---
title: 'The Alarming Power of Sin'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Gardiner Spring'
date: 1837-03-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Personal Piety'
- 'Sin'
- 'Sermons'
scriptures:
- 'Jeremiah 13'
- 'Matthew 19'
- 'Hebrews 3'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/spring-1837-the-alarming-power-of-sin
---

# The Alarming Power of Sin

Sermon warns that long-continued sin hardens the heart, entrenches habit, and the world's grip and advancing age make conversion ever more difficult; urgent repentance and divine grace are needed.

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