But you go yourself sir? If thou seekest to save thyself thou shalt die; if thou wilt come, just as thou art, all black, all filthy, all hell-deserving, all ill-deserving, I am my Masters hostage, I will be answerable at the day of judgment for this matter, if he does not save thee, I can preach on this subject now, for I trust I have tried my Master myself. And O that you who are penitents would look to him now! "Check thy servant from presumptuous sins. Num 15: 30. take heed, ye that are sodden in sin, ye that drink it down as the greedy ox drinketh down water, ye who run to your lust as the rivers run to the sea, and ye who go to your passions as the sow to her wallowing in the mire. Again, when a man continues long in sin, and has time to deliberate about it, that also is a proof that it is a presumptuous sin. But he may also have a temperament which has this benefit to balance it, that he very soon learns to forgive, and cools in a moment. He who plays with fire must be condemned as careless; but he who has been burned out once, and afterward plays with the destroying element, is worse, than careless; and he who has himself been scorched in the flame, and has had his locks all hot and crisp with the burning, if he again should rush headlong into fire, I say he is worse than careless, he is worse than presumptuous, he is mad. Instead, however, of enlarging upon that point, I shall close my few remarks this morning by just addressing myself most affectionately to such of you as are now under a sense of guilt by reason of presumptuous sins. 24 presumptuous sins and sins of ignorance. I never sought effect yet, except the effect of hitting your consciences. In the other case not so. 3. I would no more think of subscribing a farthing to a mans ascent in a balloon, than I would to a poor wretch cutting his own throat. What mean you? say you. The presumption of sin made the difference. Notice that both are still sins. How could be rejoice? Today we live in the age of grace and under the law of love. To-morrow the bench of magistrates are sitting. Under the law there was no sacrifice for presumptuous sins. 1. The very moment you were tempted, conscience said, "It is wrong, it is wrong"it shouted murder in your heart, and told you the deed you were about to commit was abominable in the sight of the Lord. my heart pants for you. And now I have nearly donenot to weary you by too long a discoursewe shall notice THE APPROPRIATENESS OF THIS PRAYER"Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins. What is the sin of presumption, which heightens and aggravates sin, and makes it more heinous? It must not, it can not be. It would be presumption for any man to climb to the top of the spire of a church, and stand upon his head. And O! Conscience is often an inner light to men, whereby they are warned of forbidden acts as being sinful. You have had strange things happen in your very street, and the voice of God has been spoken loudly through the lips of Death to you. O Lord, keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sin.. I hope it was so. What! Are there any presumptuous sins in your life? You may conceive the poor mans misery. And if any of us here have committed them, may he bring us back, to the praise of the glory of his grace! He had to sit all the time with this sword above him, with nothing but a hair between him and death. Later in our articles I will address from Psalms 32 & 51 sins of omission, commission, and disposition. The OPC and Evangelicalism, Reformed Confessionalism v. The Genius Theologian, How Gods Immediate Presence Changes Everything, What is Orthodox Protestantism? Lift up your hand, and put it on his head who bled, and say. Or sins committed in the heat of the moment when caught off guard. And now I come to the second part of the subject, with which I shall deal very briefly. What do you find there? But you men have conscience, which tells you that your sins are vile, and that they will be your ruin; you bear the crack of sin, as its thin sheet of pleasure gives way beneath your feet; ay, and some of you have seen your comrades sink in the flood, and lost; and yet you go sliding on, worse than childish, worse than mad are you, thus presumptuously to play with your own everlasting state. And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses. The highest saints may sin the lowest sins, unless kept by divine grace. But there be some sins which have in them a greater development of the essential mischief of rebellion, and which wear upon their faces more of the brazen pride which defies the Most High. But, my friends, even this may become worse still. Yet God hates sin no less today than He did then. You have greatly sinned, and if God should blast you into perdition now, he would be just; if now his fiery thunderbolt of vengeance should pierce you through, if the arrow that is now upon the string of the Almighty should find a target in your heart, he would be just. Search your heart. 1 Whosoever cometh, he says, I will in no wise cast out. He is able to save to the uttermost them that come unto God by him. May God Almighty bless you; and may we meet again in yonder Paradise; and there will we sing more sweetly of redeeming love and dying blood, and of Jesus power to save#151; When this poor lisping, stammering tongue, The Danger of Unconfessed Sin Every sin has in it the very venom of rebellion, and is full of the essential marrow of traitorous rejection of God. O that God would keep back his servants here from presumptuous sins! Says one, I intend to-morrow to go into such-and-such a society, because I believe, though it hurts other people, it does me no hurt. You turn round and say to some young man, I could not advise you to frequent the Casinoit would be your ruin. But you go yourself sir? First, then, WHAT IS PRESUMPTUOUS SIN? Boast not, then, O Christian; by faith thou standest. I have said that the distinction between greater and lesser sins is old and familiar. You have sinned very grievously in having done so. A sin that is committed willfully against manifest light and knowledge is a presumptuous. In the one case the man dared to defy the sovereign, and defy the law of the land, willfully, out of mere presumption. O that you who never knew him could taste his love now. And now I come to the second part of the subject, with which I shall deal very briefly. If I might translate it into more metaphorical style, it is like this: Curb thy servant from presumptuous sin. Keep him back or he will wander to the edge of the precipice of sin. You turn round and say to some young man, "I could not advise you to frequent the Casinoit would be your ruin." But one more point, and I think I shall have explained these presumptuous sins. "Now," says one, "surely there are no people in the world