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Repentance
Repentance, confession, turning from sin, and returning to God
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The Gospel Cordial
Proverbs 31:6
… I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world Will not many of you make Martha's grand confession of …
SERMON • SERMON 3001The Vision of the Field
Ezekiel 36:9
… I rejoice, not that you are made sorry, but that you sorrow to repentance after a godly manner! God has broken your heart and I know that He …
SERMON • SERMON 3000COME AND WELCOME
John 6:37
… I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." He loved to have them about Him—loafers and vagabonds as they were. I do not read …
SERMON • SERMON 1677A Great Mistake and the Way to Rectify It
Revelation 3:17
… They relate to persons who were in a Church state, who had been baptized on confession of their faith in Christ and who were thought to be in …
SERMON • SERMON 2699Examination Before Communion
1 Corinthians 11:28
… It is an evil thing for any church to give either the one or the other of those two ordinances to those who are destitute of "repentance toward …
SERMON • SERMON 1908Washed to Greater Foulness
Job 9:30
… Is it not the General Confession stereotyped in the book of Common Prayer? But it is one thing to call yourself a sinner, and quite another thing to …
COMMENTARYPsalm 36
Psalm 36
… It is a wicked repentance quite contrary to the grace of repentance; as that is a repentance from dead works, so this is a repentance from works of …
SERMON • SERMON 2097The Mediator’The Interpreter
Exodus 20:18-20
… Oh the sadness of that confession, "We have left undone the things which we ought to have done!" There is as much of lamentation in it as in …
SERMON • SERMON 2852Comfort for the Fearful
Matthew 8:26
… and all other sin and blasphemy can be forgiven unto men if they repent of it and trust the Lord Jesus Christ. I am afraid that you do …
SERMON • SERMON 3381The Broken Fence
Proverbs 24:30-32
… 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 …
SERMON • SERMON 3452Belief in the Resurrection
Mark 16:6
… Faith there is—I bless God for it—and in some cases very eminent faith, but taking us all round, alas, we must make up a sorrowful confession …
SERMON • SERMON 2352Great Joy In the City
Acts 8:8
… That is the great confession of faith that is to be made by all who have believed in Jesus! 38, 39. And he commanded the chariot to stand …
SERMON • SERMON 1196The Stern Teacher
Galatians 3:24-26
… repent of having done wrong." "Yes," says the Law, "but I have nothing to do with repentance." There is no provision in the Ten Commandments for repentance! Cursed …
SERMON • SERMON 3269A Frail Leaf
Job 13:25
… But, best of all, going from the positive to the comparative, and from the comparative to the superlative, how a confession of weakness touches your heart when it …
SERMON • SERMON 169What Have I Done?
Jeremiah 8:6
… How happy should I be if I might hope that the great mass of you could accompany me in this humble confession of our faith; may I speak …
SERMON • SERMON 2046Consolation From Resurrection
Hosea 13:14
… Do you want to see the red wax and the Divine impression on it? Look at the close of the text, "Repentance shall be hid from My eyes …
SERMON • SERMON 350A Blow at Self-Righteousness
Job 9:20
… he deserves eternal life, or has no sin of which to repent, or which by repentance may be washed away without the blood of Christ; he knows within …
SERMON • SERMON 1540The Mediator—Judge And Savior
Acts 10:42
… Oh, think of this! Some of you are unpardoned this morning and as sure as you live, unless you repent, you will stand before God to receive nothing …
DEVOTIONALMorning, July 29
Ps 73:23
… am continually with thee.” Believer, you are forced to enter into Asaph’s confession and acknowledgment, endeavour in like spirit to say “nevertheless, since I belong to Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 2557A Vexed Soul Comforted
Job 27:2
… If there is this honest confession, this hearty prayer and this simple acceptance of Christ as your Savior, the days of your mourning are ended, the daylight of …
