There is pardon for such a onethere is full pardon to those who are brought to repentance; but few of such men ever receive it; for when they are so far gone as to sin presumptuously, because they will do itto sin merely for the sake of showing their disregard of God and of God's law, we say of such, there is pardon for them, but it is wondrous grace which brings them into such a condition that they are willing, to accept it. Oh! But if this need to be the prayer of the best, how ought it to be the prayer of you and me? Every sin has in it the very venom of rebellion, and is full of the essential marrow of traitorous rejection of God. Presumptuous sins can only be committed in suppression of the conscience and in spite of its appeals. But I suppose it is just possible to commit treason here. Ah! I should have been presumptuous for having sinned against the light of nature, but I am more presumptuous when, added to that, I have the light of affectionate counsel and of kind advice, and therein I bring upon my head a double amount of divine wrath. To sin presumptuously, is to sin against convictions and illuminations, or an enlightened conscience. Boast not, then, O Christian; by faith thou standest. To deliberate carefully how the crime is to be done, and, Haman-like, to build the gallows, and to set to work to destroy ones neighbor, to get the pit digged that the friend may fall into it and be destroyed, to lay snares in secret, to plot wickedness upon ones bedthis is a high pitch of presumptuous sin. (wpe), Psalms 19:13. No, God is my witness. And O that you who are penitents would look to him now! But presumptuous sins are defiant, deliberate and premeditated sins, as when David committed adultery with Bathsheba resulting in her . C.H. A sin of ignorance is not presumptuous, unless that ignorance also be willful, in which case the ignorance itself is a presumptuous sin. Yes, there are; and there are such in the Surrey Music Hall this day. Then I will be upright. Says one, "I intend to-morrow to go into such-and-such a society, because I believe, though it hurts other people, it does me no hurt." Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.. I thought when I was describing presumptuous sin that I saw here and there an eye that was suffused with tears; I thought I saw here and there a head that was bowed down, as much as to say, I am guilty there. I thought there were some hearts that palpitated with confession, when I described the guilt of presumption. From: New Park Street Pulpit Volume 3. Thy sin, in daring to think that thou art proof against sin, is a sin of presumption. Take heed! PRESUMPTUOUS SIN. Now, such a sin is a masterpiece of iniquity. I think it must be rather difficult for him to do it; for we are allowed to say words here which would have brought our necks beneath the guillotine if they had been spoken on the other side the Channel; and we are allowed to do deeds here which would have brought us long years of imprisonment if the deed had been done in any other land. A man, again, who is suddenly tempted and surprised into a sin which is not his habit, but which he commits through the force of some strong temptation, is guilty, but not guilty of presumption, because he was taken unawares in the net and caught in the snare. "'When you shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which Yahweh has spoken to Moses. Take heed! I. Think you see him in all his unutterable agonies, and griefs, and woes, and say this, Lift up your hand, and put it on his head who bled, and say, Sit down at the foot of his cross, and watch him till your heart is moved, till the tears begin to flow again, until your heart breaks within you; and then you will rise and say. Am I my brothers keeper? Genesis iv. 1. If the highest saint must pray it, O mere moralist, thou hast good need to utter it. But he may also have a temperament which has this benefit to balance it, that he very soon learns to forgive, and cools in a moment. All Rights Reserved. And yet they will go back to the same lusts; the fool will go again to the stocks, the sheep will lick the knife that is to slay him. Now, every man sees that it would be just to make a distinction in the punishment, because there isconscience itself tells usa distinction in the guilt. There is pardon for such a onethere is full pardon to those who are brought to repentance; but few of such men ever receive it; for when they are so far gone as to sin presumptuously, because they will do itto sin merely for the sake of showing their disregard of God and of Gods law, we say of such, there is pardon for them, but it is wondrous grace which brings them into such a condition that they are willing, to accept it. So said Hazael, when the prophet told him that he would slay his master; but he went home and took a wet cloth and spread it over his master's face and choked him, and did the next day the sin which he abhorred before. it is true. So you, if you had not known better; if your conscience had been less enlightened, you might have committed the deed with far less of the criminality which now attaches to you, because you sinned against conscience, and consequently sinned presumptuously. In the heat of some little dispute some one shall insult a man. Lying in wait with craftinessthat is the element of planning or setting out with a purpose to sin. A presumptuous sin also is one that is committed through a hardihood of fancied strength of mind. At other times, people do what is not sin, under the impression that it is sin. God had clearly told the Israelites not to work on the Sabbath day and this man had directly (presumptuously) disobeyed that command. I hope it was so. how many people there are who are sinning presumptuously to-day! Is it true that the best of men may sin presumptuously? But one more point, and I think I shall have explained these presumptuous sins. