Repentance

A Promise and Precedent

John 16:14

… to think that in prayer, they must go through the Westminster Assembly's Confession of Faith, or some similar compendium of Doctrine—but that is not real praying …

The Eye—a Similitude

Psalm 17:8

… The man knows something of himself who sincerely offers this plaintive petition to his God, "Keep me." Is there not a deep and sorrowful confession implied in this …

God's Valiant Right Hand

Psalm 118:16

… There was scarcely light enough for the anxious seeker to see his Lord! And men were crushed by the Inquisition, by the practice of priestly confession, by the …

"Beautiful Forever"

Psalm 149:4

… were to say, "Yes, I am meek," there would be no pridein that confession, for the most of men would count that he was confessing to a weakness …

Memories of my Father (Continued)

… my dear mother, who had also been an eye-witness of her sons’ confession of faith in the Scriptural fashion. We received the right hand of fellowship, at …

Enquirers and Converts (Continued)

… The father opened it, stood face to face with his long-lost son ; and then followed the old story of the prodigal's return, — tears, confession, forgiveness, welcome …

The Glorious Habitation

Psalm 90:1

… the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.” The confession of our faith in the Saviour is another sign that we live in God …

Psalm 131

Psalm 131

… Help us to be in such a case that the confession of this verse may come from our lips asa truthful utterance which we dare make before the …

God'S Cure For Man'S Weakness

Hebrews 11:34

… There is no cure for hesitancy in the confession of Christ equal to faith! Observe Moses. He is so hesitating that God gives him Aaron to be his …

An Earnest Entreaty

Psalm 2:12

… and just look toward the communion table, through which poor offenders who professed repentance, after some months of standing in the church yard, or perhaps outside of it …

The Touch

Mark 5:30

… out of her hiding place, for had she gone away without an open confession, she might often have been disturbed in mind by the fear that a stolen …

The Dumb Become Singers

Isaiah 35:6

… They can utter the mere words of confession, but they cannot really confess, for they do not know the evil of sin, nor have they been taught to …

Prayer 23 — The Look of Faith

… We would again repeat our repentance and our faith and then look at the brazen serpent and touch but the border of Thy garment. We would begin again …

Eyes Opened

2 Kings 6:17

… For with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Sinners do not understand the simplicity of salvation until their eyes …

The Beginning, Increase, and End of the Divine Life

Job 8:7

… Tongue, thou shalt not for ever have to mourn, and be the instrument of confession; there are songs and hallelujahs for thee. Feet, yet shall not always be …

The Blood

Exodus 12:13

… Is thy repentance, thy sense of sin, to be a part-Saviour? Sinner! the blood is to save thee, not thy tears, Christ’s death, not thy repentance …

God Alone the Salvation of his People

Psalm 92:2

… ascribe my change wholly to God.” I desire to make this my constant confession. I know there are some who preach one gospel in the morning, and another …

A Challenge and a Shield

Romans 8:34

… The Law of God says, "You shall not," and we have done exactly what we were forbidden to do! Only too true is that confession, "We have left …

How to Read the Bible

1 Timothy 4:13

… He offers prayer, praise, confession and testimony—these, presented with his voice in the presence of an audience—were the tribute of his mouth unto Jehovah. He trembles …

The Forerunner

Hebrews 6:20

… The sound of this confession, "I have sinned," is like that of a funeral knell. But the music of the sentence, "Jesus saves me," is like that of …

A Pastoral Visit

… he said that the sound of singing at family prayers was a distinct confession that that family loved and worshipped God! He called his children together on Thursdays …

The Great Teacher and Remembrancer

John 14:26

… I like our young people to learn the Westminster Assembly's Confession of Faith. It is a "form of sound words" that is well worth committing to memory …

Witnesses for God

Isaiah 43:10

… upon any point of Truth, be you the man and witness a good confession for Jesus your Lord! Next, if we are witnesses for God, we should not …

Chiding and Cheering

John 14:9

… God has graciously heard me." I am pleased to hear them make the confession of answered prayerfor it tends to cheer and encourage others. But when they go …

A Visit to Christ's Hospital

Psalm 107:17-22

… I have played the fool before the living God." This confession is true, for what madness it is to play the fool before the Eternal One with your …

Not Boasting, But Trusting

Ephesians 2:9

… are not his words, but they are the sense of his own solemn confession when he came to read the pure Gospel and began to preach it with …

The Great Revival

Isaiah 52:10

… or two decoy ducks to run out from the rest and make a confession of sin, hundreds have come forward, impressed by that one sermon, and declared that …

Psalm 66

Psalm 66

… Bilney, perceiving Latimer to be zealous without knowledge, came to him in his study and desired him for God's sake to hear his confession. "I did so …

God's Longsuffering: An Appeal to the Conscience

2 Peter 3:15

… Because he gives them space for repentance, they make it into space for iniquity; and because he will not deal out his judgments immediately, they say, "Where is …

Why Men Cannot Believe in Christ

John 5:44

… In many cases there is a strong aversion to confession of sin and to an approach to God, and that is the reason why men cannot believe. When …

The Unfailing Help

2 Kings 6:27

… his prayers? Just nothing unless the Lord moved you to make a personal confession of your sin and to believe personally in Jesus and personally to pray to …

The Plowman

Isaiah 28:24

… be trusted! With your heart believe in Jesus and with your mouth make confession of Him and you shall be saved! A main part of faith lies in …

Cumbered With Much Serving

Luke 10:40

… I know I have often felt like it and I here make confession of that wicked vanity which is so very common a complaint among us! We get …

Wonders

Joel 2:26

… The Prophet Joel was commissioned to exhort them to repentance and if, indeed, they listened to his earnest entreaties their later history was bright with mercy. By God …

Public Meeting Of The Various Denominations

… If they dared to call in question the confession of faith, he was afraid the Presbyterian would be annoyed. The same with the Wesleyan if they impugned the …

"Your Rowers Have Brought You Into Great Waters"

Ezekiel 27:26

… Yet I only translated his language from Greek to Latin! These are strange waters to get into, when all your philosophy brings you is the confession that you …

Unity In Christ

John 17:20

… be compelled to say God must have sent Christ! They cannot restrain that confession when all the Church shall be one as the Father is one with Christ …

Broken Bones

Psalm 51:8

… I wish they would look, also, at David's repentance, for if his sin was shameful, his sorrow for it was of the most bitter kind. And if …

Messrs. Moody and Sankey Defended; or, A Vindication of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Galatians 5:24

… True, he comes to give pardon, but he never gives pardon without giving repentance with it; he comes to justify, but he does not justify without also sanctifying …

The Loaded Wagon

Amos 2:13

… He cannot endure it, that His children should be thus degraded as to turn even the mercy which would woo them to repentance, into a ground why they …