But our purpose will be to consider the specific things that take place within an awakened soul that result in the sinner believing on Christ to the saving of his soul. Because they have an acute sense of the awful guilt of their sin The vast majority of people would admit to being sinners. Yet, this admission not withstanding, people are prone to downplay their sin. But when the Holy Spirit begins working in a soul, drawing a person to Christ, that person begins to look at himself and his sin in an entirely new light. More and more, sin appears to such a person as a hideous and an awful thing.
Sin takes on the appearance and stench of gangreen of the soul.
And at the same time that the person's sin appears more and more evil, the holiness of God and His hatred of sin become more and more dreadfully clear. When he compared himself to the outward requirements of God's law, he thought himself to be blameless. He was indeed a Hebrew of the Hebrews. All the while, however, he was conducting himself in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and was, in fact, a child of wrath by nature. But he was blind to his own sin.