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The seriousness of sin, temptation, guilt, and the need for cleansing
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Encourage Your Minister!
Deuteronomy 1:38
… The Law may lead a man out of the Egypt of his sin, and it may bring him into the wilderness of conviction. There it may provide him …
SERMON • SERMON 2213"Honey In The Mouth!"
John 16:14
… The Holy Spirit, therefore, feeling that to show a sinner the salvation of Christ glorifies Him, spends His time and has been spending these centuries in taking of …
SERMON • SERMON 1304Enquire of the Lord
Ezekiel 36:37
… Ah, well, this is no excuse, but an aggravation of the sin! My dear Brothers and Sisters, if you feel you cannot pray, you ought to pray twice …
CHAPTERBuilding “Our Holy and Beautiful House”
… I belong not to the sect of those who are afraid to invite the sinner to Christ. I warn him, I invite him, I exhort him. Hence, then …
SERMON • SERMON 1298Gathering to the Center
Mark 1:45
… They were not all of commendable characters, for a woman that was a sinner was His true disciple, but there were others against whom no moral fault has …
SERMON • SERMON 757In the Hay Field
Psalm 104:14
… Long before sin came into the world, the everlasting mercy of God foresaw the damages of sin and provided a Refuge for every elect soul. Oh, what a …
SERMON • SERMON 2649Girded for the Work
1 Peter 1:13
… Rather say, "I understand, from the Scriptures, that the sinner is bid to believe in Jesus. And when he does so, God, Himself, assures him that he is …
SERMON • SERMON 2105Preparation for the Coming of the Lord
1 John 2:28
… You have trusted in Him as the Son of God, the appointed Mediator and the effectual Sacrifice for your sin. Your hope has come from a belief in …
SERMON • SERMON 583The Lamb—The Light
Revelation 21:23
… Yet this much we have ever learned most clearly—that on this earth, where sin and Satan gained victory over God through the fall of man—Christ is …
SERMON • SERMON 763Songs of Deliverance
Judges 5:11
… Knowest thou not that thou art a condemned sinner, and that book curses thee solemnly? Turn away from it, of what service can it be to thee?” Do …
SERMON • SERMON 2713Walking in the Light of the Lord
Isaiah 2:5
… If you are, at this moment, resting alone in Christ, your condition before God is that of one whose transgression is forgiven and whose sin is covered. You …
SERMON • SERMON 2291"Dare To Be a Daniel"
Daniel 1:8
… And those who believe most firmly that the unbelieving sinner will be lost are the men who are most anxious to have him saved! Those who believe that …
SERMON • SERMON 1219A Voice From Heaven
Revelation 14:12
… He is no mean philosopher who can duly balance the duties of affection and faithfulness and show us how to smite the sin and love the sinner—to …
SERMON • SERMON 3190Christ in Gethsemane
Mark 14:32
… The bitterness of sin was there, but He has taken that away for all who believe in Him. His Father's wrath was there, but He drank that …
SERMON • SERMON 1807A Call to the Lord's Own Flock
Ezekiel 34:30
… Their god is a god who has no justice or righteousness—he takes small account of sin and mainly seeks to make things pleasant all round. This effeminate …
SERMON • SERMON 3075Looking for One Thing and Finding Another
1 Samuel 9:3
… God will have mercy on whom He will have mercy! He will have compassion on whom He will have compassion—not because of any goodness in the sinner …
SERMON • SERMON 506Strong Meat
Hebrews 5:14
… The very simplest Believer understands that Christ is God and Man—that Christ stood as the sinner's Surety and paid his debt. But, Brothers and Sisters, when …
SERMON • SERMON 702Peter'S Three Calls
John 1:37
… Sinner, He is the Sin-Bearer. He came to seek and to save that which was lost! That face was marred with sorrow, and there must you find …
SERMON • SERMON 1858God Our Continual Resort
Psalm 71:3
… He that keeps you does neither slumber nor sleep—who, then, can do you ill? You are secure from the penalty of sin, for Christ has put it …
CHAPTEROur Public Prayer
… In the presence of the Lord of hosts it ill becomes a sinner to parade the feathers and finery of tawdry speech with the view of winning applause …
SERMON • SERMON 280The Chaff Driven Away
Psalm 1:4
… Many people imagine that if they do not commit positive sin they are all right. Now let me give you a little sermon in the midst of my …
SERMON • SERMON 1998Not Bound Yet
2 Timothy 2:9
… I have—perhaps you have in your measure—to deal with persons under conviction of sin; with others who are suffering through ill health, or mental decline; with …
SERMON • SERMON 1379The Magnanimity of God
Job 36:5
… He takes no pleasure in the sinner's death. Judgment is His strange work. Punishment is never inflicted as a matter of arbitrary sovereignty, but always because demanded …
SERMON • SERMON 2110The Mustard Seed: A Sermon for the Sabbath-School Teacher
Luke 13:18-19
… Believe and live! Look to Jesus lying in the sinner's stead! Look to Jesus crucified, even as Israel looked to the brazen serpent lifted up upon a …
SERMON • SERMON 638Who Are The Elect?
