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The Census of Israel
Numbers 16:66
… If it had not been for the great sin of Israel at Kadesh, many of the people might have lived to the second census and beyond it. But …
SERMON • SERMON 2017'David's Spoil'
1 Samuel 30:20
… Let the crown be set upon His head, even on the battlefield and let us say of every sin that we have overcome, every evil habit that we …
SERMON • SERMON 546Alpha And Omega
Revelation 22:13
… Do we not, thus early see in Abel's sacrifice the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world? Follow the Church through all her …
SERMON • SERMON 3170The Novelties of Divine Mercy
Lamentations 3:22
… To the sinner, especially, it is a great mercy to have another day of Grace, another opportunity for repentance, a new reprieve from death, a little more space …
SERMON • SERMON 3289The Sealed Hand—a Winter Sermon
Job 37:7
… I am a good-for-nothing creature! What must I do to be saved?" No doubt outward sin has often revealed the secret power of evil in the …
SERMON • SERMON 1496Among Lions
Psalm 57:4
… But do not, as a new-born man, go and set yourself up as the standard of what the ordinary sinner, dead in sin, is to be! He …
SERMON • SERMON 863The Stone Rolled Away
Matthew 28:2
… Stones and beams out of the wall have been called upon to testify to sin. I shall call this stone as a witness to valuable Truths of God …
SERMON • SERMON 1615Singing in the Ways of the Lord
Psalm 138:5
… When you see professors seeking pleasure in sin and worldliness, there is something rotten at the core! True men of God shall sing in the ways of the …
SERMON • SERMON 71A Bottle in the Smoke
Psalm 119:83
… Oh! hardened sinner, thou hast sorrows now, which are like the skirmishers before an army, a few light-armed troops to lead the way for the whole hosts …
SERMON • SERMON 2280God's Handwriting Upon David
1 Chronicles 28:19
… We come to this blessed Book and we find that man is fallen, that man is ruined by sin. Did you ever feel that it was so with …
SERMON • SERMON 1166Marrow and Fatness
2 Samuel 7:18-22
… We come of a race of rebels and our own personal birth was marred with sin. Heraldry lends no pomp to us—and the genealogy for the most …
SERMON • SERMON 2080The Power of His Resurrection
Philippians 3:10
… Our Lord had entered into a Covenant with the Father before all worlds, wherein He had, on His part, engaged to finish redemption and make atonement for sin …
SERMON • SERMON 646In Whom Are You Trusting?
Isaiah 36:5
… But once beaten in the great life-struggle—once feel that sin has utterly got the mastery over you—and there is no hope here and you will …
SERMON • SERMON 1989"He Comes With Clouds"
Revelation 1:7
… It runs thus: "Unto Him that loves us, and loosed us from our sins by His blood." Truly our Redeemer has loosed us from sin, but the mention …
SERMON • SERMON 1305The Secret of a Happy Life
Psalm 16:8
… But no atoning griefs are demanded of us, nor have we afflictions to bear from the hand of God as punishments for sin, for the Lord has laid …
SERMON • SERMON 1514The Key-Note of a Choice Sonnet
Luke 1:46
… I must think great things of God who has done such great things for so great a sinner as I am. Greaten God, my brethren; greaten God. Believe …
SERMON • SERMON 1787Humility, the Friend of Prayer
Genesis 32:10
… Prayer is a suitable employment for a sinner—and a sinner is the best person to exercise prayer. I. Our first observation is that HUMILITY IS THE FIT …
SERMON • SERMON 2356The Truth Of God's Salvation
Psalm 69:13
… That day when I saw Christ as my soul's salvation, the great Sacrifice for sin was, to my soul, the most real thing I had ever seen …
SERMON • SERMON 951The Unrivalled Eloquence Of Jesus
John 7:46
… There was no mincing matters, no winking at wickedness because it happened to be associated with greatness, no excusing sin because it put on the sanctimoniousness of religion …
COMMENTARYPsalm 23
Psalm 23
… And know then, he'll be sweet in endeavouring to keep thee from sin before thou commit it; and he'll be sweet in delivering thee from sin …
