Repentance

The Faithful Saying

1 Timothy 1:15

… He not only saves sinners when they repent but He goes lower down, for He is exalted on high to give repentance as well as remission of sins …

Thinking and Turning

Psalm 119:59

… This confession is no insincere regret, or a spurious attempt to appear humble—I mean what I say—and I believe that in the like confession the most …

The Wordless Book

Psalm 51:7

… And it is a sin which—although the guilty ones may repent—cannot be undone. It is altogether a most foul and outrageous crime against God and man …

The Centurion—Or An Exhortation To The Virtuous

Luke 7:4-9

… why I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes." Coming before the Lord, we must all come as sinners. When on your knees you have nothing to …

Mistaken Notions About Repentance

Ezekiel 36:31

… Now I come, in the last place, to notice SOME MISTAKEN IDEAS AS TO THE WAY IN WHICH REPENTANCE IS PRODUCED IN THE HEART. "I cannot repent," says …

Peter's Restoration

Luke 22:60-62

… It was not a continuance in a sin, like that of David, who remained for months without repentance. But it was the quick speech of a man carried …

A New Leaf for the New Year

Genesis 42:21

… And I shall try to press this Truth of God home with a demand, in God's name, for repentance on account of the way in which we …

Bad Lodgers and How To Treat Them

Jeremiah 4:14

… promise of future repentance? It often prevents repentance! I would rather hear a man say straight out, "Now, look here. I never mean to repent or believe! My …

The Withered Fig Tree

Matthew 21:17-20

… to be lighted, and then to shine; first to repent and believe, and then to confess his repentance and his faith in the Scriptural way, by baptism into …

The Need and Nature of Conversion

Isaiah 55:7

… Law says nothing about repentance. The Law curses you from the very first moment when you have broken it. That gracious message, "Repent you, therefore, and be converted …

Predestination and Calling

Romans 8:30

… When thou art commanded to believe and repent, when thou art exhorted to flee from the wrath to come, the sin lies on thy own head if thou …

Question and Exclamation

Jeremiah 3:19

… give proper expression to our repentance. We feel it, but we cannot utter it, so He puts the very form of the confession into His children's mouths …

Presumptuous Sins

Psalm 19:13

… Then you turned your face to the wall, and prayed; you vowed that if God would spare you, you would live a godly life, that you would repent …

The Unsearchable Riches Of christ

Ephesians 3:8

… You need pump up no tears of repentance to help Christ, for He will give you repentance if you seek it of Him. You must come to Him …

Forgiveness

Psalm 130:4

… Do you not know, O man, that God has commanded you to repent? The times of former ignorance God winked at, but now He commands all men everywhere …

The Great Change

Hosea 14:8

… Come with humble confession, come with sincere repentance, come with earnest supplication, come trusting to the Grace of God, come bringing your heart with you and rendering it …

The Student's Prayer

Psalm 119:27

… Great need, too, have we to understand the way of God's Gospel precepts—what these precepts are—"repent," "believe," "be converted" and the like. We need to …

The Pentecostal Wind and Fire

Acts 2:2-4

… Peter said, "You shall receive the Holy Spirit." The preachers of Pentecost told of the Spirit's work by the Spirit's power—conversion, repentance, renewal, faith, holiness …

Preaching! Man's Privilege and God's Power

Mark 6:20

… The preached Word is like Ezekiel's prophecy; life goes forth with the word of the faithful minister, when we say, "Repent!" We know that sinners cannot repent …

Additions to the Church

… There were the spring showers of repentance, the spring sunbeams of joy in the Holy Spirit and the spring flowers of newly-given hope and faith! May we …

The Lord And The Leper

Mark 1:40-42

… There is hope while Jesus sends his gospel to you, and bids you repent. "I believe in the forgiveness of sins": this is a sweet sentence of a …

The Question Between the Plagues

Exodus 10:3

… So cowed were they by that awful darkness, that for a time they seemed to repent of their rebellion against the Lord. 29, 30. He turned their waters …

Earnest Expostulation

Romans 2:4

… Do you not think that all this should encourage you to repent, since God himself leads you that way? If God leads you to repentance he does not …

The Turning Point

Luke 15:20

… They sit down and cry, ‘I want to repent; I want to feel my need; I want to be humble.’ O man, get up! What are you at …

"Clear Shining After Rain"

2 Samuel 23:4

… Now you really begin to repent of sin! Now are you sorry for the past. Now you begin to sigh and cry for Christ. You wish you knew …

A Loving Entreaty

Isaiah 43:26

… The Lord would thus humble you that you may repent—and that He may fulfill His Word to you—"I, even I, am He that blots out your …

Accidents, Not Punishments

Luke 13:1-5

… but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and slew them, think ye that they were sinners …

Salvation All of Grace

Ephesians 2:8

… It is a great sin not to be able to repent, but then the Lord will not look upon you from the point of what you ought to …

God's Work Upon Minister and Convert

Acts 26:16-20

… But in this later verse they are called upon to be active—"That they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance." Paul was …

The Threshing Floor of Ornan

1 Chronicles 21:28

… Then was it that David went out to meet with his God and make confession before Him. Oh, Sirs, the problem with many of you is that you …

Good News for Seekers

Psalm 22:26

… That confession of sin which he made with so many tears was a glorifying of God by bearing witness to the justice of God's Law and the …

The Blessings of Public Worship

Luke 18:10

… There should be, in God's Presence, confession of sin. We should, each one of us, when we draw near to the Lord, bow down in His Presence …

The Absent Pastor’s Care for his Flock

… True faith always has repentance for its twin-brother, love for its child, and holiness for its crown. If you have looked to Jesus for life, be sure …

Mourners, Inquirers, Covenanters

Jeremiah 50:4

… When you talk about repentance, if your repentance is with your back to the Cross, away with your repentance! If you are trusting to your tears, sorrows and …

Jan. 27 — PRECIOUS REPENTANCE

Ezek. 20:43

… safety, then we are led to repent of all our failures and miscarriages toward our gracious God. So precious is repentance, that we may call it a diamond …

The Danger of Unconfessed Sin

Psalm 32:3

… I think I can see why he could not have gone straight away from the sin to confession, for the sin prevented the confession—the sin blinded the …

Beginning at Jerusalem

Luke 24:47

… We are to preach repentance as a duty. “The times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent.” “Repent, and be baptized …

The King and His Court

Psalm 101:6

… simply say that you believe, but believe! If you repent, do not merely talk of repentance, but repent! Let everything be thorough and downright. May the Spirit of …

Morning, October 13

2Co 7:10

… Sincere repentance is continual . Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent. Every other sorrow yields to time, but this dear sorrow grows with …

"Do You Love Me?"

John 21:16

… He did not say, "Simon, son of Jonas, do you repent of your folly?" Repentance is a very blessed Grace and very necessary, but it was wiser to …