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"Lead Us Not Into Temptation"
Matthew 6:13
… the ladder stands a sinner afraid of yet greater sin. He is in extreme danger and in conscious weakness, sensible of past sin and fearful of it for …
SERMON • SERMON 1314The Mighty Arm
Psalm 89:13
… learned to do well! Behold a miracle of mighty Grace! The sinner has grown old in sin—like an old oak he has become rooted to the earth …
SERMON • SERMON 1746The Devil's Last Throw
Luke 9:42
… No man is too big a sinner. "All manner of sin and of blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men." "Oh but," says Satan, "it is too late." Another …
SERMON • SERMON 2956A Handkerchief
John 20:15
… Ah, weeping woman! Do you weep because sin burdens you? Do you weep because sweet sin has become bitter to you? Do you weep because the things wherein …
SERMON • SERMON 3206'The Church of the First-born'
Hebrews 12:23
… So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God who shows mercy." And what says the Scripture when the sinner …
SERMON • SERMON 2341The Underlying Gospel for the Dying Year
Romans 5:6
… In God's Book of Remembrance there is no claim for late payment or delay against any believing sinner. There is no note, there, saying, "This sinner's …
SERMON • SERMON 745The Unsearchable Riches Of christ
Ephesians 3:8
… sin which is unto death brings death with it to the conscience, so that when once committed the man ceases to feel. If you desire pardon, Sinner, there …
SERMON • SERMON 3001The Vision of the Field
Ezekiel 36:9
… love to his Creator! Perhaps, however, he will be a disreputable sinner. He will live in sin, find his comfort in drunkenness, perhaps in lust, possibly in dishonesty …
SERMON • SERMON 3249Under the Apple Tree
Song 2:3
… Here is my black sin, but there is His precious blood overshadowing my sin and hiding it forever! Here is my condition by nature, an enemy to God …
SERMON • SERMON 2819A Caution for Sin-sick Souls
Hosea 5:13
… We have in our text somewhat of A PICTURE OF THE SINNER WHEN HE HAS PARTIALLY DISCOVERED HIS LOST ESTATE. Mark, it is but a partial discovery. Ephraim …
SERMON • SERMON 1869Hagar at the Fountain
Genesis 16:13
… O wandering Sinner, what are you doing? In fleeing from goodness, God, hope and Grace, do you know what you are leaving? Again, He asks her, "Where will …
SERMON • SERMON 559The Cripple at Lystra
Acts 14:9-10
… I believe it, but see what a sinner I am!” Sinner, stand upright on thy feet, for “all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men …
SERMON • SERMON 395Jehovah Tsidkenu: The Lord Our Righteousness
Jeremiah 23:6
… Man did not keep the command; he therefore was guilty of the sin of omission. In that which he committed, and in that which he omitted, his original …
SERMON • SERMON 244The Bed and Its Covering
Isaiah 28:20
… There are times when the convinced sinner grows great in sin. He feels himself as if he were bloated with iniquity; but even then the garment of Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 1608The Double "Come"
Revelation 22:17
… What, then, shall it be? Shall the last sentences be full of tender invitation and earnest entreaty to the sinner, bidding him come to Christ and live? Yes …
SERMON • SERMON 1726Buying Without Money
Isaiah 55:1
… To strain after eloquence when preaching the Gospel is a sin worthy of eternal destruction! To point the sinner to Christ must be our only desire! Pray for …
SERMON • SERMON 1933"Your Rowers Have Brought You Into Great Waters"
Ezekiel 27:26
… At last it went further—it came to actual and open sin—and ruin followed. I cannot tell how long that sinner may remain in his sin. How …
SERMON • SERMON 212The New Heart
Ezekiel 36:26
… If thou desirest this day that thou shouldest be saved, there never was an unwilling God where there was a willing sinner. Sinner, if thou willest to be …
SERMON • SERMON 2747Saying Versus Doing
Matthew 21:28-30
… from your sin. You still love it and you want to hold it. You are not an empty sinner yet. You are not a hungry sinner yet. You …
SERMON • SERMON 3157The Fourth Beatitude
Matthew 5:6
… He knows that he is a sinner and that as a sinner he is unrighteous and, therefore, is condemned at the bar of the Most High. But he …
SERMON • SERMON 686Obedience Better Than Sacrifice
1 Samuel 15:2
… the just One, must punish sin, therefore He must punish you—but Jesus Christ became Man and stood and smarted in the sinner's place—that whoever trusts …
SERMON • SERMON 1947Who Is This?
