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Repentance
Repentance, confession, turning from sin, and returning to God
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The Glorious Right Hand Of The Lord
Numbers 11:23
… Oh, He cannot save me, I am so guilty, so callous! Could I repent as I ought; could I but feel as I ought; then He could save …
SERMON • SERMON 640The Gospel'S Power In A Christian'S Life
Philippians 1:27
… to take hold of Him, to wash His feet with your tears, to repent unfeignedly—and then to begin anew in His strength a life which shall be …
SERMON • SERMON 3561The Drawings of Love
Jeremiah 31:3
… try to be good and by earnest endeavors, joined with fervent prayers and repentance, I hope to fit myself for Heaven." Oh, that you may be drawn away …
SERMON • SERMON 3351The Queen of Sheba
Matthew 12:42
… He needs nothing good from you. "Surely He needs faith and repentance," says one. Yes, but— "True belief and true repentance, Every Grace that brings me nigh, Without …
SERMON • SERMON 3313A Practical Discourse
1 Kings 5:14
… They urge repentance, but they have not themselves repented! They teach faith, but they have not themselves believed. They forget the work of the Holy Spirit within them …
SERMON • SERMON 3438The Compassion of Jesus
Matthew 9:36
… He was moved with compassion and, therefore, He sent His servants to call sinners to repentance. But since the minister, though He may call as he may, will …
SERMON • SERMON 860Mourning at the Sight of the Crucified
Luke 23:48
… drawn to Him and as a consequence have struck upon their breasts in repentance and gone their way to serve the Savior whom they once blasphemed. Oh, the …
SERMON • SERMON 3247Unreasonable Reasons
Matthew 14:31
… God grant, then, that as we turn this question over, it may breed repentance in our spirits! And as we find how impossible it is to answer it …
SERMON • SERMON 936A Blessed Wonder
Matthew 8:10
… Your sin has been aggravated— confess it! Your sin is in its own self unpardonable—Justice writes it with a pen of iron—and no tears of repentance …
SERMON • SERMON 1893Jesus Angry with Hard Hearts
Mark 3:5
… Oh that they could weep! Oh that they could feel! Repentance is hid from their eyes. There remains nothing sensitive about them, except it be the base imitation …
SERMON • SERMON 170The Immutability of Christ
Hebrews 13:8
… No, within a few more years, my hearer, if thou dost not repent, thou wilt find that every jot and every letter of the threatenings of Jesus will …
SERMON • SERMON 196A Present Religion
1 John 3:2
… He tolerates that which speaks of eternity; that which deals with dying beds; that which leads him to look back with a specious repentance upon a life spent …
SERMON • SERMON 3535Safe, Though Surrounded By Sin
Psalm 28:1
… He said, "What right had he to hastily sign a decree which might take away the lives of the best men in his dominion? And his repentance does …
SERMON • SERMON 1459ASatan's Punctuality, Power and Purpose
Luke 8:12
… The lapse of time might give opportunity for thought and thought might lead to repentance and, therefore, the enemy hurries to prevent the hearer from considering the Truth …
SERMON • SERMON 3552The Soul's Desertion
Song 5:6
… WHAT IS OUR DUTY IN SUCH A PLIGHT? If he is gone, what then? I answer—our duty is to repent of that which has driven Him away …
SERMON • SERMON 411Infant Salvation
2 Kings 4:26
… It has escaped those sorrows, do you lament that? Remember, too your own sins, and the deep sorrow of repentance. Had that child lived, it would have been …
SERMON • SERMON 148Five Fears
Ecclesiastes 8:12
… He says himself, “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” If you have got abundance of good works, and think you can go to …
SERMON • SERMON 809The Approachableness of Jesus
Luke 15:1
… What a help that is to those who are coming to him! This repentance is the greatest want of coming sinners, and he from the skies supplies it …
SERMON • SERMON 65Lions Lacking—But the Children Satisfied
Psalm 34:10
… how horribly he feels, how damnably he is tormented, still ye would not repent. Therefore we will say little of it. May God the Holy Ghost seek you …
SERMON • SERMON 505The Root Of The Matter
Job 19:28
… On Christ the solid rock I stand, All other ground is sinking sand." There must be in connection with this the repentance of sin, but this repentance may …
