s that I have
ever found for sin are written in the word of God.

I

1. "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the
transgression of the law" (1 John 3:4). The word "transgression" means
to go across. Does your life parallel God's law or cross it? Your
answer to this question determines the measure of your sin. You have
only to read the ten commandments and try to mold your life by them to
find your answer. Better still, you have only to read these
commandments in the light of Jesus' interpretation, where the look of
lust is adultery and anger without cause is murder, to see how far
short you have come; and if this is true certainly you are a sinner,
and the text is for you. "The wicked shall not be unpunished."

2. "All unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not unto death" (1
John 5:17). Righteousness means right relations with God. You may
make ever so strong a claim to right living and speak ever so
vehemently concerning the good that you are accomplishing in the world,
but the first question for you to settle is this, What is your relation
to God and what have you to say with reference to your acceptance or
rejection of Jesus Christ? It is a solemn thought that whatever we do
counts for nothing if our relation to God be wrong, while the little
that we may do may count for much if we have taken the right position
before him.

3. "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him
it is sin" (James 4:17).

Omission, according to this scripture, is sin; neglected opportunity is
sin, shirking responsibility is sin, refusing to obey God is sin; and
so when I ask you about being a Christian, if it is best and right and
you acknowledge that it is, then if you are not a Christian, this very
fact is in itself sin, for when one knows the right and refuses to do
it he is a sinner, and the text is true--"The wicked shall not be
unpunished."

4. "And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of
faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin" (Romans 14:23). Active
doubt is sin. If you have a doubt concerning the sinfulness of certain
things, then to do those things is sin. If I have the least doubt
concerning the amusements which may be questionable, or the position
which may be doubtful, so long as a doubt or a question remains these
things are sin; and the Bible states the fact that "The wicked shall
not be unpunished."

5. "And when he is co