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The seriousness of sin, temptation, guilt, and the need for cleansing
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Satan's Arrows and God's
Lamentations 3:12
… JEREMIAH did not intend these verses to be a description of a sinner under conviction of sin. He was sorrowing over the woes of Jerusalem and the nation …
SERMON • SERMON 862Winnowing Time
Jeremiah 23:28
… Trust Him! Christ was the sinner's Substitute and took the sinner's guilt and now God can be just in punishing Christ instead of you, and in …
SERMON • SERMON 127Spiritual Resurrection
Ephesians 2:1
… I think when he comes to call some of you from your death in sin who have gone to the utmost extremity of guilt, he comes weeping and …
SERMON • SERMON 748Self-Humbling
2 Chronicles 34:27
… Oh, the atrocity of the sin of a pardoned soul! An unpardoned sinner sins, to my mind, cheaply, compared with the sin of one of God's own …
SERMON • SERMON 3288Why the Gospel Is Hidden
2 Corinthians 4:3
… Here is Jesus Christ standing in the sinner's place. God punished the sinner's guilt upon Christ instead of upon the sinner—all that the sinner is …
SERMON • SERMON 1233Healing Leaves
Revelation 22:2
… If any man would be healed of the guilt of sin, he must look to the eternal merits of the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the …
SERMON • SERMON 884Help for Seekers of the Light
Isaiah 59:9
… The great Substitute did, then, in very deed bear your sin and suffer its penalty. Your sin shall never destroy you if upon that bloody tree the Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 2905The Father and the Son
1 John 1:3
… In your mind and heart, crown sin with a crown of thorns like that with which it crowned your Lord. And spit at sin, and scoff at sin …
SERMON • SERMON 809The Approachableness of Jesus
Luke 15:1
… He was the true savior; and, O sinner, Jesus Christ will come just where you are, and your wounds of sin, even though they are putrid, shall not …
SERMON • SERMON 448Another And A Nobler Exhibition
Ephesians 3:10
… these conversions, what must angels do who are more acquainted with the guilt of sin and know more of the loveliness of holiness and understand better the secret …
SERMON • SERMON 285Man's Ruin and God's Remedy
Numbers 21:8
… Your sin, your sin, should make you tremble and feel alarmed. But I go further. Sinner, thou hast not only thy sin to trouble thee, but there is …
SERMON • SERMON 3400The Day of Atonement
Leviticus 16:34
… A repenting sinner had need to be a mourner and, Brothers and Sisters, when sin is put away, how the forgiven sinner afflicts his soul! He is happy …
SERMON • SERMON 3054Pardon and Justification
Psalm 32:1
… your sin." God is so inflexibly just that He has never forgiven and will never forgive the sinner without having exacted the punishment for his sin! He is …
SERMON • SERMON 3218Preaching Christ Crucified
1 Corinthians 1:23
… Nine out of ten of the arrows in a minister's quiver ought to be shot at the sinner's good works, for these are his worst enemies …
SERMON • SERMON 3471The Three Hours' Darkness
Matthew 27:45
… sinner's stead, what the sinner ought to have suffered. The very pith and marrow of the Gospel lies in that word—"Substitution." Christ, who knew no sin …
SERMON • SERMON 505The Root Of The Matter
Job 19:28
… To read the guilt of sin in the lurid glare of Mount Sinai, to hear the thunder, and shrink back in wild dismay at the utter hopelessness of …
SERMON • SERMON 80God Alone the Salvation of his People
Psalm 92:2
… Is not that a good doctrine for you? For you have not got anything, have you? You are a poor, lost, ruined sinner. Hear this, then, sinner: thou …
SERMON • SERMON 3537A Definite Challenge for Definite Prayer
Mark 10:51
… Consider, too, the heavy weight, as well as the grievous guilt, of sin. Have you felt the load and burden of sin? "A stone is heavy and the …
SERMON • SERMON 3062The Spirit's Office Towards Disciples
John 16:14
… He took upon His shoulders all their guilt. He was punished for that guilt and they were then and there justified. He rose again, having shaken off alike …
SERMON • SERMON 889Real Grace for Real Need
Luke 9:11
