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Repentance
Repentance, confession, turning from sin, and returning to God
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Healing for the Wounded
Psalm 147:3
… you with tests whereby you may discern the truth and value of your repentance. 1. We can not conceive it possible that you are broken in heart if …
SERMON • SERMON 615Human Depravity And Divine Mercy
Genesis 8:21
… were "only evil." And then He adds that word "continually." What? Never any repentance? Never any yearning towards the right? No pure drops of holiness now and then …
SERMON • SERMON 3399Good Talk
1 Chronicles 16:9
… was prompted, the popular conversation was inoculated! The fever of that healthful sickness—repentance toward God—was spread abroad and communicated from one to another! "Have you heard …
SERMON • SERMON 556The Sinner's Friend
Matthew 11:19
… He is exalted on high—for what? To give repentance and remission of sins. He still wears upon his breastplate the names of sinners; upon his hands and …
SERMON • SERMON 3310Prompt Obedience
Psalm 18:44
… for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.If He had come to call the righteous, where would He have found them? His …
SERMON • SERMON 3556Absconding and Apostasy
John 6:67
… Do pray God that if your religion is a sham, you may find it out now! Unless your hearts are deeply plowed with genuine repentance, and unless you …
SERMON • SERMON 212The New Heart
Ezekiel 36:26
… Sinner, if thou willest to be saved, God willeth not the death of any, but rather that they should come to repentance; and thou are freely invited this …
SERMON • SERMON 3172Bright Prospects for Young Believers
Malachi 4:2
… Christ is the Savior and He will do it all! You are not to help in that work— "It is not your tears of repentance or prayers But …
SERMON • SERMON 512A Precious Drop Of Honey
Isaiah 49:16
… Neither our merits, prayers, repentance, nor faith can write our names there, for these in their goodness extend not unto God so as to write upon His hands …
SERMON • SERMON 120A Faithful Friend
Proverbs 18:24
… True belief and true repentance, Every grace that brings us nigh— Without money, Come to Jesus Christ, and buy.” There is nothing I feel that I fail so …
SERMON • SERMON 3536A Threefold Slogan
Luke 10:44
… I had no repentance, nor had I any faith. I was blind, but now— oh, blessed change—now I see my sin and weep over it! Now I …
SERMON • SERMON 3170The Novelties of Divine Mercy
Lamentations 3:22
… To the sinner, especially, it is a great mercy to have another day of Grace, another opportunity for repentance, a new reprieve from death, a little more space …
SERMON • SERMON 116Secret Sins
Psalm 19:12
… Oh! may God give you grace to cross the Rubicon of repentance at this very hour; to say, “Henceforth it is war to the knife with my sins …
SERMON • SERMON 2263Christ's Plea for Ignorant Sinners
Luke 23:34
… this that Christ asked for you and me long before we had any repentance, or any faith—and in answer to that prayer we were brought to feel …
SERMON • SERMON 3238A Vision of the King
Isaiah 33:17
… work He had undertaken—and to be both Prince and Savior to give repentance and remission of sins to all for whom, as the great Kingly Substitute, He …
SERMON • SERMON 95The Day of Atonement
Leviticus 16:34
… Sure, sinner, there is nothing that move thee to repentance like the thought of that great sacrifice of Christ which is necessary to wash away thy guilt. “Law …
SERMON • SERMON 875"Things To Come"
1 Corinthians 3:22
… By repentance cast off every sin. By a renewed application to Jesus and His Spirit, obtain fresh power against every evil. Stand ready for Heaven with your loins …
SERMON • SERMON 3259Faith's Way of Approach
Romans 10:17
… Even the first tears of repentance must be salted with faith—and the last song on earth shall be full of faith. You must have faith or you …
SERMON • SERMON 3358'Grace and Glory'
Psalm 84:11
… I might continue these instances as to different characters, but rest assured, dear Friend, if you are a Believer, and you use prayer and repentance, you shall find …
SERMON • SERMON 2290God's Unspeakable Gift
2 Corinthians 9:15
… When once you receive this Gift, you will never lose it, "for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance," which means that God never regrets that …
