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The seriousness of sin, temptation, guilt, and the need for cleansing
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The Sinner's Only Alternative
2 Kings 7:4
… would have run upon the very pike sooner than continue to endure my sin." Sinner, venture to run upon the pike and you will find that there is …
SERMON • SERMON 1843A Question for a Questioner
Psalm 77:9
… away thy sin; thou shalt not die!" "Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow," was a prayer most graciously answered in that royal sinner's case …
SERMON • SERMON 3131The Fainting Hero
Judges 15:18
… saved! Turn your eyes to Christ, poor Sinner, as He hangs there suffering in man's place, taking human guilt on Himself and being punished for it as …
SERMON • SERMON 49The God of Peace
Romans 15:33
… Sin is the mother of wars; and remembering how plentiful sin is, we need not marvel if it brings forth multitudes of them. We may look for them …
SERMON • SERMON 3118What Had Become of Peter?
Acts 12:18
… So that sinner whom God sets free from sin straightway flies to his own company. "Birds of a feather flock together," and those who bear the true feather …
SERMON • SERMON 3166'A Greater Than Solomon'
Matthew 12:42
… If our religion tended to sin, we might well be so ashamed of it as never to mention it. But since the telling of the Gospel can never …
SERMON • SERMON 2335Three Texts, But One Subject— Faith
Psalm 57:1
… sinner, or One who is able and willing to suffer in the sinner's place. It is imperative, as a first Law of the universe, that sin cannot …
SERMON • SERMON 2854Lame Sheep
Hebrews 12:13
… Tell those that feel the burden of sin that it was for sin- ners Christ died. Tell the backsliders that God never does cast away His people. Tell …
SERMON • SERMON 2456The Lamb Our Leader
Revelation 14:4
… The man who believes in the doctrine of the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, will feel that sin is bitter and he …
SERMON • SERMON 184The Glorious Gospel
1 Timothy 1:15
… to bear me? I am an elephantine sinner; will not its pillars crumble like leaves beneath my weight of sin?” “I the chief of sinners am;” will its …
SERMON • SERMON 2606Choice Teaching for the Chosen
John 6:45
… so, but your folly and sin will make no difference to anybody except yourselves. On your own head shall be the guilt of your own blood. I knew …
SERMON • SERMON 3038Justice Vindicated And Righteousness Exemplified
Romans 3:24-26
… Every sinner knows that sin must be punished! He may trifle with that knowledge, but he cannot destroy it and he never can get any peace of mind …
SERMON • SERMON 3324Turning From Death
Ezekiel 33:11
… Sinner, do not turn your head away and be angry! If you love sin, look at the child of this ill mother! Sinner, you love sin, that is …
SERMON • SERMON 3091Pedigree
2 Corinthians 11:22
… He who delivered you from the burden of sin bids you open your mouth wide and He will fill it! And after your deliverance from guilt, do you …
SERMON • SERMON 3081The Gracious Lips of Jesus
Psalm 45:2
… evidences of our guilt and the reasons why we should be condemned. I think I hear him say that we were born in sin and shaped in iniquity …
SERMON • SERMON 3024Christ's Death And Ours
John 12:23-24
… Christ stood in the Sinner's place and suffered what was due to the Sinner—even the curse of God and the wrath of God! And now He …
SERMON • SERMON 2794A Refreshing Canticle
Song 1:4
… The love which restrained me from committing deadly sin and withheld my hands from self-destruction! I will remember the love which tracked me in my course— "WhenSatan …
SERMON • SERMON 3008An All-important Question
John 9:35
… at once! And if, in your case, sin seems to prevent the full exercise of faith and your consciousness of guilt hinders your belief in Jesus Christ, yet …
SERMON • SERMON 1972A Bit of History for Old and Young
Genesis 48:15
… When you were likely to fall into sin. When you were very wrong in spirit, He beheld you in pity and restored your soul. Though you were so …
SERMON • SERMON 1329Christ the Destroyer of Death
1 Corinthians 15:26