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression. Lust often displays itself as a presumptuous sin. 2. So you, if you had not known better; if your conscience had been less enlightened, you might have committed the deed with far less of the criminality which now attaches to you, because you sinned against conscience, and consequently sinned presumptuously. Let them not have dominion over me. Rich were the viands that were spread upon the table, and rare the wines of which he was invited to drink. They do, as it were, water the young seedling of lust until it grows to the maturity of desire, and then they go and commit the crime. They sin out of ignorance, but there are others who deliberately and wilfully sin against the light God has given them. ye that have sinned presumptuouslyand who among us has not done so?bow your heads in silence, confess your guilt, and then open your mouths, and cry, Lord have mercy upon me, a presumptuous sinner., III. Let me take any one of the sins; for instance, the sin against light and knowledge. ", You see, therefore, in the cases that occur between man and man, how there is an excess of guilt added to a sin by presumption. If thou seekest to save thyself thou shalt die; if thou wilt come, just as thou art, all black, all filthy, all hell-deserving, all ill-deserving, I am my Masters hostage, I will be answerable at the day of judgment for this matter, if he does not save thee, I can preach on this subject now, for I trust I have tried my Master myself. Let them not have dominion over me. To what a shameful pitch of presumptuous impudence had Cain arrived when he could thus insult the Lord God. It is not long ago since you were given up; all said they might prepare a coffin for you, for your breath could not long be in your body. If it had not been on record in the page of inspiration, we might almost have doubted whether a man could speak so impudently when , 5001 North Oak Trafficway May God forgive any of us, if we have been so far guilty! You would say, My dear fellow, I know we are all hasty sometimesthere, now, I dont care at all for it; you did not mean it. But in this case, where a man has dared and defied you without any provocation whatever, you would say to him, Sir, you have endeavored to injure me in respectable society; I can forgive you as a Christian, but as a man and a citizen I shall demand that I am protected against your insolence., You see, therefore, in the cases that occur between man and man, how there is an excess of guilt added to a sin by presumption. Spurgeon said, "A sin that is committed willfully against manifest light and knowledge is a presumptuous sin." Some men sin out of ignorance. Ah! . W. Binnie Numbers 15:22-31And if you have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD has spoken to Moses,Some sins are more heinous in the sight of God than others; more heinous in their own nature, or by reason of aggravating circumstances. Gods Spirit has found some of you out this morning. Says one, I intend to-morrow to go into such-and-such a society, because I believe, though it hurts other people, it does me no hurt. You turn round and say to some young man, I could not advise you to frequent the Casinoit would be your ruin. But you go yourself sir? You have had strange things happen in your very street, and the voice of God has been spoken loudly through the lips of Death to you. Sir, your sin is a sin of presumption; it is a great and grievous one; it is one of the masterpieces of iniquity. They are each of them charged with stealing a loaf of bread. that we might be enabled to cry, Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins.. What! presumptuous sins and sins of ignorance presumptuous sins and sins of ignorance In the other case not so. Observe how great . A chair was placed at the head of the table, and the guest was seated within it. my heart pants for you. O sinner, thou canst never perish, if thou wilt cast thyself at the foot of the cross. He had to sit all the time with this sword above him, with nothing but a hair between him and death. You are sinning presumptuously in being to-day what you are. See the sins of Paul before his conversion, of Peter in his denial, of David in the matter of Uriah. The law that was given to the children of Israel by Moses made a clear distinction between sins of ignorance (v.24, 27) and sins that were committed presumptuously (v.30). How fearful is presumption in any! You will go on in your lust and in your sins, despite warnings, despite advice, until you perish in your guilt. You, young man, were once tempted (and perhaps it was but yesterday) to commit a certain act. I hope it was so. results. You are saying, "In a little time I will solemnly and seriously think of religion, In a few years, when I am a little more settled in life, I intend to turn over a new leaf, and think about the matters of godliness." O Christian, thou hast need to pray this prayer. I have said that the distinction between greater and lesser sins is old and familiar. He was a patient man; he might have said, "I will never murmur; though he slay me, yet will I trust in him;" and yet he lived to wish that the day were darkness wherein he was brought forth. Then you turned your face to the wall, and prayed; you