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

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SERMON • SERMON 2210

The Agreement Of Salvation By Grace With Walking In Good Works

Ephesians 2:9

… The desire of men created anew in Christ is to be rid of every sin. We do sin, but we do not love sin. Sin gets power over …

SERMON • SERMON 1295

Our Lord's Humanity a Sweet Source of Comfort

Daniel 10:18

… still living in sin. He thought it worth His while to permit His feet to be washed by a woman who had been a sinner. Worth His while …

SERMON • SERMON 404

Intercessory Prayer

Job 42:10

sin and they cannot pray, pray for them; it is a blessed thing—that vicarious repentance and vicarious faith; which a saint may exert towards a sinner. “Lord …

SERMON • SERMON 3510

The Fainting Soul Revived

Jonah 2:7

… Over the awakened sinner there comes this sense of weakness. When a sinner does not know himself, he thinks that being saved is the easiest thing in the …

SERMON • SERMON 1762

High Doctrine And Broad Doctrine

John 6:37

… not mentioned, lest in mentioning one sinner, another should seem to be excluded. No limit is set to the extent of sin—any "him" in all the world …

SERMON • SERMON 1037

The Poor Man's Friend

Psalm 72:12

… They have need of a covering for the sin of the past; they have need of help against the temptation of the present; they have need of perseverance …

SERMON • SERMON 625

Jesus Appearing To Mary Magdalene

Mark 16:9

… picture of the indwelling of sin. Now as Mary Magdalene had seven devils, though she was not, therefore, any the greater sinner for she could not help the …

SERMON • SERMON 2169

The Man Who Shall Never See Death

John 8:51-53

… Here am I, a poor sinner, convicted of sin and awakened to a fear of wrath. What is there before my face? What am I compelled to gaze …

SERMON • SERMON 2793

Five Divine Declarations

Isaiah 45:24

… way of cleansing from sin offends them! Some men positively rave at the Atonement. Substitution, the vicarious expiatory suffering of Christ in the sinner's stead, they cannot …

SERMON • SERMON 610

The Great Need—Or, The Great Salvation

Isaiah 48:18

… may be the vilest sinner out of Hell, but there is enough righteousness in Christ to cover you! For every creek of sin, for every bay of blasphemy …

SERMON • SERMON 3135

A Golden Sentence

John 4:34

… You who are trembling under a sense of sin will perceive that the work of saving souls is called by Christ, "His Father's will "I know you …

SERMON • SERMON 2115

The Drought of Nature, the Rain of Grace and the Lesson Therefrom

Jeremiah 14:3

… Yet every sinner who goes on in sin is acting thus ungratefully. Existing only by God's infinite charity, he who continues to do evil is ungrateful in …

SERMON • SERMON 568

What God Cannot Do!

Titus 1:2

Sinner, weeping and bemoaning yourself, God will forgive you your sin if you believe in Jesus! If you will confess that He is faithful and just to forgive …

SERMON • SERMON 250

War! War! War!

1 Samuel 18:17

… Speak sometimes sternly if the sinner be hardened in his sin, speak gently, if it be his first offense, seeking not to break his head but to break …

SERMON • SERMON 277

The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant

Hebrews 13:20

… To the Son it is the fulfillment, to the Father the bond, to the sinner the evidence, and to all—To Father, Son, and sinner—it is the …

SERMON • SERMON 225

Satan's Banquet

John 2:9-10

… The secret sinner drinks, and is confounded; he fears his sin will find him out. He has no peace, no happiness, he is full of uneasy fear; he …

SERMON • SERMON 2092

God's Own Gospel Call

Isaiah 55:3

… Perhaps someone laments thus—"Who am I, that I should come to God? I am a poor, penniless sinner." The Lord forestalls the lament, by saying, "He that …

SERMON • SERMON 1473

Forts Demolished and Prisoners Taken

2 Corinthians 10:5

… Find a sinner made conscious of sin and you have found a man who does not know better than his God! Find a man with an awakened conscience …

SERMON • SERMON 1061

Rahab

Hebrews 11:31

… best becomes a sinner and does most for a sinner? Has not God sent Jesus Christ into the world to redeem men from sin? Has He not redeemed …

