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The seriousness of sin, temptation, guilt, and the need for cleansing

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SERMON • SERMON 1260

The Unbroken Line Of True Nobles

Psalm 45:16

… forsake the Lord God of their fathers and turn aside to skepticism and sin. When a young man glories in infidelity and chooses for his companions loose fellows …

SERMON • SERMON 3069

Cleansing—Wrong Or Right?

Job 9:30

… We little know how exceedingly hateful sin is to God. [See Sermon #3068, Volume 53—UNTOLD DEPTHS AND HEIGHTS.] You know that there are some things which you …

SERMON • SERMON 1800

Heaven Below

Revelation 7:16

… Here it is their duty and privilege to long after perfection, to be sighing and crying for a perfect deliverance from every shade of sin. But they shall …

SERMON • SERMON 1851

Ruth's Reward—or, Cheer for Converts

Ruth 2:12

… And it transforms them into bees, each one gathering honey for us! Is not this a reward for which a man may well forego the flatteries of sin

SERMON • SERMON 3441

God's Memorial Of His People

Isaiah 49:16

… He remembers somewhat of things done in his youth, his former transgressions—he sees that even now he is not clear from sin in his daily life—and …

SERMON • SERMON 1147

The Gentleness Of Jesus

Matthew 12:19

… His first disciples were urged to follow Him by John, who said, "Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world." And then the …

SERMON • SERMON 797

Spots in Our Feats of Charity

… in our name—truly, we knew not of the offenders' guilt—our sin was therefore a sin of ignorance. May the Lord have mercy upon us. When Joshua …

SERMON • SERMON 2728

The High Rock

Psalm 61:2

… Sometimes God, in His Sovereignty, is pleased to show a man his sin, but not to show him his Savior for a season. He strips the sinner—perhaps …

SERMON • SERMON 264

How Saints May Help the Devil

Ezekiel 16:54

… A true Christian is a rebuke to the sinner, wherever he goes he is a living protest against the evil of sin. Hence it is that the worldling …

SERMON • SERMON 2963

Unmitigated Prosperity

Isaiah 53:10

… the vast bogs and morasses of human guilt and inability, the constructing of that highway over the deep gulf of sin and across the very flames of Hell …

SERMON • SERMON 544

Lessons From Lydia'S Conversion

Acts 16:13

… But when time shall have passed away and the records of human guilt shall have been cast into oblivion, Philippi will still have a name as the place …

SERMON • SERMON 1581

Silver Sockets—Redemption the Foundation!

Exodus 30:11-16

guilt. Neither did I go to Him as putting away my sin and, therefore, I was not saved." When she began to see herself as a sinner, she …

SERMON • SERMON 3425

Days of Heaven Upon the Earth

Deuteronomy 11:21

… Those were, indeed, days of Heaven upon earth! There was no strife, no sin, no sorrow—everything was happy! It seemed as if this world was but one …

SERMON • SERMON 1565

Maschil Of Ethan, A Majestic Song

Psalm 89:1

… Who has done this? Who has cast down this temple? What hand has ruined this magnificent structure? Manhood! Manhood it is which has been destroyed and Sin was …

SERMON • SERMON 2195

The Obedience of Faith

Hebrews 11:8

… Continued delay of duty is a continuous sin. If I do not obey the Divine Command, I sin—and every moment that I continue in that condition—I …

SERMON • SERMON 2072

Breakfast With Jesus

John 21:12

… with a sinful mortal like I? Take comfort, you who are conscious of sin, from the fact that His last close companion here below was a thief! And …

SERMON • SERMON 3352

A World Wide Welcome

Matthew 11:28

… power of sin and Satan, and you shall be Mine even till life's end." Thus peace is given to us, both as to the guilt and as …

SERMON • SERMON 342

Grace Reviving Israel

Hosea 14:5-7

… In expounding the words of the text, we shall observe, first, the promise of grace made to Israel, notwithstanding, Israel's sin: "I will be as the dew …

SERMON • SERMON 986

Victor Emmanuel, Emancipator

Isaiah 42:7

… Habits of sin, like iron nets, surround the sinner, and he cannot escape their meshes. The man sins, and imagines that he cannot help sinning. How often do …

SERMON • SERMON 1264

The Man of One Subject

1 Corinthians 2:2

… sense of sin—and what has ever accomplished this so perfectly as the doctrine that sin was laid upon Christ and caused His death? The sinner, enlightened by …

