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Updated: June 23, 2025
In regard to the matter immediately in hand, God's purpose or counsel in sending the Forerunner was, first of all, to produce in the minds of the people a true consciousness of their own sinfulness and need of cleansing; and so to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah, who should bring the inward gift which they needed, and so secure their salvation.
The offspring of these alliances between the angels and the Cainite women were the giants, known for their strength and their sinfulness; as their very name, the Emim, indicates, they inspired fear. They have many other names.
Oh, brethren, we need, for our right relation to our fellows, a deeper conviction of our sinfulness before Him. Many of us are blessed with natural tendencies to meekness, but these are insufficient. Many of us seek to cultivate this grace from true and right, though not the deepest, motives.
Presently she rushed on, half indignantly, " With all my talk about the sinfulness of American women, who persistently attempt a scheme of living that is far beyond their incomes! And talking of the needs of the poor all over the world, with all that money lying idle!"
Thus did He teach all earthly kings, by His Divine example, to undertake naught without first consulting advisers. The advice of the Torah was given with some reservations. She was skeptical about the value of an earthly world, on account of the sinfulness of men, who would be sure to disregard her precepts. But God dispelled her doubts.
Now by far the deepest and by far the most personal experience of every spiritually minded man is his experience of his own inward sinfulness.
But the Lord forbid that I should repine under any visitation. In my sinfulness I merit bitter disappointment, and I accept it. 'Mother, I grieve to hear you speak like this, though I have had my apprehensions that you would 'You knew I would. You knew ME, she interrupted. Her son paused for a moment. He had struck fire out of her, and was surprised. 'Well! she said, relapsing into stone.
All these are possible misgivings, but that he should take such a plunge as matrimony, on other grounds than the perfect prudence and profit of the investment, could never occur to him. As to the sinfulness of tampering with a girl's affections by what in slang is called 'spooning, it was purely absurd to think of it. You might as well say that playing sixpenny whist made a man a gambler.
Here, then, is good in progress which will hold on its course, and the growth of which will only be suspended, not destroyed, during any of those political convulsions which may too probably be apprehended too probably, I say, because when you call upon me to consider the sinfulness of this nation, my heart fails.
"'After them, Sikhandin said these words unto Uluka, "Thou must say unto king Duryodhana who is always addicted to sinfulness, these words, viz., 'See, O king, what fierce deed is perpetrated by me in battle! I shall slay grandsire of thine from his car, relying upon whose prowess thou art certain of success in battle!
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