Repentance

Jesus Putting Away Sin

Hebrews 9:26

… As for the shams of confession, priestly absolution, etc., which Baal's priests are continually thrusting in your way instead of our blessed Lord and Master—such shams …

Godly Fear and Its Goodly Consequence

Proverbs 14:26

… In the streets and in the marketplaces, or wherever else the Providence of God may call him, he witnesses the good confession. It is easy to secularize religion …

Barabbas Preferred To Jesus

John 18:40

… The ruling authority would discharge a criminal, quite irrespective of his crimes or of his repentance—letting him loose upon soci-ety—simply and only because a certain …

A Portrait No Artist Can Paint

Revelation 1:16

… That is our confession after years of endeavoring to search into the height and depth and length and breadth of His love. Think of your Lord, then, as …

The Holdfast

Proverbs 4:13

… Unless repentance of sin is real in you, you will never take fast hold of the Truth of God. And there must be, dear Friends, a very sincere …

Brought Out to Be Brought In

Deuteronomy 6:23

… if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance." The Word of God is very explicit about that matter. "For the earth which drinks in the …

Election

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

… I also give you an extract from the old Baptist Confession. We are Baptists in this congregation—the greater part of us at any rate—and we like …

The Prodigal's Return

Luke 15:20

… Sinner, let this be thy comfort, that God sees thee when thou beginnest to repent. He does not see thee with his usual gaze, with which he looks …

A New School of the Prophets

… Let wiseacres say what they will, there is more truth in that venerable Confession than could be found in ten thousand volumes of the school of affected culture …

High Doctrine And Broad Doctrine

John 6:37

… these must and shall, by Sovereign Grace, be brought, in due time, to repentance and faith, for not one of them shall ever perish. But yet is it …

Enquirers and Converts

… There are always the same essential marks, — death, birth, life, food, — Christ in the death, the birth, the life, the food, — repentance, faith, joy, — the work of the …

The Preacher’s Private Prayer

… I wish I could; and I make the confession with no small degree of shame-facedness and confusion, but I am obliged to make it. If we are …

The Inexhaustible Barrel

1 Kings 17:16

… O may you say, “I will repent.” and then you will repent. And though it be not your own strength, it will be a strength given so instantly …

Psalm 65

Psalm 65

… God does not make a temporary choice, or give and take; his gifts and calling are without repentance. He who is once admitted to God's courts shall …

The Church—Conservative And Aggressive

1 Timothy 3:15

… of the Truth; as long as ever the name of the Westminster Assembly Confession shall be known, the Truth will be safe! As long as the 39 articles …

What the Farm Laborers Can Do and What They Cannot Do

Mark 4:26-29

… Their whole nature is renewed, so that instead of producing sin, it yields repentance, faith and love—but we know not how! How it is that the Spirit …

Psalm 7

Psalm 7

… A notable common-place, both setting forth the evil case of the wicked, especially attempting anything against the righteous, to move them to repentance—for thou hast God …

Psalm 41

Psalm 41

… This is of the essence of true repentance. The immaculate Saviour could never have used such language as this unless there be here a reference to the sin …

The Priceless Prize

Philippians 3:8

… You must go down to Hell after all your efforts, all your repent-ings, all your believing, unless your soul can say— "My hope is built on nothing …

The Light of the World

John 8:12

… the faith and hope of pure hearts! Never did such Light irradiate the repentance and conversion by which sinners are retrieved! Behold the Sun as He comes forth …

Speaking on God's Behalf

Job 36:2

… to confess His name all the more! Certainly none the less because such confession will lay you under solemn obligations to live nearer to Him than before! Still …

The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant

Hebrews 13:20

… We should find that in due time in this life they would be brought to repentance, would be washed in the Saviour’s blood, and would be saved …

Why Christ Is Not Esteemed

Isaiah 53:3

… This must be the universal confession of the human race. From the highest monarch to the meanest peasant, from the loftiest intellect to the most degraded mind, from …

The Uses of the Law

Galatians 3:19

… It is theirs to come to Christ, to get A new heart and a right spirit; to get the evangelical repentance which needeth not to be repented of …

Nov. 24 — PARDON AND FORGIVENESS

Ps. 103:9

… If we repent and turn to Him with hearts broken for sin and broken from sin, He will smile upon us at once. It is no pleasure to …

The “Down-grade” Controversy Foreshadowed

… who have maintained a faithful confession through long years of ill-report, to find the most thoughtful and earnest of the younger school of orthodox ministers gradually and …

The New Song

Psalm 98:1

… The dragon’s head shall be so completely broken, that he can do nothing but bite his iron bonds and growl out his confession that God is stronger …

Sept. 20 — PERFECT WILLINGNESS

Ps. 110:3

… of His power comes, and grace displays its omnipotence, they become willing to repent, and to believe in Jesus. None are saved unwillingly, but the will is made …

Loving Advice for Anxious Seekers

James 1:5

… Lord, teach thou me.” Make a full confession, and this shall be a good beginning for prayer. Asking has also in it the fact the God is believed …

'The Church of the First-born'

Hebrews 12:23

… for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. He could not get his father to change his mind concerning Jacob. On the …

Self-Humbling and Self-Searching

Solomon 1:6

… No; we shall repent as long as we sin, and as long as we need the precious blood for cleansing. While there is sin, or a proneness to …

God's Knowledge of Sin

Psalm 69:5

… His own sight of it makes him repent and humble himself. And his knowledge of God's sight of it helps him to that repentance and humiliation. God …

Faith Hand in Hand With Fear

Psalm 56:3

… David says, "I am afraid." Admire his honesty in making this confession. Some men would never have admitted that they were afraid. They would have blustered and said …

Paul As a Pattern Convert

1 Timothy 1:16

… May we prove in our own persons how speedily conviction may melt into conversion, conversion into confession and confession into consecration! I have done when I have enquired …

Morning, January 24

Ps 91:3

… evil into which thou hast fallen, and though thou shalt never cease to repent of thy ways, yet he that hath loved thee will not cast thee away …

Morning, November 13

Jn 15:4

… Have you declined since then? If you have, we charge you to remember that time of love, and repent, and do thy first works. Be most in those …

Morning, July 10

Eph 2:19

… Do they there rejoice over sinners that repent—prodigals that have returned? So do we. Do they chant the glories of triumphant grace? We do the same. Do …

Morning, June 28

Heb 12:2

… He insinuates, “Your sins are too great for pardon; you have no faith; you do not repent enough; you will never be able to continue to the end …

The First Cry from the Cross

Luke 23:34

… The times of your ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. Bring forth, therefore, fruits meet for repentance. The God whom you have …

Evening, October 5

Mk 16:16

… An old man replied, “We shall be saved if we repent, and forsake our sins, and turn to God.” “Yes,” said a middle-aged female, “and with a …