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The seriousness of sin, temptation, guilt, and the need for cleansing
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"Two Immutable Things"
Ezekiel 16:8
… He understands that the greatness of His forgiving love will be the cause of the pardoned sinner's hatred of sin—"Then you shall remember your ways and …
SERMON • SERMON 2560Universal Fatherhood—a Lie!
John 8:38
… it is gentle with the sinner—and may we always be so—yet it is all the more severe with the sin from its very gentleness! Christ never …
SERMON • SERMON 1052The Sphere Of Instrumentality
John 11:39
… The sinner never gives life to himself. The thing is inconceivable. There are persons who imagine that the natural will of man sometimes inclines towards good, but, alas …
SERMON • SERMON 1218The Miracle of the Loaves
Mark 6:52
… Even thus, if you were in your right senses and had not been perverted by sin, you would say, "Here is a Savior and here is a sinner …
DEVOTIONALEvening, September 8
Eph 1:19-20
… No sin, no corruption, no devils in hell nor sinners upon earth, can stay the hand of God’s grace when it intends to convert a man. If …
SERMON • SERMON 2864God Has Spoken!— Rejoice!
Psalm 108:7
… And, since it is a message of mercy and love to us, we ought at once to rejoice that "God has spoken." Sinner, you are pleading with God …
SERMON • SERMON 2114The Burden of the Word of the Lord
Malachi 1:1
… I must not so preach the Grace of God as to give latitude to sin----- I must not so denounce sin as to drive men to despair.'' Our …
SERMON • SERMON 3040The Happy Beggar
Psalm 40:17
… By nature, the sinner needs healing, for he is sick unto death. He needs washing, for he is foul with sin. He needs clothing, for he is naked …
SERMON • SERMON 968Life In Christ
John 14:19
… we must never think that we live by works, by feelings, or by ceremonies. “The just shall live by faith.” We dare not preach to the ungodly sinner …
SERMON • SERMON 2675Jehovah's Challenge
Jeremiah 32:27
… I wish that I could be! Alas, I am a great sinner." What has been your sin, my Friend? I do not want you to tell me—I …
SERMON • SERMON 946The Profit Of Godliness In The Life To Come
1 Timothy 4:8
… He has ordained, and right enough was He to ordain it, that sin should punish itself—that sin should be its own misery, and its own anguish. Sin …
SERMON • SERMON 2526"Speak, Lord!"
1 Samuel 3:10
… The Word of God calls every sinner to repent and trust the Savior, but that call brings nobody to Christ unless it is accompanied by the special effectual …
SERMON • SERMON 1788The Proof of Our Ministry
2 Corinthians 13:3
… Yes, more, inasmuch as a great sacrifice must be offered for sin, a death was required—but it was not possible that God, regarded as God purely and …
SERMON • SERMON 368The March!
Numbers 10:35
… And they removed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in …
SERMON • SERMON 522Mealtime In The Corn Fields
Ruth 2:14
… I am such a great sinner that I must have infinite merit to wash my sin away." But we have had our sin removed and found that there …
SERMON • SERMON 3290God's Hand at Evening
Ezekiel 33:22
… But when God lays His hand upon the sin, drags it to the light, tries and convicts it— and hangs it up to die—then are we most …
SERMON • SERMON 315The Teaching of the Holy Ghost
John 14:26
… Perhaps the first thing that we learn is sin: he reproves us of sin. No man knows the exceeding sinfulness of sin, but by the Holy Ghost. You …
SERMON • SERMON 1636Chastened Happiness
Jeremiah 33:9
… But as a sinner, if my Judge smiles upon me, I admire His exceeding Grace! His justice had left me unblessed to perish through my sin if His …
SERMON • SERMON 1106"The Lord Is Risen, Indeed"
Luke 24:5
… Oh, the way in which men, when they get uneasy about their souls, try to whitewash themselves! Some one gross sin is given up, not in heart, but …
LETTERA Pastoral Letter Accompanying Sermon 221
… Commit not the great sin. Beware lest Satan take advantage of you—for we are not ignorant of his devices. Draw not back. It is written in the …
SERMON • SERMON 3422A Call to the Depressed
