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Years passed, and the painting was still unfinished. All the disciples had been portrayed save one\u2014Judas Iscariot. Now he started to find a man whose face was hardened and distorted by sin\u2014and at last he found a beggar on the streets of Rome with a face so villainous, he shuddered when he looked at him. He hired the man to sit for him as he painted the face of Judas on his canvas. When he was about to dismiss the man, he said, \u201cI have not yet found out your name.\u201d \u201cI am Pietro Bandinelli,\u201d he replied, \u201cI also sat for you as your model of Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'><i>\u2014Indian Christian<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5718<\/b><b> Progressive Likenesses Of Nero<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>In the Roman Gallery of the British Museum there is a long line of marble busts erected on pedestals, bearing the name of each. These are of intense interest, for they enable the visitor to look upon the likenesses of the Roman Emperors, who, for weal or woe, held in their hands the destinies of the world. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>An earlier bust of Nero also shows nature at work. Here the nature is less coarse, the brutal element less pronounced; there is still an inclination, though fugitive, toward better things. In the latter bust, however we see written for us in indelible marks, the change produced upon a human countenance by unbridled passion and unchecked cruelty. In the interval between these two likeness, Nero had murdered his mother, set Rome on fire, and burned the Christians to appease the populace; and we see in his brutal face, his heavy eye, his sensual lips and thick neck, the marks of the beast he had become. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014James Burns<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5719<\/b><b> Law With No Penalty<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>When the State of Washington first passed a law taxing the retail sales of gasoline, the legislature slipped up on one very important detail: they forgot to attach a penalty to a violation of the law. At first dealers began collecting and paying the tax, a very small one comparatively, but when they discovered the error in the law they refused to comply. The legislature then had to be called back into special session in order to attach a penalty to a violation of the tax law and make it retroactive. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'><i>\u2014Evangelistic Illustration<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5720<\/b><b> Korean Kite Ceremony<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Pastor Lewis Llewellyn says that the Koreans have a curious New Year\u2019s custom. Desiring to forget unpleasant things and make a fresh start, each person determines what bad habits he would like to eliminate and what past deeds he wants forgiven. Then he writes the names of these evils on a kite and flies it high into the air. When it is almost out of sight, he cuts the string. As the \u201cpaper bird\u201d takes a nosedive and disappears from the sight, he thinks that all his faults and previous transgressions are forever removed. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Henry G. Bosch<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5721<\/b><b> License Plate Imprint<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Police had no trouble at all tracking down the burglar who ransacked a house in Pelham, N. H. The burglar came by automobile and, in backing the car to leave, rammed a snowbank. The license plate left a perfect imprint in the snow. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Anthony Paul<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5722<\/b><b> One Eye From Each Of The Two<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Zulcucus, lawgiver of the Locrians made a law that adultery should be punished with the loss of both the offender\u2019s eyes; unhappily, it turned out that his own son was the first to commit that crime. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>To express both the tenderness of a father and the uprightness of a judge, he caused one of his son\u2019s eyes to be put out and one of his own. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center; line-height:normal'>\u201dALL HAVE SINNED\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5723<\/b><b> \u201cAll Is Discovered\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>There is a tradition to the effect that Noel Coward sent identical notes to the twenty most prominent men in London, saying, \u201cAll is discovered. Escape while you can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>All twenty abruptly left the town. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5724<\/b><b> Graham Got Telephone Directory<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Preparatory to beginning a meeting in a large city, famed evangelist Billy Sunday wrote a letter to the mayor in which he asked for the names of individuals he knew who had spiritual problems and needed help and prayer. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>How surprised the evangelist was when he received from the mayor a city directory. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5725<\/b><b> Same Sins In \u201cGulliver\u2019s Travels\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>One of the world\u2019s classics is <i>Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/i>, a satirical romance, written by Jonathan Swift in 1726. It is a fanciful and fabulous account of a trip which the author took to four imaginary countries which differed in every way possible, even in the size of the citizens\u2014some were dwarfs, some were giants. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Despite all these differences of material and social conditions, the inhabitants of all four countries were alike in their vices and follies. The conviction you take from the story is that man can go low morally under any form of government and in any manner of life. True, social and other conditions help a great deal, but the solution of all problems comes down to the conversion of the individual. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5726<\/b><b> God\u2019s Photograph Of Man<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>In the days when there were fewer cameras and fewer photographs, and when it was an event in one\u2019s life to have one\u2019s photo taken, an evangelist with a party of friends was enjoying a pleasant Saturday afternoon in Rouken Glen, Glasgow, Scotland, on a lovely summer day. He carried with him a little leather case containing his Bible and, as he walked along, a company of young people out for an afternoon\u2019s enjoyment approached him and said, \u201cPlease will you take our photograph,\u201d thinking that the little leather case contained a vest-pocket Kodak. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Without a moment\u2019s hesitation the evangelist said, \u201cO, I have it already.\u201d The spokesman of the party asked in surprise, \u201cWhen did you take it? You must have got us on the hop.