… by sin and the burden which a sense of guilt causes to the soul. No, Death is but a secondary mischief compared with the defilement of sin. Let …
SERMON • SERMON 406The Infallibility of God’s Purpose
Job 23:13
… Cover, O darkness, all on guilt, and let the night conceal it from our eyes for ever! Though he added sin to sin, and our pride waxed exceeding …
SERMON • SERMON 1130The Christian's Great Business
Psalm 51:12-13
… Who else can tell of the guilt of sin but men upon whom the burden of sin has pressed, who have felt the arrows of conviction in their …
SERMON • SERMON 1954The Breaker and the Flock
Micah 2:12
… To as many as believe in Jesus Christ no sin remains— "This Breaker once made sin to be, Broke from the curse His people free. He broke the …
SERMON • SERMON 2028The Love of God and the Patience of Christ
2 Thessalonians 3:5
… I firmly believe that God loves sinners but I am equally sure that He hates sin. I do believe that He delights in mercy but I am equally …
SERMON • SERMON 1354All Things Are Ready, Come
Luke 14:17
… THIS TEXT DISPOSES OF A GREAT DEAL OF TALK ABOUT THE SINNER'S READINESS OR UNREADINESS, because, if the reason why a sinner is to come is because …
SERMON • SERMON 442God's Will and Man's Will
Romans 9:16
… We are as free under grace as ever we were under sin; nay, we were slaves when we were under sin, and when the Son makes us free …
SERMON • SERMON 2302Watching For Christ's Coming
Luke 12:37
… It is a part of that scheme that, as He came once with a sin offering, He should come a second time without a sin offering, that, as …
SERMON • SERMON 2591Pride the Destroyer
Habakkuk 2:4
… If a man says, "I do not need to make confession of sin, I do not need to come to Christ as a guilty sinner," then, Friend, I …
SERMON • SERMON 3019The Hungry Filled, the Rich Emptied
Luke 1:53
… When a soul really feels the pressure of sin, it needs to have it pardoned, and it will not be content with anything less than pardon. It needs …
SERMON • SERMON 2446Carte Blanche
Matthew 15:28
… begin Lord, Remo ve this load of sin! Let Your blood, for sinners spilt, Let my conscience free from guilt. Lord! I come to You for rest, Take …
SERMON • SERMON 1018Pleading
Psalm 70:5
… He knows your guilt already, but He would have you know it, and therefore He bids you confess it. Go into the details of your sin in your …
SERMON • SERMON 2133"My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?"
Matthew 27:46
… If even the Holy One, who stood the Just for the unjust, found God forsaking Him—what must the doom of the actual sinner be? Sin is evidently …
COMMENTARYPsalm 123
Psalm 123
… Not only may women mourn to God for wrongs done to them, and have repentance for sin, but they may be confident in God also. And therefore see …
SERMON • SERMON 499The Clean and the Unclean
Leviticus 11:2
… himself hanging on the tree, the expiation for guilt, the Great God become man that he might put away sin, your salvation will be accomplished. ‘Tis all the …
SERMON • SERMON 3039The King's Sharp Arrows
Psalm 45:5
… dies not and of the fire that never shall be quenched? O Sinner, your sin is immortal! And there is only One who can kill it and put …
SERMON • SERMON 2429Converts, and Their Confession of Faith
Isaiah 44:5
… Sin would have me, but, "I am the Lord's," and He has forgiven me and delivered me from the guilt of sin. I might fall a thousand …
SERMON • SERMON 1208Infallibility—Where To Find It and How To Use It
Matthew 4:4
… Beloved, we must keep from sin! If Christ has, indeed, saved us from sin, we cannot bear the thought of falling into it! If any of you can …
SERMON • SERMON 3343'The Star Out of Jacob'
Numbers 24:17
… guilt because you reject it. Oh, do not despise the exhortation. Let the prayer go up quietly now from your spirit, "God be merciful to me, a sinner …
SERMON • SERMON 1385Jesus Interceding For Transgressors
Isaiah 53:12
… Sin heard of and sin seen are two very different things. We read of crimes in the newspapers, but we are not at all so horrified as if …
SERMON • SERMON 1183Is Conversion Necessary?
2 Corinthians 5:17
… The horrors which some have felt are not essential, but a full confession of sin before God—and an acknowledgment of our guilt—is absolutely required. "The whole …