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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 1551Today! 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 1338Work 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 1483The 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 1813Jonah'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 1488More 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 …
SERMONSunshine 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 1754The 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 694Sin 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 1531On 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 608A 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 484The 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 742A 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 778Plain 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 1024The 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 198The 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 …
COMMENTARYPsalm 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 1484Our 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 1431The 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 61The 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 1614Dressing 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 1687The 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 705The 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 715Children'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 758The 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 303Election 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 …
COMMENTARYPsalm 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 …
COMMENTARYPsalm 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 635Are 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 …
CHAPTERReminiscences 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 39Heaven 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 …
COMMENTARYPsalm 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 …
COMMENTARYPsalm 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 …
COMMENTARYPsalm 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 7Christ 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 …
COMMENTARYPsalm 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 …
COMMENTARYPsalm 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 …
COMMENTARYPsalm 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 …