SERMON • SERMON 881The Believer A New Creature
2 Corinthians 5:17
… life that walks in service, the life that swims in sacred waters of repentance, the life that flies on the wings of faith in the midst of heaven …
SERMON • SERMON 819The Minstrelsy of Hope
Psalm 67:6
… When, with an evangelical repentance, she stands before the Mercy Seat, and cries, "God be merciful unto us!" We must never expect that the Lord will bless a …
SERMON • SERMON 9Spiritual Liberty
2 Corinthians 3:17
… you have been made to drink the bitter cup of repentance: and I know you will say, “Amen” when I declare that of all bondage this is the …
SERMON • SERMON 846Good Cheer for Christians
Isaiah 25:6
… He is a God that changes not. "The gifts and calling of God are without repentance." When He has once set His heart of love upon a man …
SERMON • SERMON 2964'Trust in the Living God'
1 Timothy 4:10
… Without an angel to sing His praise, or a human being to look up to Him with holy reverence or with tearful repentance—yet still independent of them …
SERMON • SERMON 247The Best of Masters
John 14:27
… He said, “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” But whenever poor, lost sinners have gone to Christ, he has never turned one of …
SERMON • SERMON 1228Salvation by Faith and the Work of the Spirit
Galatians 5:5
… We rest upon Jesus Christ crucified and not upon our faith, our repentance, our prayers, our conquests of sin, our likeness to Christ! Right away from anything that …
SERMON • SERMON 2433Heman's Sorrowful Psalm
Psalm 88:13
… the prayers are salted with penitential tears! If your heart is breaking with repentance and sorrow for sin, you will break down the bars which shut you out …
SERMON • SERMON 3435Sanctified Sorrow
Isaiah 54:11
… will lay your stones with fair colors," as if, in the bitterness of repentance, you did meet with the blessedness of remission and the brightest sunbeams shone upon …
SERMON • SERMON 2095The Lamb In Glory
Revelation 5:6
… Eyes washed by repentance are best able to see those blessed Truths of God which shine forth from our incarnate God, the bearer of our sins. Free Grace …
SERMON • SERMON 3177Christ Seen as God's Salvation
Luke 2:30
… salvation! But to know that "the gifts and calling of God are without repentance." That He has said, "He that believes and is baptized shall be saved." That …
SERMON • SERMON 722The Captive Savior Freeing His People
John 18:8
… Why should they seek after merit through their repentance and their good works? Why should such stagnant water be poured into the midst of the wine of My …
SERMON • SERMON 752The King In His Beauty
Isaiah 33:17
… whom God has "appointed to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance and remission of sins." Certain princes have delighted to call themselves kings by the …
SERMON • SERMON 3529More Room for More People
Luke 14:22
… Jesus to say, "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." When the rich men and the rulers refuse the Gospel, then, "the poor have …
SERMON • SERMON 16Paul's First Prayer
Acts 9:11
… What sayest thou, young man? Does Christ by his Spirit say in thine heart, “Come unto me?” Dost thou drop the tear of repentance? Methinks I see thy …
SERMON • SERMON 3306Satan, Self, Sin and the Savior
Mark 5:9
… keep on sinning." Or else, "We can turn from sin whenever we please. Repentance is such a simple matter that we can attend to it at any time …
SERMON • SERMON 3386Christ Our Peace
Ephesians 2:14
… are to be a peace unto yourself, nor does it say that your repentance, or tears, or prayers can give you peace. These are good and they are …
SERMON • SERMON 195Looking Unto Jesus
Psalm 34:5
… help me to feel them more penitently.” But recollect, it is not your repentance that saves you; it is just the blood of Christ, streaming from his hands …
SERMON • SERMON 3173'As' and 'So'
Colossians 2:6
… We were not only very sincere in our early repentance and faith, but our reception of Christ was very vital. Salvation was to us a matter of life …
COMMENTARYPsalm 144
Psalm 144
… He puts his name to the confession of his indebtedness: it is David who owns without demur to mercy given to himself. He styles himself the Lord's …