… God Is saved to sin no more." If this present world should continue through a century of thousands of years, yet no sinner shall apply to Jesus for …
SERMON • SERMON 3321God in Heaven, and Men on the Sea
Psalm 65:5
… We see ourselves wrecked by Nature before we see ourselves saved by Grace! Conviction of sin does not come to every sinner with the same degree of force …
SERMON • SERMON 2324The Followers of the Lamb
Revelation 14:4
… seen! They are cleansed from all the guilt of sin and from all the depravity which the addiction of sin brings to men. "They are without fault before …
SERMON • SERMON 3457All Are Guilty
Matthew 27:22
… was humility— no, but it is dishonoring your Savior! Come, poor awakened Sinner, full of guilt, and full of fear, and say, "I do believe! I will believe …
SERMON • SERMON 83Indwelling Sin
Job 40:3-4
… Christ died for sinners; I am a sinner. Lord Jesus, sprinkle thy blood on me.” I tell thee, sinner, from God, if thou wilt confess thy sin, thou …
SERMON • SERMON 3036Proving God
Malachi 3:10
… I shall then be a proof of the Omnipotent power of Grace which alone can save from the power as well as the guilt of sin! The divers …
SERMON • SERMON 2338The Crisis Of This World
John 12:31-33
… tree and His pure and holy soul shrank from contact with sin! To stand in the sinner's place—to bear His Father's wrath—this bewildered Him …
SERMON • SERMON 98Making Light of Christ
Matthew 22:5
… O, sinner, think of thy sin, if thou art making light of him, for then art thou making light of the King’s only Son. And yet again …
SERMON • SERMON 2228The Law's Failure and Fulfillment
Romans 8:3
… What a wonder it is that the Lord Jesus, by His Atonement, could condemn sin and let the condemned sinner go free! Surely, the delivered soul will henceforth …
SERMON • SERMON 2614Strange Things
Luke 5:26
… The chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we are healed." Whenever a sinner has his sin forgiven, it is a strange, a wondrous …
SERMON • SERMON 182Particular Redemption
John 6:44
… it is as capable of appreciating as a mere mental act the guilt of sin, as it is of appreciating the guilt of assassination. It is just as …
SERMON • SERMON 2852Comfort for the Fearful
Matthew 8:26
… your sin as much as you will, but think much more of the Sin-Bearer and His vicarious sufferings. Weep at the remembrance of your guilt, but weep …
SERMON • SERMON 63Marvellous Increase of the Church
Isaiah 60:8
… the guilt we committed, just as the scape-goat of old did, and carried it right away into the wilderness of forgetfulness; so that now a sinner who …
SERMON • SERMON 2947Royal Emblems for Loyal Subjects
2 Samuel 23:4
… the cry of many a heart that is exceedingly troubled with the guilt of sin. Ah, let the morning come! Let the watchman say, "The morning comes!" Let …
SERMON • SERMON 166The Destroyer Destroyed
Hebrews 2:14
… hath over us to tempt us on account of our guilt. “The sting of death is sin:” our Jesus took the sting away, and now death is harmless …
SERMON • SERMON 3472A Solemn Deprival
Ephesians 2:12
… Now freed from sin I walk at large, My Savior's blood my full discharge! Content at His dear feet I lay, A sinner saved, and homage pay …
SERMON • SERMON 877Leaning On Our Beloved
Solomon 8:5
… The first act that made him a Christian at all was when the whole weight of his sin was laid on Christ. When by faith the sinner ceased …
SERMON • SERMON 3020Good Cheer From Grace Received
Matthew 9:20-22
… You are a sinner, it is true, but you are a sinner saved from wrath through Infinite Love! You are no longer a miserable sinner, so why should …
SERMON • SERMON 3159The Sixth Beatitude
Matthew 5:8
… Here it is, O Sinners, that you will find a double cure from the guilt and from the power of sin! When faith looks to the bleeding Savior …
SERMON • SERMON 2647Preparation Necessary for the Communion
1 Corinthians 11:28
… can be of no service to them, but will increase their sin and add to their guilt if they, after such a warning as this, come to the …
SERMON • SERMON 2792A Psalmist's Question and Answer
Psalm 130:3
… but God's forgiveness of your sin is bestowed in a moment! The instant that a sinner believes in Christ, his sin is all gone, just as much …