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The seriousness of sin, temptation, guilt, and the need for cleansing
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John's First Doxology
Revelation 1:5
… It is enough to make us sing of pardoning mercy forever and ever if we have been cleansed from sin—but the center of the joy is to …
SERMON • SERMON 45Conversion
James 5:19-20
… And if now thou art a conscience-stricken sinner, that is all I want. If thou will confess that thou art a sinner, that is all God requires …
SERMON • SERMON 802Good Earnests of Great Success
Acts 6:7
… sin about you, and throw yourself at his feet. Trust him! Trust him! Do him the honour to believe that he can save even such an abominable sinner …
SERMON • SERMON 1053Testimony And Experience
John 4:39-42
… I was but a lad, but my sin haunted me. I had such an idea of the guilt of my past life that my heart was heavy within …
SERMON • SERMON 1685God's Non-Remembrance of Sin
Isaiah 43:25
… speedy destruction! That same evil spirit who once pictured sin in glowing colors and set before the sinner the pleasureableness of unrighteousness, now comes in and turns accuser …
SERMON • SERMON 1606Ziklag—or David Encouraging Himself In God
1 Samuel 30:6
… His hope of recovery lay there, yet faith under a sense of guilt is one of those noble kinds of faith at which some are staggered. To my …
SERMON • SERMON 2608"There Is No Difference"
Romans 3:22
… some indulge, yet there is in every sinner the black spot of alienation from God, forgetfulness of God, love of sin and dislike to God when He is …
SERMON • SERMON 2015The Rent Veil
Matthew 27:50-51
… it opens in abyss between the sinner and his Judge. Sin shuts out prayer, and praise, and every form of religious exercise. Sin makes God walk contrary to …
SERMON • SERMON 2837'The Ministry of Reconciliation'
2 Corinthians 5:18
… be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." Jesus willingly undertook to stand in the sinner's …
SERMON • SERMON 1938The Master Key—Opening the Gate of Heaven
Genesis 32:12
… Do you not see this? When you are burdened with a deep sense of sin; when your heart is ready to break with an overwhelming consciousness of guilt …
SERMON • SERMON 1296Gone, Gone Forever
1 Kings 20:40
… Let us all fly to Jesus who can forgive the guilt of the past! Is there one man or woman here who can say, "I have nothing to …
SERMON • SERMON 1735The Doctrines of Grace Do Not Lead to Sin
Romans 6:14
… This causes a sacred mourning for sin, as he looks upon the Lord whom he pierced. Love to Jesus burns within the pardoned sinner’s breast, for the …
SERMON • SERMON 2795The Double Drawing Near
James 4:8
… If the previous verses have rightly accused you of sin, confess your guilt with shame and sorrow—and so come to Christ imploring pardon. 10. Humble yourselves in …
SERMON • SERMON 1429Faith's Sure Foundation
1 Peter 2:6
… would send, who would undo the mischief of the Fall, remove the guilt of sin, deliver ruined souls—and give them to partake of the mercy of God …
SERMON • SERMON 2926The Love of Our Espousals
Jeremiah 2:2
… Not only is there guilt in our sin for which we shall have to answer at God's Judgment Seat, but there is evil in it which will …
SERMON • SERMON 2445The Last Sermon for the Year
Luke 16:2
… How have you spent it? Have not many hours been allowed to run to waste, or worse than waste, in frivolity and sin? Have you lived as a …
SERMON • SERMON 1604Heart Disease Curable
Isaiah 61:1
… all sin." "He that believes in Him is not condemned." Whenever the Lord Jesus is believingly received, the heartbreak of remorse is ended and the sinner rests at …
SERMON • SERMON 1651A Delusion Dispelled
Ezekiel 14:20
… every sin to what another would have done who had been trained up under vicious surroundings. Assuredly he is not a less sinner, but a greater sinner who …
SERMON • SERMON 1403God's Advocates Breaking Silence
Job 36:2
… a debt due to mankind? Do you see nothing horrible in sin? Is there no guilt in rejecting Christ and trampling on His blood? And is there none …
SERMON • SERMON 1760"He Shall Be Great"
Luke 1:32