SERMON • SERMON 2416

Adorning the Gospel

Titus 2:10

… And it is also salvation from the guilt of sin, salvation from the dread of Hell, salvation from the fear of death and, it shall ultimately be perfect …

SERMON • SERMON 2255

God Justified, Though Man Believes Not

Romans 3:3

… What advantage then has the Jew? Or what profit is there of circumcision? If, after all, both Jew and Gentiles were under sin, what advantage had the Jew …

SERMON • SERMON 2790

Our Lord's Substitution

1 Peter 2:24

… Christ Jesus, his Substitute, who stood in that sinner's place and took upon Himself that sinner's sin. In vision, I can see the Christ of God …

SERMON • SERMON 871

To Those Who Are "Almost Persuaded"

Acts 26:28

… Worse still, in addition to the loss of the blessing, there certainly comes an additional guilt to the man who, being almost persuaded, yet continues in his sin

SERMON • SERMON 2632

"What Shall the Harvest Be?"

Hosea 8:7

… We wash our hands in innocence, for we are clear of guilt in this matter! We denounce it, we have no part in it, we abhor it." So …

SERMON • SERMON 2187

Jesus—"All Blessing and All Blessed"

Psalm 72:17

… If He had accomplished nothing but the bearing away of our sin into the wilderness—as the scapegoat of old bore away the iniquity of Israel—He would …

SERMON • SERMON 665

Open House For All Comers

Luke 15:2

… But still, the sinner, trembling under a sense of sin, feels the spirit of the old Law like a black cloud hovering over him and he can hardly …

SERMON • SERMON 1161

Without Money and Without Price

Isaiah 55:1

… Thus they make unbelief, which is a sin, into a preparation for Grace—and despair—which is an insult to a merciful God, and magnify them into a …

SERMON • SERMON 2491

Shame Leading to Salvation

Psalm 83:16

… for I saw myself to be a sinner." Now I do not wish any of you to commit further sin in order that you may realize your true …

SERMON • SERMON 320

Contentment

Philippians 4:11

… Your pains are sharp, yet “his strokes are fewer than your crimes, and lighter than your guilt.” From the pains of hell Christ has delivered you. Why should …

SERMON • SERMON 552

Do You Know Him?

Philippians 3:10

… You complain that you do not feel the guilt of sin; that you cannot humble yourself enough. The sight of Christ is the very best means of setting …

SERMON • SERMON 1350

Enlivening and Invigorating

Psalm 119:25

… I would to God that He would lead some poor sinner to pray in the very first sense of the word, "Lord, quicken me! Give me life!" It …

SERMON • SERMON 2996

Enquiring of God

2 Samuel 2:1

… We lose a great blessing and incur no small guilt if, professing to be the sons and daughters of our Father who is in Heaven, we never ask …

SERMON • SERMON 2044

All At It

Acts 8:4

… Men who have been terribly in earnest and have faithfully described man's ruin by sin and God's remedy of Divine Grace—men who have warned sinners …

SERMON • SERMON 2764

The Cloud of Doves

Isaiah 60:8

… Your guilt was laid on Him and all your sin is gone forever—it cannot be brought against you, period! This is the comfort of all Believers and …

SERMON • SERMON 3217

An Earnest Warning Against Unbelief

Hebrews 8:18

… NOTHING BUT UNBELIEF SHUT THEM OUT. "They could not enter in because of unbelief." It was not through great sin in other respects although they were a sinful …

SERMON • SERMON 2631

Israel's Cry and God's Answer

… He actually stood in the sinner's place and bore the penalty of the sinner's guilt. Therefore, oh, trust Him! Perhaps I may be the means of …

SERMON • SERMON 680

Have You Forgotten Him?

Genesis 41:9

… the lament of many and many a heart under the weight of sin. Oh, how guilt can thunder in our ears! How the Word of God can grow …

SERMON • SERMON 2876

Christ's Crowning Glory

Psalm 21:5

… A woman in the city, which was a sinner A sinner by profession, a public and notorious sinner. 37-44. When she knew that Jesus sat at meat …

SERMON • SERMON 1231

The Sure Triumph Of The Crucified One

Isaiah 52:13-15

… from His hands and know them to be "of sin the double cure," cleansing transgressors both from its guilt and power. Dr. Kitto explains the passage by an …