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'Even So, Father!'
Matthew 11:25
… But if they will not come and hear it, their guilt shall be sevenfold—seeing there were special words of comfort for them, there were choice sentences of …
SERMON • SERMON 3459More and More
James 4:6
… aggravation? You do but admit that your sin is of long standing and frequent recurrence! You confess, indeed, your greater guilt, and there is no repentance to regret …
SERMON • SERMON 2314Three Blessings of the Heavenly Charter
Job 10:12
… much greater should our gratitude be! I could not even feel the guilt of sin, I was so dead, but You have granted me life to repent. I …
SERMON • SERMON 2423The Model Soul-winner
John 4:7
… you were not a sinner, you could not do it, but being a guilty sinner, you can do it! Your very guilt and sin give you the possibility …
SERMON • SERMON 2219A Harp of Ten Strings
Luke 1:46
… The Law-Maker will not be the Law-Breaker even to save the sinner! But His Law shall be honored as surely as the sinner shall be saved …
SERMON • SERMON 2811Moving
Exodus 33:15
… Sinner, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved! O Spirit of God, change the sinner's heart! Give him faith that he may now …
SERMON • SERMON 1407Compassion on the Ignorant
Hebrews 5:2
… patience with your fellow sinner even to the end? There is one reflection which may help you. Remember that these poor souls who sin as they do should …
SERMON • SERMON 930Away With Fear
Isaiah 41:10
… It is sin, consciousness of sin, that "makes cowards of us all." Though He who made us is a consuming fire, and we should always have a holy …
SERMON • SERMON 2188Entangled in the Land
Exodus 14:3
… He hopes that possibly theirs is only temporary reformation and, if so, he can soon make them slip back into the mire of sin from which he hopes …
SERMON • SERMON 2769The Weakened Christ Strengthened
Luke 22:43
… agony have been when He was bearing the sin of all His people? As the mighty mass of their guilt came rolling upon Him, His Father saw that …
SERMON • SERMON 3023John Mark—or, Haste in Religion
Mark 14:50-52
… What fruit have you gathered in your impenitence and sin? How much have you been bettered by neglecting Christ and minding worldly things? Has it not been all …
SERMON • SERMON 2626"Peace in Believing"
Romans 15:13
… There is, in the heart of an awakened man, a great vacuum caused by sin. He is like some of those great artificial harbors which I have seen …
SERMON • SERMON 2043The Blood of the Lamb, the Conquering Weapon
Revelation 12:11
… This was the type of Christ taking the sinner's place, bearing the sinner's sin and suffering in the sinner's place and thus vindicating the justice …
SERMON • SERMON 1001Altogether Lovely
Solomon 5:16
… Some will have Christ the exemplar, but they will not accept him as the vicarious sacrifice for sin, the substitute for sinners. Many will have Christ in silver …
SERMON • SERMON 1278Reasons For Parting With Sin
Isaiah 1:18
… God will give salvation and the pardon of sin, and give them freely to the very chief of sinners, but the sinner must confess and forsake his sin …
SERMON • SERMON 2251Our Compassionate High Priest
Hebrews 5:2
… guilty, I would beseech them to pray God to pardon their guilt—and cease to sin in this way any longer! I mean those who are ignorant for …
SERMON • SERMON 2032The Charge of the Angel
Acts 5:19
… Then you have the privilege of this life—"forgiveness of sin." He that lives in Christ is set free from the guilt of sin by the righteousness of …
SERMON • SERMON 1897Holding Fast Our Profession
Hebrews 10:23
… this Covenant the fear of returning to our old sin is removed and the guilt of our sin is forever put away. He bids us, therefore, be bold …
SERMON • SERMON 3442'The Desire Of All Nations'
Haggai 2:7
… The great sin of the Christian Church is withholding from God. Now is it the same sin as in the days of Haggai! "Thus says the Lord of …
SERMON • SERMON 1199The Agony in Gethsemane
Luke 22:44
… To be treated as a sinner, to be smitten as a sinner, though in Him was no sin—this it was which caused Him the agony of which …
SERMON • SERMON 2835Patients for the Great Physician
