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Repentance
Repentance, confession, turning from sin, and returning to God
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Psalm 95
Psalm 95
… If we put of repentance another day, we have a day more to repent of, and a day less to repent in.— W. Mason. Verse 7. He that …
SERMON • SERMON 1556The Waterpots at Cana
John 2:7
… If you are to repent, ask to have a hearty and a deep repentance’full to the brim. If you are to believe, ask to have an intense …
COMMENTARYPsalm 110
Psalm 110
… Moses' rod brought water out of the flinty rock, and the gospel of Jesus soon causes repentance to flow in rivers from the once hardened heart of man …
SERMON • SERMON 2300The Whole Gospel In A Single Verse
1 Timothy 1:15
… When we come and appropriate this sinner's Savior, we do it, first, by a confession. "Lord, I am a sinner. I know it. I mourn over it …
COMMENTARYPsalm 28
Psalm 28
… Here is David's declaration and confession of faith, coupled with a testimony from his experience. The Lord is my strength. The Lord employs his power on our …
SERMON • SERMON 105Manasseh
… in their vices, seldom in their repentance; if parents sin, their children will follow them, without much doubt; but when they repent and turn to God, it is …
COMMENTARYPsalm 25
Psalm 25
… His holy trust, his many conflicts, his great transgression, his bitter repentance, and his deep distresses are all here; so that we see the very heart of "the …
SERMON • SERMON 2341The Underlying Gospel for the Dying Year
Romans 5:6
… We were told to repent, but our hard heart would yield no waters of repentance. We were told to believe in Christ—the preacher might as well have …
SERMON • SERMON 101The Exaltation of Christ
Philippians 2:9-11
… cut the curse up by the roots, and you with it, unless you repent and turn unto God with full purpose of heart. There is yet another feeling …
SERMON • SERMON 2059The Miracles of Our Lord's Death
Matthew 27:50-53
… It was this, which, in the case of many of us, brought tears of repentance to our eyes and led us to submit to the will of God …
SERMON • SERMON 2141The Question of Questions
John 9:35
… You are bold in your confession but do you really believe in the Lord Jesus? Can that bold confession be supported by your life? I hope you are …
SERMON • SERMON 3275'A Kind of First Fruits'
James 1:18
… bed—but never to his pulpit, for he cannot win souls! Let him repent of his iniquity, but never pretend to be a minister of Christ! Oh, then …
SERMON • SERMON 714A Savior Such As You Need
Hebrews 10:15-18
… That repentance which does not look to the Cross is a legal repentance, and it will breed misery. True Repentance looks to Jesus bleeding on the tree and …
SERMON • SERMON 2863Great Forgiveness for Great Sin
Ephesians 1:7
… Isay unto you, that likewise joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner that repents, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance. The …
SERMON • SERMON 742A Sermon to Open Neglecters and Nominal Followers of Religion
Matthew 21:28-32
… Again, you have said, “I will not serve God,” and up to this time it is very possible that you have never been in the humor to repent …
SERMON • SERMON 186The Form and Spirit of Religion
1 Samuel 4:3
… These people would neither repent, nor pray, nor seek God and his prophets; yet they sought out this ark and trusted in it with superstitious veneration. Now, in …
SERMON • SERMON 2623How Faith Comes
John 4:39-42
… For with the heart man believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Christ loves not a tongue-tied faith—He would not have …
SERMON • SERMON 2239"Is God In the Camp?"
1 Samuel 4:7
… We must confess our helplessness without God and honestly mean the confession. The first thing that is required of us is to bemoan the fact that, by and …
SERMON • SERMON 900Preach, Preach, Preach Everywhere!
Mark 16:15
… With such authority is this mandate clothed and so imperative the duty of all men everywhere to repent, that they who do not believe are threatened with a …
SERMON • SERMON 3411Joining the Church
2 Corinthians 8:5
… He asks only for intelligent love, intelligent service—and I trust that many of you came to Christ knowing what you did, knowing what repentance meant, knowing what …
SERMON • SERMON 1191For Whom Did Christ Die?
