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The seriousness of sin, temptation, guilt, and the need for cleansing
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Our Thoughts About God's Thoughts
Psalm 139:17
… It is a very solemn thing that God should be everywhere. "You God see me," is a note of the most serious kind when sounded in the sinner …
SERMON • SERMON 2166Experience and Assurance
Psalm 63:7
… forgiven you.' That makes them mount up with eagles' wings above the guilt of sin! "To the young men he says, 'I write unto you, young men, because …
SERMON • SERMON 1983How Hearts Are Softened
Zechariah 12:10
… the tenderness which begets mourning for sin. Again, I say, this is the point from which help must come for the sinner. You that have been striving to …
SERMON • SERMON 1242Abraham's Prompt Obedience to the Call of God
Hebrews 11:8
… How foolish to go on adding, sin to sin, increasing the hardness of the heart, increasing the distance between the soul and Christ, and all the while fondly …
SERMON • SERMON 2712Bonds Which Could Not Hold
Acts 2:24
… because He took the sin of His people upon Himself and, being found in the sinner's place, He had to suffer the sinner's doom, which was …
SERMON • SERMON 587God'S Strange Choice
1 Corinthians 1:26-29
… How is this difference caused? How is it that some mount to Heaven? The reason why any sink to Hell is their sin and only their sin. They …
SERMON • SERMON 515The Sinner'S Advocate
1 John 2:1
… Nor does he sin with the fullness of deliberation that belongs to other men. The sinner can sit down by the months together and think over the iniquity …
SERMON • SERMON 1853Up from the Country and Pressed Into Service
Mark 15:21
… No Christian man can now sit still without incurring awful guilt. Whether you live in London or in any other great town amidst reeking sin, or dwell in …
SERMON • SERMON 2756Saving the Lost
Luke 19:10
… Let me go and find the little one, as somebody came and found me." You who know the smart of sin, the sorrow that sin brings, will be …
SERMON • SERMON 2857God's Goodness Leading to Repentance
Romans 2:4
… Son of Man to you, now, you sin-bitten sinners! Though you feel not the venom, yet look! Look! Look! Sinner, look, and you are saved! By the …
SERMON • SERMON 1361The Final Perseverance of the Saints
Job 17:9
… he does fall into sin, it will be his grief and misery—and he will never rest till he is cleansed from guilt. But I will say this …
SERMON • SERMON 1644Our Lord's First Appearance before Pilate
John 18:38
… I am persuaded that if we lived more in the atmosphere of the Cross, sin would lose its power and every Grace would flourish. When we draw very …
SERMON • SERMON 1616Saved In Hope
Romans 8:24
… They are entirely saved from the guilt of sin. The Lord Jesus took their sin and bore it in His body on the tree. He offered an acceptable …
SERMON • SERMON 1736The King's Weighings
1 Samuel 2:3
… The standard is His just and holy Law and all which falls short of that is sin. Any lack of conformity to the Law of God is sin …
SERMON • SERMON 2528Eating the Sacrifice
Exodus 29:33
… to belong to the sinner and that the sinner's guilt may be transferred to Christ and borne by Him as the sinner's Substitute. In later life …
SERMON • SERMON 1806A Summary of Experience and a Body of Divinity
1 Thessalonians 1:9-10
… The man sees himself a sinner, discovering guilt that he was not aware of; and he is thus made ready to receive Christ’s pardoning grace. He sees …
SERMON • SERMON 1261Sow To Yourselves
Hosea 10:12
… Pray to God to convince you of your guilt and ask Him to enable you to flee from every false way. Seek Grace to detect sin and as …
SERMON • SERMON 2651The Christian's Service and Honor
John 12:26
… broken by such cruel words! "What? Poor Sinner," Christ might well exclaim, "have I not love enough to remove your guilt when I purchased you with My blood …
SERMON • SERMON 1911Hideous Discovery
Mark 7:20-23
… Sin hardens men to further sin. He who is a moral monster was not always such. By sinning much, he learned to sin more. The door of his …
SERMON • SERMON 3063Jotham's Peculiar Honor
2 Chronicles 27:6