SERMON • SERMON 1982Love at Its Utmost
John 15:9
… To kill the love of sin live in the love of Christ. He whom Christ loves hates sin. We begin to say within ourselvesWhat shall I quit …
SERMON • SERMON 2533The Ever-present Crisis
2 Peter 3:17
… We receive large numbers into fellowship, but there are continually large numbers going out from us, not always by sin, but many, of course, by death and emigration …
SERMON • SERMON 3428Private and Confidential
Psalm 25:14
… To make his ear the common sewer of all the filth of a parish is horrible—and for any man to tell his sin at all to another …
SERMON • SERMON 2537A Warning to Waverers
James 1:6
… Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. There you see the egg, the larva and the full …
SERMON • SERMON 657Satanic Hindrances
1 Thessalonians 2:18
… him, Jesus would not cast the coming sinner out. Even though you should feel a conviction that the unpardonable sin has fallen to your lot, yet dare to …
SERMON • SERMON 3178The Preparatory Prayers of Christ
Luke 3:21
… Well did Montgomery write— "Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways While angels in their songs rejoice, And cry, 'Behold, he prays!' Prayer is …
SERMON • SERMON 2173Little Faith and Great Faith
Matthew 14:31
… If all the sins that men had committed since the world was made and time began were laid upon one poor sinner's head, that sinner would be …
SERMON • SERMON 1891The Sermon of the Seasons
Genesis 8:22
… lived, the more wicked they grew, until sin reached to a horrible degree of infamy. Man becomes a bad enough sinner when he lives to be seventy; but …
SERMON • SERMON 1487The Prophet Like Unto Moses
Deuteronomy 18:15-19
… Of old time, before sin had entered into the world, the Lord God was on the most intimate terms with His creature, man. He communed with Adam in …
SERMON • SERMON 2576Zion's Prosperity
Psalm 102:13
… The poor sinner would trust in Jesus, but he is told, first, to get such-and-such a state of heart. He is told, "You are not the …
SERMON • SERMON 2480The Tender Grapes
Solomon 2:13
… One of the first tender grapes that we spy out on living branches of the True Vine is a secret mourning for sin and, very often, an openmourning …
SERMON • SERMON 263The Story of God’s Mighty Acts
Psalm 44:1
… The very streets seemed to run with iniquity, and the gutters were filled full with the iniquity of sin. Up rose Whitefield and Wesley, men whose hearts the …
SERMON • SERMON 2641God's Heart the Source of All Blessing
2 Samuel 7:21
… at all on any sinner? Because mercy was in His heart and "He delights in mercy." When God was willing to pardon sin, why did He not save …
SERMON • SERMON 238Reform
2 Chronicles 31:1
… I cast my boastings away; I come to thee as a poor, guilty, helpless sinner; ‘Lord, save, or I perish.’” That is the way to dash down this …
SERMON • SERMON 2427"The Ark of His Covenant"
Revelation 11:19
… Christ's second coming will be "without sin," and without a sin offering, too, wholly apart from sin, unto the salvation of all His chosen. May we all …
COMMENTARYPsalm 41
Psalm 41
… To search the word of God comes first, pardoned sin is second, and now the forgiven sinner brings forth fruit unto God available for the good of others …
SERMON • SERMON 2157The Peace of the Devil and the Peace of God
Luke 11:21
… They know not that sin is a deadly viper and therefore they toy with it as with a bird. They are scarcely conscious that they have committed any …
SERMON • SERMON 690A Lesson From The Great Panic
Hebrews 12:27
… There are parties and strife—and all this is sin—but when the Church is shaken, those that can be shaken will be shaken. And they will slide …
SERMON • SERMON 1816Sermon for New Year's-Day
Revelation 21:5
… Let every one who has left the paths of purity remember how the woman that was a sinner loved much, because much had been forgiven her. I cannot …
SERMON • SERMON 1697The Word of a King
Ecclesiastes 8:4
… There are many devil's providences which make sin easy and obedience difficult. The precept, not the Providence, is the rule of duty! The providence which gave Judas …