Repentance

Lessons from the Christ of Patmos

Revelation 1:16

… keen sword to slay sin when Jesus speaks it! My soul melts in repentance when my Beloved speaks to me. Nothing can stand against the Word of Jesus …

Not Bound Yet

2 Timothy 2:9

… As yet you see no tear of repentance and hear no cry of faith and, moreover, it may be that your friend refuses to go and hear the …

"Am I A Sea, Or A Whale?"

Job 7:12

… be blocked for you and may you be piloted into the waters of repentance and faith! This is why some kick against God. I fear these people will …

The Sluggard’s Farm

… He does not care about repentance and faith. To think about his soul, to be in earnest about eternity, is too much for him. He wants to take …

"The Sure Mercies of David"

Acts 13:34

… Whom John had first preached before His coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think …

The Savior Resting in His Love

Zephaniah 3:17

… and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these things. And, behold …

Scarlet Sinners Pardoned and Purified

Isaiah 1:18

… And if the milder forms of chastisement do not bring men to repentance, sooner or later will come the axe of destruction! Thus the Prophet says it was …

The Great Birthday and Our Coming of Age

Galatians 4:3-6

… but the Lord towards us! I do not find that the world, in repentance, sought its Maker. No, but the offended God, Himself, in infinite compassion, broke the …

Number One Thousand; Or, “Bread Enough and To Spare”

Luke 15:17

… He is exalted on high to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance and remission of sins. But, ah! the master proof that in Christ Jesus …

The Sluggard's Farm

Proverbs 24:30-32

… He does not care about repentance and faith. To think about his soul, to be in earnest about eternity, is too much for him. He wants to take …

A String Of Pearls

1 Peter 1:3-5

… You shall know this new life by the faith and the repentance which always come with it wherever God Himself is pleased to work it. The new life …

Faith—life

Habakkuk 2:4

… And on what He suffered, not on what you can suffer by way of repentance, despondency and distress of soul. You must look right away from anything there …

The Search For Faith

Luke 18:8

… is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. But He will not forever delay the long-expected end! The Lord Jesus, Himself …

Seeking For Jesus

John 6:24

… They still think there is so much repentance to do, so much feeling to endure, so much praying to go through, so much mystery to be experienced. But …

The Sword of the Spirit

Ephesians 6:17

… No man will ever be brought to repentance, to faith and to life in Christ, apart from the constant application of the Truth through the Spirit. I hear …

The Best of the Best

Solomon 2:1

… on the Cross, but there is more real joy in the tears of repentance than there is in the smiles of worldly mirth. I would choose my Heaven …

The Magnanimity of God

Job 36:5

… people—but still He lets the lifted thunder drop and gives space for repentance. He sends them messages of mercy. He implores them to turn from the error …

Good News for the Lost

Luke 19:10

… I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." As many as are of the works of the Law are under the curse. If any of …

The Holy Spirit Glorifying Christ

John 16:14

… salvation! May God the Holy Spirit bring every unsaved one here tonight to repentance and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord bless every one of you …

God's Heart the Source of All Blessing

2 Samuel 7:21

… you were pardoned, Brother, why were you forgiven? For the sake of your repentance, or in hope of your doing better in the future? By no means, for …

The Winnowing Fan

Hebrews 12:14

… Instead of bidding such persons follow after holiness, I would speak to them as unto carnal, and bid them first bring forth fruits meet for repentance. Do not …

Folly of Unbelief

Luke 24:25

… are sick; I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Does not that fit you? "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found …

Others To Be Gathered In

Isaiah 56:8

… I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." O blessed Master, "holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners," the sinners came to You and coming …

The Rose and the Lily

Solomon 2:1

… Him as we should, we will add humbly, and with the tear of repentance in our eyes— "Yes we love You and adore— O for Grace to love …

Psalm 50

Psalm 50

… See how you have mocked the eternal, and repent of your iniquities. Lest I tear you in pieces, as the lion rends his prey, and there be none …

The Believer in the Body and Out of the Body

2 Corinthians 5:5-10

… And so, if today I am the quarried block of marble—if He has begun to make the first chippings in me of genuine repentance and simple faith …

The Blind Befriended

Isaiah 42:16

… I remember being led by the Divine hand down the dark lane of repentance with many a sigh and many a groan! I remember being led into the …

Psalm 97

Psalm 97

… Of restraint, to exclude from this joy, and all right therein, all dissemblers, all counterfeit Christians, all hollow hearted hypocrites, that repent in the face but not in …

God's Nearness To Us

Acts 17:27

… How perceptible must repentance be! If God is near you, He sees that tear which just now scalded your cheek. He marks that sigh. He sees that heaving …

Jesus At Bethesda—or, Waiting Changed for Believing

John 5:1-9

… Seek for deeper repentance." Beloved, away with such teaching! The Cross! The Cross! The Cross! THERE hangs a sinner's hope! You must not rely on what you …

Despised Light Withdrawn

John 12:36

… So these other things all start together, whether it is the hub of the wheel, which is regeneration, or the spokes of the wheel, which are faith, repentance …

Marah Better Than Elim

Exodus 15:22-26

… You will have no tenderness of heart unless He works repentance in you. You will have no more faith unless faith is constantly bestowed by God. We are …

Three Sights Worth Seeing

1 Thessalonians 2:13-14

… There is the same tear of repentance, the same glance of faith, the same thrill of joy, the same song of confidence: each one according to his measure …

Faith's Ultimatum

Job 13:15

… Have you ever had to begin all over again, at the very alphabet of repentance and childlike faith—and find even that no easy work? Did you never …

God's People—or Not God's People

Hosea 2:23

… They have never been brought to repentance, they have never been led to faith in Christ. Consequently, to them the Spirit of God is not a Quickener. To …

Christ Is All

Colossians 3:11

… If you cannot come with a broken heart to Christ, come for a broken heart. “True belief, and true repentance Every grace that brings us nigh, Without money …

The Ethiopian

Jeremiah 13:23

… How many there are who, when they seem to turn to God in times of sickness, are not truly penitent! A death-bed repentance may be true, but …

The Heart Full and the Mouth Closed

Ezekiel 16:62

… Tell him that God sent not His Son into the world to save the righteous, or to call those to repentance who have no sin to be repented …

A Gospel Worth Dying For

Acts 20:24

… Christ came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. Come, therefore, you morally sick—you whose brows are white with the leprosy of sin—come and …

Psalm 129

Psalm 129

… that is to say, it may be an imprecation of good confusion, which leads to repentance, and of turning to God from sin: thus Bellarmine. There is a …