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The seriousness of sin, temptation, guilt, and the need for cleansing
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Our Lord's Transcendent Greatness
Micah 5:4
… He has thrown a connecting cable between the sinner, far off from God, and the Eternal One who, hating sin, was far off from man. Now, through Him …
SERMON • SERMON 2848Theocracy
Psalm 44:4
… yourselves to His sway! Repent of your sin! If you lay hold upon His perfect righteousness at once, the guilt of the past is gone and you shall …
SERMON • SERMON 779God's Foreknowledge of Man's Sin
Isaiah 48:8
… such a sinner as you are? Why invent a scheme by which a rebel might be saved if He foreknew that on account of sin that rebel never …
SERMON • SERMON 2387Good Advice For Troublous Times
Isaiah 26:20
… You remember Little-Faith being robbed down Dead-Man's Lane? Bunyan says that when the three sturdy rogues, Faint-Heart, Mistrust, and Guilt, fell upon him, they …
SERMON • SERMON 3021Landlord and Tenant
Isaiah 38:1
… Sad is the reflection, however, that when we learn these rights, if we resist them, we become willful robbers and so increase our guilt! If we will not …
SERMON • SERMON 1128Love's Crowning Deed
John 15:13
… And I shall dwell with all the chosen in the land where there is no more sin—for if there can be found a Heaven below, it is …
SERMON • SERMON 654Memory—The Handmaid Of Hope
Lamentations 3:21
… Sinner, it is much the same case with you. The stupendous bridge which Christ has flung across the wrath of God will bear the weight of your sin …
SERMON • SERMON 2821'Until He Finds It'
Luke 15:4
… Christ was accursed because I was cursed by my sin. Christ was made sin because I was a sinner, that I might be made the righteousness of God …
SERMON • SERMON 421Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit
John 19:30
… he who says, "I cannot escape from sin and I cannot be saved from its punishment." Say to him, "Sinner, the way of salvation is finished once and …
SERMON • SERMON 2625The Dumb Singing
Isaiah 35:5
… And when we were asked, "Sinner, can you claim to have kept those Commandments?" we were dumb. Then we were asked, "Sinner, can you give any atonement for …
SERMON • SERMON 2100Faith Essential to Pleasing God
Hebrews 11:6
… If you can believe, O guilty One, that Jesus Christ bore the guilt of sin upon the Cross and by His death has made atonement to the insulted …
SERMON • SERMON 1956On the Cross After Death
John 19:31-37
… Jesus Christ's side is pierced to give to sinners the double cure of sin—the taking away of its guilt and power and, better than this—sinners …
SERMON • SERMON 3066The Everlasting Counselor
Micah 4:9
… We are resolved we will not commit a willful sin. Through Divine Grace we are determined that we will not sin to rid ourselves of our embarrassments, but …
SERMON • SERMON 2078The Believing Thief
Luke 23:42-43
… He was a sinner also, who could not exhibit a long-enduring repentance for sin, for he had so short a time to live. He could not have …
SERMON • SERMON 408Accidents, Not Punishments
Luke 13:1-5
… Make this world the reaping place, and you have taken the sting out of sin. “Oh,” says the sinner, “if the sorrows men endure here be all the …
SERMON • SERMON 1088The Essence of Simplicity
John 9:35
… Be true to my soul, if all else is a lie! Do you, my Hearer, desire salvation from the power and guilt of sin? And do you desire …
SERMON • SERMON 1845The Pity of the Lord—the Comfort of the Afflicted
James 5:11
… sin. There is inward pity in the heart of God and outward action in the mercy of God. There is sympathy for suffering and Grace for guilt. These …
SERMON • SERMON 1828How "The Unspeakable" is Spoken of
Psalm 145:6
… Tell them of the greatness of His Grace and how, in the Person of Jesus Christ, He passes by iniquity, transgression and sin. Tell them of the greatness …
SERMON • SERMON 2468Solitude, Silence, Submission
Lamentations 3:28
… When a soul is under a deep sense of sin, the more it can be alone, the better. That sense of sin will be increased by the loneliness …
SERMON • SERMON 1805Strength And Recovery
Zechariah 10:12
