Sin is the most serious problem of mankind, yet it's the one thing nobody wants to talk about. We almost never mention it in our prayers; we almost never admit that we ourselves are guilty of sin - not only to others, but also even to ourselves. It's just incredible that most people aren't bothering to look into the problem of their sin. Millions of people are going to Hell - and they don't even know why! They could deal with it, they should deal with it - but they don't want to. They think that as long as they don't find out what sin is, then nobody can convict them. They think that the problem will go away by itself. They think that if they don't worry about it, neither will God. But on Judgment Day, God will lay it all out before them in excruciating detail and only then will they realize the full extent of their crimes against him. They can harden their hearts in this world, but in the next world there will be full disclosure. God will be forced to take this approach to justify his actions against them. Everyone will say "Amen!" when he punishes the wicked to the full extent of the Law. Ralph Venning, a Puritan preacher of the 17th Century, here makes an exhaustive study of the subject of sin - not only what it is, but also what it's doing to us and to God's glory. His premise is that the only way to deal with our sin is to see it exactly for what it is - a spiritual plague that is killing us.
Sin is the most serious problem of mankind, yet it's the one thing nobody wants to talk about. We almost never mention it in our prayers; we almost never admit that we ourselves are guilty of sin - not only to others, but also even to ourselves. It's just incredible that most people aren't bothering to look into the problem of their sin. Millions of people are going to Hell - and they don't even know why! They could deal with it, they should deal with it - but they don't want to. They think that as long as they don't find out what sin is, then nobody can convict them. They think that the problem will go away by itself. They think that if they don't worry about it, neither will God. But on Judgment Day, God will lay it all out before them in excruciating detail and only then will they realize the full extent of their crimes against him. They can harden their hearts in this world, but in the next world there will be full disclosure. God will be forced to take this approach to justify his actions against them. Everyone will say "Amen!" when he punishes the wicked to the full extent of the Law. Ralph Venning, a Puritan preacher of the 17th Century, here makes an exhaustive study of the subject of sin - not only what it is, but also what it's doing to us and to God's glory. His premise is that the only way to deal with our sin is to see it exactly for what it is - a spiritual plague that is killing us.