SERMON • SERMON 644God'S Witnesses
Isaiah 43:10
… He witnesses under all circumstances! Scribes and Pharisees cannot shut His mouth! That fox, Herod, cannot frighten or alarm Him! Even before Pilate He witnesses a good confession …
DEVOTIONALMorning, June 6
Job 40:4
… If Job, and Isaiah, and Paul were all obliged to say “I am vile,” oh, poor sinner, wilt thou be ashamed to join in the same confession? If …
SERMON • SERMON 2705Why Some Sinners Are Not Pardoned
Job 7:21
… I am persuaded that, often, confession to God would relieve the soul of its load of guilt. Just as when a man has a gathering tumor, and a …
SERMON • SERMON 1486The Shame and Spitting
Isaiah 50:6
… What greater derision can be cast upon God than to consider the blood of atonement to be a superfluity? He who chooses sin sooner than repentance prefers to …
DEVOTIONALEvening, October 24
Jn 13:5
… and yet Jesus will have great patience with you; he will hear your confession of sin; he will say, “I will, be thou clean”; he will again apply …
DEVOTIONALEvening, April 13
Le 1:4
… first realized pardon through Jesus the sin-bearer? Can you not make glad confession, and join with the writer in saying, “My soul recalls her day of deliverance …
DEVOTIONALEvening, July 15
Mk 16:9
… She said, “ Master .” There is no state of mind in which this confession of allegiance will be too cold. No, when your spirit glows most with the heavenly …
COMMENTARYPsalm 141
Psalm 141
… readier to confess a fault than to expect a confession from others whom we reprove. Sincerity and serious repentance will be honourable in that person who is most …
SERMON • SERMON 654Memory—The Handmaid Of Hope
Lamentations 3:21
… you reply, "Oh, I cannot repent! My heart is so hard." Call to remembrance that Jesus Christ is exalted to give repentance and remission of sins and you …
SERMON • SERMON 2701Jesus Joyfully Received
Luke 19:6
… According to your own confession, that was your idea concerning me—'You knew that I was an austere man.'" 22, 23. Taking up that Ilaid not down, and …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 11
La 3:41
… While it is an application to divine wealth, it is a confession of human emptiness. The most healthy state of a Christian is to be always empty in …
SERMON • SERMON 367The Great Supreme
Deuteronomy 32:3
… Everywhere it is the solemn conviction of Christians that the Church is in a very wrong position; go where you please, you will hear one confession, one doleful …
DEVOTIONALEvening, November 7
Ac 1:8
… He witnesses under all circumstances; Scribes and Pharisees cannot shut his mouth; even before Pilate he witnesses a good confession. He witnesses so clearly, and distinctly that there …
SERMON • SERMON 2480The Tender Grapes
Solomon 2:13
… You say, "That young man does not know much, but he is very sincere." How many do I see, who come to make a confession of their faith …
DEVOTIONALMorning, September 29
Le 13:13
… We must confess that we are “nothing else but sin,” for no confession short of this will be the whole truth, and if the Holy Spirit be at …
DEVOTIONALMorning, July 23
Ob 1:11
… to put forth our hand unto evil? God forbid! A few minutes of confession may be beneficial to thee, gentle reader, this morning. Hast thou never been as …
DEVOTIONALMorning, July 28
Ps 73:22
Morning, July 28 Go To Evening Reading “So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee.” Psalm 73:22 Remember this is the confession …
SERMON • SERMON 119Rahab's Faith
Hebrews 11:31
… Art thou literally one of Rahab’s sisters in guilt? She was saved, and so mayest thou be, if God shall grant thee repentance. Woman! art thou loathsome …
DEVOTIONALEvening, February 26
Le 13:13
… We must confess that we are “nothing else but sin,” for no confession short of this will be the whole truth; and if the Holy Spirit be at …
SERMON • SERMON 131Salvation of the Lord
Jonah 2:9
… of the Lord.’ Your faith and your repentance must all be given you, or else you will neither believe nor repent of sin.” And now the castle is …