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The seriousness of sin, temptation, guilt, and the need for cleansing
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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 1295Our 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 404Intercessory 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 3510The 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 1762High 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 1037The 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 625Jesus 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 2169The 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 2793Five 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 610The 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 3135A 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 2115The 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 568What 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 250War! 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 277The 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 225Satan'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 2092God'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 1473Forts 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 1061Rahab
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 996The 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 …
COMMENTARYPsalm 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 154Fast-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 …
BOOKThe 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 2992God'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 133Heavenly 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 2662Some 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 2400Number 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 3406Fullness 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 789Lingerers 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 …
CHAPTEREnquirers 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 2870Revelation 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 1454BThe 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 633Two 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 1040What 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 2325The 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 1234The 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 1226The 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 1840The 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 1228Salvation 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 …