UNBELIEF.
Unbelief makes a man guilty of the vilest contempt of Christ, and the whole design of redemption by Him.
Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated.
There is nothing I feel more than the criminality of not trusting Christ without doubt—without doubt. Oh, to think what Christ is, what He did, and whom He did it for, and then not to believe Him, not to trust Him! There is no wickedness like the wickedness of unbelief.
How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
A refusal to believe that God loves us is the unbelief which destroys the soul.
"He will reprove the world of sin"—not because men swear and lie and steal and get drunk and murder—"of sin because they believe not on me."
It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
