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The seriousness of sin, temptation, guilt, and the need for cleansing
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The Power Of Prayer And The Pleasure Of Praise
2 Corinthians 1:11
… To be silent over God's mercies is to incur the guilt of shocking ingratitude, and ingratitude is one of the worst of crimes. I trust, dear Friends …
SERMON • SERMON 441The Elders Before The Throne
Revelation 4:4
… Let your guilt be fully confessed before God. If you cannot honor this Church, do not dishonor it. If you cannot glorify Christ by your walk and conversation …
SERMON • SERMON 1471Concealing the Words of God
Job 6:10
… Thus did Job continually." He was earnest for the purity of his family and the keeping up of the sacrifices which were typical of the cleansing of sin …
SERMON • SERMON 2287"If There Is No Resurrection"
1 Corinthians 15:12-19
… and sinner are free." Understand clearly what I am saying. The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, took upon Himself the sum total of the guilt of …
SERMON • SERMON 1064Salvation All of Grace
Ephesians 2:8
… The great sinner is so much the fitter object for great mercy. He who has but little sin, can, as it were, but draw forth little mercy from …
SERMON • SERMON 2467Christ and His Co-workers
Mark 16:20
… she is the type of a great sinner. The seven devils that were in her do not represent actual guilt on her part, but they depict or symbolize …
SERMON • SERMON 592The True Position Of Assurance
Ephesians 1:13
… out of which there gushes blood and water to cleanse the guilt and the power of sin? Not trust God's own Son, the Mighty God, the Redeemer …
SERMON • SERMON 642Withholding Corn
Proverbs 11:26
… sinner out of Hell, but you are not too great for Him to remove—He can carry elephantine sinners upon His shoulders and bear gigantic mountains of guilt …
SERMON • SERMON 961The Saint One With His Savior
1 Corinthians 6:17
… O that we felt as He did the weight of souls, the guilt of sin, the terror of the wrath to come, and the tenderness of Divine mercy …
SERMON • SERMON 2549Luminous Words
1 Peter 4:1-3
… the capital sentence on account of sin and now, as a man who has been executed is clear of the guilt, so are we! And as a man …
SERMON • SERMON 2589The Christian's Glorious Inventory
1 Corinthians 3:21-23
… I am of Apollos and, therefore, cannot hear Cephas"—then it becomes a sin and iniquity, a transgression against God, against His Church and against His ministers. And …
SERMON • SERMON 872The Perseverance of the Saints
Philippians 1:6
… No, Sinner, you shall never be before God! The first step towards ending the separation between the prodigal son and his father is taken by the Father, not …
SERMON • SERMON 849Unsound Spiritual Trading
Proverbs 16:2
… Come, linking hand in hand, saint and sinner, now all sinners consciously, let us stand and see where sin has pierced the body of the blessed Substitute with …
SERMON • SERMON 1534Salvation By Works, A Criminal Doctrine
Galatians 2:21
… way by which the Substitute was introduced—that God might smite sin and yet spare the sinner—we are lost in admiration at the matchless love of God …
SERMON • SERMON 1207A Solemn Impeachment of Unbelievers
1 John 5:10
… Then, the nature of his sin detected. Then, the unbeliever's sin abhorred. And fourthly, his fate predicted. I. First, THE SINNER'S INABILITY TO BELIEVE DISSECTED. He …
SERMON • SERMON 1396Reasons for Turning to the Lord
Hosea 6:1
… The loving God, compelled by love, itself, frowns at sin. He threatens, He denounces. His justice and holiness lead Him to use rough words towards His erring creatures …
SERMON • SERMON 418Bread For The Hungry
Deuteronomy 8:3
… The soul was conscience of sin and hungered for pardon, conscious of guilt and hungered for purity, conscious of absence from God and hungered and thirsted after His …
SERMON • SERMON 985The Touchstone of Godly Sincerity
Job 27:10
… Think of the sinners around you hardening in transgression, some of them dying, seared with guilt or frenzied with despair. O brethren, how could you cease to intercede …
SERMON • SERMON 2495Defiled and Defiling
Haggai 2:13
… You must have the blood to take away the guilt of sin and you must also have the water to wash you from the pollution of sin, that …
