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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 3069Cleansing—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 1800Heaven 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 1851Ruth'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 3441God'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 1147The 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 797Spots 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 2728The 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 264How 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 2963Unmitigated 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 544Lessons 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 1581Silver 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 3425Days 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 1565Maschil 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 2195The 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 2072Breakfast 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 3352A 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 342Grace 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 986Victor 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 1264The 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 2416Adorning 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 2255God 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 2790Our 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 871To 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 2187Jesus—"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 665Open 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 1161Without 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 2491Shame 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 320Contentment
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 552Do 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 1350Enlivening 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 2996Enquiring 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 2044All 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 2764The 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 3217An 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 2631Israel'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 680Have 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 2876Christ'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 1231The 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 …