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Repentance
Repentance, confession, turning from sin, and returning to God
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Esther's Exaltation—or, Who Knows?
Esther 4:13
… so great riches is come to nothing.'" He may say to any Church, "Repent! Or else I will come unto you quickly and will fight against you with …
SERMON • SERMON 1797How To Meet the Doctrine of Election
Matthew 15:24
… also, who they are, for He tells me that they are such as repent of sin, confess it, forsake it and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ unto …
SERMON • SERMON 1274For the Sick and Afflicted
Job 34:31
… you your soul. Pray him to search you, and find out the sin. Repent and believe the gospel. Forsake evil and cling to the Savior, the great Physician …
SERMON • SERMON 472Believers—Lights In The World
Philippians 2:14-16
… one, "I leave that to the minister." Then you have neglected your duty—repent of your great sin and ask God, now, to help you to be making …
SERMON • SERMON 1810The Lion and the Bear—Trophies Hung Up
1 Samuel 17:36
… If he is not quite sure about his commission and if he is not quite sure that God is with him, he will soon repent his own temerity …
SERMON • SERMON 1025A Visit to the Harvest Field
James 5:7-8
… I have known brethren in the ministry get discouraged and leave their pulpits, and repent as long as ever they lived that they left a sphere of labor …
SERMON • SERMON 1564Desires Towards God—a Sermon For The Weak
Psalm 38:9
… You know that you desire to repent of sin, desire to be delivered from it, desire to be made a new creature in Christ Jesus, desire to be …
SERMON • SERMON 1487The Prophet Like Unto Moses
Deuteronomy 18:15-19
… them from the face of the earth? Turn from Your fierce wrath and repent of this evil against Your people." He prevailed with God by his pleading, for …
SERMON • SERMON 851Nearness To God
Ephesians 2:13
… You have been like Israel, ready to sink into the earth with fear and you have promised, some of you very fairly, that before long you would repent …
SERMON • SERMON 1311God of the Hills and God of the Valleys
1 Kings 20:28
… of a Christian, and he who has indulged them ought most heartily to repent of them! Has the Lord changed? Because you are older and feebler is He …
SERMON • SERMON 465The Holy Spirit Glorifying Christ
John 16:14
… Are you so far away? How loudly does He call you, "Come, Sinner, repent and come." Are you willing to come? Lo! He meets you! In the road …
SERMON • SERMON 2261One Worker Preparing For Another
1 Chronicles 22:14
… build up the Church of Christ—may you be granted Divine Grace to repent of your sin and may the Grace of God convert you! But if you …
SERMON • SERMON 854Fire—the Need of the Times
Luke 12:49
… While he is delivering the Truth of God of a crucified Savior and bidding men repent of sin and believe in Christ. While he is pleading and exhorting …
SERMON • SERMON 379Perfect Cleansing
Joel 3:21
… His chosen that they shall in due time be brought in! They shall repent. "A new heart also will I give them, and a right spirit will I …
SERMON • SERMON 375Temple Glories
2 Chronicles 5:13
… infamy will be changed; the drunk will forsake his cups, the swearer will repent his blasphemy, the debauched will leave their lusts— "Dry bones be raised and clothed …
SERMON • SERMON 1427A Wilderness Cry
Psalm 63:1
… God, God is walking contrary to you— and it is your duty to repent and return at once to your Lord—only by doing so will peace return …
SERMON • SERMON 1906How To Become Fishers of Men
Matthew 4:19
… It is, "Follow me, and I will make you." We should repent of what we have been, but rejoice in what we may be. It is not "Follow …
SERMON • SERMON 649Songs For Desolate Hearts
Isaiah 54:1
… They tell us that men can believe and can repent and can do all sorts of spiritual actions. And there are some who think they can do them …
SERMON • SERMON 361None But Jesus
John 3:18
… Generally the people who repent the most, think they are impenitent, and people feel most their need when they think they do not feel at all, for we …
SERMON • SERMON 608A Discourse For A Revival Season
Jeremiah 8:19
