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The seriousness of sin, temptation, guilt, and the need for cleansing
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Seeing Is Not Believing, But Believing Is Seeing
1 Peter 1:8
… First, they are conscious that they are saved from the guilt of sin. Of this they are conscious in themselves. The guilt of sin, when it is on …
SERMON • SERMON 363The Glorious Right Hand Of The Lord
Numbers 11:23
… that He is a God ready to forgive, passing by iniquity, transgression and sin! Sinner, in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, I command you—believe on Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 18The Tomb of Jesus
Matthew 28:6
… Thy sin slew him, but his divinity raised him up. Thy guilt hath murdered him, but his righteousness hath restored him. Oh! he hath burst the bonds of …
SERMON • SERMON 2882Forgiveness and Fear
Psalm 130:4
… Let me also add that the forgiveness which God gives to a sinner is complete. He blots out all sin. It is also sincere. He really does forgive …
SERMON • SERMON 3270The Truly Blessed Man
Psalm 1:1-3
… Christian can do a thousand things of which the sinner knows nothing. Let a thing be labeled, "sin," in God's Book, and though men may laugh at …
SERMON • SERMON 3482Struggling Against Sin
Psalm 119:145
… Jesus Christ will take any sinner to Heaven, but He will not take any sin to Heaven. He will spare the sinner, but He will not spare his …
SERMON • SERMON 892A Serious Reprimand
2 Kings 5:13
… God must be just—He must punish sin. It is a necessity of His Divine Nature that sin should not be winked at. Jesus Christ came into the …
SERMON • SERMON 128The Uses of the Law
Galatians 3:19
… of guilt, but they were like sitting at the foot of Sinai. When I turned to Baxter, I found him saying some such things as these:—“Sinner, bethink …
SERMON • SERMON 104Love's Commendation
Romans 5:8
… in the aggravation of our guilt. I reckon that when I sin, I sin worse than many of you, because I sin against better training than many of …
SERMON • SERMON 3009Our Champion
Judges 16:3
… Moreover, as the guilt of sin was taken away, the punishment of sin was consequently taken away, too. For the Christian there is no stroke from God's …
SERMON • SERMON 962A Personal Application
Hebrews 9:26
… it, sin is not so easy a thing to get rid of, nor is the penalty so easy to endure, as some would have us imagine. Sinner, when …
SERMON • SERMON 26The Two Effects of the Gospel
2 Corinthians 2:15-16
… First, because men sin against greater light; and the light we have is an excellent measure of our guilt. What a Hottentot might do without a crime, would …
SERMON • SERMON 3253Faith Hand in Hand With Fear
Psalm 56:3
… spiritual adversaries, nor to his own internal weakness, nor to the awful guilt of sin. He sees all these and, therefore, it is not to be wondered at …
SERMON • SERMON 228The Blood
Exodus 12:13
… Nothing but thy blood, O Jesus, can redeem me from the guilt of sin. Though I should give rivers of oil, and ten thousand of the fat of …
SERMON • SERMON 3333God's King Magnified
Psalm 132:18
… its fire burning in their hearts before they got there, feeling the guilt of sin upon them even before God began to handle them, having a foretaste of …
SERMON • SERMON 2075Our Lord's Entrance Within the Veil
Hebrews 9:12
… Out of infinite love Jesus became an offering for sin. Not of compulsion but of His own sacred choice He became the sin-offering for the sinner, that …
SERMON • SERMON 272Limiting God
Psalm 78:41
… God, and there to bemoan thy guilt and to lay hold on him who taketh away the sin of the world. Sinner, believe in Christ. That is God …
SERMON • SERMON 3254The Curse Removed
Galatians 3:13
… trouble might the sin have been avoided! And because it was so small an act, there was couched within it the greater malignity of guilt. So, too, you …
SERMON • SERMON 260An Earnest Invitation
Psalm 2:12
… Poor sinner, thou that art full of guilt, if thou hast played the harlot, or if thou hast been a sinner in other ways, come, I beseech thee …
SERMON • SERMON 3395The Savior's Precious Blood
1 Peter 1:19