Isaiah 52:2
… Who are they that are most likely to fall into open sin? They are those who walk at a distance from Christ. If you live in close communion …
SERMON • SERMON 922Sincerity And Duplicity
1 John 2:3
… It is said of our Lord that, "He knew no sin." That is to say, He never experienced sin. He never became a sinner. To know Christ, then …
CHAPTERCommunion With Christ And His People
… Have you never felt a holy horror when you have heard a word of blasphemy in the street? Thus Jesus felt when He saw sin, and bore it …
SERMON • SERMON 158Instability
Genesis 49:4
… Calvary was God, and that he took the sin of all believers upon himself—that thou, being a sinner and a believer, he has taken thy sins, and …
SERMON • SERMON 2561"Noli Me Tangere" ("Touch Me Not")
John 20:17
… to face! I may be addressing some great sinner at this moment. Dear Friend, the greatness of your sin may not prevent you from yet occupying a first …
SERMON • SERMON 2657All the Promises
2 Corinthians 1:20
… of pardon to the seeking sinner! Promises of justification to the believing child! Promises of sanctification to him who is struggling against sin! Promises of the supply of …
SERMON • SERMON 51Comfort for the Desponding
Job 29:2
… I was afraid to do anything, lest I should sin against God. If I heard an oath, my bones shook within me; if I saw a man break …
SERMON • SERMON 1164Now, A Sermon for Young Men and Young Women
Ezekiel 12:27
… sin and misery! Whoever looks to Jesus at this very moment shall have his sins forgiven! At the instant he believes in the Lord Jesus, the sinner shall …
SERMON • SERMON 844Justification by Faith—Illustrated by Abram’s Righteousness
Genesis 15:6
… To believe not in the Saviour of saints, but in the Saviour of sinners; and to believe that if any man sin, we have an advocate with the …
SERMON • SERMON 521The Power Of Aaron'S Rod
Exodus 7:12
… Let us take the case of the awakened sinner. That man was, a few days ago, as worldly, as carnal, as impassive as he well could be. If …
SERMON • SERMON 601A Solemn Enquiry Concerning Our Families
Genesis 19:12
… Do we care for their bodily welfare and shall we neglect to pray that their souls may prosper? Can we see the deformity of sin without tears? Can …
SERMON • SERMON 3185'A Song of My Beloved'
Solomon 2:16
… All of us who love the Lord have to look for daybreak, but the sinner has a night to come. Sinner, this is your day! And when you …
SERMON • SERMON 3346Resurrection for the Just and the Unjust
Acts 24:15
… saint—what for the sinner? If I am to live again as a child of God. If my salvation is accomplished. If my sin is blotted out and …
SERMON • SERMON 726Life Eternal
John 10:28
… He that says he has no sin makes God a liar, and the truth is not in him! He who will not confess his sin shall never be …
SERMON • SERMON 2624Secondhand
John 18:34
… Every man must repent of his own sin— make confession of his own sin, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for himself—love God for himself, obey the …
SERMON • SERMON 3389The Soul's Awakening
John 5:25
… I cannot wink at sin though it is laid upon the perfect Substitute, for even there I must hunt it to the death! It is an accursed thing …
SERMON • SERMON 3412The Heavenly Rainbow
Revelation 4:3
… How comes the hapless creature, then, to this dread torment? Sin brings the sinner into a ruined state—yustiepronounces the sinner's doom. Sovereignty may let that doom …
SERMON • SERMON 1642"Verily, Verily"
John 5:24
… They believe that God must punish sin; that God has punished sin in the Person of Jesus and that He has, therefore, set forth His Son, Jesus Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 1220The Leading of the Spirit, The Secret Token of the Sons of God
Romans 8:14
… He who never felt the burden of his sin will yet be crushed beneath its enormous weight when, like some tottering cliff in Judgment's dreadful hour, it …
SERMON • SERMON 3463Why Men Do Not Believe
John 5:46
… If a man says, "I am no sinner," he remains a sinner. If he says, "I do not believe that God will punish sin," the punishment will be …