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

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DEVOTIONAL

Evening, June 21

2Ti 2:19

… The vicarious sacrifice of Christ for the guilty, Christ being made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him, Christ offering up …

DEVOTIONAL

Evening, April 17

Jn 12:21

… But the quickened sinner knows of only one good. “O that I knew where I might find Him !” When he is truly awakened to feel his guilt, if …

SERMON • SERMON 3043

Filling Up the Measure of Iniquity

Genesis 15:16

… Flatter not yourself, Sinner, with the false and foolish notion that your sin is forgotten. You may possibly forget it, but God never forgets. You may keep no …

DEVOTIONAL

Evening, November 6

Heb 9:20

… increased, and we shudder as we think of the guilt of sin, and the terrible penalty which the Sin-bearer endured. Blood, always precious, is priceless when it …

DEVOTIONAL

Evening, March 27

Mt 15:27

… Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace. “My sins are many …

SERMON • SERMON 528

Chastisement—Now And Afterward

Hebrews 12:11

… LAST Sunday morning we tried to show you how the uncleanness of sin is removed. By the application of the blood of Christ the guilt of sin is …

SERMON • SERMON 1859

The Cross Our Glory

Galatians 6:14

… Since sin was laid on Jesus, God's justice cannot lay it upon the believing sinner. The Lord will never punish the same offense twice. If He accepts …

SERMON • SERMON 2042

The Maintenance of Good Works

Titus 3:3-8

… Whosoever believes in the Lord Jesus Christ whom God has set forth to be the Propitiation for sin is saved from the guilt and power of sin. He …

SERMON • SERMON 527

The Red Heifer

Numbers 19:2

… He suffered—those sufferings are able to take away sin. You need have no guilt on your conscience, but be clean, rejoicing in Him and accepted in the …

SERMON • SERMON 957

Jesus No Phantom

Matthew 14:26

… But at the same time we are not to so mourn over sin as to forget that Jesus died, and thereby cancelled all our guilt. No, with every …

SERMON • SERMON 1878

A TRAITOR SUSPECTED AND CONVICTED

Romans 8:7

… He does far harder work for another than ever I have proposed that he would do for me." Do not forget that the slavery of sin is much …

SERMON • SERMON 2826

The King in Pilate's Hall

John 18:37

… So, if we have at all given way to it in the past, let us never repeat that sin. The words of Paul, in his First Epistle to …

SERMON • SERMON 2615

The Anxious Enquirer

Job 23:3

sinner knows of only one good and he cries, "Oh that I knew where I might find HIM!" When the sinner is truly awakened to feel his guilt

SERMON • SERMON 2988

Great Pardon for Great Sin

Psalm 25:11

… offended! Sinner, you think this is a little matter, but I tell you that it is the fact that makes your iniquity great! Yet further, sin derives some …

SERMON • SERMON 2394

Love's Climax

1 John 4:10

… My sin has been forgiven me, but, what is much more than that, my Lord Jesus Christ has made such a complete Atonement for all my guilt that …

SERMON • SERMON 1743

A Loving Entreaty

Isaiah 43:26

… a sense of your guilt, then I would advise you to remind the Lord of the extraordinary reason which He gives for pardoning sin—"I, even I, am …

SERMON • SERMON 1428

The True Position of the Witness Within

1 John 5:10

… It is the rejection of the Revelation of God which involves the unbeliever in transcendent guilt, because his unbelief is tantamount to saying that God speaks lies—that …

SERMON • SERMON 1394

The Day of Salvation

2 Corinthians 6:2

… No, it would be injustice to lay sin once upon the Substitute and afterwards upon the sinner—therefore well may there be a day of salvation proclaimed since …

SERMON • SERMON 2068

Nathanael—the Man Needed for the Day

John 1:47

… The sinner washed in the atoning blood and God rejoicing in the sinner as He sees him in the righteousness of His dear Son." The truthfulness which God …

SERMON • SERMON 1302

Good Cheer For Outcasts

Psalm 147:2

… Enough? Would oceans full of tears be enough to mourn the guilt of sin? No, but, blessed be God, we are not asked to repent or to mourn …