Luke 5:31
… Nor can an unsaved sinner be valiant for God and His Truth. What a dreadful inability sin brings with it! That simple command of the Gospel, "Believe," the …
SERMON • SERMON 2033Plain Directions To Those Who Would Be Saved From Sin
Psalm 4:4
… Poor Sinner, when you begin to trust God, you will look to Him mainly to put away your sin. But when that benefit is received, you may go …
SERMON • SERMON 1124God Beseeching Sinners by His Ministers
2 Corinthians 5:18-21
… Cross, and led to look to the Savior nailed there for human sin. Our guilt disappeared, our burden rolled from our shoulders and we were free! And now …
SERMON • SERMON 1382The Touch
Mark 5:28
… lost sinner, but if I can only get to Jesus I shall be forgiven and saved! Here am I, vexed with unruly passions, diseased with this sin and …
SERMON • SERMON 727God Incarnate, The End Of Fear
Luke 2:10
… sin has wandered so far away from God that he is even afraid to think of God's name, yet inasmuch as Jesus Christ is called "the sinner …
SERMON • SERMON 3345Sunlight for Cloudy Days
Psalm 40:17
… For the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the Law of sin and death Sin and death cannot govern me …
SERMON • SERMON 204The Mission of the Son of Man
Luke 19:10
… The deadly tree of sin grows taller and taller some become lost to the church. After having been trained up religiously in our Midst, they turn aside; they …
SERMON • SERMON 1417"Your Salvation"
Luke 2:28-30
… Brothers and Sisters, you are saved from the guilt of sin if you have Christ, for your sin is yours no longer— it is not imputed to you …
SERMON • SERMON 2569The Backslider's Door of Hope
Hosea 2:15
… Poor Sinner, if you are sorely grieved with a sense of your sin, and if outward trials are pressing you very heavily, the Lord can give you joy …
SERMON • SERMON 2096"The Marriage of the Lamb"
Revelation 19:7
… of salvation and a consciousness of guilt— which could never be satisfied except by His agony and death, through which sin is justly pardoned and evil is subdued …
SERMON • SERMON 982The Ascension of Christ
Ephesians 4:7-12
… There, too, he led captive sin. Evil had assailed him furiously, but it could not defile him. Sin had been laid upon him, the weight of human guilt …
SERMON • SERMON 2049Driving Out the Canaanites and Their Iron Chariots
Joshua 17:18
… Let us pray tonight fervently— "Let the water and the blood, From Your riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure Cleanse us from its guilt …
SERMON • SERMON 1395Family Reformation—or, Jacob's Second Visit to Bethel
Genesis 35:1
… The Lord cannot commune with us while we wallow in sin. "What accord has Christ with Belial?" Sin must be put away! The best Believer that lives must …
SERMON • SERMON 3191The True Aim of Preaching
Acts 13:38
… Go and sin no more"? Ah, poor Sinner, Jesus Christ does not condemn you! If you condemn yourselves, He will never condemn you. He will only condemn your …
SERMON • SERMON 978All Fulness in Christ
Colossians 1:19
… In these respects human nature is a desert, empty, and void, and waste, inhabited only by the dragon of sin, and the bittern of sorrow. Sinner, saint, to …
SERMON • SERMON 2321The Heavenly Singers and Their Song
Revelation 5:8-10
… Yes, yes, yes—nominally, they will say so—but the bond fide sinner, who knows his guilt, is a scarce article— "A sinner is a sacred thing, The …
SERMON • SERMON 1750The Luther Sermon at Exeter Hall
Galatians 5:6
… No youth ever had a keener sense of guilt than I had. When I was convicted of sin, I saw my thoughts and desires to be vile in …
SERMON • SERMON 2703The Preservation of Christians in the World
John 17:15
… that the death of Christ takes away from a Christian the very guilt of his sin, so that he is not guilty before God, but stands accepted in …
SERMON • SERMON 3192The Soul's Food and Drink
John 6:55
… Where will you find any other Doctrines so comforting as these? I, a sinner, have broken God's righteous Law and so offended Him that I am driven …
SERMON • SERMON 2727Bitter Herbs
Exodus 12:8
… not need to confess sin, or to look to Christ as you did at the first when you said— "I'm a poor sinner, and nothing at all …