vowed that if God would spare you, you would live a godly life, that you would repent of your sins; but to your own confusion you are now just what you were. Thou liest, sir; against thyself thou liest; thou liest presumptuously in so doing. Has God just commanded, 'Ye shall do no manner of work?' O "Lord, keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sin.". The fact is, that while all transgression is a greatly grievous sinful thing, yet there are some transgressions which have a deeper shade of blackness, and a more double scarlet-dyed hue of criminality than others. M. It is wrong to suppose that because all sins will condemn us, that therefore one sin is not greater than another. Again, when a man continues long in sin, and has time to deliberate about it, that also is a proof that it is a presumptuous sin. I should have been presumptuous for having sinned against the light of nature, but I am more presumptuous when, added to that, I have the light of affectionate counsel and of kind advice, and therein I bring upon my head a double amount of divine wrath. WEB: Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. It would be presumption for any man to climb to the top of the spire of a church, and stand upon his head. But I suppose it is just possible to commit treason here. It would be presumption for any man to climb to the top of the spire of a church, and stand upon his head. Ah! Is It true that the best of men may sin presumptuously? 1. And I repeat that solemn assertionI am God's hostage this morning; ye shall feed me on bread and water to my life's end, ay, and I will bear the blame for ever, if any of you seek Christ and Christ rejects you. Then if I sin against conscience, though I have no greater light than conscience affords me, still my sin is presumptuous, if I have presumed to go against that voice of God in my heart, an enlightened conscience. I would no more think of subscribing a farthing to a mans ascent in a balloon, than I would to a poor wretch cutting his own throat. O that you who have never repented might now receive the Holy Ghost who is able to melt the heart! Remember verse 31 says that it brings despite on God's Word. You are presuming that you shall live; you are speculating upon a thing which is as frail as the bubble on the breaker; you are staking your everlasting soul on the deadly odds that you shall live for a few years, whereas, the probabilities are, that you may be cut down ere the sun shall set: and it is possible, that ere another year shall have passed over your head, you may be in the land where repentance is impossible, and useless were it possible. Why, I bid thee remember that there was a man who was a God. A man, perhaps, may have a passionate spirit, and in a moment of hot haste he may utter an angry word of which in a few short minutes he will sincerely repent. O my God, how terrible is the presumption of some! I shall this morning, first of all, endeavor to describe presumptuous sins; then, secondly, I shall try, if I can, to show by some illustrations, why the presumptuous sin is more heinous than any other; and then thirdly, I shall try to press the prayer upon your noticethe prayer, mark you, of the holy manthe prayer of David: Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins.. All Rights Reserved, Ignorance, Unteachableness, Obstinacy and Carelessness Cannot be Conquered any Otherwise than by the Spirit of God, Monergism eBooks on Amazon in Kindle Format, Do Not Despise the Day of Small Beginnings, 14 Ways that God is Far More Excellent than Men, Those in Bondage to Sin are Still Duty Bound to Obey God. Sinning in Ignorance Conscience, guilt, and the truth People sometimes do what is sin, without realising it is sin. Scripture: The highest saints may sin the lowest sins, unless kept by divine grace. You remind me, some of you, of that story of Dionysius the tyrant, who, wishing to punish one who had displeased him, invited him to a noble feast. They receive it, they house it, they feast it; and when they sin they sin deliberately, walk coolly to their lusts, and in cold blood commit the act which another might haply do in hot and furious haste. (1) Presumption is unreasonable confidence, and, applied to sin, it is adventurous daring in iniquity. We know this from the mouth of Jesus when he prayed, "Lord forgive them for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34). As a youth I sinned, as a child I rebelled, as a young man I wandered into lusts and vanities: my Master made me feel how great a sinner I was and I sought to reform, to mend the matter; but I grew worse. BUT lately I tuned my harp to the music of forgiven sin, and we sang of pardon bought with blood, finding our key-note in the words of David, Who forgiveth all thine iniquities. It was a sweet subject to all our hearts, for we all have , An Indictment with Four Counts Thy sin, in daring to think that thou art proof against sin, is a sin of presumption. 