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Repentance
Repentance, confession, turning from sin, and returning to God
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The End of the Righteous Desired
Numbers 23:10
… even asked Him to damn you! Ah, He will do it, except you repent! But how delightful must it be for a man to say, "I am going …
SERMON • SERMON 2579Waiting, Hoping, Watching
Psalm 130:5
… But notice, also, that while David thus cried unto the Lord, he made confession of his sin. He felt he could not stand before God on the footing …
SERMON • SERMON 2199Israel's Hope—Or, The Center of the Target
Psalm 130:7
… If, by aiming even at repentance, we are taken off from the Lord—we are taken off the right road. It is possible even to look to faith …
SERMON • SERMON 2265Harvest Joy
Isaiah 9:3
… Therefore, we feel that the confession of Christ is, in itself, a thing to rejoice over, and the immediate and eternal salvation that goes with it, warrant us …
SERMON • SERMON 2859The Lions' Den
Daniel 6:20
… Amidst work and worry, heavy responsibilities and incessant anxiety, you had need often renew the confession of sin and weakness on your bended knees. Then, again, you must …
SERMON • SERMON 772Delay Is Dangerous
Genesis 24:55
… you think that key will open the door, and you can repent now, why not repent now? You believe that you have full power to do so! O …
SERMON • SERMON 984The Church As She Should Be
Solomon 6:4
… Whenever I hear of candidates being alarmed at coming before our elders, or seeing the pastor, or making confession of faith before the church, I wish I could …
SERMON • SERMON 589Jesus Meeting His Warriors
Genesis 14:18-20
… Yet, Beloved, our very repentance has something in it to be repented of and our very flying to the Cross has something in it of a lingering from …
SERMON • SERMON 2894The Sinner's Only Alternative
2 Kings 7:4
… If you wrote down your resolves in your pocketbook, I wish you would read them over again and read them with repentance as you say, "These vows were …
SERMON • SERMON 1149My Restorer
Psalm 23:3
… First, he says, you should repent bitterly of all this wandering of heart. That is correct enough, but who is to give you this repentance? And then, says …
SERMON • SERMON 2914A Mournful Defection
John 6:67
… Unless your hearts are deeply plowed with genuine repentance and unless you are thoroughly rooted and grounded in the faith, you may have some cause to suspect the …
SERMON • SERMON 365Humility
Acts 20:19
… He was quite content to preach to men as free agents, and exhort them to repent; quite willing to speak of God as working in us to will …
SERMON • SERMON 192The Sunday-School Teacher—A Steward
Luke 16:2
… We shall many of us make but a sorry account, for we have neglected much that we ought to have done; and the general confession must be ours …
SERMON • SERMON 2188Entangled in the Land
Exodus 14:3
… His foes are they of his own household! How is the youth to make an open confession of Christ before his infidel father? Possibly the convert is a …
SERMON • SERMON 3019The Hungry Filled, the Rich Emptied
Luke 1:53
… You say that you wish you could repent and could believe—but I think you arerepenting and believing all the while! But even if you are not, this …
SERMON • SERMON 3079A Searching Question
1 Samuel 30:13
… Go and put your head on your Father's bosom and weep out such a confession as this—"I have sinned against Heaven, and before You, and am …
SERMON • SERMON 2775David Warned and Rewarded
Psalm 19:11
… They go to church, or to the meeting house, and they join with others in making confession of sin, yet, somehow, they do not seem to realize that …
SERMON • SERMON 60Sovereignty and Salvation
Isaiah 45:22
… But it is “Look unto me.” How frequently you who are coming to Christ look to yourselves. “O!” you say, “I do not repent enough.” That is looking …
SERMON • SERMON 2101Life and Pardon
Colossians 2:13
… We are made to live spiritually and so we are made to repent, to confess, to believe, and to receive forgiveness. First, the life which sighs under sin …
SERMON • SERMON 2469The Incomparable Bridegroom and His Bride
Solomon 5:9
… feel as if, instead of exhorting you thus, I might better turn to confession, myself, and ask you to join me in confessing how far short we come …