SERMON • SERMON 2305No Fixity Without Faith
Isaiah 7:9
… but that of a poor sinner, conscious of guilt, who, nevertheless, believes in God as He reveals Himself in Christ, putting away sin by the great Sacrifice. If …
SERMON • SERMON 457Religion—a Reality
Deuteronomy 32:47
… We tell you that to us the being of God is a fact which influences our whole life, checks us when we would sin, forbids our weaker passions …
SERMON • SERMON 2536The Ethiopian
Jeremiah 13:23
… So, sin is not accidental to human nature, but it is part and parcel of ourselves. When you see a man, you see a sinner! And if you …
SERMON • SERMON 711A Feast For Faith
Isaiah 28:29
… the sick? As for the men who feel their guilt before God, and their inability to conquer sin, what am I to say to them if the world …
SERMON • SERMON 1289The Heart Full and the Mouth Closed
Ezekiel 16:62
… The trembling penitent is near the truth, for his sin is, indeed, great and terrible. If you make him out to be a little sinner, you will next …
SERMON • SERMON 866Rest
Hebrews 4:3
… Can there ever be rest to a heart which has sinned? Answer, yes! The Believer rests from the guilt of sin because he has seen his sins laid …
SERMON • SERMON 1674Brought Up from the Horrible Pit
Psalm 40:1-3
… deep mire of your guilt? The Lord can pardon you, for ‘the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all sin.’ Are you shut up by …
SERMON • SERMON 417Scourge For Slumbering Souls
Amos 6:1
… Oh, I beseech you to remember that to sin in the light is to sin with vengeance. To sin against knowledge is to sin seven times over. He …
SERMON • SERMON 1419Encouragement to Trust and Pray
Isaiah 30:19
… of sin—sinners who are beginning to feel the iniquity of their sins compassing them about. You are at this time overthrown with a sense of guilt and …
SERMON • SERMON 2892The Free-agency of Christ
Mark 8:22-26
… Let us never give way to despair concerning any person, however far he may have gone into sin. Who but the Divine Savior could open the eyes of …
SERMON • SERMON 2460God's Fire and Hammer
Jeremiah 23:29
… guilt and free from Hell—the proclaiming of this Gospel has made men's hearts burn within them and has dashed out the very brains of sin and …
SERMON • SERMON 2362The King and His Court
Psalm 101:6
… a certain measure they are—but there is no sense of guilt, no loathing of sin, no true repentance, no wounding and, therefore, no healing, no stripping and …
SERMON • SERMON 1801The Parable of the Lost Sheep
Luke 15:4-7
… I am bearing their sin, and they shall never come into condemnation. The penalty of their guilt has been laid on me that it may never be laid …
SERMON • SERMON 688Sweet Savor
Ezekiel 20:41
… He does the sin of man, and has an eye to the merit of the Savior as well as to the demerit of the sinner. The first is …
SERMON • SERMON 2410Springtime in Nature and Grace
Isaiah 55:10-13
… Here is a song for us—"Who remembered us in our low estate." We were brought low by sin, by conviction, by ignorance, by our own powerless-ness …
SERMON • SERMON 1729Beginning at Jerusalem
Luke 24:47
… the sinner must repent, not because of the punishment of sin, but because his sin is sin against a pardoning God, sin against a bleeding Saviour, sin against …
SERMON • SERMON 755Alive or Dead—Which?
1 John 5:12
… Faith is the eye of the soul, by which the sin-bitten sinner looks to Christ, lifted up as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness; but …
SERMON • SERMON 2512Hearing With Heed
Mark 4:24
… You have no longing to be saved, no wish to escape from the guilt of sin, no desire for Heaven, no care about God. So, of course, the …
SERMON • SERMON 1868Death and Life—the Wage and the Gift
Romans 6:23
… Giving himself up to the dominion of sin, the sinner receives, more and more, the result of his sin, even as the Apostle says, "Sin, when it is …
SERMON • SERMON 1355Our Lord's Question to the Blind Men
Matthew 9:27-30
… Though I am an old sinner, though I am an aggravated sinner, though I am one who has gone back from a profession of religion and have played …
SERMON • SERMON 1809May I?
Matthew 9:21
… You will not defile my Lord, O Sinner, if you bring Him all your sins! He will not have to die, again, to put away your fresh burden …