19. And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses. Now, such a sin has in it a great extent of sinfulness, it is a sin of high presumption. When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. Psalm xxxii. He is sorry for his deed, he grieves that he has done this act; but most manifestly he had a strong temptation to it. That other man is accustomed sometimes to stand by the wayside, when the people are going to the house of God; and he swears at them, not because he delights in swearing, but because he will show that he is irreligious, that he is ungodly. Charles Haddon Spurgeon June 7, 1857 A presumptuous sin also is one that is committed through a hardihood of fancied strength of mind. Lift up your hand, and put it on his head who bled, and say. They have sinned against God, not merely for the pleasure of it, but because they would show their want of reverence to God. I think it must be rather difficult for him to do it, for we are allowed to say words here which would have brought our necks beneath the guillotine, if they had been spoken on the other side the Channel; and we are allowed to do deeds here which would have brought us long years of imprisonment, if the deed had been done in any other land. And note the beauty of the prayer. He was a patient man; he might have said, I will never murmur; though he slay me, yet will I trust in him; and yet he lived to wish that the day were darkness wherein he was brought forth. your crimes are grievous, and the hand of God shall soon fall terribly on your heads, unless by divine grace it be granted to you to repent and turn unto him. If I might translate it into more metaphorical style, it is like this: Curb thy servant from presumptuous sin. Keep him back or he will wander to the edge of the precipice of sin. Because I have such strength of principle that I know just how far to go, and no further. Sit down at the foot of his cross, and watch him till your heart is moved, till the tears begin to flow again, until your heart breaks within you; and then you will rise and say "Dissolved by his mercy, I fall to the ground, And weep to the praise of the mercy I found.". But when a man sins for want of knowing betterfor want of knowing the law, for want of instruction, reproof, advice, and admonition, we say that his sin, so committed, does not partake to any great extent of the nature of a presumptuous sin. It is wrong to suppose that because all sins will condemn us, that therefore one sin is not greater than another. They are guilty of sin in practice, but innocent in conscience. Those who crucified Christ, the most monstrous sin of all time, sinned in ignorance not presumptuously. A Forgotten Fact about the Earliest Christian Movement. The Lord answered, The man shall surely be put to death (v.35). And, if we commit such a sin, we are doing it in defiance of what God has said. For now, I want to talk about sins of ignorance . A sin of ignorance is not presumptuous, unless that ignorance also be willful, in which case the ignorance itself is a presumptuous sin. The very moment you were tempted, conscience said, "It is wrong, it is wrong"it shouted murder in your heart, and told you the deed you were about to commit was abominable in the sight of the Lord. A presumptuous sinner rarely escapes without some outward affliction. You may conceive the poor man's misery. a sin-offering is to be presented with the accustomed rites, and the sin will be forgiven (verses 24, 25, 27, 28). Showing Thou art playing with bombshells that shall burst and destroy thee; thou art sitting over the mouth of hell with a fancy that thou shalt not be burned. Now, such a sin has in it a great extent of sinfulness, it is a sin of high presumption. my Saviour, thou hast eased my aching conscience, thou hast given me peace; thou hast enabled me to say#151; "Now, freed from sin I walk at large; My Saviour's blood's a full discharge At his dear feet my soul I lay, A sinner saved, and homage pay.". If I hit your consciences, it was that I meant to do. We will mark these points one by one. What! There is enough corruption, depravity, and wickedness in the heart of the most holy man that is now alive to damn his soul to all eternity, if free and sovereign grace does not prevent. And then what next wilt thou do? presumptuous sins and sins of ignorance. The very moment you were tempted, conscience said, It is wrong, it is wrongit shouted murder in your heart, and told you the deed you were about to commit was abominable in the sight of the Lord. All sins are great sins, but yet some sins are greater than others. If at your leisure at home you will turn to that passage in the book of Numbers, where it says there is no pardon for a presumptuous sin under the Jewish dispensation, you will find immediately afterward a case recorded. How many kinds of sins are there? I. And if any of us here have committed them, may he bring us back, to the praise of the glory of his grace! How many an infidel has done the samenot because he had any pleasure in the thing itself, but because out of the wickedness of his heart he would spit at God, if it were possible, having a design to let men know that though the sin itself was cheap enough, he was determined to do something which would be like spitting in the face of his Maker, and despising God who created him! In the heat of some little dispute some one shall insult a man. oh! Ah! A presumptuous sin also is one that is committed through a hardihood of fancied strength of mind. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins.. The child who goes for a merry slide upon a pond, if he be told that the ice will not bear him, starteth back affrighted, or if he daringly creepeth upon it how soon he leaves it, if he hears but a crack upon the slender covering of the water! my heart pants for you. But you go yourself sir? And why? You saw but yesterday a strong man in your neighborhood brought to the grave by sudden death; it is but a month ago that you heard the bell toll for one whom once, you knew and loved, who procrastinated and procrastinated until he perished in procrastination. Is it not sad to reflect that Jerusalem was the city of the great , Am I My Brother's Keeper? my Saviour, thou hast eased my aching conscience, thou hast given me peace; thou hast enabled me to say#151; And oh! But when a man sins for want of knowing betterfor want of knowing the law, for want of instruction, reproof . But if this need to be the prayer of the best, how ought it to be the prayer of you and me? They do not know certain things are sinful. Now, if two men should commit treasonif one of them should wantonly and wickedly raise the standard of revolt to-morrow, should denounce the rightful sovereign of this land in the strongest and most abominable language, should seek to entice the loyal subject of this country from their allegiance, and should draw some of them astray, to the hurt and injury of the common weal; he might have in his rebellious ranks one who had joined incautiously, not knowing whereunto the matter might tend, who might come into the midst of the rebels, not understanding the intention of their unlawful assembling, not even knowing the law which prohibited them from being banded together, I can suppose these two men brought up upon a charge of high treason: they have both, legally, been guilty of it; but I can suppose that the one man who had sinned ignorantly would be acquitted, because there was no malignant intent; and I can suppose that the other man, who had willfully, knowingly, maliciously and wickedly raised the standard of revolt, would receive the highest punishment which the law could demand. In this passage David mentions three: unintentional sins (sins of ignorance); hidden faults (sins I don't know are in me); and, willful sins (presumptuous or blatant rebellion against God). You old experienced Christians, boast not in your experience; you may trip yet, unless you cry, "Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe." I would no more think of subscribing a farthing to a man's ascent in a balloon, than I would to a poor wretch cutting his own throat. It is remarkable, that though an atonement was provided under the Jewish law for every kind of sin, there was this one exception: But the soul that sinneth presumptuously shall have no atonement; it shall be out off from the midst of my people. And now, under the Christian dispensation, although in the sacrifice of our blessed Lord there is a great and precious atonement for presumptuous sins, whereby sinners who have sinned in this manner are made clean, yet, without doubt, presumptuous sinners, dying without pardon, must expect to receive a double portion of the wrath of God, and a more wonderful manifestation of the unutterable anguish of the torment of eternal punishment in the pit that is digged for the wicked. That young man burned his Bible in the midst of his wicked companionsnot because he hated his Bible, for he quivered and looked pale at the ashes on the hearth when he was doing it; but he did it out of pure bravado, in order to show them, as he thought, that he really was far gone from any thing like a profession of religion. Notice that both are still sins. No teachings, dreams, visions, experiences, revelations should allow us to divert from the sound doctrine taught to us in God's written word. Are there any presumptuous sins in your life? But, my friends, even this may become worse still. He who plays with fire must be condemned as careless; but he who has been burned out once, and afterward plays with the destroying element, is worse, than careless; and he who has himself been scorched in the flame, and has had his locks all hot and crisp with the burning, if he again should rush headlong into fire, I say he is worse than careless, he is worse than presumptuous, he is mad. O that you who never knew him could taste his love now. Horror of horrors! Let me just dwell on this thought a moment. I remember that striking passage in Jonathan Edwards' wonderful sermon, which was the means of a great revival, where he says, "Sinner, thou art this moment standing over the mouth of hell, upon a single plank, and that plank is rotten; thou art hanging over the jaws of perdition, by a solitary rope, and the strands of that rope are creaking now." We, despite all that our American friends may say, are the freest people to speak and think in all the world. You Can't Prove a Negative - Fact or Myth? It is remarkable, that though an atonement was provided under the Jewish law for every kind of sin, there was this one exception: "But the soul that sinneth presumptuously shall have no atonement; it shall be out off from the midst of my people." He that sins once, being overtaken in a fault, and then abhors the sin, has not sinned presumptuously; but he who transgresses to-day, to-morrow, and the next day, week after week, and year after year, until he has piled up a heap of sins that are high as a mountain, such a man, I say, sins presumptuously, because in a continued habit of sin there must be a deliberation to sin; there must be at least such a force and strength of mind as could not have come upon any man if his sin were but the hasty effect of sudden passion. Now the presumptuous sins of our text are just the chief of all sins: they rank head and foremost in the list of iniquities. take heed, ye that are sodden in sin, ye that drink it down as the greedy ox drinketh down water, ye who run to your lust as the rivers run to the sea, and ye who go to your passions as the sow to her wallowing in the mire. As if to illustrate the principle, the story is immediately told of finding a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day (v.32). O! 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