SERMON • SERMON 996

The Alarum

Psalms 42:8

… a sinner is near me whom I ought about warn, my soul should at once take the alarm and say, “Here is work to do—a sin to …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 74

Psalm 74

… This is every sinner's case in regard of sin: did not death put out the candle of life, the sinner would sin still. Should the sinner live …

SERMON • SERMON 154

Fast-Day Service

DANIEL 9:1-19

Sinner I dost thou believe? If so, Christ hath blotted out thy sin. Be happy! Soul! dost thou repent? Thou art safe. God has helped thee to repent …

BOOK

The Soul Winner

… A sinner will never be converted until his emotions are stirred. Unless he feels sorrow for sin. and unless he has some measure of joy in the reception …

SERMON • SERMON 2992

God's Writing Upon Man's Heart

Jeremiah 31:33

… And so, when God has thoroughly written out this whole of His Law upon the tablet of a sanctified heart, there will be no possibility that sin shall …

SERMON • SERMON 133

Heavenly Rest

Hebrews 4:9

Sin now troubleth him constantly; but there sin is dead, there they have no temptation to sin, from without or from within, but they are perfectly free to …

SERMON • SERMON 2662

Some Marks of God's People

Psalm 68:28

… If a child of God falls into sin, he is like a sheep in the mud—up again, directly! But he who is still ungodly is like the …

SERMON • SERMON 2400

Number 2400—or, "Escape for Your Life!"

Genesis 19:17

… So, there is no safety in unforgiven sin. And, further, there is no safety in unforsaken sin. No, you must escape for your life from every sin. The …

SERMON • SERMON 3406

Fullness of Joy Our Privilege

1 John 1:4

… Besides, sin will stop the beginning of your holy mirth, and when you would dance for joy, like David before the Ark, some internal corruption will come to …

SERMON • SERMON 789

Lingerers Hastened

Genesis 19:16

… When we have affectionately and plainly told the sinner that the wages of his sin will be death and that woe will come upon him because of his …

CHAPTER

Enquirers and Converts

… There are persons, nowadays, who make a difficulty about Moses praying for Israel, " If Thou wilt forgive their sin ; and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out …

SERMON • SERMON 2870

Revelation and Conversion

Psalm 19:7

… The man who searches his heart most will yet leave some sin undiscovered and he who says, "I have no sin. I am living without sin," has surely …

SERMON • SERMON 1454B

The Poor Man's Prayer

Psalm 106:4

… To begin with, it is a sinner's prayer. "Remember me, O Lord!" A sinner's prayer, I say, for the dying thief rejoiced to use the words …

SERMON • SERMON 633

Two Loving Invitations

John 1:39

… Our strange old proverb says, "A cat may look at a king," and the blackest sinner out of Hell may look at Christ! And though he has sin

SERMON • SERMON 1040

What and Whence Are These?

Revelation 7:13-14

… There were thoughts of sin, there were words of sin, there were acts of sin in all of them. Did you observe that bright one who sang most …

SERMON • SERMON 2325

The Far-off, Near—the Near, Far Off

Matthew 2:1-4

… I have known men who have been leaders in sin, ringleaders in sin, and they have thought that they would lose some of their followers through Christ's …

SERMON • SERMON 1234

The Final Separation

Matthew 25:32

… That which parts the saint and the sinner is Christ. The moment a sinner comes to Christ he passes over to the other side and is numbered with …

SERMON • SERMON 1226

The Secret Of Health

Psalm 42:11

… No forgiveness of sin, no imputation of righteousness, no justification by faith, if such could be apart from an inward change—could make a man happy so long …

SERMON • SERMON 1840

The Bond of the Covenant

Ezekiel 20:34-38

… If such is the present consequences of sin, they begin to guess what sin will bring them when they come into judgment and condemnation on account of it …

SERMON • SERMON 1228

Salvation by Faith and the Work of the Spirit

Galatians 5:5

… Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin." When we put our trust in Christ Jesus, His blood cleanses us from all sin! Does …

SERMON • SERMON 2993

'That King Ahaz'

2 Chronicles 28:22

… The harvest of the Church was not ripe—neither had the sin of man and especially the "man of sin" become fully developed. 3, 4. Let no man …