Numbers 32:23 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out. I. THAT YOU HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD. 1. This is abundantly evident from innumerable passages of Scripture. 2. From observation of the conduct of mankind, it is evident that they have sinned against the Lord. 3. From the many dreadful threatenings which are written in the Word of God. 4. This is evident from all the judgments which God hath brought upon the children of men from the beginning of the world until now. 5. From the consent of all nations, it is evident that we have sinned against the Lord. II. How YOUR SIN WILL FIND YOU OUT. It will find you out for your conviction and conversion, or for your condemnation and destruction. 1. Your sin will find you out at the bar of conscience, under the dispensation of the gospel of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2. Under afflictive dispensations of Divine Providence. 3. At the approach of the king of terrors. 4. Your sins, if you die impenitent, will find you out at the tribunal of Christ, in the judgment of the great day. 5. The sins of the impenitent will find them out in hell, to all the ages of eternity. III. THE ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY THAT SOONER OR LATER YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU OUT. 1. That men's sins shall find them out is absolutely certain, because the nature and perfections of God require it. 2. The Word of God asserts it. 3. Conscience forebodes it. 4. God's moral government attests it. 5. Those who have gone before, in every past age of the world and period of the Church, in their experience have found it.CONCLUSION. 1. Be sure to find out sin. 2. Find out your sin, so as to get a soul-humbling and a heart-breaking view of it. 3. Endeavour to find out your sins in such a manner as shall influence you to make a free confession of them unto the Lord. 4. Be so stirred up by finding out y our sins as to implore forgiveness from God through the merit and intercession of His Son Jesus Christ. 5. Be excited to wash in the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. 6. Endeavour to find out your sin, and to be so affected with the sight of it as to forsake it and flee from it in time to come. (John Jardine.) Parallel Verses KJV: But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out. |
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