Repentance

Baptism’A Burial

Romans 6:3-4

… The believer’s death to sin is at first a secret, but by an open confession he bids all men know that he is dead with Christ. Baptism …

Jonah's Resolve—or, 'Look Again!'

Jonah 2:4

… As says Ralph Erskine— "I'm in my own and others' eyes A labyrinth of mysteries." Here, for instance, is a confession from David. "So foolish was I …

Our Great Shepherd Finding the Sheep

Luke 15:4

… Notice, next, that repentance is regarded as coming home. This sheep was not in Heaven. No, but as soon as it had been brought into the fold it …

Law and Grace

Romans 5:20

… In vain the minister cries, “Repent,” Our hard heart will not melt; in vain he exhorts us to believe; that faith of which he speaks seems to be …

Psalm 94

Psalm 94

… The blessedness of the confession of weakness. 1. The confession. 2. The succour. 3. The time. 4. The acknowledgment. C.A.D. Verse 19. 1. In the multitude …

Pressing Questions of an Awakened Mind

Acts 9:5

… To know Christ, then, is a practi- cal knowledge, because it leads to repentance. When Christ is unknown, we can go on refusing and even persecuting Him. But …

Order and Argument in Prayer

Job 23:3

… give you a scheme such as many have drawn out, in which adoration, confession, petition, intercession, and ascription are arranged in succession. I am not persuaded that any …

Christ’s Estimate of His People

Solomon 4:10-11

… heaven; when you draw near to God with humble prayer, when you make confession of your sin to him; all these acts are like the smell of ointment …

The Dual Nature and the Duel Within

Romans 7:23

… believed in Jesus, you have the life which hates sin and makes you repent when you have fallen into it. That is the life which cries, "Abba, Father …

Jesus Only

… power on earth to forgive sins.” He is exalted on high “to give repentance and remission of sins.” It pleased God from of old to devise a method …

The Cholera Year in London

… There was no space left him then for repentance, for he had wasted the opportunities which God had long granted to him. I went home, and was soon …

Are You Prepared To Die?

Jeremiah 12:5

… They that go to seek mixed wine." It is an almost universal confession that the joys of earth promise more than they perform and that in looking back …

Why Are We Saved By Faith?

… When we believe in Christ, and the heart has come into the possession of God, then we are saved from sin, and are moved toward repentance, holiness, zeal …

Psalm 101

Psalm 101

… What kind of moral duties does the parent encourage, who, recommending kindness, openness, and justice, tricks the child into the confession of a fault, and then basely punishes …

Salt For Sacrifice

Leviticus 2:13

… They know what I mean while I speak it! God grant that they may bear the rebuke—and repent and turn to the Lord! They are looking one …

“Forward!”

… Are they to be our model? “I shape my creed every week,” was the confession of one of these divines to me. Whereunto shall I liken such unsettled …

The Gospel of Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac

Romans 8:32

… Your Maker gives His own Son to redeem His enemies and He comes to you tonight and tells you that if you will repent of your sins and …

Israel in Egypt

Revelation 15:3

… And remember, so must it be, unless ye be born again, unless ye believe in Christ, unless ye repent of sin and renounce it wholly, and with trembling …

Psalm 99

Psalm 99

… To hear prayer, and confession, and to grant salvation. 2. Effect produced—"Earth moved; "to admiration, to prayer, to sorrowful contrition, to draw near, etc. E. G. Gange …

The New Park Street Tracts

… He spoke upon subject suited to their condition; the reward of the righteous, the judgments of the wicked, the necessity of repentance, and the importance of a change …

The Evil and Its Remedy

Ezekiel 9:9

… got rid of, they were matters that might be speedily washed out by repentance, or purged away by amendment of your life; but now sin seemed an alarming …

Earnestness: Its Marring and Maintenance

… But those who complain of want of zeal are often the most zealous persons in the world, and a confession of want of life is itself an argument …

The Way of Salvation

Acts 4:12

… or ever shall repent. Jesus Christ stood as his substitute and scapegoat. God the Father hath accepted Christ in the stead of sinners. Oh, ought not this to …

On the Choice of a Text

… The odd thing of all was, that some few church-meetings afterwards, two persons came forward to make confession of their faith, who professed to have been converted …

Preparation for Heaven

2 Corinthians 5:5

… Come, now, have you received the Holy Spirit? Do, you reply, "How may I know?" Wherever the Holy Spirit is, He works certain Graces in the soul—repentance …

Love

1 John 4:19

… I have heard men say, that men of their own free-will may turn to God, believe, repent, and love, but I have heard the same persons, when …

Angelic Studies

Ephesians 3:10

… The process through which he has passed—his annealing, as it were, in the fire of his fall and of his repentance—his deep obligations to Sovereign Grace …

The Young Soul-Winner at Waterbeach

… It was very pleasant to know that she was; herself saved, and to see in her very sorrow the evidence of her genuine repentance; but, still, the evil …

The Shulamite'S Choice Prayer

Solomon 8:6

… The dungeon is locked; the key is dashed into the abyss of destiny, and never can be found— "Fixedis their everlasting state, could they repent, 'tis now too …

Psalm 10

Psalm 10

… wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." This is as great a requisite to prayer as any other act; I may say of it alone …

Consulting With Jesus

1 Kings 10:1-3

… I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." And, Beloved, listen yet again. Are you in some very sharp trial? Is your spirit terribly depressed …

Hope in Hopeless Cases

Matthew 17:17

… There is a notable difference between the dying scene of the triumphant Believer as he enters into rest, and the first weeping repentance of a Saul of Tarsus …

Their Desired Haven

Psalm 107:30

… been useless to Him)—excite in you a hundredfold tenderness! A tenderness of repentance for the past, and of holy desire for the future. In such an assembly …

Justification, Propitiation, Declaration

Romans 3:24-26

… It was a godly sorrow that led to bringing forth fruits meet for repentance. 4. Abide in Me and I in you. There is the great canon of …

God Comforting His People

Isaiah 49:13

… Again, to keep up the parallel with which I commenced, let me remind you that all sinners are called to repentance and faith in Christ wherever the Word …

Conversion and Character

Acts 16:24-34

… I see the Divine splendor of Grace as much in the conversion of the faultless moralist as in the repentance of Manasseh, or of that woman who was …

Love Joying In Love

Solomon 5:1

… been held in the galleries! He has been charmed by us! Our first repentance made Him call together His friends and His neighbors. The first gleam of faith …

Justification by Grace

… No, sir, it is repentance; it is the immediate leaving off the sin. But mark thee, neither by repentance, nor by leaving off thy sin, can save thee …

Our Lord's Posture in Ascension

Luke 24:50-53

… Peter said to the high priest, "Him has God exalted with His right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, for to give repentance to Israel"—that …

God's King Magnified

Psalm 132:18

… blessed thing if that shame leads them to true repentance, but in many cases it is only a repentance that comes from a fear of punishment and is …