SERMON • SERMON 975The Parable of the Wedding Feast
Matthew 22:2
… Not even your repentance can glorify him, if you think to make it a rival to his precious blood. Come, guilty sinner, as you are, and take the …
SERMON • SERMON 2103The Hunger and Thirst Which Are Blessed
Matthew 5:6
… Even my prayers are interrupted by wandering thoughts and my tears of repentance have sin mixed with them." Beloved, I understand that faintness and sinking, that groaning and …
SERMON • SERMON 2768Debtors and Debtors
Luke 7:41
… It is because it is so especially and so designedly against Him that no repentance ever comes to the man who has committed it, for he has sinned …
SERMON • SERMON 2088The Form of Godliness Without the Power
2 Timothy 3:5
… But, nevertheless, there is danger lest we fail to have personal repentance and personal faith and are content to lean upon the opinions of others. I have seen …
SERMON • SERMON 3413God's Mercy Going Before
Psalm 59:10
… of the Holy Spirit, too, by which the saints are now called unto repentance, and unto a new life and all the operations and influences of the Holy …
SERMON • SERMON 1077The Lord Blessing His Saints
Psalm 115:15
… I fear many have made but poor students in the University of Theology because they were never well-grounded in the School of Repentance. I am astonished that …
SERMON • SERMON 3028God's Glory Our Rereward
Isaiah 58:8
… of David's sin—it were well if they would remember David's repentance and David's broken bones after he had received pardon. He never was the …
SERMON • SERMON 1176The Eternal Day
Isaiah 60:20
… Upon her repentance her sun arose again and the daughters of Judah rejoiced, but again they went astray, for the zealous judge, or the godly king, or the …
SERMON • SERMON 887A Door Opened In Heaven
Revelation 4:1
… The door is opened! You have not to stand and knock by the month together with processes of repentance and reformation. A door is opened! Christ is that …
SERMON • SERMON 2079Man Unknown To Man
Proverbs 14:10
… When the gracious Lord grants him repentance and he comes back, as I am persuaded he will—he will return with weeping and with supplication and eat again …
SERMON • SERMON 2947Royal Emblems for Loyal Subjects
2 Samuel 23:4
… If Christ did ask anything of you or me, if He did but ask repentance of us, unless He gave us that repentance, His salvation would be of …
SERMON • SERMON 2998The Rule of Christ
2 Samuel 23:4
… He has not come to heal the healthy, but the sick! He came, "not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." May He call you and bring …
SERMON • SERMON 2074Intimate Knowledge of the Holy Spirit
John 14:17
… You may get up an animal excitement and your converts will, in due time fail—but the Spirit of God works true conversion, sincere repentance and saving faith …
SERMON • SERMON 2552"Take Heed, Brethren"
Hebrews 3:12
… Take heed lest sin hardens you before you are aware of it! Even while you fancy that you have wiped it out by repentance, petrifaction will remain upon …
SERMON • SERMON 3531'That Day' and Its Disclosure
2 Timothy 1:18
… waits to be gracious! He is exalted on high on purpose to give repentance unto Israel, and remission of sins. This is a night in which sin may …
SERMON • SERMON 3073Thrice Happy Day!
Haggai 2:19
… is some efficacy, some usefulness in your Bible reading, in your tears and repentance—or something else that comes from you. Now, remember, you will never know the …
SERMON • SERMON 3244'Our Light Affliction'
2 Corinthians 4:17
… the goodness of God in preserving you alive until now lead you to repent of your sin and to trust in the Savior! Thank God you are still …
SERMON • SERMON 256The Believer's Challenge
Romans 8:34
… If you are now led to repent of sin; if you will now cast yourself on the blood and righteousness of Christ, your eternal salvation shall be as …
SERMON • SERMON 1180Jesus Near but Unrecognized
Luke 24:16
… Even tears of repentance have prevented men from seeing Truths of God which might have made their hearts glad. Again, in their case, in addition to the mysterious …
SERMON • SERMON 25The Hope of Future Bliss
Psalm 17:15
… Election is a college to which you little ones will not go till you have been to the school of repentance. Do not begin to read your book …