Repentance

Trial by the Word

Psalm 105:19

… to put away the materials of the old nature with deep abhorrence and repentance, and thus shall the true work of God which he has built upon the …

My Prayer

Psalm 119:37

… to the name of Jesus? Are the water floods quite as plentiful? Is repentance as deep and living an emotion with you as sorrow under bereavement? I fear …

The Sin Offering

Leviticus 4:3

… Child of God, you will not misuse this Truth of God and deny the need of repentance, for you well know that you cannot practically feel the power …

Conversion

James 5:19-20

… I advise you, whenever you see professors living in sin to be very shy of them; but if after a time you see any sign of repentance, or …

Without Christ—Nothing

John 15:5

… as to the things of God and to influence the mind as to repentance and faith—must come entirely from the Most High. Do we feel that? Or …

The Blood Shed For Many

Matthew 26:28

… Our remembrance of Christ is chastened with repentance, but it is also perfumed with faith. The Lord's Supper is no funeral meal, but a festival! Most fitly …

The Story of a Runaway Slave

… you, try to undo all the wrong and prove the sincerity of your repentance by so doing. So Onesimus will go back to Philemon and work out his …

The Fruit of the Spirit—Joy

Galatians 5:22

… Even as the travail of the mother leads up to the joy of birth, so do the pangs of repentance lead up to the joy of pardon and …

Faith—What Is It? How Can It Be Obtained?

Ephesians 2:8

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

Understandest Thou What Thou Readest?

Acts 8:30-33

… He came not "to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." "Who rightly would his alms dispose Must give them to the poor; None but the wounded patient …

The Death of Christ for His People

1 John 3:16

… Then look, sinner—look unto Him and be saved— Unto Him who was nailed to the tree! It is not your tears of repentance or prayers, But the …

The Doctrines of Grace Do Not Lead to Sin

Romans 6:14

… are others of a nobler order whom the goodness of God leadeth to repentance. They scorn the beast-like argument—that the more loving God is, the more …

"In the Garden With Him"

John 18:26

… Such a question as this should effectually recall us to holiness—to deep repentance of the past and to strong resolves for the future. I will imagine that …

Ecce Rex

John 19:14

… come bending at His feet, conquered by His great love and restored to repentance and faith by His marvelous compassion! A sight of His wounds and bruises heals …

Sacred Memories

Jeremiah 51:50

… build You the walls of Jerusalem." So, when your sin and your repentance for it seem as if they must engross your prayer, and you must, with many …

A Voice From Heaven

Revelation 14:12

… are not on His side, oh, that we may speedily become so by repentance and faith! May the Lord turn us and we shall be turned, for if …

Purging Out the Leaven

1 Corinthians 5:6-8

… So you may bring the bitter herbs of your deep repentance that your sin made it necessary that the Lamb of God should die. But all the feast …

The One Thing Needful

Luke 10:42

… Submission, by repentance and faith, we must have, or our transgressions will remain upon us to our everlasting ruin. It is necessary, because we must have our inbred …

The Double "Come"

Revelation 22:17

… Warn them that He is on the way, but tell them that He waits to be gracious and that while He lingers they have space for repentance! You …

Everyday Usefulness

John 1:42

… What a task for the mathematician, to value one soul! One soul sets all Heaven's bells ringing by its repentance. One sinner that repents makes angels rejoice …

How A Man's Conduct Comes Home To Him

Proverbs 14:14

… They have been born again and, therefore, the trembling and almost extinct life within must and shall revive and bring them to repentance. They will come back weary …

Our Heavenly Father's Pity

Psalm 103:13

… shame that is worth having is a blessed shame—the shame of true repentance which sorrows over past sin, of which it is ashamed. Alas, there will be …

Golden Bowls Full Of Incense

Revelation 5:8

… He it is who knows the proper quantity of each ingredient in prayer—how much of faith, how much of love, how much of repentance, how much of …

Believers Free from the Dominion of Sin

Romans 6:14

… He that offends in one point is guilty of all." Thus the Law shuts a man up to being a sinner and offers him no space for repentance …

Five Links in a Golden Chain

Titus 1:4

… But, oh, what a mercy it is when we know that many of our converts are our "true" spiritual children, in whom the work of repentance was deep …

Ingratitude of Man

John 1:11

… Come, my Brothers and Sisters, let us not confess with our lips only, but with inward penitential grief! Let us seek godly sorrow which works practical repentance! May …

The Flight to Zoar

Genesis 19:23

… When I read, "He found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears," "Ah," I thought, "that is myself again." And when I read, "That …

"Knock!"

Matthew 7:12

… my locks with the drops of the night." This will excite you to repentance for your unkind behavior and also move you to love more intensely that gentle …

The Joy of the Lord, the Strength of His People

Nehemiah 8:10

… which they are to be adorned, so our spirits need the bedewing of repentance before they can receive the radiant colouring of delight. The glad news of the …

Partnership With Christ

1 Corinthians 1:9

… The ways of Free Grace are not palatable to human pride! Even when we were religiously inclined, our religion consisted of our own prayers, our own repentance, or …

How to Read the Bible

Matthew 12:3-7

… May the blessed Spirit give you repentance touching this thing. II. But now, secondly, and very briefly, let us notice that IN READING WE OUGHT To SEEK OUT …

The Prodigal's Climax

Luke 15:17

… I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner that repents, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance …

Jonah's Object-lessons

Jonah 4:6-8

… He is a Prophet of evil and he is a liar, too, for our great city is not destroyed! He frightened us into a kind of repentance for …

Joyful Anticipation of the Second Advent

Luke 21:28-31

… The rebellious tribes had ample space for repentance. They had even been carried away into captivity and, by the Lord's gracious loving kindness, they had struggled back …

The Deceived Heart

Isaiah 44:20

… world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to …

The Blood of Sprinkling and the Children

Exodus 12:21-27

… sprinkled blood! Our Lord Jesus is not for the first day of our repentance, only, but for all the days of our lives—we remember Him as well …

Direction In Dilemma

Exodus 14:13

… I do not mean stand still in inaction, without prayer, without repentance, without faith. What I mean is this—"Stand still"—first in the renunciation of all your …

The Personal Pentecost and the Glorious Hope

Romans 5:5

… but by the free gift of God, whose gifts and calling "are without repentance"? God does not give and take—His gifts are ours forever. If the Holy …

The Holy Child, Jesus

Acts 4:30

… heart—we who once had hearts hard as adamant! There the tears of repentance began to flow. There the griefs, the heavy glooms of our spirit were scattered …

The Immovability of the Believer

Psalm 125:1

… position of justified men, for, "the gifts and calling of God are without repentance." The Lord has covered them with the righteousness of Christ and cast all their …