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The seriousness of sin, temptation, guilt, and the need for cleansing
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Mediation of Moses
Exodus 32:14
… He lays at his door the guilt of the great sin he had committed—"Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies." 26, 27. Then …
SERMON • SERMON 1087The Hexapla Of Mystery
1 Timothy 3:16
… The altar of sacrifice, indeed! The place of defilement and remembrance of sin—how come is that in the holy place at all? God has never ordained it …
SERMON • SERMON 661The Great Arbitration Case
Job 9:33
… If that suit is carried into court, it must go against the sinner. There is no hope whatever that at the last tremendous day any sinner will be …
SERMON • SERMON 1766A Waiting God and a Waiting People
Isaiah 30:18
… did not feel the guilt of our sin! We would not acknowledge that we had erred! We did not recognize the misery that sin brought upon us! We …
SERMON • SERMON 1590The Barrier
Revelation 21:27
… O Sinner, though it was 50 years ago that your chief sin was committed, for time has no bleaching power upon a crimson sin. The guilt of an …
SERMON • SERMON 1592The Common Salvation
… Salvation means being at once delivered from the power of sin and being, once and for all, washed from the guilt of sin. The very word used here …
SERMON • SERMON 2714Those Who Desire
Nehemiah 1:11
… Our sorrow is if we ever fall into sin. A child of God cannot find pleasure there. He may be led into sin, but he will be whipped …
SERMON • SERMON 2484The Very Friend You Need
Luke 7:34
… He is the friend of the sinner when he begins his sin and He checks him. He is the Friend of the sinner when he goes on in …
SERMON • SERMON 1862The True Tabernacle, and Its Glory of Grace and Peace
John 1:14
… At one time He spoke and pardoned a sinner, saying, "Thy sins be forgiven thee"; at another moment He battled with the consequences of sin, raising men from …
SERMON • SERMON 1326Christ the Conqueror of Satan
Genesis 3:16
… It is broken next in this way, that the guilt of sin is gone. The great power of the serpent lies in unpardoned sin. He cries “l have …
SERMON • SERMON 1542Free Grace a Motive for Free Giving
2 Thessalonians 2:16
… Once, when we looked back into the past, we saw the blackness of our guilt and the hole of the pit from which we were lifted. But now …
SERMON • SERMON 3095Faith in Christ
Acts 16:31
… It is trust—trust in that Christ who died upon the Cross, that through His merit, He can remove the guilt and punishment of sin. And also trust …
SERMON • SERMON 1918The Abiding of the Spirit the Glory of the Church
Haggai 2:4-5
… He can make you feel more deeply the guilt of sin and your need of pardon. "But I have heard so much about conviction and repentance; I do …
SERMON • SERMON 2203"Lo, I Come"—Application
Psalm 40:7
… even be the better for sin, then our Lord, the Savior, says to you, "Lo, I come." To you, O naked Sinner, shivering in your own shame, blushing …
SERMON • SERMON 1055Ingratitude of Man
John 1:11
… And we will observe at the outset that every sin of the Believer has in it a measure of ingratitude, for, since our Savior has suffered by reason …
SERMON • SERMON 2642The Flight to Zoar
Genesis 19:23
… had any true sorrow for sin" "Well, do you not feel the burden of sin?" "No." "But you really are a convinced sinner?" "No," I would have said …
SERMON • SERMON 767The Echo
Psalm 27:8
… Bonar's sweet verses— "All that I was, my sin, my guilt, My death, was all my own. All that I am, I owe to You, My gracious …
SERMON • SERMON 1054"Waters To Swim In"
… The first is the abundant provision for the removal of sin and for making us accepted in the Beloved. To put away my sin there needed an infinite …
SERMON • SERMON 1892Why They Leave Us
John 17:24
… There are difficulties in the way—long nights and darkness lie between, and hills of guilt, and forests of trouble, and bands of fierce temptations; yet the pilgrims …
SERMON • SERMON 1723"Knock!"