… He has gone before God as a sinner and confessed his guilt—and he has been washed in the precious blood of Jesus and cleansed from every stain …
SERMON • SERMON 2841Prayer-Its Discouragements and Encouragements
Matthew 15:23
… This is a wondrous Truth of God, that God loves the sinner even while he is dead in sin. This love is not caused by any goodness in …
SERMON • SERMON 1058No Quarter
1 Kings 18:40
… The unregenerate will no more quarrel with sin than bees with honey, or dogs with bones. Sin is the sunshine in which the sinner, like an insect, dances …
SERMON • SERMON 1468The Philosophy and Propriety of Abundant Praise
Psalm 145:7
… None know what salvation from sin means like those who have been crushed beneath the burden of guilt and have been racked by remorse. Did you ever feel …
SERMON • SERMON 2634"Jesus Only" —a Communion Meditation
Mark 9:8
… for all that! When sin prevails and guilt rises, remember that as your righteousness cannot make Christ's righteousness any better, so your sin cannot make it any …
SERMON • SERMON 1319The Sinner's Savior
Luke 19:7
… Direct me to a single passage in His Word in which He ever justifies a sinner in sinning, or ever treats sin as if it were a trifle …
SERMON • SERMON 1007North and South
Isaiah 43:6
… Whatever form sin takes, it is the same opposition, but yet it may need a different mode of treatment, and by a different weapon will it have to …
SERMON • SERMON 3083Comfort for Those Whose Prayers Are Feeble
Lamentations 3:56
… If there were no Savior for sinners, a sinner might be excused for remaining in his sin. But there is a Fountain and it is open—why, then …
SERMON • SERMON 2832Christ's Yoke and Burden
Matthew 11:30
… I t was sin that caused the alienation between Israel and her God, and it is sin that is the cause of all the estrangement from God in …
SERMON • SERMON 2989Near the Kingdom, or in It?
Mark 12:34
… His atoning Sacrifice to be set free from sin. If the Law is rightly used, it drives the sinner to the Savior—and there was hope concerning this …
SERMON • SERMON 2923The Singing Army
2 Chronicles 20:4
… If I do not to you, at any rate, there is one common affliction which has overwhelmed us all—that is the great affliction of sin. When sin …
SERMON • SERMON 1432Divine Interpositions
Psalm 18:16
… He shares not the guilt, but he overrules the act. Think of the crucifixion of our Lord, and remember that though the sin of it lay heavy upon …
SERMON • SERMON 2090A Delicious Experience
Hebrews 4:3
… guilty as he is and to blot out all his sin for Jesus' sake. When a convicted sinner realizes that Christ on the tree bore the penalty of …
SERMON • SERMON 2542Christ's Rest and Ours
Isaiah 11:10
… pardon of sin. I t was so glorious that I wanted to shout, "Hallelujah!" all day long. He who has groaned under the lead of guilt, when Jesus …
SERMON • SERMON 2381"I Would, But You Would Not"
Matthew 23:37
… O lonely Sinner, you who come in and out of this place and say, "Nobody seems to care about me," if you will come to Christ and join …
SERMON • SERMON 2924Preventing Grace
1 Samuel 25:32
… You have had preventing Grace keeping you back from sin. Sinner, if you cannot thank God for this, we can! We bless the Lord that He restrains you …
SERMON • SERMON 1447Three Crosses
Galatians 6:14
… He was "made sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." "All we like sheep have gone astray …
SERMON • SERMON 993The Northern Iron and the Steel
Jeremiah 15:12
… He went, however, to his work with unstaggering firmness; hopeful, perhaps, that when his countrymen heard the divine threatening, they would repent of their sin, seek mercy, and …
SERMON • SERMON 1324Unwillingness to Come to Christ
John 5:40
… O Sinner, by nature you are dead in sin! You must be made alive or you cannot dwell with God, for He is not the God of the …
SERMON • SERMON 2029Let Him Deliver Him Now
Matthew 27:43
… Try whether he will not deliver you now from the guilt, the penalty, the power of sin. Why not come? You have never, perhaps, been in the Tabernacle …
SERMON • SERMON 1915The Ever-Living Priest
Hebrews 7:23-25
… Does not this teach the grand principle of the evil of sin and teach it in the most plain manner? The distance which sin puts between the sinner …