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The spirits of men are leavened with atheism—and their lives are stained with debauchery.
In our Savior's time, many men's bodies were possessed with demons. But now, people's souls are possessed. One is possessed with a blasphemous devil, another with a spiteful devil, another with a drunken devil. This is one great sign of the approach of the last day: "iniquity shall abound," Matthew 24:12.
Melancholy disturbs reason—and weakens faith. Satan works much on this temper. It is the bath of the devil. He bathes himself with delight in such a person. Through the black spectacles of melancholy, everything appears black. When a Christian looks upon sin, he says, "This Leviathan will devour me!"
At death, all our worldly sorrows die—but the torments of hell are as long-lived as eternity!
Proverbs 20:17. Sin and punishment are linked together with adamantine chains!
Sin conjures up all our afflictions. All the crosses which befall us, all the storms in conscience—sin raises them!
Oh, sinner, do not wonder that it is so bad with you—but rather wonder that it is no worse! Are you in the deep of affliction? It is a wonder you are not in the deep of hell!
Were our sins engraved upon our foreheads, we would be ashamed to look up!
Pride is seen in painting their faces, overlaying God's work with the devil's colors.
The Lord will proportion torment to all the pleasure which the wicked have had. Revelation 18:7, "She has lived in luxury and pleasure—so match it now with torments and sorrows!"
Affliction is like a tear in a coat; sin is like a tear in the flesh.
"When trouble came to King Ahaz, he became even more unfaithful to the Lord." But let us labor to be mended and made better by affliction. Christ learned obedience by what He suffered, Hebrews 5:8. If we are brought low in affliction, and get no good—then the affliction is lost.
Though sin has death and hell following it—yet he is so blind that he keeps on sinning!
Sin clips the wings of prayer—so that it will not fly to the throne of grace! Psalm 66:18,
See the reason why we suffer still—because we sin still. Jeremiah 8:15,
Every sin sets one a step further from God.
The further one goes from the sun—the nearer he approaches to darkness; the further the soul deviates from God—the nearer it approaches to misery!
Either God will make us weary of our sins—or weary of our lives!
