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The seriousness of sin, temptation, guilt, and the need for cleansing

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SERMON • SERMON 1418

The Holdfast

Proverbs 4:13

… There must at the very first be a deep sense of sin, a consciousness of guilt, a holy horror of evil, or he will never make much of …

SERMON • SERMON 1551

Today! Today! Today!

Psalm 95:7

… You know the Gospel thoroughly, though you know it not in your hearts—what guilt must be yours to sin against such Light of God and such special …

SERMON • SERMON 1338

Work For Jesus

Matthew 21:28

… They are, perhaps, this very night, before they go to their rest, about to commit a great sin. Perhaps the Lord means you to interpose just now, before …

SERMON • SERMON 1483

The Present Crisis

Hosea 5:15

… Be not content with your own sense of sin. Do not say, "I am doing fine, for I have felt my guilt." No, your sense of sin may …

SERMON • SERMON 1813

Jonah's Resolve—or, 'Look Again!'

Jonah 2:4

… sense of guilt I will, by God's Grace, look as at the first! I did not know, then, Your great and exceeding wrath against sin as I …

SERMON • SERMON 1488

More and More, or Less and Less

Matthew 13:12

… There has been no repentance of sin, no sense of guilt, no humbling before God, no brokenness of spirit, no inner conflict and no work of the Holy …

SERMON

Sunshine in the Heart

Psalms 37:4

… me be perfectly set free from the very name, and nature, guilt, and power of sin.” You shall have your desire, the Lord shall give unto you the …

SERMON • SERMON 1754

The Blind Man's Eyes Opened—or, Practical Christianity

John 9:3

… to the Savior— foreseen guilt, or hereditary taint—"Who did sin, this man, or his parents?" How far is it right that the sin of parents should, as …

SERMON • SERMON 694

Sin Laid on Jesus

Isaiah 53:6

… would have been incapable of receiving the sin of all his people as their substitute had he been himself a sinner: but he was, as to his divine …

SERMON • SERMON 1531

On Whose Side Are You?

Exodus 32:26

… It was Moses who put this question, "Who is on the Lord's side?" and he put it to Israel when sin was rampant in the camp. It …

SERMON • SERMON 608

A Discourse For A Revival Season

Jeremiah 8:19

… Offord said the other night, "Can any of you tell how far off God is from the unpardoned sinner? Remember, you are on this side of sin and …

SERMON • SERMON 484

The Lord,—the Liberator

Psalm 146:7

… Some of them are mourning on account of unpardoned sin, and others of them are deploring their blighted hopes, for they have looked for comfort where it is …

SERMON • SERMON 742

A Sermon to Open Neglecters and Nominal Followers of Religion

Matthew 21:28-32

… You have offended God; God must punish sin; it is a fixed law that sin must be punished; how then can God have mercy upon you? Why, only …

SERMON • SERMON 778

Plain Words With the Careless

Luke 8:28

… A sinner's prayer for his own misery is often a grim and awful thing to look upon from its horrible earnestness. Yes, how often have we heard …

SERMON • SERMON 1024

The Throne of Grace

Hebrews 4:16

… For this cause at this hour grace sits on a throne, because it has conquered human sin, has borne the penalty of human guilt, and overthrown all its …

SERMON • SERMON 198

The Heavenly Race

1 Corinthians 9:24

… who would not object to thieving, but who would regard eating anything but fish on a Friday as a most fearful sin, supposing that by making a fast …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 94

Psalm 94

… Conspicuous sin. 2. Absurd supposition. 3. Overwhelming argument. Verse 8. The duration of the reign of evil. 1. Till it has filled up its measure of guilt. 2 …

SERMON • SERMON 1484

Our Motto

Ephesians 6:7

… I can imagine a slave becoming a Christian and so finding peace as to his former guilt and obtaining renewal of heart—and then, although rejoicing in the …

SERMON • SERMON 1431

The Message from the Lord's Mouth

Ezekiel 3:17

… Why is such startling ability to be flaunted if the object is to warn a sinner to flee from the wrath to come? I fear that my Brothers …

