Repentance

A Mingled Strain

Psalm 51:7

… sin which, though taken away, causes us, in the recollection of it, to repent with great bitterness of heart. Our text is the expression of one who is …

Our Miseries, Messengers of Mercy

Hosea 6:1-2

… This is the land where God in his wise providence rather brings us to repentance than to punishment. Now I can see the hand of God in all …

Sow To Yourselves

Hosea 10:12

… Sow to yourselves and see that in your soul there is repentance of sin. Do not fall under the notion that the necessity for repentance is over. I …

The Savior's Thirst

John 19:28

… First, let us read the 51st Psalm, penned by David after his great sin with Bathsheba, when, by the instrumentality of Nathan, he had been led to repentance …

A Basket of Summer Fruit

Amos 8:1-2

… And may it not be so with us, and may not the name of Anglo-Saxon be blotted out, unless we repent, unless we seek God and pray …

Preventing Grace

1 Samuel 25:32

… Trust Him, Sinner, trust Him, now, and there shall be joy in Heaven over sinners that repent more than over 99 just persons that need no repentance! May …

The First Day Of Creation

Genesis 1:4

… light is, God approves of it and calls it good! Even the repentance which cannot repent as it would is good! The faith which cannot believe as it …

Grappling Irons

Psalm 119:88

… It is just so with our God—there is no reviving us except by pressing us close to His bosom! Did I hear you say, "I will repent …

The Broken Fence

… He always meant to repent, but he went on in his sin. He meant to believe, but he died an unbeliever. He meant to be a Christian, but …

Labor In Vain

Jonah 1:12

… I thought repentance a very easy thing till I began to repent. I dreamed that faith in Christ must be mere child's play till I had to …

Aug. 16 — UNCOVER AND CONFESS SIN

Prov. 28:13

… Not for confession, nor for reformation, but in connection with them we find pardon by faith in the blood of Jesus.

Death and Life—the Wage and the Gift

Romans 6:23

… I take it that repentance is not the temporary act of a certain period of time, but it is the spirit of the whole life after conversion. When …

Today! Today! Today!

Psalm 95:7

… What if I should repent tomorrow, yet it will be a sin to remain impenitent today. What if I should believe in Christ next year, yet will it …

Vanity Deprecated

Psalm 119:37

… You know and Your servant feels that it is so." Therefore, let the confession stand, "Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity." The Psalmist's confession seems to …

Jan. 13 — NEVER CAST OUT

John 6:37

… We come by prayer, and that prayer broken; with confession, and that confession faulty; with praise, and that praise far short of His merits; but yet He receives …

Cheering Congratulation

Psalm 32:1

… another respect there is no Grace as sweet as repentance! In Heaven, it is true, they do not repent, but here on earth it well becomes the saints …

A Preacher from the Dead

Luke 16:31

… Many hardened sinners would be led to repent; hundreds of halters would be made to decide, and great good would be done. Ah! stop, though the first part …

A Song, A solace, A Sermon and a Summons

Psalm 136:1

… Some of you are invited to repent as often as the Sunday dawns! With some of you there are incessant movings upon your con-science—you seldom pass …

Taking Hold of God

Isaiah 64:7

… soul repent of it. Let your conscience be stirred up to remind you of the guilt of that sin and may your heart make a full confession of …

Evening, April 7

Ps 51:14

… Learn in confession to be honest with God. Do not give fair names to foul sins; call them what you will, they will smell no sweeter. What God …

Evening, February 18

Lu 15:18

… those whom Christ has washed in his precious blood need not make a confession of sin, as culprits or criminals, before God the Judge, for Christ has forever …

Lacking Moisture

Luke 8:6

… To trust in repentance without faith would be ruinous to the soul—but to have a kind of faith without repentance, would also be ruinous. If faith never …

Healed or Deluded? Which?

Jeremiah 8:11

… These suggested to the people easier remedies than repentance—they should make an alliance with Egypt and in that way beat off the Assyrians. They should send a …

The Minister’s Self-Watch

… Open immorality, in most cases, however deep the repentance, is a fatal sign that ministerial graces were never in the man’s character. Caesar’s wife must be …

A Marvelous Change

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

… But, at the same time, we never hesitate to declare in the plainest possible terms, that God will not spare the guilty ones who refuse to repent, for …

Salvation to the Uttermost

Hebrews 7:25

… What a splendid general confession is that in the Church of England Prayer Book: “We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep; we have done …

Psalm 143

Psalm 143

… First, a confession of his sins. Secondly, a lamentation over his injuries. Thirdly, a supplication for temporal deliverance and spiritual graces.— Archibald Symson. Whole Psalm. It is not …

The Leading of the Spirit, The Secret Token of the Sons of God

Romans 8:14

… You must have repentance, for repentance is absolutely necessary to the Divine Life. "Except you repent you shall all likewise perish." The prodigal must cry, "Father, I have …

Thoughts on the Last Battle

1 Corinthians 15:56-57

… I listened; I wanted to hear something from thy lips, some truth that might burn my soul and make me repent; but I knew not what thou saidst …

God's Time for Comforting

Psalm 119:82

… Perhaps it is the lack of this that keeps you from being comforted—the lack of an explicit, plain, full confession of your sins. Again, if you ask …

The Centurion's Faith and Humility

Luke 7:6-8

… You feel that you cannot repent—but cannot Jesus make you repent by His Spirit? Do you hesitate about that question? See the world a few months ago …

Covenant Blessings

Ezekiel 36:26

… He does not repent, and He does not believe—He has nothing to repent of, and He has nothing to believe. Neither does the Spirit perform works for …

The Plain Man's Pathway To Peace

Matthew 9:27-30

… They have been taught by God's Spirit to love righteousness and seek after holiness and this is the very essence of repentance! Those who thus come to …

The Faculty Baffled, The Great Physician Successful

Mark 5:25-28

… I tried to keep the Law of God, and thought that my repentance and tears would be an atonement for the past. But who can keep the Law …

The Entreaty of the Holy Spirit

Hebrews 3:7

… Wherever the Holy Spirit exhorts, He speaks in the present tense, and bids us now repent, or now believe, or now seek the Lord! I pray you always …

A Christmas Question

Isaiah 9:6

… But do not think there is any merit in confession. There is none. All your confession cannot merit forgiveness, though God has promised to pardon the man who …

Baptism Essential To Obedience

Mark 16:16

… For with the heart man believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." But why is confession so necessary to prove true faith? I …

'The Old Testament 'Prodigal'

2 Chronicles 33:12

… Of conviction, confession and conversion, they must have seen a great deal, but records we have none. On this account the story of the madly wicked king who …

The Scarlet Line in the Window

Joshua 2:21

… not true! It is clear that the Holy Spirit has nothing to repent of—repentance is an act of the repenting sinner's own soul—and faith a …

Jesus Known by Personal Revelation

Matthew 16:13-17

… Peter was answering his Lord when he made the confession now before us. When we speak to one another we are warped by party forces but when we …