Sin...Who wants to talk about it?

The beloved MLJ(Martin Lloyd-Jones) gives us a clear cut, not legalistic, anti-religious, view of sin in its reality. The brevity of this statement should gut you like a hunters fresh catch. Can you feel the blood flow?

"Nothing is quite so fallacious as to think of sin only in terms of actions; and as long as we think of sin only in terms of things actually done, we fail to understand it. The essence of biblical teaching on sin is that it is essentially a disposition. It is a state of heart. I suppose we can sum it up by saying that sin is ultimately self-worship and self-adulation; and our Lord shows (what to me is an alarming and terrifying thing) that this tendency on our part to self-adulation is something that follows us even into the very presence of God. It sometimes produces this result; that even when we try to persuade ourselves that we are worshiping God, we are actually worshipping ourselves and doing nothing more." -D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Sermon on the Mount, p301.

He is pretty much saying that even in your best times, when you are praying your best, on a mission trip, serving the Lord, you are in the greatest danger of becoming prideful. Keep watch on yourself lest you be strong and forget the Lord