The law of righteousness is not sufficient for us. What absolute need we stand in of Christ.4. 0000069519 00000 n Hopkins. If little sins have so much danger, what shall we think of great impieties?2. 0 Hopkins.If Satan prevails with us to go with him one step out of our way, we axe in danger to stop nowhere till we come to the height of all profaneness: he will make us take a second, and a third, and so to travel on to destruction; for each of these is but one step: the last step of sin is but one step, as well as the first; and if the devil prevail with us to take one step, why should he not prevail with us to take the last step as well as the first step, seeing it is but one? Hopkins. II. It is very difficult to convince men of the great evil and danger of little sins. Matthew 5:19 NIV Matthew 5:19 NLT Matthew 5:19 ESV Matthew 5:19 NASB Matthew 5:19 KJV Matthew 5:19 BibleApps.com Matthew 5:19 Biblia Paralela Matthew 5:19 Chinese Bible Matthew 5:19 French Bible Matthew 5:19 Clyx Quotations NT Gospels: Matthew 5:19 Whoever therefore shall break one of these (Matt. )Little sins are often united with greatBp. 0000006345 00000 n Hopkins. Only let him receive you with coldness, and his disaffection is as indisputable as if it were manifest in angry assault .... Is it not evident that the man who has brought himself to the perpetration of one fraud, has broken down the only security against the perpetration of a score, lie who can be the oppressor of a few, wants only the means to become the despot of an empire.(C. Hopkins. Hopkins. Matthew 5:19 Context. What is meant by the "LEAST COMMANDMENT." Matthew 5:1-12. This inequality arises from the inequality of the objects about which they are concerned, our duty to God or man. )Little sins are often united with greatBp. 5:19 “Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. Little sins usually are the destroying sins.2. Little sins have in them ordinarily of temptation, and therefore more of wilfulness. Hopkins.I. Then behold a fearful shipwreck of all the hopes of formalists.3. 0000043016 00000 n He taught things that the people hadn't heard before. )Little sins accumulateBp. Sometimes it arises from the latitude that any command hath in it, to our thoughts, words, or actions; a thought is said to be less than an action. Hopkins. Either the kingdom of grace, the Church, heaven. THE OLD TESTAMENT IS NOT A SUFFICIENT REVELATION. )LinksMatthew 5:19 NIVMatthew 5:19 NLTMatthew 5:19 ESVMatthew 5:19 NASBMatthew 5:19 KJVMatthew 5:19 Bible AppsMatthew 5:19 ParallelMatthew 5:19 Biblia ParalelaMatthew 5:19 Chinese BibleMatthew 5:19 French BibleMatthew 5:19 German BibleMatthew 5:19 CommentariesBible Hub, (2)In any respect. The deeper, more spiritual righteousness can only be realized when the Law is written on the heart, and this is done, as Jeremiah predicted, only under the new covenant (Jeremiah 31:33). 5 1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: 2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,. If little sins have so much danger, what shall we think of great impieties?2. 1. Pray for a tender conscience.6. In curious pictures, a little scratch is a great deformity.6. As you see in rivers, the natural course of them tends to the sea; but the tide, joining with them, makes the current run the swifter and the more forcibly: so is it with sin. They are all enjoined by the same authority.2. (2) Those commandments which are great in respect of the Lawgiver, may yet be least in comparison with other commands of the same law, which are indeed thought greatest. 4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. )LinksMatthew 5:19 NIVMatthew 5:19 NLTMatthew 5:19 ESVMatthew 5:19 NASBMatthew 5:19 KJVMatthew 5:19 Bible AppsMatthew 5:19 ParallelMatthew 5:19 Biblia ParalelaMatthew 5:19 Chinese BibleMatthew 5:19 French BibleMatthew 5:19 German BibleMatthew 5:19 CommentariesBible Hub. Pray for a tender conscience.6. 2. Hopkins. APPLICATION:1. (Thomas Adam. Little sins will soon acquire all the gigantic proportions of the greatest. Hopkins. Little sins usually are the destroying sins.2. Little sins have in them ordinarily of temptation, and therefore more of wilfulness.7. 19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 21 0 obj <> endobj )Great advancement made in sin by little stagesBp. February 16 Gospel Matthew 5:21-24, 27-30, 33-37 Sermon The Rev. Matthew 5:19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:18 Treasury of Scripture Knowing; Matthew 5:18 Sermons; Matthew 5:18 Prayers; Matthew 5:18 Images; Choose Chapter. 2. 3. Obeying the Commandments, 1 John 2 3. MATTHEW 5. It must not be understood as if one commandment were less necessary to be obeyed than another; God's commands are all alike necessary.1. 0000005139 00000 n The Old Testament is a grand testimony to righteousness. Apr 24, 2013. Hopkins. 2. If we would save the palace from flames, let us put out the spark. 1. )The need of a sensitive conscienceBp. Keep alive reverent thoughts of God.7. Hopkins. III. Get a more thorough sense of the spirituality of the law.(Bp. Damnation for little sins will be most intolerable — here for such little sins! Keep alive reverent thoughts of God.7. Mat 5:19 - Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Your second sin no more exceeds your first, than your first doth your duty; and so of the rest.(Bp. Then he was absolutely faithful to it, and thus he satisfied its claims. Like it? 0000002593 00000 n Hopkins.If Satan prevails with us to go with him one step out of our way, we axe in danger to stop nowhere till we come to the height of all profaneness: he will make us take a second, and a third, and so to travel on to destruction; for each of these is but one step: the last step of sin is but one step, as well as the first; and if the devil prevail with us to take one step, why should he not prevail with us to take the last step as well as the first step, seeing it is but one? (2)Natural corruption is of a growing nature.6. What is meant by "BEING LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." This appears in that the least sin is a most high affront and provocation of the great God.2. 7. Little sins leave men hardly conscious float they have broken God's law; great sins stir up piercing thoughts. Its truth. THE AWFUL DANGER OF THESE LITTLE SINS IN REGARD TO OURSELVES. CHRIST FILLS UP THE DEFICIENCIES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT REVELATION. February 23 Gospel Matthew 5:38-48 Sermon The Rev. They are all enjoined by the same authority.2. 5. Hopkins.If Satan prevails with us to go with him one step out of our way, we axe in danger to stop nowhere till we come to the height of all profaneness: he will make us take a second, and a third, and so to travel on to destruction; for each of these is but one step: the last step of sin is but one step, as well as the first; and if the devil prevail with us to take one step, why should he not prevail with us to take the last step as well as the first step, seeing it is but one? The least commandment has the same authority as the greatest. Little sins usually make way for the vilest. 4. (2)Natural corruption is of a growing nature.6. The allowance of the least sin is a certain sign of a rotten heart.5. Williams.That an act in itself inconsiderable, may indicate the existing state of feeling, as clearly as one that is more palpable.