SERMON • SERMON 2656

The Death of Christ for His People

1 John 3:16

… for sin did condemn Him and, inasmuch as sin condemned Him, sin cannot condemn us! O Believer, this is your security—that all your sin and guilt, all …

SERMON • SERMON 2621

The Sinner's Refuge

Numbers 35:11

… We find the counterpart of this type, for the sinner, in the Law of God. Sinner, the Law of God is the blood-avenger that is on your …

SERMON • SERMON 1041

Mercy's Master Motive

Isaiah 48:9-11

… thee, passing by transgression, iniquity, and sin?' Who but the God of boundless grace could have borne with such a provoking sinner, and then after all have taken …

SERMON • SERMON 2851

Unseasonable Prayer

Exodus 14:15

… breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. He makes no reflection upon others, but confesses his own sin and appeals to the great Propitiation, for the …

SERMON • SERMON 632

Consider Before You Fight

Luke 14:31

… But you have consciences and most of you are not yet dead to all feeling of guilt and shame. You cannot, therefore, sin so cheaply as others. And …

SERMON • SERMON 1527

Perfect Sanctification

Hebrews 10:10

… In this there was much precious Truth set forth, of which we will not speak at this time, but as our Sin-Offering, making expiation for guilt, our …

SERMON • SERMON 478

Christ—Perfect Through Sufferings

Hebrews 2:10

… The best performance of an unsuffering being could not have removed the guilt of man. Suffering was absolutely necessary, for suffering was the penalty of sin. "In the …

SERMON • SERMON 209

The Way of Salvation

Acts 4:12

… Dost thou see him dying? Sinner, there must be merit in the death of such a man as that; for without sin himself, when he is put to …

SERMON • SERMON 1768

First, King of Righteousness, and after That, King of Peace

Hebrews 7:2

… I desired to escape from my sin, but with it there always went this thought—"God must be just." I had always a certain trembling sense of guilt

SERMON • SERMON 2797

The Need and Nature of Conversion

Isaiah 55:7

… When the Lord Jesus Christ saves a sinner from the punishment of sin, He also saves him from the love of sin—He makes him holy as well …

SERMON • SERMON 759

Jesus Putting Away Sin

Hebrews 9:26

… Do not forget that He did take away the filth of sin, the guilt of sin, the punishment of sin, the power of sin, the dominion of sin

SERMON • SERMON 2509

The Sinful Made Sinless

1 John 3:4

… Our sin needed to be removed in two ways. First, as to the guilt of sin. We have already sinned and, by reason of our sin, we have …

CHAPTER

Mysterious Visits

… when we begin to see that He has put away our sin, and removed our guilt by His death, we feel as if we could never look up …

SERMON • SERMON 1676

Despair Denounced and Grace Glorified

Ezekiel 37:11

… wool." The despairing sinner says he does not believe this—his sin is too scarlet to be made white—the crimson of his guilt is too ingrained ever …

SERMON • SERMON 1627

Baptism’A Burial

Romans 6:3-4

… In his resurrection both the sinner and the Surety are free. What had Christ to do after his rising? To bear any more sin? No, but just to …

CHAPTER

“Through Much Tribulation”

… because I felt that sin, — sin, — SIN had outlawed me from my God. I wondered that the earth bore up such a sinner as I was, and that …

SERMON • SERMON 361

None But Jesus

John 3:18

… Learn to look on Christ as being in God’s sight as though he were the sinner. “In him was no sin.” He was ” the just, “ but he …

SERMON • SERMON 1516

Salvation by Knowing the Truth

1 Timothy 2:3

… Beloved, many of you that are saved from the guilt of sin, have a very hard struggle with the power of sin, and have much more conflict, perhaps …

SERMON • SERMON 1744

Where The "If" Lies

Mark 9:23

… The downright sinner, who dares not deny his guilt, is the object of the Lord's saving search. In the teeth of thy conscious guilt, canst thou believe …

SERMON • SERMON 367

The Great Supreme

Deuteronomy 32:3

… your sin." "The soul that sins, it shall die." Start with that, then, when you begin to think of being saved. Next to this, addressing the sinner who …