… It involves great responsibility and may, therefore, increase the guilt of its owner. There is what I may call official strength, too—that strength which a man collects …
SERMON • SERMON 3230The Last Message for the Year
John 6:37
… been, if he truly repents of his sin and trusts in My atoning blood to cleanse him from all his guilt, his sins and iniquities shall be remembered …
SERMON • SERMON 1171The Lord Chiding His People
Psalm 103:9
… Beloved, are you being chided this morning? Then let me give you this word of good cheer—when you were a sinner, dead in sin and had no …
SERMON • SERMON 2443The Determination of Christ to Suffer for His People
Mark 15:23
… If there is anything to be said in your favor, O my fellow Sinner, Christ will say it! And if there is nothing good in you that His …
SERMON • SERMON 2077The Gospel of the Glory of Christ
2 Corinthians 4:4
… Our Redeemer is also man—man like ourselves with this exception—that in Him there is no taint of natural depravity and no act of sin has ever …
SERMON • SERMON 479Christian Sympathy
Job 30:25
… Remember, too, that the cause of this suffering is a national sin—the sin of slavery. We have not yet passed the third generation, and upon a nation …
SERMON • SERMON 2770'Go in Peace'
Luke 7:50
… she was not only delivered from the guilt of sin, but she was also delivered from the power of sin! Her faith had saved her! She was a …
SERMON • SERMON 19David's Dying Song
2 Samuel 23:5
… We feel that our house is “not so with God ;” though in the person of Jesus we are free from sin, and white as angels are: yet when …
SERMON • SERMON 2344Christ's Dying Word for His Church
John 19:30
… blood From Your riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power!" IV. I close by saying, in the fourth …
SERMON • SERMON 1925Jesus and the Children
Mark 10:13-16
… sin will not confine itself to one man's house—it sallies forth from every door and window—and slays its victims all around so that "one sinner …
SERMON • SERMON 2701Jesus Joyfully Received
Luke 19:6
… Then, next, where Jesus comes into the heart, He comes to put away all sin. Wherever Jesus is received, all the guilt of the past is blotted out …
SERMON • SERMON 2796A Man of God Alone With God
Psalm 119:26
… I understand this to be, first, the language of a sinner confessing his sin—"I have declared my ways. He is a sensible sinner and, therefore, he is …
SERMON • SERMON 1275One Greater Than the Temple
Matthew 12:6
… The Jew was not really cleansed, but only typically; ours is an actual and abiding deliverance from sin, its guilt, and its defilement. We have no more consciousness …
SERMON • SERMON 1095The Monster Dragged to Light
Romans 7:13
… Moreover, such is the power of self-esteem that though sin abounds in the sinner he will not readily be brought to feel or confess its existence. There …
SERMON • SERMON 931Three Precious Things
1 Peter 2:7
… To every sinner who feels his sin, Christ is precious. To every child of God who is saved, the Savior must forever be fairest among the fair. To …
SERMON • SERMON 2214Barriers Broken Down
Romans 10:3
… A real sinner, one who feels his guilt, is a "sacred thing," as Hart says, "the Holy Spirit has made him so." He is an empty vessel that …
SERMON • SERMON 1349Faith Purifying the Heart
Acts 15:9
… Trust Christ with the power of sin as well as the guilt of sin. You need not go through a round of performances in order to be purified …
SERMON • SERMON 1010Light for Those Who Sit in Darkness
Matthew 4:15-16
… thing are near to the thing itself; and the sinner, bewildered and amazed at the guilt of his sin, is only sure of one thing, and that is …
SERMON • SERMON 2969Angelic Protection in Appointed Ways
Psalm 91:11
… Oh, to be nothing and to let Christ be everything—to confess our own guilt and to be clothed in His righteousness! Keep to that safe road, for …
SERMON • SERMON 2182Jehovah-Shammah—a Glorious Name for the New Year
Ezekiel 48:35
… On the contrary, "Is the Presence of God a matter of indifference, or even of dread?" Then my condition is one of guilt, disease and danger. May the …
SERMON • SERMON 1889The Blood of Sprinkling (Second Sermon.)
Hebrews 12:24
… You are come to hear of God's great expedient of wisdom, by which he, by the same act and deed, condemns sin, and lets the sinner live …