Isaiah 62:11
… Are any of you oppressed with a sense of sin? Do you see sin to be an enemy too powerful for you to overcome? Are you unable to …
SERMON • SERMON 3371Two Choice Benedictions
Numbers 6:23-27
… Oh, Brothers and Sisters, what a privilege to be kept from falling into sin! He is ill-kept who is his own keeper! He is worse kept who …
DEVOTIONALEvening, July 23
1Jn 1:7
… But forgiveness of sin is a present thing—a privilege for this day, a joy for this very hour. The moment a sinner trusts Jesus he is fully …
SERMON • SERMON 827The Faculty Baffled, The Great Physician Successful
Mark 5:25-28
… a sinner, he cannot be so readily deceived as when he was in his dreams. The Holy Spirit has made him feel the bitterness of sin and bruised …
SERMON • SERMON 630The Holy Spirit Compared To The Wind
John 3:8
… Sometimes you find Him convicting the world "of sin, of righteousness, of judgment." That is the north wind. At other times opening up Christ to the sinner and …
SERMON • SERMON 3010Jacob's Model Prayer
Genesis 32:9-12
… He was soon to meet his brother, Esau, and then the great sin of his earlier years would be brought home to him. He had deceived his old …
SERMON • SERMON 1665The Exceeding Riches of Grace
Ephesians 2:7
… You cannot sin so much as God can forgive! If it comes to a pitched battle between sin and Grace, you shall not be so bad as God …
SERMON • SERMON 2646The Baptist's Message
John 1:29
… He was, indeed, the great Sin-Bearer—He who knew no sin was made sin for us, "that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him …
SERMON • SERMON 637The Dove'S Return To The Ark
Genesis 8:9
… to your comfort—if your soul has no rest in sin, you are not as the sinner is. If you are still crying after and craving after something …
SERMON • SERMON 2385Another Lesson From Manasseh's Life
2 Chronicles 33:10
… thing sin must be, for even a child of God feels the smart of it very grievously. This is not the language of an unforgiven sinner—it is …
SERMON • SERMON 972New Uses for Old Trophies
2 Kings 11:10
… That is the sinner’s battle; we shall see David’s shields and spears there. A tremendous battle it was with sin, with a guilty conscience, with despairing …
SERMON • SERMON 952Negotiations For Peace
Acts 10:36
… There is no difficulty now on God's part—no difficulty in forgiving any sinner that believes in Jesus Christ. Your sin was a great stone which lay …
SERMON • SERMON 2955Simple But Sound
John 9:25
… We are very apt to be entering into speculative theories about the origin of sin or the cause of certain strange Providences, but Christ is always for seeking …
SERMON • SERMON 553Election no Discouragement to Seeking Souls
Exodus 33:19
… And I will venture to say that if in the fulness of a man’s heart he shall say, “There is no sin except the one excepted sin …
SERMON • SERMON 1033Faith's Dawn and Its Clouds
Mark 9:24
… While we bless God that sin is pardoned, we are staggered to think it should have been such sin as it is, and the natural feeling resulting from …
DEVOTIONALEvening, February 26
Le 13:13
… and a thorough sense of sin is one of the earliest works of grace in the heart. O thou poor leprous sinner, utterly destitute of a sound spot …
SERMON • SERMON 594An Awful Premonition
Matthew 16:28
… And to our God, for He will abundantly pardon." By the wounds of Jesus, Sinner, stop and think! If God's dear Son was slain for human sin …
SERMON • SERMON 1065The Healing of One Born Blind
John 9:32
… The exigencies of some men's doctrinal systems require them to ascribe some measure of power to the sinner—but we know that he is dead in sin …
SERMON • SERMON 1747Marvelous! Marvelous!
Zechariah 8:6
… We inform them, in God's name, that whoever repents of sin and confesses it, and believes in Jesus Christ, shall receive immediate pardon. This good news surprises …