Confronting Secret Sins: The Path to True Righteousness

Self-righteousness arises partly from Pride but mainly from ignorance of God's law it is because men know little or nothing concerning the Terrible character of the Divine Law that they foolishly imagine themselves to be righteous they are not aware of the deep spirituality and the stern severity of the law or they would have other and wiser Notions. [00:19:24]

In the Lan Council of the Church of Rome a decree was passed that every True Believer must confess his sins all of them once a year to the priest and they affixed to it this declaration that there is no hope of Pardon but in compl l in with that decree what can equal the absurdity of such a decree as that. [01:43:52]

Pretender thou art fair to look upon thy conduct outwardly upright amiable liberal generous and Christian but thou dust indulge in some sin which the eye of man has not yet detected Perhaps it is private drunkenness thou does revile the drunkard when he staggers through the street but thou can thyself indulge in the same Habit in private. [06:09:20]

The eye of God ha seen it thou Hast sinned before his face thou has shut to the door and drawn the curtains and kept out the eye of the Sun but God's eye piercethe Darkness the brick walls which surrounded thee were as transparent as glass to the eye of the almighty the darkness which did good thee was as bright as the Summer's noon. [07:07:36]

Of all Sinners the man who makes a profession of religion and yet lives in iniquity is the most miserable a downright Wicked man who takes a glass in his hand and says I am a drunkard I am not ashamed of it he shall be unutterably miserable in world world to come but brief though it be he has his hour of pleasure. [12:09:24]

Secret sins bring fevered eyes and sleepless nights until men burn out their consciences and become in very deed ripe for the pit hypocrisy is a hard game to play at for it is one deceiver against many Observers and for certain it is a miserable trade which will earn at last as its certain climax a tremendous bankruptcy. [18:08:12]

Now I hold that secret sin if anything is the worst of sin because secret sin implies that the man who commits it has Atheism in his heart you will ask how can that be I reply he may be a professing Christian but I shall tell him to his face that he is a practical atheist if he labors to keep up a respectable profession before man. [22:00:00]

One danger is that a man cannot commit a little sin in secret without being by and by betrayed into a public sin you cannot sir though you may think you can preserve a moderation in sin if you commit one sin it is like the melting of the lower glassier upon the Alps the others must follow in time. [25:45:12]

I speak to you and I speak to myself when I say this let us destroy all our little sins they are called little and if they be let us remember that it is the foxes even the little foxes that spoil our Vines for our Vin have tender shoots let us take heed of our little sins a little sin like a little Pebble in the shoe. [30:10:48]

I have come to entreat you if it be possible even to tears that you will give up your secret sins I have one here for whom I bless God I love him though I know him not he is Almost Persuaded to be a Christian he halth between two opinions he intende to serve God he striveth to give up sin but he findeth it a hard struggle. [32:19:36]

Will you have your sin and go to hell or leave your sin and go to heaven this is the solemn alternative to all awakened Sinners I put it may God choose for you otherwise our tremble as to which you may choose the pleasures of this life are so intoxicating the joys of it so ens snaring that did I not believe that God worketh in us to Will to do. [33:01:36]

Oh that God would turn you to himself oh may God give you Grace to cross the Rubicon of repentance at this very hour to say henceforth it is war to the knife with my sins not one of them will I willingly keep but down with them down with them Canaanite hittite jebusite they shall all be driven out the dearest Idol I have known. [37:06:00]