Repentance

To-morrow

Proverbs 27:1

… They do so in the first place, who think that it will be easier for them to repent to-morrow than it is to-day . Felix said there …

God's Glory in Hiding Sin

Proverbs 25:2

… Do not even plead your own repentance, or your tears, or your feelings. Plead as David did, "For Your name's sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity: for …

The Children and Their Hosannas

Matthew 21:15

… In many children whom I have known, repentance has been true, thorough, deep, intelligent and lasting—they have found their way to the foot of the Cross and …

Dangerous Lingering

Genesis 19:16

… It strikes me the best time to repent in is this moment—and the very best season in which to fly to Jesus is now! Before yet the …

Psalm 90

Psalm 90

… Let it repent thee. According to the not infrequent and well known phraseology of Scripture, God is said to repent, when putting away men's sorrow, and affording …

Too Good to Be Saved!

Luke 18:14

… I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." You must strike that passage out and so you must the reference to "Him that justifies the …

Faith in Perfection

Psalm 138:8

… Oh! let this always make us cry aloud, “Forsake us not, O God.” There is yet another confession in the text—the Psalmist’s confession that all he …

Truthfulness

Jeremiah 5:3

… For instance, suppose I say, "I repent." The question is—Do I really and from my heart sorrow for sin? Is there a change in my mind with …

Contention Ended and Grace Reigning

Isaiah 57:16-18

… Mercy is very speedy where confession is complete. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins." Be humbled, for to such …

Proclamation of Acceptance and Vengeance

Isaiah 61:2

… Let sin be confessed and the confession shall be accepted and you shall find forgiveness! Let transgression be repented of, the repentance shall be accepted and you shall …

Two Arguments Against Sin

Jeremiah 44:4

… I grieve because it injures you and I am vexed because of the misery and woe it will surely bring upon you unless you repent." The greatest wonder …

Decided Ungodliness

Jeremiah 5:3

… It is bad enough to have violated God's righteous Law, but to refuse to repent and to continue presumptuously in our iniquity must greatly increase our guilt …

The Lord's Own Salvation

Hosea 1:7

… Let there be no waiting for tears, feelings, repentance, sanctification, or anything else. But arise at once and go to your God, and for Christ's sake, plead …

Hopeful, Yet Doubtful

Matthew 8:19

… well; for so I am," and this scribe began his religious confession well, whatever that confession may have turned out to be, by addressing Christ as Lord. I …

A Delusion Dispelled

Ezekiel 14:20

… should be compelled to believe and to repent." Compelled to believe and to repent? Well, Man, what sort of repentance and faith must that be which comes of …

Confession With The Mouth

Romans 10:10

… To some, confession with the mouth will involve the taking up of the cross in the family. I know of no form in which this confession is more …

Psalm 26

Psalm 26

… Contrition and confession to God make not up complete repentance without satisfaction to men. Non remittitur peccatum nisi restituatur ablatum: (Augustine), it is as true as old, and …

Faith First, Confession Following

Romans 10:10

… That will be the best confession of your faith that you can make. Still, do not dissociate the word of confession from the action, for it is to …

Reasons For Doubting Christ

Matthew 14:31

… Confess it before God with deep repentance, but come to Jesus Christ just as you are and, whoever you may be, there is no room for doubting! The …

The Heart—a Den of Evil

Matthew 15:19

… Men sometimes say, "We shall not be hanged for our thoughts." But it will be well for them to know that except they repent of them, they certainly …

The One and the Many

Romans 5:16

… You shallbe holy and that very holiness will be God's gift to you! "But I must repent." Yes, and you will repent, but that penitence will be …

From Death To Life

1 Samuel 2:6

… It is because you keep putting off the day of repentance by perpetual procrastination. You live in a continual suicide, always destroying your own soul. Meanwhile, that which …

An Earnest Warning about Lukewarmness

… be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to …

An Exhortation By Rev. C.H. Spurgeon

2 Samuel 11:1

… It is a great thing and will be a damnable thing, unless God gives you repentance. What happened, I say, to David? Why, now that he was tarrying …

The Secret Spot

Deuteronomy 32:5

… He would fight to the last moment of life for any one of the five points of the Calvinistic confession. You cannot find a man more determinedly orthodox …

Love at Its Utmost

John 15:9

… creates repentance the tears are hard as hailstones in the sinner's eyes, and I believe it is so; but when the gospel makes us repent, our weeping …

A Plain Answer to an Important Enquiry

John 6:29

… Repentance is worked in us by the Holy Spirit, but we must, ourselves, repent or we shall never be saved. Faith is worked in us by the Holy …

"Behold the Lamb of God"

John 1:29

… What is the sum and substance of his teaching but, "Repent. Bring forth fruits meet for repentance. The axe is laid unto the root of the trees"? He …

"Out Of The Depths"

Psalm 40:12

… them. "But I cannot repent as I would, or believe as I would." Then listen to Hart again— "True belief and true repentance, Every Grace that brings you …

Miracles Of Love

Isaiah 38:17

… How could we repent of sin? How could a millstone feel, or a flint weep? Why, when we heard the Gospel say to us, "Repent, and be converted …

Pentecost

Acts 2:1-4

… You crucified Him, but in His name there is salvation, and whoever among you will repent and be baptized shall find mercy." That is all! I am sure …

"Return! Return!"

Jeremiah 18:11

… your own confidences! Christ says it shallbe so, "except you repent." My text is all about repentance. It is an exhortation from God, very brief and sententious, but …

Mistakes Concerning God

Psalm 1:21

… This mistaken notion concerning God also keeps sinners from repentance. As long as a man thinks that God is as bad as he is, he will never repent …

Sovereign Grace and Man’s Responsibility

Romans 10:20-21

… Let this once be brought to bear upon the minds of men, and away go the doctrines of penance and confession, away goes paying for the pardon of …

Unimpeachable Justice

Psalm 51:4

… Allow me to make some remarks on the confession which is followed by pardon. First, such a confession is a sincere one . It is not the prattling confession …

Satan's Arrows and God's

Lamentations 3:12

… In such a case we ought to repent and be grieved with ourselves that we have not better carried out our commission and so adapted the means we …

The Shrill Trumpet of Admonition

Jeremiah 48:11

… When we would, but cannot repent. When we want to believe and cannot. When we would give a world for one single tear, would almost pawn our souls …

Reasons For Parting With Sin

Isaiah 1:18

… and obedient." Obedient to what? Obedient to all Gospel precepts. "Repent"—let sin be hateful to you! "Repent and be con-verted"—that is, turn round to seek …

A Golden Sentence

John 4:34

… do not look to Jesus Christ when you repent, your repentance is not an evangelical repentance, but a repentance which needs to be repented of. Do, I pray …

False Justification and True

Job 9:20

… Doolittle then turned to the other side of the gallery and said to Brother So-and-So, "Do you repent having trusted your soul with Christ?" And he …