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Repentance, confession, turning from sin, and returning to God

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SERMON • SERMON 38

Storming the Battlements

Jeremiah 5:10

… He imagines we are to believe and repent, and that we thus earn salvation. He denies that faith and repentance are God’s gifts only, and sits down …

SERMON • SERMON 165

The Warning Neglected

Ezekiel 33:5

… Oh, yes, God is my witness, there are some of you not an inch nearer heaven, but ye have sealed your own damnation doubly sure, unless ye repent

SERMON • SERMON 279

Come and Welcome

Revelation 22:17

… You have no belief and no repentance, yet nevertheless you are willing. “True belief and true repentance, Every grace that brings us nigh, Without money, Come to Jesus …

SERMON • SERMON 2145

Scriptural Salvation

Romans 10:11

… Some of you have never made a confession of your Lord—what will become of you? "Oh," you say, "do not say hard things!" I do not say …

SERMON • SERMON 2021

Nathanael—Or, the Ready Believer and His Reward

John 1:50

… You are the King of Israel." He is fairly won and by an open confession he commits himself at once to what he believes. He is not ashamed …

SERMON • SERMON 2985

Messages to Sinners and Saints

Isaiah 30:15

… Oh, the fussy efforts many of us have made! I know that I have and I will make the confession. I have had various matters to put right …

SERMON • SERMON 500

Ebenezer!

1 Samuel 7:12

… before the victory, it was the place of their repentance. You see, beloved, they came together to repent, to confess their sins, to put away their false gods …

SERMON • SERMON 2782

Love's Lamentation

Malachi 1:2

… us all—may be compelled to bow before God in true repentance and with genuine confession of sin. The text seems to me to contain two things and …

SERMON • SERMON 1882

Retrospect—"The Lord Has Blessed"

Joshua 17:14

… We look at our text, then, first of all, as A CONFESSION—"The Lord has blessed me until now." I will not at present speak to those of …

SERMON • SERMON 171

Paul's Sermon Before Felix

Acts 24:25

… You are told to-day, that except ye repent, ye must perish, except ye put your trust in Christ, ye must be cast away forever. Perhaps no honest …

SERMON • SERMON 3203

Christ Made Sin

2 Corinthians 5:21

… I say, when you repent, it is a base repentance that will not let you trust Christ, for while repentance should have one eye on sin, it should …

SERMON • SERMON 3446

'Christ Is All'

Colossians 3:11

… Many people think they must feel a load of repentance before they may hope Christ will receive them. I know every child of God will repent, but we …

SERMON • SERMON 890

The Bellows Burned

Jeremiah 6:29

… Sooner than the people would repent and become as molten metal, the Messiah, Himself, was made like the bellows which are burnt by long use at the fire …

SERMON • SERMON 1845

The Pity of the Lord—the Comfort of the Afflicted

James 5:11

… We would eat our bitter words—they were all unwarranted and, therefore, with deep repentance we call them back. On taking a survey of our whole life, we …

SERMON • SERMON 1007

North and South

Isaiah 43:6

… Come thou, then, come thou, now, right joyfully. “Keep not back.” Confess thy sin with repentance, and lay it on Christ by faith, and thou shalt be saved …

SERMON • SERMON 2129

Pleading, Not Contradicting

Matthew 15:27

repentance! You will no more repent in your own power than you will go to Heaven in your own merit—but the Lord will grant you repentance unto …

SERMON • SERMON 1849

Coming Judgment of the Secrets of Men

Romans 2:16

… When the apostle addressed the Grecian sages at Athens he said, "God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent, because he hath appointed a day, in the which …

SERMON • SERMON 2977

Plowing Rock

Amos 6:12

… believe in Jesus when we feel our sins more—when we feel more repentance—when we have done this and told that, and experienced the other." Ah, Sirs …

SERMON • SERMON 2209

The Best Strengthening Medicine

Hebrews 11:34

… Other sins die hard, but this is shot through the head by true repentance and faith in Jesus! Some sins cling to a man like the fabled tunic …

SERMON • SERMON 3434

Fruitless Faith

James 2:17

… First, there must be fruits meet for repentance, works of repentance. It is wrong to tell a man he must repent before he may trust Christ, but it …

