Numbers 32:23

It found Achan out, and proved his ruin; it found Noah out, and covered him with disgrace; and it found David out, so that the sword never departed from his house. God cannot be reconciled to sin, nor should we be. However secret the sin, God is a witness; and He will bring it to light. "He that covereth his sin shall not prosper; but he that confesseth and forsaketh his sins, shall find mercy."

Let us be careful that we give sin no quarter, or vainly fancy that because God loves us He...

God has built certain unalterable principles into this world of ours, and not all man's ingenuity can escape the outworking of these principles. One of them is that you can't sin and get away with it.

Some of us learned this early when we swiped jam or other foods which left their tell-tale marks which mother easily discovered. But the truth applies to all of life, and is attested by every newspaper.

The poem "The Dream of Eugene Aram" is a remarkable illustration of the point....