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Apologetics

Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers Chapter 2

John Owen

Indeed there is no little sin because there is no little God to sin against.

A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, 5:500

John Trapp

Christianity exists only when the preaching of the cross is its message.

Gospel

When I turn to the map of the world I must say the same thing. It matters not what quarter I examine: I find men's hearts are everywhere the same, and everywhere wicked. Sin is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

Old Paths, Ch 7

J.C. Ryle

You can never part with sin soon enough; it is a cursed inmate, that will surely bring mischief upon the soul that harbours it. It will set its own dwelling on fire.

Works 7:147

Thomas Manton

Consider for a moment how precious it is that the Christian can say, "I have been crucified with Christ." This is a personal atonement, personal substitution. We revel in the awesome love of our Savior who loved us as individuals and gave Himself up for us. For me! Me, the hate-filled sinner who spurned Him and His love! How much less glorious is the idea, "Christ loved a generic group and died so as to give them the opportunity to possibly join the group and hence receive certain benefits.

The Potter's Freedom (248)

Monergism Salvation Election

Guilt and pain are gifts of God to warn us that the pleasures of sin are suicidal. Though they may feel good in the moment.

SermonNov122000

Jesus is able to save not merely make savable.

The Potter's Freedom (240)

Monergism Salvation

The death of God's Son is a greater proof to God's abhorrence of sin than if all humanity had been damned for it forever.

At the heart of all sin is a lie. The lie says to all of us in our sin, "The act you are now doing, the desire or attitude you are now feeling is not very bad because there are much worse things, not very bad because everyone else experiences the same things, not very bad because you can't help it, not very bad because there is no God, or, if that won't work, God knows you are but frail and weak and he will tolerate and pity your sin." There are a thousand distortions of the truth which sin brings with it into the human heart, so that Jeremiah cries out, "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?" (17:9).

When my thirst for joy and meaning and passion are satisfied by the presence and promises of Christ, the power of sin is broken.

Future Grace (335)

A sheep may fall into a ditch, but it is the swine that wallows in it.

William Gurnall

If anyone would feel the greatness of sin he would not be able to go on living another moment; so great is the power of sin.

Martin Luther

We don't know how much we've sinned in the same way a fish doesn't know how wet it is.

Sermon: The Greatest Words in All of Scripture

Paul Washer

Almost every single collapse involving denominations and churches in regard to historic Christian beliefs can be traced back to a degradation in that group's view of the Bible as the inspired and inerrant revelation of God's truth.

Scripture Alone: Exploring the Bible\'s Accuracy, Authority and Authenticity (p. 43). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Liberal Theology

Truth shines the most brightly against the backdrop of error.

The Potter's Freedom(14)

Apologetics

Sin may be comprehensively defined as lack of conformity to the law of God in act, habit, attitude, outlook, disposition, motivation, and mode of existence.

Concise Theology, Section 31

J.I. Packer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cl9n5tqFcc&t=230s

Rome demands men and women to believe things the Apostles never taught as part of the gospel today, and she does so because she rejects sola scriptura.

Roman Catholicism Sola Scriptura Tradition

Tradition is normally used negatively by the Apostles, and when it is used positively it is referring to the singular message of the Gospel, not to a secret, hidden, or unwritten and undefined body of "non-public" revelation.

(10:03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cl9n5tqFcc

Tradition Roman Catholicism

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

One of the most insidious and dangerous aspects of grief can be summed up in one quotation: "I just want to get back to the way I was".

Grieving, 59

Grieving

The truth that God saves by Himself, by His own power, on the basis of His own will, defines the message of the Reformers.

The Potter's Freedom (36)

Salvation Monergism

Am I saying that a Christian is without sin? No, because in 1 John we learn that Christians do sin and if any man does not acknowledge his sin he knows not God. He's not walking in the light. So what is the difference? What am I really getting at? What I am getting at is this: If you are a genuinely born again Christian a child of God. You will walk in the way of righteousness as a style of life, and if you step of that path of righteousness the father will come for you. he will discipline you . he will put you back on that path. But if you profess to have gone though the narrow gate, and yet you live in the broad way. Just like all the other people in your highschool just like all the other people who are carnal and wicked. The Bible wants you to know that you should be terribly terribly afraid. You know not God.

Sermon:Shocking Youth Message

Paul Washer

The Christian must always be at war. If he has peace with sin, he is at war with God.

William Gurnall