SERMON • SERMON 2108

Perseverance in Holiness

Jeremiah 32:40

… It is necessary that a man, to be forgiven, should repent; but then the Lord Jesus is exalted on high to give repentance and remission of sins. It …

SERMON • SERMON 1296

Gone, Gone Forever

1 Kings 20:40

… Secondly, our text contains A CONFESSION—"He was gone." The man was under obligation to take care of his prisoner, but he had to confess that he was …

SERMON • SERMON 265

The Meek and Lowly One

Matthew 11:28-30

… Sinners! Christ does thunder at you sometimes, but it is always that he may bring you to repentance. He does take Jonah’s cry, and utter it far …

SERMON • SERMON 1217

Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth

2 Timothy 2:15

… Do you not know that the furrow of repentance runs right through the Christian's life? He sins, and as long as he sins he repents of his …

SERMON • SERMON 2425

Self-destroyed, Yet Saved

Hosea 13:9

… For with the heart, man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation." Obey the heavenly message! Pause not, hesitate not, but hasten to …

SERMON • SERMON 3546

Assurance Sought

Psalm 35:3

… You yourself must repent! Even the Holy Spirit cannot repent for you, as some seem to imagine. He works repentance in you, but you must, yourself, repent. And …

SERMON • SERMON 3268

The Savior's Silence

Matthew 15:23

Repentance is necessary, but much which is called by that name is not true repentance. Terrors of conscience are not repentance—though they may lead to it. And …

SERMON • SERMON 701

Seeing And Not Seeing—Or, Men As Trees Walking

Mark 8:22-25

… They say the confession of sin, but it is always with the whole congregation. They chant the Te Deum, but it is not personal, but choral praise. But …

SERMON • SERMON 2221

The First, Last—And the Last, First

Matthew 19:30

… Therefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes." The superlative perfection of the Lord God and the absolutely perfect example of our Lord Jesus Christ are …

SERMON • SERMON 2458

Reasons for a Singular Question

Mark 10:51

… So, when you are willing to fully confess your sin and to throw it all out of the system by that confession—I do not mean by telling …

SERMON • SERMON 969

Rest, Rest

Matthew 11:28-30

Repentance and faith make up this “Come”—the repentance which leaves that place where you now stand, the faith which comes into reliance upon Jesus. Observe, that the …

SERMON • SERMON 1930

Is It True?

Daniel 3:14

… God grant us to be true in our first repentance and very thorough in it and, as we begin, so may we go on, not borrowing our religion …

SERMON • SERMON 1159

Counting the Cost

Luke 14:28-30

… and repentance are not the work of a week or two, they are a lifework! As long as the Christian is on earth he must repent. And as …

SERMON • SERMON 1820

Fallen Angels a Lesson To Fallen Men

2 Peter 2:4

… Be this our confession, "O Lord, I know that I shall become utterly vile except thy sovereign grace prevent! "In humility let us cast ourselves upon the mighty …

SERMON • SERMON 1697

The Word of a King

Ecclesiastes 8:4

… Some time ago we were told that there was no need of repentance and that repentance only meant a change of mind. But what tremendous change of mind …

SERMON • SERMON 903

The Way Everlasting

Psalm 139:24

… The first is a remarkable attribute of the right way—it is said to be "everlasting." Secondly, a remarkable confession implied in the language here employed. And then …

SERMON • SERMON 1478

Greater Things Yet Who Shall See Them?

John 1:50

… It is the mind's eye that must look and by that look, repentance and faith find entrance to the soul. "Come and see," for nothing will save …

SERMON • SERMON 1555

The Glories of Forgiving Grace

Ephesians 1:7

… How can he who does not believe in the existence of sin, believe in the forgiveness of it? His whole confession on that matter belongs to the region …

SERMON • SERMON 1086

Jesus, The King of Truth

John 18:37

… We are told by the Apostle Paul that our Lord Jesus Christ before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession. It was a good confession as to the manner …

SERMON • SERMON 594

An Awful Premonition

Matthew 16:28

… But, oh, that bitter pill has yet to work its way and that fierce draught has yet to be drained even to the dregs, unless you repent! And …