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"All the Day Long"
Proverbs 23:17
… Beware of falling into solitary sin. Certain young men and women, when alone, pull out a wicked novel which they would not like to be seen reading. Others …
SERMON • SERMON 2120The Security Of Believers—Or, Sheep Who Shall Never Perish
John 10:27-30
… Know it, and feel the joy of it. "Oh," says one, "but if I thought so, I should run into sin!" I am sorry for you—things act …
SERMON • SERMON 1671The Value and Rank of the Believer
Isaiah 43:4
… I also saw that man—My prescient love beheld him in his sin and beheld him as redeemed from them when I bore his sin in My own …
SERMON • SERMON 1255How To Converse With God
Job 13:22
… Awake, my soul, when sin is near, And keep it still awake. Oh may the least omission pain My well instructed soul And drive me to the blood …
SERMON • SERMON 1075A Root Out Of A Dry Ground
Isaiah 53:2
… Christ Jesus, when He saves a sinner, borrows no help whatever from the sinner himself. "It pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell." If there …
SERMON • SERMON 1466The Three Whats
Ephesians 1:18-20
… the dead! Every sinner is shut up in the tomb of sin by evil habits, but Christ can roll away the stone and the sinner can come forth …
SERMON • SERMON 2745Intercession and Supplication
Jeremiah 14:22
… them absolution. "Hi! Presto!" He mutters his formula and away goes the sin—and the sinner is as white as snow! Oh, yes! I know all about his …
SERMON • SERMON 3079A Searching Question
1 Samuel 30:13
… It will press hard upon you, Sinner, when the death rattle is in your throat and you have the gloomy answer in your soul, "I fear that I …
SERMON • SERMON 3268The Savior's Silence
Matthew 15:23
… And though you may never have been filled with alarm, yet if you are sorry for sin, hate sin and would be rid of it, root and branch …
SERMON • SERMON 2409A Great Sermon by the Greatest Preacher
Matthew 3:17
… Our garments become defiled by sin. Sometimes the Lord has need to chide us and to chastise us, but as for His beloved Son, He is always well …
SERMON • SERMON 31The Desire of the Soul in Spiritual Darkness
Isaiah 26:9
… Then while others are commending me, I am accusing myself of all manner of sin and corruption. I could not have thought that I was half so bad …
SERMON • SERMON 129David's Dying Prayer
Psalm 72:10
… I do prefer a man that is a right down blustering sinner when he is at it. Do not let him go into sin, and then mask and …
SERMON • SERMON 2276Forgiveness, Freedom, Favor
Deuteronomy 15:2
… tenderness to every sinner that is a bond slave under the Law of God, tenderness to the myriads that swarm these streets, slaves to sin and self, and …
SERMON • SERMON 1202Holy Water
John 4:14
… Grace, alone, can give it! If men desire wages they may earn them beneath the mastership of sin, for, "The wages of sin is death." On the side …
SERMON • SERMON 895A Summons To Battle
2 Samuel 11:1
… When we lift our hand to strike sin in His name, the Omnipotent arm strikes, too. If we require anything to guide us as to periods of especial …
SERMON • SERMON 3216The Two Gatherings
Psalm 50:5
… But the Lord expressly says, "Gather My saints together unto Me." Those who have repented of their sin and turned from it. Those who have been constrained by …
SERMON • SERMON 2315Paul Apprehended and Apprehending
Philippians 3:12
… It would be a new thing in this world for a sinner dead in sin to cry so, but because he was already largely delivered from sin and …
SERMON • SERMON 334Man'S Weakness—God'S Anointing
2 Samuel 3:39
… They must forever rest." Fly into His bosom, Sinner—fly now, and you shall rest there forever! And neither sin, nor Satan, nor self, shall ever pluck you …
SERMON • SERMON 3530A Sad Confession
Isaiah 53:3
… but suppose I were to fall into sin?" Do you not think that even now you are living in sin while you are refusing what He demands, that …
SERMON • SERMON 2272Longing To Find God
Job 23:3
… whom God has set forth to be the Propitiation for sin! Will you have Christ or not, Sinner? If you will not have Him, you must perish! If …