… found in His glorious oblation! Great is the sin, but greater is the Sacrifice! The Atonement has covered the guilt and left a margin of abounding righteousness! Beloved …
SERMON • SERMON 1387God's Thoughts and Ways Far Above Ours
Isaiah 55:8
… of this, O repenting Sinner, and be encouraged! Man's forgiveness is seldom free, like that of God's, who delights to pardon sin! No sooner do we …
SERMON • SERMON 1575The Sitting of the Refiner
Malachi 3:3
… He may now purge you with His precious blood from all the guilt of sin! Cry to Him that He may then go on with the second process …
SERMON • SERMON 460Faith and Repentance Inseparable
Mark 1:15
… Then, there is another spurious repentance which makes the sinner dwell upon the consequences of his sin, rather than upon the sin itself, and so keeps him from …
SERMON • SERMON 1907"The Tender Mercy of Our God"
Luke 1:77-79
… Knowing your guilt, the Lord visits you this morning, and bids you look up. "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." Look …
SERMON • SERMON 2503The Question Between the Plagues
Exodus 10:3
… and Sisters, that which God requires of a sinner is a right thing. He bids you leave your sin. Is not that right? He bids you break off …
SERMON • SERMON 1250The Priest Dispensed With
1 John 5:10
… The first resolution of the awakened sinner is, "I will arise and go unto my Father." It is not, "I will arise and go unto the authorized minister …
SERMON • SERMON 782Saving Knowledge
John 4:10
… They have serious thoughts, but they have some sin which they cannot give up. I cannot particularize cases, but there are such here. There are men here who …
SERMON • SERMON 2489Singing Saints
Psalm 30:4
… And, inasmuch as maddened and besotted by their sin, they will not come, He adds this command, "Compelthem to come in, that My house may be filled." And …
SERMON • SERMON 2372A Page From a Royal Diary
Psalm 119:132
… be more appropriate to you who are conscious of guilt and groaning under the heavy burden of sin, than that you should pray these two petitions of David …
SERMON • SERMON 1073A Honeycomb
Hebrews 12:3
… Now, the Lord need not punish you, oh Sinner, for sin, for He has punished Jesus Christ in the place of all believing sinners! He need not visit …
SERMON • SERMON 1641Great Spoil
Psalm 119:162
… that Jesus took our sin and suffered for them on the tree, we are no more troubled as to the guilt of sin! When we believe that our …
SERMON • SERMON 768A Prayer for the Church Militant
Psalm 28:9
… All who have believed in Christ are saved from the guilt of sin, but they are not all as yet completely delivered from the power of sin. No …
SERMON • SERMON 2425Self-destroyed, Yet Saved
Hosea 13:9
… God. Sin, of man's will; salvation, of God's will. Reprobation, of man's demerit; election, of God's free and Sovereign Grace. The sinner lost in …
SERMON • SERMON 732The Heart—a Den of Evil
Matthew 15:19
… If we see the hornets of sin flying out of a man, we suppose at once that there is sin within him. Look at yonder spring—it is …
SERMON • SERMON 1705The Hearing of Faith
Galatians 3:2
… about the salvation of man from the power of sin; the salvation of man from the guilt of sin; the preparation of man for a holy life on …
SERMON • SERMON 2148The Tenderness of Jesus
Hebrews 4:15
… He cannot sympathize with me in sin and that is my great trouble!" Brother, do you wish that your Lord had become a sinner like yourself? Abhor the …
SERMON • SERMON 3061The Rule of Grace
Luke 4:27
… The simple act of relying upon Jesus as your Substitute and Savior puts away your guilt and sin forever! But if you say, "This plan of salvation is …
SERMON • SERMON 1899Zealous, But Wrong
Romans 10:1
… It is easier to get a sinner out of his sin than a self-righteous man out of his self-righteousness! Conceit of our own righteousness sticks to …
SERMON • SERMON 991The Fourfold Treasure
1 Corinthians 1:30
… His blood cleanseth us from all guilt; by it pardon is bestowed upon the believer. He that looks to Christ is absolved from all sin—completely so. Then …
SERMON • SERMON 1718Certain Singular Subjects
Joshua 24:4
… acts of sin, his willful choice of evil, his rejection of Christ and of His Grace. No man can too thoroughly believe in the willful guilt of the …