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Repentance
Repentance, confession, turning from sin, and returning to God
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'Let Us Pray'
Psalm 73:23
… Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” I felt like Esther when she stood before the King, faint and overcome with dread. I was full …
SERMON • SERMON 245The Way to God
John 14:6
… Behold the monk—if he would gratify his god, he must not wash himself; for their god is a god of filth, and according to their own confession …
SERMON • SERMON 2997'Tempted of the Devil'
Matthew 4:1
… It will often happen that after the public avowal, after our public confession of faith, there will come a time of unusual struggling and conflict. You are not …
SERMON • SERMON 3282Preparing for the Week of Prayer
Revelation 8:3
… We are requested on Monday to present "penitential confession of sin and the acknowledgment of personal, social, and national blessings, with supplication for Divine Mercy through the Atonement …
SERMON • SERMON 3484Daniel—a Pattern for Pleaders
Daniel 9:19
… And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the Covenant and mercy to them …
SERMON • SERMON 1580An Indictment with Four Counts
Zephaniah 3:2
… be zealous, therefore, and repent." At this time I do not intend to use the words of our text in any of those ways, but to take it …
SERMON • SERMON 1831Smoking Flax
Isaiah 42:3
… If you did, we might think ill of you—but inasmuch as you even repent over your repentance and feel as if your tears need weeping over, I …
SERMON • SERMON 601A Solemn Enquiry Concerning Our Families
Genesis 19:12
… Plain speaking about Christ is the ordinary means of bringing sinners to repentance. Those ministers most useful in soul-seeking are those who put the doctrine of simple …
SERMON • SERMON 1131Clearing the Road to Heaven
Isaiah 62:10
… keep a sinner from his God, if that sinner is but ready to repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. I. First, then, by way of LIFTING …
SERMON • SERMON 779God's Foreknowledge of Man's Sin
Isaiah 48:8
… Some, who know no better, harp upon the foreknowledge of our repentance and faith, and say that, "Election is according to the foreknowledge of God." A very scriptural …
SERMON • SERMON 83Indwelling Sin
Job 40:3-4
… If Job, and Isaiah, and Paul, were all obliged to say, “I am vile,” oh, poor sinner, wilt thou be ashamed to join the confession, and say, “I …
SERMON • SERMON 194Human Responsibility
John 15:22
… Now, adultery and murder and theft, and lying—all these are damning, and deadly sins; but repentance can cleanse all these, through the blood of Christ. But to …
SERMON • SERMON 2131To Those Who Feel Unfit for Communion
2 Chronicles 30:17-20
… Note, next, that Hezekiah made open and explicit confession unto God that these people were not as they should have been. He did not excuse them. He came …
SERMON • SERMON 2752The Door
John 10:9
… For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. To trust the risen Savior, to put your soul into His …
SERMON • SERMON 1886God's Remembrance of His Covenant
Psalm 106:44
… Turn unto the Lord in repentance and He will turn unto you in loving kindness. What was the secret reason why God thus dealt with His people and …
SERMON • SERMON 3384Growth in Faith
Luke 17:5
… In the Helvetic Confession, faith is said to be "a most firm confidence in Christ"— another little mistake! A most firm confidence in Christ is faith and is …
SERMON • SERMON 1587Jesus At A Standstill
Mark 10:49
… Merciful One linger a little longer and give a farther space in which repentance might spring up in the long-hardened heart—and the faith-glance might yet …
SERMON • SERMON 2314Three Blessings of the Heavenly Charter
Job 10:12
… who has ascended on high to give repentance and remission of sins, and who is ready to give both the repentance and the remission to every soul that …
SERMON • SERMON 2204Sin—Its Springhead, Stream and Sea
Psalm 106:7
… This will tend to repentance and holiness. May we be so worked upon by the Spirit of God that we shall not be as our earthly fathers, but …
SERMON • SERMON 953Done In A Day, But Wondered At Forever
Zechariah 3:9
… should repent of sin, if it were possible, not for one day, but for twenty thousand years, yet he could not remove his sin by repentance. Man tries …
