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The seriousness of sin, temptation, guilt, and the need for cleansing
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"My Lord and My God!"
John 20:28
… A mere outcry of confused astonishment in irreverent words would never have been received as a satisfactory proof of faith! Sin is not an evidence of faith! The …
SERMON • SERMON 1700A Monument for the Dead, and a Voice to the Living
Romans 10:5-9
… How blessed it is when a child of God has actually fallen into sin,God keep us so that we never may,but if guilt is on the …
SERMON • SERMON 1357A Business-Like Account
Philippians 3:7-9
… This knowledge sanctifies, purges and delivers from the love of sin. It saves the soul—saves it from present sin and from eternal woe. This knowledge elevates the …
SERMON • SERMON 955A Singular But Needful Question
John 5:6
… However black your sin is to your own eyes, it is ten times more black to God's eyes, and you are an utterly condemned and lost sinner …
SERMON • SERMON 1022Sleep Not
1 Thessalonians 5:6
… Ere long, Jael’s tent-pin shall have passed through Sisera’s skull; the sin shall have destroyed the sinner: the sin that is unto death shall have …
SERMON • SERMON 3109Sowing and Reaping
Galatians 6:7
… be? "He shall of the flesh reap corruption"—putridity, rottenness, death! The sin that the sinner thought was sweet as honey turns bitter as gall to him. There …
SERMON • SERMON 373Christ Set Forth As A Propitiation
Romans 3:25
… of sin does in no way contribute to the removal of that sin meritoriously. I say that our sense of need does not take away our guilt, nor …
SERMON • SERMON 1981God the Wonder-Worker
Psalm 136:4
… A sinner is such an evil thing, his sin is so vile, so foul, that holiness cannot take any pleasure in him. He who fails to obey his …
SERMON • SERMON 611Zechariah'S Vision Of Joshua The High Priest
Zechariah 3:1-5
… Sin is gone! You do not stand, now, in God's sight as a sinner, but as one who is perfect in Christ Jesus! You have not a …
SERMON • SERMON 2944Urging Lot
Genesis 19:15
… Has it ever struck you, dear Friends, that when you postpone attendance to a duty, you sin in the postponement? How many times do you sin? I cannot …
SERMON • SERMON 2938Jesus the Way
John 14:6
… He, in your place, Sinner—if you now believe on Christ—He, in your place, took all your guilt and paid all your debts, even to the utmost …
SERMON • SERMON 1188A Word for the Persecuted
1 Samuel 20:10
… we do give way because of opposition from ungodly friends, it involves tremendous guilt. To give up religion because of persecution is to prefer ourselves to florist, to …
SERMON • SERMON 1986The Child Of Light Walking In Light
1 John 1:6
… In Him is no sin, but in Him is great abhorrence of sin! If you hate sin, God hates it, also, and herein you are agreed. The very …
SERMON • SERMON 1191For Whom Did Christ Die?
Romans 5:6
… The sinner has believed, repented, turned from his evil ways, and become zealous for holiness. Looking to Jesus he has felt his sin forgiven, and he has started …
SERMON • SERMON 2853Observing the King's Word
1 Kings 20:33
… feet, confessing your sin and believing that He has forgiven it. "There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents"—and …
SERMON • SERMON 979Faith and Regeneration
1 John 5:1
… that it means deliverance from the power as well as from the guilt of sin, may seem to a fervent revivalist to be the proper thing for the …
SERMON • SERMON 2200The Covenant Promise of the Spirit
Ezekiel 36:27
… said— "A sinner is a saved thing, The Holy Spirit has made him so." The point of contact between a sinner and Christ is sin. The Lord Jesus …
SERMON • SERMON 2635Depths and Heights
Hebrews 1:2
… Oh, have we not beheld Him as the Glory of the Father, full of Grace and Truth? You great sinner, you black sinner, Christ is not lacking in …
SERMON • SERMON 1163Redemption and Its Claims
1 Corinthians 6:20
… guilt! In a little time we should have been in Hell—but since we have believed we never shall come into the place of torment—for sin is …
SERMON • SERMON 2824Mocked of the Soldiers
Matthew 27:29
… And, inasmuch as He was regarded as being the sinner, though in Him was no sin, it naturally followed that He should become the object of contempt. But …