\u201d \u201cWell, anyway I have it here, and here it is,\u201d said the preacher as he pulled out his well-worn Bible, opened it at Romans 3, and began to read to them from verse 9 to verse 23, \u201cThis is God\u2019s photograph of every one of us,\u201d he said, as he concluded his reading with the words, \u201cFor all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014A. Naismith<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5727<\/b><b> U.S. Novel: Everyone a Suspect<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>A literary review in the London <i>Times<\/i> Literary Supplement complained that American writers of detective stories do not keep to the proper rules of the game. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cIn the traditional English story the author\u2014unless without a sense of craftsmanship\u2014does not have the murder done by a clergyman; he does not extract skeletons from the cupboards of those who are to live happily ever after; within the limits of the genre his characters observe the conventions of their social position to the point that where they disregard them they are marked down as suspects. But in the American story, spotting the culprit is more difficult because anybody may have done anything. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Donald Grey Barnhouse<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5728<\/b><b> Jumping To Catalina Island<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>I have an old illustration about the game of jumping to Catalina Island. It\u2019s about twenty-five miles directly across to Catalina from the pier in Santa Monica. We get to the end of the pier and we run and jump off the end to see who can jump to Catalina. Now up to the present, nobody has made it. There have been some mighty good jumps, but nobody yet has made it. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>It\u2019s a delightful game because when you jump, you get wet, and you can say to the other fellow, \u201cI jumped farther than you did.\u201d And it is true. Some jump farther. I see some people that I\u2019m sure could outjump me. But I\u2019ll tell you this, if you do you\u2019ll get wetter than I will. The farther you jump the more water you get, but you won\u2019t make Catalina. All come short of Catalina although some jump farther than others. \u201cAll come short of the glory of God,\u201d although some are not as great sinners as others. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014J. Vernon McGee<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5729<\/b><b> Moody\u2019s \u201cSaints\u201d Stayed In Church<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>At a church where D. L. Moody was invited to preach, he was warned that some of the congregation usually left before the end of the sermon. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>When Mr. Moody rose to begin his sermon, he announced, \u201cI am going to speak to two classes of people this morning: first to the sinners, and then to the saints.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>He proceeded to address the \u201csinners\u201d for awhile, then said they could leave. For once every member of the congregation stayed to the end of the sermon. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Sawdust Trail<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5730<\/b><b> Burial Of Emperor Joseph<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria was buried in the gloomy crypt of the Church of the Capuchin in Vienna, where sleep all his fathers of the house of Hapsburg. At the entrance to the vault the procession was halted by a voice from within: \u201cWho is there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The reply was: \u201cHis most serene majesty, the Emperor Francis Joseph.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The challenger then said, \u201cI know him not. Who is there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>A second reply was made: \u201cThe Emperor of Austria and Apostolic King of Hungary is outside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Again the challenger answered, \u201cI know him not. Who is there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>This time the voice without replied, \u201cA sinful man, our brother Francis Joseph.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Then the portal was opened and the king was laid to rest among his fathers. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014C. E. Macartney<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>5731<\/b><b> \u201cI\u2019m A Good Sinner\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>I have met a few people who have tried to convince me that they were not bad sinners. I met such a lady in Bluefield, West Virginia. This well-dressed woman came forward on the salvation invitation. I took her hand and prepared to give her a prayer to repeat after me. The prayer I usually give is, \u201cDear Lord, I know that I am a no-good sinner. I know I can\u2019t save myself. I do need forgiveness for my awful sins. I can\u2019t do without you, Jesus. Please forgive me for my many sins. I here and now receive You into my heart as my personal Saviour. I\u2019ll try to live for You from this night on. I pray my prayer in Jesus\u2019 Name. Amen!\u201d Thousands of people seeking to be saved have prayed this prayer with me. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>I took this woman\u2019s hand and began to give her the prayer to repeat after me. \u201cDear Lord, I know I\u2019m a no-good sinner.\u201d She never said a word. I looked at her and said, \u201cDon\u2019t you want to be saved?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>She said, \u201cYes, Eddie, I do want to be saved, but I\u2019m not a sinner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cThen you can\u2019t be saved,\u201d I said, \u201cJesus only died for sinners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cBut, Mr. Martin,\u201d she replied, \u201cI m a good sinner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cA good sinner! Lady, there are no good sinners. You will have to take your seat. God can\u2019t save you until you become conscious that you are a no-good sinner and need His forgiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cBut, Mr. Martin, you don\u2019t understand. I\u2019m really not a bad sinner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>I told her to go back and sit down. She held on to my hand with a vise-like grip. Finally she looked me in the eyes and said, \u201cOh, please forgive me. I know I am a no-good hell-deserving sinner. I am a proud, no-good sinner. I do need Christ to forgive me of my sins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cWonderful! Now, lady, you are ready to do business with God.\u201d We prayed together there at the front, thousands of people looking on. The lady came clean with God. God saved her. But she never would have been saved if she had not changed her attitude. None of us are good sinners. We are all big sinners, bad sinners. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Eddie Martin<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>See also:<\/b> Lawlessness ; Moral Laxity ; Salvation ; Violent Times ; Dan. 8:23; 12:10; Matt. 24:12; II Thess. 2:7; II Tim. 3:13; I John 5:19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. \u2014Rev. 18:5 5702 What Is Sin Man calls it an accident; God calls it an abomination. Man calls it a blunder; God calls it blindness. Man calls it a defect; God calls it a disease. 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