SERMON • SERMON 995The Sheep and Their Shepherd
John 10:27
… Were I at this good hour to change the note of gladness for one of sadness, it should be to wail out my penitent confession of the times …
SERMON • SERMON 1879A Plain Man's Sermon
Leviticus 22:21
… And how shall they make confession? If they are not assured that the Law is holy, just, good and that God has never demanded of any man more …
SERMON • SERMON 972New Uses for Old Trophies
2 Kings 11:10
… When he had done that he then turns to confession: “I acknowledge my transgression, and my sin is ever before me.” No weapon to drive away guilty fears …
SERMON • SERMON 1932Love's Law and Life
John 14:15
… Write it boldly—"/ do not love the Lord Jesus Christ." Look at it and look again—and oh, may God the Holy Spirit lead you to repent of …
SERMON • SERMON 3147God's Glory in the Building Up of Zion
Psalm 102:16
… there is no building up of Zion without them! And then a public confession of faithmust follow conversion. Though the invisible Church of God is built up by …
SERMON • SERMON 1349Faith Purifying the Heart
Acts 15:9
… most malicious to love, in spite of themselves? Love which surprises men into repentance and gratitude before they are aware of it? God loves men until they must …
SERMON • SERMON 1210The Weaned Child
Psalm 131:2
… I was once conversing with a very excellent aged minister and while we were talking about our attitude and feelings, he made the following confession—he said, "When …
SERMON • SERMON 2866Good News
Proverbs 25:25
… It is true that you must repent, but it is also true that He works repentance in us. There must and there will be a change of life …
SERMON • SERMON 1048The Sin-Offering for the Common People
Leviticus 4:27-31
… there confess my sin." Now that act of laying on the hand signified confession. It meant just this—"Here I stand as a sinner and confess that I …
SERMON • SERMON 798Special Protracted Prayer
Luke 6:12
… As for instance in that most important department, namely, personal confession of sin, He could take no portion. There were no slips in His outward life. There were …
SERMON • SERMON 108The Question of Fear and the Answer of Faith
Job 23:6
… ought to feel; but oh that I could! Lord, I cannot repent, as I would repent—oh that thou wouldst help me!” “Oh! sir,” you say, “but I …
SERMON • SERMON 1114Onward!
Philippians 3:13
… But when the Lord revealed Himself to him, he said, "My eyes see You, therefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes." We never see the …
SERMON • SERMON 802Good Earnests of Great Success
Acts 6:7
… A certain denomination has made the confession that after having had their schoolrooms crowded with children, they do not know that any of those children have afterwards come …
SERMON • SERMON 1047The Triumph Of Christianity
Psalm 22:27
… May you, dear Hearers, be moved by penitent memories of all the unhallowed past, for so shall repentance be created within you. The nations will, by-and-by …
SERMON • SERMON 1561Asleep and Yet Awake—a Riddle
Solomon 5:2
… If you do not feel active and energetic, make it a matter of self-complaint and utter the shame-faced confession, "I sleep." Yet again, this slumber should …
SERMON • SERMON 3115Sin and Grace
Romans 5:20
… is apparent, even to himself! It is now likely that this man will repent of sin. It is highly probable that this development of his latent sin will …
SERMON • SERMON 1109The Light of the World
Matthew 5:14
… The man must do it himself—it must be his personal repentance, his personal faith, his personal Baptism, his personal everything, or else it is good for nothing …
SERMON • SERMON 2058"Eyes Right"
Proverbs 4:25
… I charge you, have nothing to do even with your faith and your repentance as a ground of trust. Trust not your trust—but trust alone in what …
SERMON • SERMON 2987The 'Beau Ideal' of Life
Psalm 90:14
… Let this confession be made by each one of you, "Lord, I am unsatisfied because I am unholy. I have not attained to satisfaction because I have not …
SERMON • SERMON 2109The Eye and the Light
Luke 11:33-36
… At some time or other he will repent and believe in Jesus and then he will be set right, however grossly he may have offended. God is gracious …