… God must punish sin. According to the inexorable laws which God has stamped upon the universe, the sinner cannot go unpunished. His sin is, in fact, its own …
SERMON • SERMON 3349'The Garment of Praise'
Isaiah 61:3
… we would say to mourners pressed down with guilt—whatever heaviness you feel, it is no greater heaviness than sin ought to bring upon a man, for it …
SERMON • SERMON 3492God's Word Not to Be Refused
Hebrews 12:25
… I dare not play with you, Sinner. I dare not tell you sin is a trifle. I dare not tell you that the world to come is a …
SERMON • SERMON 1108Plenary Absolution
Psalm 103:12
… sinner. He will not treat me as if I had never fallen." Yes, but when God wipes out sin, He puts away all the consequences of sin. "But …
SERMON • SERMON 216Confession and Absolution
Luke 18:13
… sinner, in whose breast A thousand thoughts revolve; Come with thy guilt and fear oppressed, And make this last resolve: I’ll go to Jesus; though my sin …
SERMON • SERMON 936A Blessed Wonder
Matthew 8:10
… for sin. I believe that Jesus there put my guilt away, and thus I have peace with God." If you believe that you are a little sinner, and …
SERMON • SERMON 3269A Frail Leaf
Job 13:25
… My little children, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. He is anxious that they should not sin. He knows they do, and that if …
SERMON • SERMON 3317A Sweet Bow
Micah 7:18
… It cost our Savior unutterable groans and griefs that can never be measured to deliver us from our guilt! And if the sinner comes not to Christ, it …
SERMON • SERMON 20The Carnal Mind Enmity Against God
Romans 8:7
… think not so much of the guilt as of the misery. I have sometimes read sermons upon the inclination of the sinner to evil, in which it has …
SERMON • SERMON 3458Redeeming the Unclean
Exodus 13:13
… He did not make you a sinner, Sinner. You were pure and holy when you came from His hands. Your sin is your own. Your weakness, inability, your …
SERMON • SERMON 2333The Whole Band Against Christ
Matthew 27:27
… the idea that you may sin in a crowd! Beware of the notion that because many do it, it is less a guilt to any one of them …
SERMON • SERMON 2661A Marvelous Change
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
… sin, yet the Lord made me to feel myself to be the worst sinner who ever lived. I had such a vivid realization of my own guilt that …
SERMON • SERMON 3404A Gross Indignity
Matthew 27:30
… His shame has taken away our sin! That spitting has taken away our guilt. And now what says your Lord of us? You know what sort of face …
SERMON • SERMON 2681Covenant Blessings
Psalm 111:5
… I think I hear one say, "I am a great sinner. I am in the very front rank of the army of guilt. I have truly transgressed and …
SERMON • SERMON 2102Pricked in Their Heart
Acts 2:36-37
… Men nowadays drink in opinions which lessen the guilt of sin, and, of course, lower the value of the atoning blood. The cross is still a stone of …
SERMON • SERMON 362None But Jesus—Second Part
John 3:18
… What! go and sin because I am forgiven? Go and live in iniquity because Jesus Christ took my guilt and suffered in my room and stead? Human nature …
SERMON • SERMON 360The New Park Street Pulpit
Ephesians 1:5
… If you demand punishment for my sin, look, there stands my Substitute; you are not to seek it at my hands. You charge me with guilt. It is …
SERMON • SERMON 3050The Errand of Mercy
Luke 19:10
… And He does it in this way—He saves them from the guilt of past sin. In one moment, as soon as ever the blood of Christ is …
SERMON • SERMON 153The Mysteries of the Brazen Serpent
John 3:14
… I see thee with the tear in thine eye; I hear thee confessing thy guilt, and bemoaning thy sin; I bid thee look to my Master and live …
SERMON • SERMON 3465The Suffering Christ Satisfied
Isaiah 53:11
… Jesus Christ never was a sinner, never could have been one, never was guilty of sin. In Him was no sin. Yet the sin of His people was …
SERMON • SERMON 2768Debtors and Debtors
Luke 7:41
… old, his sin does not— rather, it seems to grow younger and to become more vigorous! Often times a sinner will become more adept in guilt and more …