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

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SERMON • SERMON 698

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 363

The 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 18

The 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 2882

Forgiveness 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 3270

The 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 3482

Struggling 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 892

A 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 128

The 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 104

Love'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 3009

Our 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 962

A 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 26

The 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 3253

Faith 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 228

The 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 3333

God'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 2075

Our 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 272

Limiting 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 3254

The 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 260

An 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 3395

The 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 3492

God'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 1108

Plenary 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 216

Confession 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 936

A 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 3269

A 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 3317

A 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 20

The 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 3458

Redeeming 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 2333

The 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 2661

A 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 3404

A 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 2681

Covenant 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 2102

Pricked 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 362

None 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 360

The 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 3050

The 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 153

The 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 3465

The 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 2768

Debtors 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 …