SERMON • SERMON 2916A Memorable Milestone
Psalm 40:9-11
… I, for one, believe in a God who punishes sin. I have never flattered you with the idea that sin is a trifle and that in some future …
SERMON • SERMON 3090Loving the Law of the Lord
Psalm 119:97-100
… If we do not hate sin in the very egg, we shall not be likely to hate it in its fuller development. The very thought of sin must …
SERMON • SERMON 2373The Weary Dove's Return
Genesis 8:9
… Time was when you could have found pleasure in the ways of sin, but you cannot do so now. You may try to find it, but you cannot …
SERMON • SERMON 921Nathanael And The Fig Tree
John 1:45-51
… They may never have seen what it is for Christ to stand in the sinner's place, and for that sinner, by an act of trust, to obtain …
SERMON • SERMON 1598The Substance Of True Religion
Job 19:28
… Death to error, death to sin, but salvation to the sinner and life to the Believer, notwithstanding all his mistakes! Let denunciations and exclusiveness be ended forever and …
SERMON • SERMON 2270Two "I Wills" In Isaiah 41
Isaiah 41:18
… A sinner under a sense of sin is scarcely able to speak a word. Frost of the mouth, but thaw of the soul—this is what we need …
SERMON • SERMON 3287The Only Door
John 10:9
… He that once escapes here is delivered." So with the sinner when sin pursues him, when he discovers that he has offended God! He hears the furious coursers …
SERMON • SERMON 1556The Waterpots at Cana
John 2:7
… The sinner, for instance, says, ‘Lord, save me: conquer in me my sin.’ Our Lord cries, ‘Believe,’ and the sinner cannot see how believing in Jesus will enable …
SERMON • SERMON 810The Faithfulness of Jesus
John 13:1
… become a sinner; he understood that they would be hard to reclaim and difficult to retain, even after they had been reclaimed; he saw every sin that they …
SERMON • SERMON 2403The Sweet and the Sweetener
Psalm 104:34
… Nature seems to have no boundaries, yet it is a mere fragment compared with redemption, where everything is infinite, where you have to deal with sin and love …
SERMON • SERMON 2568Sabbath-work
John 5:9
… You shall at once quit the sin that now holds you spellbound. Oh, blessed be His name, though the power to do these things is not in you …
SERMON • SERMON 840Do Not Sin Against the Child
Genesis 42:22
… On all sides the roots of our soul suck up sin from the earth in which they spread. We sin in public and sin in private. We sin …
SERMON • SERMON 1020'The Sun of Righteousness'
Psalm 19:4-6
… I sin, but he has taken all my sin: he is righteous and all his righteousuess is mine. I am feeble, he is mighty; his mightiness is mine …
SERMON • SERMON 959Right Replies To Right Requests
Luke 11:11-13
… Do we feel that our sin has much power over us? O Spirit of God, destroy sin within us and work in us purity! You have already given …
SERMON • SERMON 3522Christ a Sanctuary
Isaiah 8:14
… The moment a sinner believes in Jesus, he is safe—and continuing to believe, he remains safe in life, safe in death, safe in judgment, safe in eternity …
SERMON • SERMON 1543The Sheep Before The Shearers
Isaiah 53:7
… It is very suggestive of the way in which our Lord Jesus took the sinner's place that we are here, in the context, compared to sheep—"All …
SERMON • SERMON 3171A Voice With Four Messages
1 Kings 19:11-13
… There is a sense of sin which arises, not from the work of the Spirit of God, but from a man's own conscience—from conscience awakened, yet …
SERMON • SERMON 3226Figs and Olives
James 3:12
… He is in this matter, as in everything else, both Lord and King—so what folly and sin it is for us to quarrel with Him about our …
CHAPTERFirst Outlines of Sermons, 1851-1852
… All past sin forgiven. How? By free-grace. All present sin crucified. How? By the Holy Spirit. All future sin avoided. How? By the Spirit’s help. II …
SERMON • SERMON 1469Prayer Perfumed with Praise
Philippians 4:6
… Take for instance, that psalm of his after his great sin with Bathsheba. There one would think, with sighs and groans and tears so multiplied, he might have …