1 Samuel 16:12
… We deliver God's threats and promises to every sinner and we cry, "Look unto Jesus and be you saved, all the ends of the earth." That Gospel …
SERMON • SERMON 162The First and Great Commandment
Mark 12:30
… O sinner! God says thou shalt love him with all thy heart; and inasmuch as thou hatest him thou standest this day condemned to the sentence of the …
SERMON • SERMON 822The Panting Deer
Psalm 42:1
… Our text, then, has a warp and a woof of differing colors—sin and Grace are mingled—the wine is mixed with water, yet it is wine. There …
SERMON • SERMON 659Simeon
Luke 2:25
… Yes, but the best of the Gospel is that when a sinner cannot come to Christ, Christ can come to him! When the poor soul feels that it …
SERMON • SERMON 420Abram And The Ravenous Birds
Genesis 15:11
… Christ's finished atonement made an end of sin and brought in everlasting righteousness on this blessed day. This is the day on which the Holy Spirit came …
COMMENTARYPsalm 33
Psalm 33
… To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly. He who …
CHAPTERAnecdotes from the Pulpit
… the place where you are ashamed to be seen.’ He that conceals his sin still retains that which he counts his shame and burden.” No examples will have …
SERMON • SERMON 1390Brief, Silent Prayer
Nehemiah 2:4
… Their blasphemies might somewhat be hushed if they provoked us to supplication! Do you feel your own heart going off the lines? Does sin begin to fascinate you …
CHAPTERWeek-day Services, 1858-1860
… There are — " ' No groans to mingle with the songs Which warble from immortal tongues.' No pain, nor distress, nor death, nor sin, can ever reach that blessed place …
CHAPTERFaith.
… No, sin and death are, like the Gibeonites, hewers of wood and drawers of water for the Divine purposes; and, though they know it not, when the Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 99The Duty of Remembering the Poor
Galatians 2:10
… POVERTY is no virtue; wealth is no sin. On the other hand, wealth is not morally good, and poverty is not morally evil. A man may be a …
CHAPTEREarly Religious Impressions
… As soon as a child can sin, that child can, if God’s grace assist it, believe and receive the Word of God. As soon as children can …
LECTURELecture II: Anecdotes From The Pulpit.
… He that conceals his sin still retains that which he counts his shame and burden. No examples will have greater weight with you than those taken from among …
SERMON • SERMON 3399Good Talk
1 Chronicles 16:9
… I know You will not judge me now as a rebel and condemn me, for You have put away my sin, but even as Your servant I fear …
SERMON • SERMON 3204The Saints' Riches
Romans 8:32
… He has put Him to grief...you shall make His soul an offering for sin...We did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted." This, indeed, was …
SERMON • SERMON 3208The Faithful Olive Tree
Judges 9:8
… He very seldom presents to any of us a bare hook, though that may be done with those who become habituated in sin. It is almost a bare …