… The day is near with some of you, if you do not repent, when, tossing upon the bed of sickness you will have to cry in the sight …
SERMON • SERMON 2507He Ran, and He Ran
Mark 5:6
… has far-reaching eyes and if there is only half a wish to repent in any of your hearts, the Father sees it! If you only know that …
SERMON • SERMON 730Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
John 14:1
… class with class, and to grant to our whole nation Divine Grace to repent of its many sins, that the chastening rod may be withdrawn. Apart from these …
SERMON • SERMON 3479All of Grace
Ephesians 2:8
… I never stood by the bedside of a godly man who reposed any confidence whatever in his own prayers, or repentance, or religiousness. I have heard eminently holy …
SERMON • SERMON 1744Where The "If" Lies
Mark 9:23
… man that he should he, nor the Son of man that he should repent. He has said that whosoever believeth in Jesus shall not perish, but have everlasting …
COMMENTARYPsalm 22
Psalm 22
… of grace. "I am a Hebrew and I fear God" was Jonah's confession of faith. Humble awe of God is so necessary a preparation for praising him …
CHAPTERMemorable Services at the Tabernacle, 1861-1874
… The first cause, Christ; the second, Christ; the third, Christ; and for that confession, which he made in Rome, he was condemned to be put to death as …
SERMON • SERMON 307Importance of Small Things in Religion
… friend, you are commanded to do it. “God commandeth all men everywhere to repent.” This is the commandment, that ye believe on Jesus Christ whom he hath sent …
CHAPTERDr. Rippon’s Prayer and its Answer
… that exclusive school which deems it to be unsound to persuade men to repent and believe. He was by no means so highly Calvinistic as his great successor …
CHAPTERHow To Meet the Evils of the Age
… in various places, it may be as well to mention here the frank confession of Dr. Carpenter. He has told us from the presidential chair of the Royal …
COMMENTARYPsalm 139
Psalm 139
… You may often repent of speaking, you will rarely repent of silence. How soon angry words are spoken! How soon foolish expressions drop from the mouth! The Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 573Baptismal Regeneration
Mark 16:15-16
… Who are you, that you should rebuke me? Call me to repentance? Call me to a new life? What better life can I have? for I am a …
COMMENTARYPsalm 29
Psalm 29
… voice of the Son of Man, which hath so often called sinners to repentance, shall call them to judgment. George Horne. Verse 4. Where the word of a …
COMMENTARYPsalm 138
Psalm 138
… need of silence before revilers, here we see the excellence of a brave confession. There is a time to be silent, lest we cast pearls before swine; and …
COMMENTARYPsalm 9
Psalm 9
… Verse 8. "He shall judge the world in righteousness." In this judgment tears will not prevail, prayers will not be heard, promises will not be admitted, repentance will …
COMMENTARYPsalm 137
Psalm 137
… A confession of joy being turned into sorrow: "we hanged, "etc. The moaning of their harps upon weeping willows better harmonized with their feelings than any tunes which …
SERMON • SERMON 1832Elijah's Plea
1Kings 18:36
… There is no merit in my faith, or my baptism, or my repentance, or my forsaking of sin—yet as You have put Your promise side by side …
CHAPTERStrength in Weakness
… We have not afforded ourselves a complete inspection, or we should have found some fault to repent of, some evil yet to struggle against. Hitherto, we have been …
SERMON • SERMON 2124Help for Your Sickness
Matthew 8:16
… irrevocable! As it is written, "The gifts and calling of God are without repentance." He never draws back nor repents of what He has done. He saves and …
SERMON • SERMON 1825An Inscription for the Mausoleum of the Saints
Hebrews 11:13
… life, they had faith in death? I will pronounce no opinion upon deathbed repentance. I have heard judgments far too sanguine. I have heard verdicts far too severe …
SERMON • SERMON 2060The Messages of Our Lord's Love
Mark 16:7
… You have been brought to repentance after having slid away from Him and now He seals your pardon by inviting you to Himself. He bids you not to …