SERMON • SERMON 2734Out of Nothing Comes Nothing
Job 14:4
… He bows his head when others pray and he seems to be praying, too—but there is no confession of sin, there is nothing that can be acceptable …
SERMON • SERMON 3407Peter's Prayer
Luke 5:8
… No, not so, but there is a greater stir of joy in Heaven at the time of the sinner's repentance than there is over all the ninety …
SERMON • SERMON 2431The Double Cleansing
Zechariah 13:1
… there is pardon for sin! When the eyes are full of tears of repentance, they are most fit for looking to Christ who takes all our guilt away …
SERMON • SERMON 2858Migratory Birds
Jeremiah 8:7
… He was eager to hear one penitent cry and to observe one tear of genuine repentance, but, as the war-horse is eager for the fray, and, at …
SERMON • SERMON 2663A Leap Year Sermon
1 Corinthians 15:8
… too late as long as life lasts and there is the power to repent of sin and to turn to the Lord— "While the lamp holds out to …
SERMON • SERMON 3145Paul in the Tempest
Acts 27:18-25
… Return, O LORD, how long? And let it repent You concerning Your servants. O satisfy us early with Your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all …
SERMON • SERMON 628A Glorious Church
Ephesians 5:25-27
… When applied with power by the Holy Spirit, it works repentance. It leads the man to weep and bewail himself before God. That same Word leads to faith …
SERMON • SERMON 2902Holiness Demanded
Hebrews 12:14
… And until he made confession of his sin to God, he became sick in body as well as in soul. It seemed as if his very bones, the …
SERMON • SERMON 1683The Great Cross-bearer and His Followers
Mark 15:20
… Surely after openly making the clear confession which the Evangelist has recorded, we may number him with Believers! Next to these guards were two malefactors, led out with …
SERMON • SERMON 616The Special Call And The Unfailing Result
1 Corinthians 1:9
… Now the gifts and calling of God are, according to Scripture, "without repentance," that is to say, if He has once called a man, He never sends him …
SERMON • SERMON 1382The Touch
Mark 5:28
… Those who believe ought to be baptized on confession of their faith. He, who in His heart believes, should with His mouth make confession of Him. So Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 1339Idols Abolished
Hosea 14:8
… Thirdly, there is in our text AN IMPLIED CONFESSION. "Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols?" "Any more with idols?" Then, Ephraim, you …
SERMON • SERMON 801The Woman Which Was a Sinner
Luke 7:37-38
… Eyes which were full of adultery were now founts of repentance! Her lips which were doors of lascivious speech, now yielded holy kisses—the profligate was a penitent …
SERMON • SERMON 1765An Astounding Miracle
Mark 1:21-28
… Bring the chief of sinners to repentance! Raise up those who are fallen to the lowest degree! In this man there did not seem to be anything for …
SERMON • SERMON 1108Plenary Absolution
Psalm 103:12
… They have felt some biting of that wrath upon their spirit and they have been humbled into contrition, repentance and confession—therefore do they now say, "Neither will …
SERMON • SERMON 295The Treasure of Grace
Ephesians 1:7
… it is called “the scape-goat.” He puts his hands upon the head of this goat, and begins to make confession of sin. Will you come and do …
SERMON • SERMON 950Means for Restoring the Banished
2Samuel 14:14
… His eye fell on the passage, "Except you repent, you shall all likewise perish." As he spoke upon that text he was carried beyond himself, lost all thought …
SERMON • SERMON 2671A Sincere Summary—and a Searching Scrutiny
Psalm 119:168
… eye-salve, quite another verdict is given! And, tremblingly, with many tears, the confession is poured into the ear of God, "I have gone astray like a lost …
SERMON • SERMON 3348Knowing and Doing
John 13:17
… Ten years ago they were greatly affected by a sermon and they vowed repentance. The season passed away and their conscience became crippled—no good results came. Some …
SERMON • SERMON 1313A Second Word to Seekers
Jeremiah 29:13
… Does not that mean that he does not repent of it at all? How can there be repentance of a deed to which half the heart is still …