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  THE MEASURE OF SIN
  by Arthur John Gossip
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Summary: Arthur John Gossip's sermon emphasizes the profound cost of sin
as illustrated by the Cross and the immeasurable nature of God's love,
calling believers to a deeper commitment to follow Christ.

Topics: "The Cross", "Gods Love"
Scripture References: Matthew 10:38, John 19:34, Romans 5:8, Ephesians 3:18

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Arthur John Gossip emphasizes the importance of taking up our cross and
following Jesus, highlighting the deep impact of sin on God as seen
through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. He urges listeners to
truly understand the gravity of sin by looking at the suffering of Jesus
and to be filled with a sense of loathing for sin. Gossip also
challenges believers to grasp the vastness and depth of God's love,
encouraging them to stop limiting and measuring it with human standards,
but instead to allow God's love to overflow and transform their lives.

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"Any one who does not take up his cross and follow where I lead is not
worthy of Me"

(Matt. 10:38, Weymouth)

Look at the Cross, if you would measure sin aright, your little daily
trespasses and falls; look at its cost to God; look at the man Christ
Jesus on the tree, and take it in. That is the perfect picture of how
God always is affected by it, every time so hurt, so wounded, so
heartbroken! So will you grasp its hideousness and horror, and be filled
with loathing for this awful thing. Our one chance, Newman thought, is
that we be shocked by sin. Look upon Him whom we have pierced, and
surely that must shock us, till we hate what caused Him that, fly from
it, find a new power surging up within us that gives the strength to
cast it forth, and make an end of it.

Or take the biggest thing in the whole universe, the deepest, the most
inexhaustible, God's love. How busy we have been all down the ages with
our wretched little foot-rules upon that, complacently measuring the
immeasurable, marking it off--this is its length, and this its breadth--
fixing the bounds and limits of this illimitable thing, setting up
barriers which we declare it never passes, and marks which we say with
assurance it can never overflow, declaring confidently this and that it
cannot overlook, and that and this it never does, judging of God, in
short, by our own petulant, foolish, sullen, earthly human hearts!

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/arthur-john-gossip/the-measure-of-sin/
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