Repentance

Feeble Faith Appealing to a Strong Savior

Mark 9:24

… And I pray that as I do, from many a heart may be breathed this confession and cry, "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief." I. There are three …

The Rule of Grace

Luke 4:27

… You are a lost sinner whatever your mother may have been! And you must repent and be converted just as truly as if you had been the child …

Life's Inevitable Burden

Galatians 6:6

… God as it becomes an individual and particular confession in the case of each one using the words. Repentance is peculiarly a private and personal Grace. Lamentation for …

A Waiting God and a Waiting People

Isaiah 30:18

… When the Lord says to our sin, "Be gone from My memory," we say to it, "Be gone from my heart." Repentance, faith, holiness and zeal all follow …

Man's Scorn and God's Succor

Job 16:20

… If you should not now repent of your sins, you shall repent some day, but that shall be when repentance is too late! Tears of repentance here on …

"There Is Forgiveness"

Psalm 130:4

… HAVE you noticed the verse which comes before the text? It runs thus, "If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?" That is a confession …

Forgiveness

Isaiah 43:25

… I can usually tell whether inquirers have been the children of pious parents or no, if after a confession of great guilt they feel unable to proceed at …

Repentance after Conversion

Psalm 51:17

… We shall need to believe and to repent as long as we live! Perhaps, also, you have the idea that repentance is a bitter thing. It is sometimes …

Sins of Omission

Jeremiah 11:8

… But I will speak to you of the neglect of repentance, for many of you in this house have been urged, again and again, to repent and consider …

The Reason Why Many Cannot Find Peace

James 4:7-10

… the background by some evangelists, namely, "Repent." Repentance is as essential to salvation as faith. Indeed, there is no faith without repentance except the faith which needs to …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage

… Spurgeon had expressed a wish that I should write out my confession of repentance and faith, which I accordingly did. I do not know whether it was read …

The Commissariat of the Universe

Psalm 104:28

… We must, ourselves, personally believe and repent! If any man does not repent as his own act and deed, his repentance and faith are not such as are …

A Solemn Embassy

2 Corinthians 5:20

… If repentance be indispensable, he is prepared to give it to you. If a tender heart be needed, he is ready to give you a heart of flesh …

Our Place—at Jesus' Feet

Luke 7:38

… You will never repent there. To stand at the foot of Sinai and tremble may have its uses. But Gospel repentance does not spring from legal terror. Gracious …

Faith's Dawn and Its Clouds

Mark 9:24

… The faith before us was earnest, it led the man to tears of repentance, it taught him to pray, it led him to open confession; in all these …

Psalm 38

Psalm 38

… The excellence of penitent confession. Verse 18. The twin children of grace—confession and contrition: their mutual revelation and reaction. Verse 18. ( last clause ). There is good reason …

Man's Extremity, God's Opportunity

Deuteronomy 32:36

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON LORD'S-DAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1880. "For the LORRD shall judge His people, and repent Himself for His servants, when …

A Good Confession.–Baptism

… Her name was Mary Bailey, and it is to be hoped that none will imitate her by postponing the confession of their faith in Jesus for so long …

The Withered Hand

Matthew 12:10

… must repent before I believe," says one. What kind of repentance is that which does not trust God—does not believe in God? An unbelieving repentance—is it …

Solace for Sad Hearts

Isaiah 61:3

… They have put away their ornaments—their finery of pride they have exchanged for the sackcloth of repentance! Their noisy merriment for humble confession! They now wonder how …

Sham Conversion

2 Kings 17:25

… He can imitate repentance with remorse. He can match faith with credulity. He can mimic assurance with presumption. He can give us the pleasures of this world instead …

How to Become Full of Joy

1 John 1:4

… regret in going to Heaven would be that he could no more repent. True evangelical repentance is food to the saintly soul! I do not know, Beloved, when …

The Minister's Farewell

Acts 20:26-27

… Oh, have I not cried to you to repent? Have I not bidden you look to it ere death surprised you? Have I not exhorted you, my hearers …

Psalm 79

Psalm 79

… In Josiah's days the most earnest repentance was not able to avert the doom which former long years of idolatry had sealed against Judah. Every man has …

Blessings Traced to Their Source

Psalm 87:7

… If we have repentance unto life, it is the work of the Spirit of God. If we have been kept until now, faithful to our profession, we have …

Psalm 19

Psalm 19

… Verse 12. "Who can understand his errors?" If a man repent not until he have made confession of all his sins in the ear of his ghostly father …

The Sympathy of the Two Worlds

… According to the Arminian doctrine a man may repent, and yet he may be lost, he may have grace to repent and believe, and yet he may fall …

Freedom Through Christ's Blood

Zechariah 9:11

… Then Peter said unto them, Repent "Change your mind entirely. Be sorry for what you have done. Repudiate what you have done by a holy repentance of it …

God's Goodness Leading to Repentance

Romans 2:4

… But the sweetest and best repentance is that which comes, not by driving, but by drawing—"The goodness of God leads you to repentance." It is a wretched …

The Soul's Awakening

John 5:25

… The Holy Spirit will not repent for you! What would He repent about? He never did wrong. And the Holy Spirit will not believe for you. What would …

"So It Is"

Job 5:27

… Does the Word say, "Repent"? If you want to know what repentance means, repent at once. You need not go to the Catechism or to the Creed for …

The New Park Street Pulpit

Ephesians 1:5

… There is one privilege not mentioned in the Confession which ought to be there. It is this—when a man is adopted into a family, and comes thereby …

A Great Sermon by the Greatest Preacher

Matthew 3:17

… must repent of sin, or we cannot receive the blessings of salvation! Of every man, whoever he may be, whether outwardly moral or openly wicked, repentance is required …

The Comer’s Conflict with Satan

Luke 9:42

… However great the sinner, if he does but repent, that is a proof that he is elect; if he does but believe on Christ, he is as certainly …

Righteous Hatred

Psalm 97:10

… let him go and sit down at the cross of Christ, and endeavor to draw evangelical repentance from the atonement which Christ has offered for our guilt. I …

A Paradox

2 Corinthians 12:10

… I never yet knew anybody repent who gloried in his power to repent; I never yet knew a man heart-broken for sin who boasted that he could …

Limiting God

Psalm 78:41

… Whether we be saints or sinners, we may stand here and make our humble confession that we have all “tempted the Lord our God and have limited the …

Good Cheer From Grace Received

Matthew 9:20-22

… are without repentance! The comfort to the woman in the narrative was meant, as we have seen, to meet the trial occasioned by her open confession. She had …

Nominal Christians—Real Infidels

John 8:46

… necessarily feel repentance and conviction. Alas, it is only when the Spirit of God gives you a real belief in these things that you repent in earnest. The …

The Joyous Return

Hosea 14:1-3

… You have been full of quibbling—believe even as a little child! Bring forth fruits meet for repentance and not the fruits of obstinate persistence in evil. To …