Unbelief as the Anatomy of All Sin

Christ performs a startling act of self-assertion when He identifies the world's rejection of Him as the supreme sin—not the gross evils that visibly corrupt society. The world swarms with 'all unrighteousness and wickedness, lust and immorality, intemperance, cruelty, hatred; all manner of buzzing evils that stink and sting around us.' Yet our Lord 'passes them all by and points to a mere negative thing, to an inward thing, to the attitude of men towards Himself.'…