SERMON • SERMON 61

The Beatific Vision

1 John 3:2

… But when we see him, there it will be joy without sorrow ; sin and sorrow itself will have gone; ours will be a pure, unmingled, unadulterated joy. Yet …

SERMON • SERMON 1004

'Bought with a Price'

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

… Observe how well the apostle Paul succeeds, for though he does not mask the sin, but tears the veil from it, and lets us know well what it …

SERMON • SERMON 1614

Dressing In The Morning

Romans 13:11-14

sin as Christ's death for sin! Off goes the filthy raiment at the sight of the glorious, spotless righteousness which is freely presented to every needy sinner

SERMON • SERMON 1687

The Law Written in the Heart

Jeremiah 31:33

… If God takes away the guilt of sin, He is sure, at the same time, to remove the power of sin. If He puts away our offenses against …

SERMON • SERMON 705

The Voice Of Cholera

Amos 3:3-6

… The trial and punishment of nations takes place in this state, and it is here that we are to look for the judgment of God upon national sin

SERMON • SERMON 715

Children'S Bread Given To Dogs

Matthew 15:27

… And if You cast us into Hell You only do with sin what ought to be done with it!" Beloved Friends, whenever you meet with a sinner bowed …

SERMON • SERMON 758

The Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God

1 Timothy 1:11

… That doctrine which in any way palliates sin may be popular, but is not sound doctrine. Those who talk much of their soundness but yet, by their lives …

SERMON • SERMON 303

Election and Holiness

Deuteronomy 10:14-16

… lusts, so fond of thy sin. That is why thou canst not come. That very inability of thine is thy crime, thy guilt. Thou couldst come if thy …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 124

Psalm 124

… escaped." Escaped from our natural slavery; escaped from the guilt, the degradation, the habit, the dominion of sin; escaped from the vain deceits and fascinations of Satan; escaped …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 4

Psalm 4

… Surely a thinking man might have enough sense to discover the vanity of sin and the worthlessness of the world. Stay, rash sinner, stay, ere thou take the …

SERMON • SERMON 635

Are You Prepared To Die?

Jeremiah 12:5

… If He sends for us, "It is well." But best of all, if He comes Himself again the second time without sin unto salvation. A sweet truth, which …

CHAPTER

Reminiscences as a Village Pastor

… venture to assert that “it is no sin for a sinner not to believe on Christ.” I should have thought that, however far they might wish to push …

SERMON • SERMON 39

Heaven and Hell

Matthew 8:11-12

… Oh! if I could tell you what she has suffered for you when you have at night been indulging in you sin. Do you know what your guilt

COMMENTARY

Psalm 101

Psalm 101

… For a man to set wicked things before his eyes is nothing else but to sin of set purpose, to set himself to sin, or to sell himself …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 99

Psalm 99

… That God's vengeance for sin does not prevent his forgiveness of sin; and, 2. That God's forgiveness of sin does not prevent his taking vengeance. Stephen …

SERMON • SERMON 288

'Let Us Pray'

Psalm 73:23

… The soul conscious of guilt, and humbled thereby, is overawed with the solemnity of its position; it is cast to the earth with the grandeur of that God …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 147

Psalm 147

… Wholeness of heart is twofold; either wholeness of heart in sin, or wholeness of heart from sin. First, wholeness of heart from sin is when the heart is …

SERMON • SERMON 7

Christ Crucified

1 Corinthians 1:23-24

… Now free from sin, I walk at large, My Saviour’s blood’s my full discharge; At his dear feet content I lay, A sinner saved, and homage …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 149

Psalm 149

… The religion of the dead in sin is more apt to chant dirges than to sing hallelujahs; but when we are made new in the spirit of our …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 6

Psalm 6

… A pardoned sinner will hate the sins which cost the Saviour his blood. Grace and sin are quarrelsome neighbours, and one or the other must go to the …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 109

Psalm 109

… Why should there be; if only sin is condemned and not the sinner? But man's sin is identified with himself, and this makes him tremble. God's …