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Repentance
Repentance, confession, turning from sin, and returning to God
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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 165The 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 279Come 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 2145Scriptural 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 2021Nathanael—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 2985Messages 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 500Ebenezer!
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 2782Love'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 1882Retrospect—"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 171Paul'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 3203Christ 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 890The 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 1845The 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 1007North 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 2129Pleading, 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 1849Coming 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 2977Plowing 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 2209The 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 3434Fruitless 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 2108Perseverance 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 1296Gone, 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 265The 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 1217Rightly 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 2425Self-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 3546Assurance 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 3268The 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 701Seeing 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 2221The 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 2458Reasons 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 969Rest, 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 1930Is 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 1159Counting 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 1820Fallen 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 1697The 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 903The 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 1478Greater 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 1555The 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 1086Jesus, 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 594An 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 …