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Repentance, confession, turning from sin, and returning to God
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The Way To Honor
Proverbs 27:18
… transgressions shall be blotted out forever! May the Spirit lead each one of you to repentance for Jesus' sake. Amen. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON—Psalm 25.
SERMON • SERMON 3327Our Lord's Heroic Endurance
Hebrews 12:3
… for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. It was done and could not be undone. Does it not seem strange that …
SERMON • SERMON 3211'Feed My Sheep'
John 21:16
… He knew how sincere his repentance was and how hearty was his grief on account of his great sin and, therefore, lest he should be overtaken with too …
SERMON • SERMON 2937Too Little for the Lamb
Exodus 12:3
… are pressing to get in! You must come to Christ personally, by personal repentance and personal faith, and there must be a personal feeding upon Him if He …
SERMON • SERMON 1037The Poor Man's Friend
Psalm 72:12
… he not said he came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance? Is it not written that the Son of Man is come to seek and …
SERMON • SERMON 2252The Unknown Giver and the Misused Gifts
Hosea 2:8
… Yet, in spite of all this goodness, the people sinned times without number and grieved His Spirit again and again! Instead of being led to repentance, they sinned …
COMMENTARYPsalm 115
Psalm 115
… them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people." Joshua also used the like argument when he …
SERMON • SERMON 865Deep Calls Unto Deep
Psalm 42:7
… bleed! Deeps of the Savior's grief, you call to deeps of spiritual repentance. The agonies of Christ call us to the slaughter of our sins. Brethren, if …
SERMON • SERMON 2229God's Glorious and Everlasting Name
Isaiah 63:12
… Would that this long-suffering of God might lead men to repentance! Next, God gets to Himself a name in turning the rebellious to Himself. Oh, I delight …
SERMON • SERMON 3233God's Firebrands
Zechariah 3:2
… Imagine a person, here, who has lived to be 70 or 80 years old and all this time his heart has never heard the sigh of repentance and …
SERMON • SERMON 576Quiet Musing!
Psalm 39:3
… prayers! No sermons can save them now! No tears can bring them to repentance now! They are gone, gone! Yes, and there are others who are going—who …
SERMON • SERMON 788Creation’s Groans and the Saints’ Sighs
Romans 8:22-23
… Brethren, we have repentance, that gem of the first water. We have faith, that priceless, precious jewel. We have hope, which sparkles, a hope most sure and steadfast …
SERMON • SERMON 362None But Jesus—Second Part
John 3:18
… But this we know, since every word of God is assured, and the gifts of God are without repentance, though we should live another fifty years, yet would …
SERMON • SERMON 2153The Iniquity of Our Holy Things
Exodus 28:36-38
… Did we ever do anything yet that had not some spot of iniquity upon it? Is not our repentance, after all, but poor stuff compared with what it …
SERMON • SERMON 3394'Who Is This?'
