Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

Yea,
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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
find ourselves there in the fulness of blessing unto the glory of
God, no longer standing aloof, but all with the same stream, and
all possessed of the same blessing. Dr. Brown.
SIN
790. Sin is the transgression of God's law. "Every one that
doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness" (1 John
3:4). Through sin, angels left their proper habitation (Jude 6)
and man was banished from paradise (Gen. 3:23, 24), the curse
and its punishment resting upon him and his descendants.
"Through one man sin entered into the world, and death through
sin: and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned" (Rom.
5:12). "There is none that doeth good, no, not so much as
one" (Rom. 3: 12).
Sin is the only thing which God abhors. All sins, great or
small, are to God objects of intense aversion.
Nothing speaks louder concerning God's hatred of sin than
Calvary. Surely, he who asserts that sin is a trivial thing, a
mere "ripple on the ocean of God's love," has never looked upon
the cross ! In view of what it cost to atone for it, sin is heinous,
hellish, damnable. It required nothing less than the humiliation
of the Son of God, even to the death of the cross. "For what
the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God.
sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an
offering for sin, condemned sin in the flesh" (Rom. 8:3). "Him
who knew no sin he made to be sin in our behalf ; that we might
become the righteousness of God in him" (2 Cor. 5:21). "What
words, what thought shall be adequate to realise these facts?
The righteous He made a sinner, that He might make the sinners
righteous !
far greater—He made Him sin, that sinners
might be made the very righteousness of God, which we are
when we are justified by grace, in which case all sin is done
away."
791. You cannot escape yourself. Go where you will, you
carry with you a soul degraded, its power lost, its finer sensibilities
destroyed. Worse than the viper's tooth is the punishment
of no longer striving after goodness or aspiring after the
life of God. Just as the man cannot see through the glass on
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