SERMON • SERMON 958Dei Gratia
Ephesians 1:6
… If you have never gone into gross sin, thank God for it, but for all that, you are sinner enough. If you see yourself as you are, you …
SERMON • SERMON 937The Profit Of Godliness In This Life
1 Timothy 4:8
… The ungodly man is condemned already, condemned to die, for the wages of sin is death. And his whole life here is nothing but a reprieve granted by …
SERMON • SERMON 1803Jehovah-Jireh
Genesis 22:14
… Come, Sinner, with all your load of sin—God can bear it! The shoulders that bear up the universe can well sustain your load of guilt. God gave …
SERMON • SERMON 848Jesus Christ Immutable
Hebrews 13:8
… If His blood redeems us from the guilt of sin, His life shows us how to overcome its power. If by His death upon the tree He crushes …
SERMON • SERMON 2401The Child of Light and the Works of Darkness
Ephesians 5:11
… Any man whose teaching tends towards unholiness, who directly or indirectly, either by overt phrase or by natural inference, leads another man into sin, is particeps criminis, a …
SERMON • SERMON 1373Our Last Journey
Job 16:22
… all their hope! Dying men need realities! They need a sinner's Savior! They need atonement for guilt, for only then can they pass out of the world …
SERMON • SERMON 1252The First Day Of Creation
Genesis 1:4
… It shows him the evil of sin, his own guilt, consequent danger and the impossibility of his escaping from that danger by any efforts of his own. That …
SERMON • SERMON 1308The Recorders
1 Chronicles 16:4
… Every power of the mind has been injured by sin. The evil results of the Fall went through the entire system and weakened and perverted our entire nature …
SERMON • SERMON 1277Trial by the Word
Psalm 105:19
… Had he confessed his God in Potiphar's house? Did he not say to Potiphar's wicked wife, "How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against …
SERMON • SERMON 275Who Can Tell?
Jonah 3:9
… With this by way of preface, I shall now somewhat turn aside from the narrative, to address myself to those who are trembling on account of sin and …
SERMON • SERMON 2379A Discourse to the Despairing
Genesis 42:1
… I have more than I can do to take care of my own wife and children." So is it when one sinner looks upon another sinner. If really …
SERMON • SERMON 1021Heaven's Nurse Children
Hosea 11:3
… They cannot remain for ever under guilt, nor abide heirs of wrath, even as others; out of Egypt they must come when the years are accomplished. They are …
SERMON • SERMON 1028The Glorious Master and the Swooning Disciple
Revelation 1:17-18
… He thinks little of the punishment due to sin, because he has small notions of the atonement made for sin. Christian activity for right is also abated; as …
SERMON • SERMON 1072My Prayer
Psalm 119:37
… of life in you was painful—you were under a sense of sin and your guilt lay heavy upon you—you had only life enough to dread the …
SERMON • SERMON 2669Comfort From Christ's Omniscience
John 21:17
… Now, the enormity of his guilt in denying his Lord has come home to him—and the grief which he had caused his gracious Master is now reflected …
SERMON • SERMON 2307The Greatest Exhibition of the Age
1 Corinthians 11:26
… And sin was judged and condemned and the Prince of the world, the chief sinner in the world, received his deathblow— "the Prince of this world is judged …
SERMON • SERMON 2619The Captain of Our Salvation
Hebrews 2:10
… He could not be a perfect Substitute unless He bore our sin and shame. He could not be a perfect Sympathizer unless He bore our suffering. This, perhaps …
SERMON • SERMON 2319The Lord's Chosen Ministers
Luke 10:21
… Why do you got out of your depths? Be a babe and come—simply believe yourself to be a sinner and trust Christ as your Savior—and you …
SERMON • SERMON 1045Joy in a Reconciled God
Romans 5:11
… That God is angry with us for sin is so unpleasant a thought that the convinced sinner would, if he could, escape from it. He would willingly take …
SERMON • SERMON 950Means for Restoring the Banished
2Samuel 14:14
… had room to see his sin, though he was blind. And in his misery he was made to feel the bitterness of guilt, and to return unto his …