that have ever done such a thing as this." But if this need to be the prayer of the best, how ought it to be the prayer of you and me? A presumptuous sin also is one that is committed through a hardihood of fancied strength of mind. If at your leisure at home you will turn to that passage in the book of Numbers, where it says there is no pardon for a presumptuous sin under the Jewish dispensation, you will find immediately afterward a case recorded. All Rights Reserved. But there are some sins which have in them a greater development of the essential mischief of . A sin that is committed willfully against manifest light and knowledge is a presumptuous. In the other case I can suppose it would be no trouble to forgive. They do not know certain things are sinful. In 1 Peter 1:14, Peter wrote to believers, saying, "As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance." As Christians, we are called to learn and mature, avoiding the ignorant sins of our past. How many kinds of sins are there? Lying in wait with craftinessthat is the element of planning or setting out with a purpose to sin. ", III. sin. Now, if two men should commit treasonif one of them should wantonly and wickedly raise the standard of revolt to-morrow, should denounce the rightful sovereign of this land in the strongest and most abominable language, should seek to entice the loyal subject of this country from their allegiance, and should draw some of them astray, to the hurt and injury of the common weal; he might have in his rebellious ranks one who had joined incautiously, not knowing whereunto the matter might tend, who might come into the midst of the rebels, not understanding the intention of their unlawful assembling, not even knowing the law which prohibited them from being banded together, I can suppose these two men brought up upon a charge of high treason: they have both, legally, been guilty of it; but I can suppose that the one man who had sinned ignorantly would be acquitted, because there was no malignant intent; and I can suppose that the other man, who had willfully, knowingly, maliciously and wickedly raised the standard of revolt, would receive the highest punishment which the law could demand. He is sorry for his deed, he grieves that he has done this act; but most manifestly he had a strong temptation to it. We will mark these points one by one. But suppose another person should waylay you in the street, should week after week seek to meet you in the market-place, and should, after a great deal of toil and trouble, at last meet you, and there, in the center of a number of people, unprovoked, just out of sheer, deliberate malice, come before you and call you a liar in the street; I can suppose that, Christian as you are, you might find it necessary to chastise such insolence, not with your hand, but with the arm of that equitable law which protects us all from insulting violence. It is a solemn thing to find the Apostle Paul warning saints against the most loathsome of sins. "Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins.". That young man burned his Bible in the midst of his wicked companionsnot because he hated his Bible, for he quivered and looked pale at the ashes on the hearth when he was doing it; but he did it out of pure bravado, in order to show them, as he thought, that he really was far gone from any thing like a profession of religion. ", Will you just note, that this prayer was the prayer of a saint, the prayer of a holy man of God? Presumptuous sins leave a sting in the conscience of the sinner. Now, the reason why he was put to death was not because he gathered sticks on the Sabbath merely, but because the law had just then been proclaimed, "In it thou shalt do no manner of work." But there are other men who sin deliberately; there are some who can think of a lust for weeks beforehand and dote upon their darling crime with pleasure. do saints want warning against such sins as these? You old experienced Christians, boast not in your experience; you may trip yet, unless you cry, "Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe." Though we have not the freedom of beating our slaves to death, or of shooting them if they choose to disobeythough we have not the freedom of hunting men, or the freedom of sucking another mans blood out of him to make us richthough we have not the freedom of being worse than devils, which slave-catchers and many slave-holders most certainly arewe have liberty greater than that, liberty against the tyrant mob, as well as against the tyrant king. Why, I bid thee remember that there was a man who was a God. The highest saints may sin the lowest sins, unless kept by divine grace. 9. But there are other men who sin deliberately; there are some who can think of a lust for weeks beforehand and dote upon their darling crime with pleasure. I am to try and show WHY IT IS THAT THERE IS GREAT ENORMITY IN A PRESUMPTUOUS SIN. results. To be carried away, as by a whirlwind of passion, in a moment is wrong; but to sit down and deliberately resolve upon revenge is cursed and diabolical. And how much more is this the case, when the transgressor has been gifted with what is usually called a religious education; in childhood he has been lighted to his bed by the lamps of the sanctuary, the name of Jesus was mingled with the hush of lullaby, the music of the sanctuary woke him like a matin hymn at morning; he has been dandled on the knee of piety and has sucked the breasts of godliness; he has been tutored and trained in the way he should go; how much more fearful I say, is the guilt of such a man than that of those who have never had such training, but have been left to follow their own wayward lusts and pleasures without the restraint of a holy education and the restraints of an enlightened conscience! And if any of us here have committed them, may he bring us back, to the praise of the glory of his grace! When a man shall trespass on my ground, he shall be a trespasser though he have no warning, but if straight before his face there stands a warning, and if he knowingly and willingly trespasses, then he is guilty of a presumptuous trespass, and is to be so far punished accordingly. How can we use it responsibly in Bible study? I should have been presumptuous for having sinned against the light of nature, but I am more presumptuous when, added to that, I have the light of affectionate counsel and of kind advice, and therein I bring upon my head a double amount of divine wrath. It must either be a sin against light and knowledge, or a sin committed with deliberation, or a sin committed with a design of sinning, merely for sinning's sake, or else it must be a sin committed through hardihood, from a man's rash confidence in his own strength. 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