Crucify Your Sins by William
Dyer Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh
with its passions and desires. Galatians 5 24 Crucify your sins,
which have crucified your Saviour. did the rocks rent when Christ
died for our sins, and shall not our hearts rent who have
lived in our sins? Oh, that the nails which pierced
his hands should now pierce our hearts! Oh, that they should
wound themselves with their sorrows who have wounded Christ with
their sins! Oh, that they who have grieved
his heart should be grieved in their hearts. Oh, that I should
be such a bad a child to him who has been such a good a father
to me. My sins have been my greatest
terror. and my Savior has been my choicest
helper. Oh, put sin to death, for sin
was the cause of Christ's death. If someone killed your father,
would you hug him and embrace him as your friend and let him
eat at your table? Would you not rather hate and
detest the very sight of him? If a snake should sting your
dearly beloved spouse to death, would you preserve it alive,
warm it at the fire, and hug it in your bosom? Would you not
rather stab it with a thousand wounds? And were not our sins
the cause and instrument of Christ's death? Were not they the whips
that scourged him, the nails, the cords, the spear, the thorns
that wounded him, and fetched the heart-blood from him? And
can we love our sins, which killed our Saviour? Can a wife truly
love her husband and still embrace an adulterer? We complain of
the sins of Judas and seem to hate them and shudder at their
mention. And can we love our Judas' sins,
which put Christ to death? and yet how many are there who
had rather have sinful self satisfied than to have sinful self crucified? Oh, sin is that mark at which
all the arrows of divine vengeance are shot. Were it not for sin,
death would never have had a beginning, and were it not for death, sin
would never have an ending. Man began to be sorrowful when
he began to be sinful. The wind of our lusts blows out
the candle of our lives. If man had nothing to do with
sin, death would have nothing to do with man. Oh, did sin bring
sorrow into the world? Oh, then let sorrow carry sin
out of the world. Of all evils, sin is the great
evil. The wages of sin is death. Romans
6, 23. Oh, sin is worse than punishment,
banishment, and imprisonment. Sin kills both body and soul.
It throws the body into cold earth rotting, and the soul into
the hot hell burning.