Romans 5:6
… He is exalted on high ‘to give repentance,’ but surely not to give repentance to those who have never sinned, and have nothing to repent of. Repentance and …
SERMON • SERMON 3428Private and Confidential
Psalm 25:14
… I consider the confession of sins to a priest most degrading to that priest. To make his ear the common sewer of all the filth of a parish …
SERMON • SERMON 449Joseph And His Brothers
Genesis 45:3-5
… Therefore is this distress come upon us." And though, in the speech which Judah made, it was not necessary to accuse themselves of crime, yet in the confession …
SERMON • SERMON 356Words Of Expostulation
Jeremiah 2:18
… That sword is meant for you unless you repent! What have you to do with taking your ease and eating and drinking and being happy? That man yonder …
SERMON • SERMON 3547Simple Fact and Simple Faith
Acts 13:38
… repentance in trumpet tones till the whole of Judea was startled with the phenomenon—and the multitudes poured forth from town and village to hear his preaching, "Repent …
SERMON • SERMON 2726Fourfold Satisfaction
Jeremiah 31:14
… And when, by faith, we laid our hand on that dear head of His and made confession of our transgression, we received the personal assurance that our sin …
SERMON • SERMON 410Not Now, But Hereafter!
Job 21:29-31
… He now is swift to destroy, let it be yours on your knees to make confession of your sin and say, “I deserve thy wrath, Great King, I …
SERMON • SERMON 813The Privileged Man
Ezekiel 16:9-14
… Our past lives will not do to look at—our state before conversion is something to be blushed over—we should repent of it in dust and ashes …
SERMON • SERMON 905Footsteps Of Mercy
Job 33:23
… himself, made confession, "I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear. But now my eyes see You. Wherefore I abhor myself and repent in dust …
SERMON • SERMON 2889Christ Receiving Sinners
Matthew 9:10
… You cannot tell all the story of your sin and your repentance to the wife of your bosom, but you can tell Jesus. There is no music that …
SERMON • SERMON 557Where to Find Fruit
Hosea 14:8
… The Holy Ghost does not repent, nor feed the hungry, nor clothe the naked, nor preach the gospel. He gives us grace to do all these, but we …
SERMON • SERMON 266The Blind Beggar
Mark 10:46-52
… Tell it out plainly, make a frank and full confession in his presence; and what if it should happen, my dear hearer, that this very day, while thou …
SERMON • SERMON 2770'Go in Peace'
Luke 7:50
… When your tears, cries, secret love, and earnest seeking—when your confession of sin, your struggle after faith and the dawning of your faith are just accepted by …
SERMON • SERMON 1821Cords and Cart-Ropes
Isaiah 5:18
… There is an ugly thing which they do not want to have much to do withcalled repentance: of this they require much, but they are averse to …
SERMON • SERMON 923Prepare To Meet Your God
Amos 4:12
… Let us make a full and penitent confession. We cannot be saved by Christ unless we will do as He bids us. Faith is only real as it …
SERMON • SERMON 945Ripe Fruit
Micah 7:1
… There is repentance in him, but not such repentance as he will have as he sees more the love of Christ in pardoning his sin. There is faith …
SERMON • SERMON 741A Troubled Prayer
Psalm 25:18
… A sickbed has often been a place of repentance. While the man was occupied with his daily work and the active labor of his hands, or could be …
SERMON • SERMON 2762Taking Hold of God's Covenant
Isaiah 56:4
… Some have laid hold upon it by a confession of sin—and you know that the Lord has said—"He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but …
SERMON • SERMON 3475The Soul's Great Crisis
Romans 7:8
… The Lord has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. That is, a priestly King, a kingly Priest—Priest and …
SERMON • SERMON 1905Healing and Pardon
Isaiah 33:24
… But when we go with our confession and find pardon of the Lord, the temporal chastisement is usually removed, or else it is so changed in its purpose …