Nature of Sin
There is no goodness in sin therefore it is not of God.
Every promise of sin is a delusion.
Sin is so opposite to God that if it were possible that one drop of sin could get into God’s nature, God would instantly cease to be God.
The special end of Christ’s coming was to take away sin, to deliver us from sin.
All sin states one thing, that there is not enough good in God to satisfy the soul.
In sin we set our will above the will of God.
We who are willful cannot stand to have our will crossed especially if it is done by someone inferior to us, we cannot bear it. Consider then the offense you commit against God when you set your will against him in sin.
Sin is a violation of God in his justice. Sin is the one and only thing that breaks the order of God in the world and strikes at God’s purpose to destroy the work of sin.
The Evil of Evils / Jeremiah Burroughs
Conviction of Sin
Sin is a thing that puts man’s self out of center altogether, making it eccentric; and when the spirit of God brings conviction, the man knows he is wrongly related to God, to his own body, and to everything around him, and he is in a state of abject misery. The health of the body is upset, the balance pushed right out, by conviction of sin. Conviction of sin makes a man’s beauty “to consume away like a moth.” Beauty means the perfectly ordered completeness of man’s whole nature. Once a person’s mind is upset that beauty begins to go, the equilibrium is upset. This accounts for the characteristic tendency abroad today; ignore sin, deny it ever was; if you make mistakes, forget them, live the healthy minded, openhearted, sunshiny life, don’t allow yourself to be convicted of sin.
The Holy Spirit in a Christian wars against the old heredity; the new heredity and the old war one against another. Is that all God can do for me; destroy unity in life, make me a divided personality, and make me sick with conviction of sin? If that is all God can do, I would rather be an atheist; but if it is only a stage toward the borderland of mastery, that is a different matter. Paul says if I obey the Spirit of God, I must crucify the other mind. God cannot do that, I must do it myself. Yes, I will agree with the Spirit of God and go to the death of my old disposition (Romans 6:6). If I do not put to death the things in me that are not of God they will put to death the things in me that are of God.
The Holy Spirit applies or administers the work of the atonement to us in the deep unconscious realm as well as in the conscious realm. And it is not until we truly perceive the unrivaled power of the Spirit in us that we understand the meaning of 1 John 1:7 , which says, “. . . the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” This verse does not refer only to conscious sin, but also to the tremendously profound understanding of sin which only the Holy Spirit in me can accomplish.
Forgiveness of Sin
I have finished the work which You have given Me to do —John 17:4
The death of Jesus Christ is the fulfillment in history of the very mind and intent of God. There is no place for seeing Jesus Christ as a martyr. His death was not something that happened to Him— something that might have been prevented. His death was the very reason He came.
Never build your case for forgiveness on the idea that God is our Father and He will forgive us because He loves us. That contradicts the revealed truth of God in Jesus Christ. It makes the Cross unnecessary, and the redemption “much ado about nothing.” God forgives sin only because of the death of Christ. God could forgive people in no other way than by the death of His Son, and Jesus is exalted as Savior because of His death. “We see Jesus . . . for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor . . .” (Hebrews 2:9). The greatest note of triumph ever sounded in the ears of a startled universe was that sounded on the Cross of Christ— “It is finished!” (John 19:30). That is the final word in the redemption of humankind.
Anything that lessens or completely obliterates the holiness of God, through a false view of His love, contradicts the truth of God as revealed by Jesus Christ. Never allow yourself to believe that Jesus Christ stands with us, and against God, out of pity and compassion, or that He became a curse for us out of sympathy for us. Jesus Christ became a curse for us by divine decree. Our part in realizing the tremendous meaning of His curse is the conviction of sin. Conviction is given to us as a gift of shame and repentance; it is the great mercy of God. Jesus Christ hates the sin in people, and Calvary is the measure of His hatred.
My Utmost for His Highest / Oswald Chambers
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