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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Whosoever sinneth," he exclaims, "hath not seen HIM, neither known HIM." Sin was abashed in this Presence. Its root withered. Its sway and victory were forever at an end. But these were His contemporaries. It was easy for THEM to be influenced by Him, for they were every day and all the day together. But how can we mirror that which we have never seen?
As it is written, 'he that is born of God, sinneth not, for his seed remaineth in him, and that wicked one toucheth him not. He will say, Whatever happens, I must obey God, and not man. The Lord is on my side, therefore I will not fear what man can do to me. And what is the seed which remains in that man, and keeps him from playing the coward? Christ himself, the seed and Son of God.
His text was a double one, "The soul that sinneth it shall die," and "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." He preached that day as a man might who speaks to his hearers for the first and last time, and, in telling of the goodness, the mercy, and the love of God, the bitter grief of his own heart was sensibly abated.
And every one who hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. Every one who committeth sin, committeth also a transgression of the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. And ye know that he was manifested, that he might take away our sins; and in him there is no sin. Every one who abideth in him, doth not sin; every one who sinneth hath not seen him, nor known him.
The truth is, that, if a Christian, you have a double life. There is Christ, with His power, with His Spirit, giving you a nature which is pure and sinless, incapable of transgression, like His own. The new man, that which is born of God, sinneth not, cannot sin.
A sinner when he sinneth, he doth it with all his heart, and with all his mind, and with all his soul, and with all his strength; nor hath he in his ordinary course any thing that bindeth. But with a good man it is not so; all, and every whit of himself, neither is, nor can be, in every good duty that he doth. For when he would do good evil is present with him.
'Alack, father mine, rejoined Ciappelletto, 'tell me not this to comfort me; you must know I know that things done for the service of God should be done sincerely and with an ungrudging mind; and whoso doth otherwise sinneth. Quoth the friar, exceeding well pleased, 'I am content that thou shouldst thus apprehend it and thy pure and good conscience therein pleaseth me exceedingly.
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out ev'n to the edge of doom: If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved." W. Shakespeare. "He that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
I need not remind you, except in a word, of the way in which the transgression of the plain physical laws stamped upon our constitutions avenges itself; but the certainty with which disease dogs all breaches of the laws of health is but a type in the lower and material universe of the far higher and more solemn certainty with which 'the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Wherever a man sets himself against any of the laws of this material universe, they make short work of him.
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