Matthew 21:10
… meekness instructing those who are in opposition, if God, perhaps, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. And that they may recover themselves out of …
SERMON • SERMON 3122Craving the Best Things
1 Samuel 21:9
… He has brought forth "fruits meet for repentance," and his belief is proved by his works. He has attained to the full assurance, not of hope, though that …
SERMON • SERMON 2142Our Lord's Triumphant Ascension
Psalm 68:18
… by this dear Word and take it home to themselves with a believing repentance and a holy hatred of sin! I would print the words in stars across …
SERMON • SERMON 206Everybody's Sermon
Hosea 12:10
… thee, like a bird to its rest! Fly thou across the sea of repentance and faith and build thy nest in the land of mercy, that when the …
SERMON • SERMON 3392Justification by Faith
Romans 5:1
… Oh, to feel your sin, and yet to know your righteousness—to have the two together—repentance on account of sin, and yet a glorious confidence in the …
SERMON • SERMON 879An Assuredly Good Thing
Psalm 73:28
… Before, then, we can draw near to God, we must have come with repentance and faith to the Cross and have looked up to Him who bled there …
SERMON • SERMON 2991What We Have, and Are to Have
2 Thessalonians 2:16
… But when God forgives, He forgives forever, "for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance." That is to say, He never changes His mind and takes …
SERMON • SERMON 3222'The Lamb of God'
John 1:29
… you! I pray you not to suppose, for a single moment that your repentance, your tears, or your softened heart can prepare you for Christ! Do not come …
SERMON • SERMON 3376God's Answer to Persistent Prayer
1 Kings 18:41
… But why does He come? To convince of sin, to give us repentance, to show us Christ, to lead us to Christ, to work faith in us, to …
SERMON • SERMON 3046One of the Master's Choice Sayings
Matthew 14:16
… we go at once to Him who was raised from the dead "that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations, beginning …
SERMON • SERMON 2660Suffering Outside the Camp
Hebrews 13:12
… the guilty and in His long-suffering He gives them further opportunities for repentance! 19. And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Why does the …
SERMON • SERMON 2086Taking Possession Of Our Inheritance
Joshua 1:2
… would do it without hesitation. "The gifts and calling of God are without repentance." "I do give," says He, and thus He stands to His act and deed …
SERMON • SERMON 3197The Sweetness of God's Word
Psalm 119:103
… the Lord, you could wash your mouth clear of those bitter aloes of repentance and conviction of sin with the cup of consolation—the cup of salvation! After …
SERMON • SERMON 2899'To You'
Acts 13:26
… Savior—Jesus—after John had first preached before His coming, the Baptism of repentance to all the people ofIsrael And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Who …
SERMON • SERMON 2614Strange Things
Luke 5:26
… I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
SERMON • SERMON 2999Railings
Deuteronomy 22:8
… if these shall fall away, it is impossible "to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh and put Him to …
SERMON • SERMON 2918Facing the Wind
2 Thessalonians 3:13
… I scarcely know a Christian church that would refuse to receive into its membership again, a brother who had erred if he showed signs of true repentance. The …
SERMON • SERMON 1034The Only Atoning Priest
Hebrews 10:11-14
… God by him.' 'Exalted to be a Prince and a Savior to give repentance unto Israel, and remission of sins;' no more the 'despised and rejected, the Man …
SERMON • SERMON 3295Communion With Christ and His People
1 Corinthians 10:16
… hopeless reprobate, this unmasking of his traitorous design might have driven him to repentance, but there was nothing in his heart to respond to Christ's voice. He …
SERMON • SERMON 878A Well-ordered Life
Psalm 119:133
… yourselves, O professors, before God! May the Lord give you the spirit of repentance! May He pour out His spirit upon each of us! May we put away …
SERMON • SERMON 2306Servitude Or Service—Which?
2 Chronicles 12:8
… The Prophet gave them no invitation to repentance, but just an explanation of the sorrow which had come upon them. 6. Whereupon the princes of Israel and the …
SERMON • SERMON 166The Destroyer Destroyed
Hebrews 2:14
… no one would have them at a gift.” You may tell him, “Ah! but I have repented.” He will sneer at your repentance. You may tell him what …
SERMON • SERMON 1781Two Pauls and a Blinded Sorcerer
Acts 13:12
… meant to last only for a season—and intended to lead him to repentance—for this is the usual design of the chastening of this life. Why should …
SERMON • SERMON 1020'The Sun of Righteousness'
Psalm 19:4-6
… Do you hear the joyful motion among the people, the joy mingled with the sorrows of repentance? This is the singing of birds, and these the dewdrops which …
SERMON • SERMON 2259The Simplicity and Sublimity of Salvation
John 1:11-13
… this word—Jesus did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. He did not die for the good, but for the bad. He gave Himself …
SERMON • SERMON 140A Simple Sermon for Seeking Souls
Romans 10:13
… You may keep your visions, and ecstasies and raptures, and dancings to yourselves; the only feeling that I desire to have is deep repentance and humble faith; and …