Matthew 7:12
… than as a matter of fact, for the sin which shuts it is removed so far as the believing sinner is concerned. Had you but faith enough, you …
SERMON • SERMON 2435The Everlasting Arms
Deuteronomy 33:27
… is under conviction of sin, "fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought" are very feeble images of the pains and miseries that come of guilt unfor-given! "Where there …
SERMON • SERMON 831The Alter
Matthew 23:19
… And before we can be accepted in our best things, there must be the shedding of the blood which takes away sin. There is no door of acceptance …
SERMON • SERMON 1841Divine Forgiveness Admired and Imitated
Colossians 3:13
… for I will pardon them whom I reserve." He has finished transgression, made an end of sin and brought in everlasting righteousness. Send to Hell a pardoned sinner …
SERMON • SERMON 1896The Three Hours of Darkness
Matthew 27:45
… Have you ever felt a deep and overwhelming horror of sin—your own sin and the sins of others? Have you ever seen sin in the light of …
SERMON • SERMON 202The Conversion of Saul of Tarsus
Acts 26:14
… guilt in having opposed him, and has the Holy Spirit made you willing now to confess your sins? Are you saying! “Lord, have mercy upon me a sinner …
SERMON • SERMON 2414The Prodigal's Climax
Luke 15:17
… Then, first, A SINNER IS BESIDE HIMSELF. While a man is living in his sin, he is out of his mind, he is beside himself. I am sure …
SERMON • SERMON 1673Who Is This?
Jeremiah 30:21
… This enquiry is fitly the sinner's question, when, trembling and convinced of sin and led to seek his God, he needs an Interposer, One of a thousand …
SERMON • SERMON 1728The Works of the Devil Destroyed
1 John 3:8
… Since then he has been, in some degree, the author of sin by often tempting men. I doubt not that he suggests to many a sinner the delights …
SERMON • SERMON 1414No Difference
Matthew 5:45
… Let me add, however, if anybody does abuse God's mercy, just as if any man abuses your practical kindness, it involves him in great guilt. Men cannot …
SERMON • SERMON 2514Servus Servorum
Luke 22:27
… He did not merely come to save us from the guilt of sin, but He came to save us from the power of sin. He does not merely …
SERMON • SERMON 543Once A Curse But Now A Blessing
Zechariah 8:13
… from sin is one, but yet it is a salvation from sin in two senses—from the guilt of it and from the power of it. Sinner, cursed …
SERMON • SERMON 2564Strange Ways of Love
Hosea 2:14
… Every sin is a reason why a sinner should perish. Every willful transgression is a reason why a man should be given over to continue in his stubbornness …
SERMON • SERMON 2613Sonship Questioned
Matthew 4:3
… fact of your being tempted, as though it were, in itself, a sin. The guilt lies with him who tempts—not with the tempted one until he yields …
SERMON • SERMON 3432'The Zeal of the Lord'
Isaiah 9:7
… that in that flesh He should die and put away the guilt of all their sin, and that by His flesh, when risen, He should establish a link …
SERMON • SERMON 1477Jesus Admired In Them That Believe
2 Thessalonians 1:10
… yes, they shall not be, says the Lord." Neither the guilt of sin nor the propensity to sin—both shall be gone— and Christ shall have done it …
SERMON • SERMON 541Direction In Dilemma
Exodus 14:13
… Methinks, also, it shows the position in which a sinner should be found when he is under trouble on account of sin. We will employ it in both …
SERMON • SERMON 1952The Holy Spirit—the Need of the Age
Micah 2:7
… of sin if you would be delivered from the guilt of sin. You cannot have your sin and go to Heaven—you must either give up sin or …
SERMON • SERMON 296A Revival Sermon
Amos 9:13
… When a sermon has been preached in these modern times, if one sinner has been converted by it, we have rejoiced with a suspicious joy; for we have …
SERMON • SERMON 391The First Resurrection
Revelation 20:4
… sin has been lifted from them—it was laid upon the Scapegoats' head of old! He, the Eternal Substitute, even our Lord Jesus, carried all their guilt and …
SERMON • SERMON 1399Am I My Brother's Keeper?
Genesis 4:9
… When we are charged with any form of guilt, if we begin denying or extenuating, we are guilty of the sin of Cain as to impudence before God …