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

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Morning, December 25

Is 7:14

… Since venturous woman led the way in the sin which brought forth Paradise lost, she, and she alone, ushers in the Regainer of Paradise. Our Saviour, although truly …

SERMON • SERMON 1107

A Call To Worship

Zechariah 8:21

… I will confess my sin before Him, for I am full of sin. I will ask mercy through the precious blood of Jesus, for I must have it …

CHAPTER

Promises and Precepts

… suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.” If the promise commands thee to deny thyself, thou canst not …

SERMON • SERMON 908

Assured Security In Christ

2 Timothy 1:12

… So he meant, first, that Jesus is able to keep the soul from falling into damning sin. I suppose this is one of the greatest fears that has …

DEVOTIONAL

Morning, April 9

Lu 23:27

… Peter’s wife’s mother was cured of the fever—but I of the greater plague of sin. Out of Magdalene seven devils were cast—but a whole …

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Morning, December 8

Rev 3:4

… Whence so many doubts, so much misery, and mourning? It is because so many believers defile their garments with sin and error, and hence they lose the joy …

SERMON • SERMON 2024

What Is the Wedding Garment?

Matthew 22:11-13

… Another requirement is that you should repent of sin and forsake it. And that you should follow after holiness and endeavor to copy the example of the Lord …

DEVOTIONAL

Morning, January 23

Ps 89:19

… us. “He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin.” In all our sorrows we have his sympathy. Temptation, pain, disappointment, weakness, weariness, poverty …

SERMON • SERMON 2751

'A Prepared Place for a Prepared People'

John 14:2

… The very smell of sin is upon it—and God will not use this globe as a vessel unto honor until He has purified it with fire as …

DEVOTIONAL

Evening, April 23

Rev 5:6

… every wound of his A precious balm distils, Which heals the scars that sin had made, And cures all mortal ills. “Those wounds are mouths that preach his …

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Morning, January 28

Col 1:28

… Is it not delightful to look forward to the time when every stain of sin shall be removed from the believer, and he shall be presented faultless before …

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Evening, February 12

Jn 14:16

… tender, he does not weary of us, but awaits to be gracious still. Sin has been hammering my heart Unto a hardness, void of love, Let supplying grace …

SERMON • SERMON 3231

A New Year's Wish

Philippians 4:19

… And Jesus Christ's blood is always pleading for us and cleansing us from sin! Every day there is need of fresh strength to battle against inward sin

COMMENTARY

Psalm 120

Psalm 120

… In all ways it is a sore distress to come under the power of "slander, the foulest whelp of sin." Even in such distress we need not hesitate …

DEVOTIONAL

Morning, April 6

Heb 13:13

… The Christian’s reason for leaving the camp of the world’s sin and religion is not because he loves to be singular, but because Jesus did so …

SERMON • SERMON 1227

Spiritual Appetite

Proverbs 27:7

… We must repent of sin and to carnal minds it is a bitter thing to hate sin and leave it. But to those who hunger after Christ, repentance …

DEVOTIONAL

Evening, January 3

Lu 3:4

… Stumbling-blocks of sin must be removed, and thorns and briers of rebellion must be uprooted. So great a visitor must not find miry ways and stony places …

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Evening, March 17

Mt 5:9

… first pure, then peaceable.” Our peaceableness is never to be a compact with sin, or toleration of evil. We must set our faces like flints against everything which …

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Morning, September 28

Ps 33:13

… from the highest glory, and puts it to the lip of the dying sinner, whose failing heart longs after reconciliation. How can we but love him when we …

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Morning, February 6

Eph 6:18

… Our first prayer was a prayer for ourselves; we asked that God would have mercy upon us, and blot out our sin. He heard us. But when he …

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Evening, February 9

Lu 11:4

… tempted; hence the prayer “deliver us from evil.” God had one Son without sin; but he has no son without temptation. The natural man is born to trouble …

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Evening, March 3

Mt 3:16

… Where he cometh, everything that is pure and lovely, and of good report, is made to abound, and sin and uncleanness depart. Peace reigns also where the Holy …

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Morning, December 16

Mt 11:28

… The law shows the distance which there is between God and man; the gospel bridges that awful chasm, and brings the sinner across it. From the first moment …

DEVOTIONAL

Morning, January 24

Ps 91:3

… to do evil they say, “How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” But what a blessed thing it is that if the believer shall …

DEVOTIONAL

Evening, December 8

Ps 68:10

… crimson fountain is open still, with all its former efficacy, to wash your sin away. Never shall you come into such a position that Christ cannot aid you …

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Morning, December 18

Joe 2:13

… It is powerfully humiliating , and completely sin-purging; but then it is sweetly preparative for those gracious consolations which proud unhumbled spirits are unable to receive; and it …

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Morning, December 1

Ps 74:17

… He who is true to his Word in the revolutions of the seasons of this poor sin-polluted world, will not prove unfaithful in his dealings with his …

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Evening, December 23

Ps 74:16

… the Lord, do all these things.” Gloomy seasons of religious indifference and social sin are not exempted from the divine purpose. When the altars of truth are defiled …

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Morning, August 18

Je 51:51

… How many ungodly men are now educating with the view of entering into the ministry! What a crying sin is that solemn lie by which our whole population …

SERMON • SERMON 2360

Come, My Beloved!

Solomon 8:14

… A bitter thing was that grave wherein He buried all our sin, that grave out of which He came victorious over death, that grave out of which He …

DEVOTIONAL

Morning, January 8

Ex 28:38

… the words, “ Holiness to the Lord :” and even so while Jesus bears our sin, he presents before his Father’s face not our unholiness, but his own holiness …

DEVOTIONAL

Morning, May 17

1Jn 2:6

… If they desire to be in a healthy state of soul—if they would escape the sickness of sin, and enjoy the vigour of growing grace, let Jesus …

DEVOTIONAL

Morning, July 17

1Th 1:4

… Do you feel yourself to be a lost, guilty sinner? go straightway to the cross of Christ, and tell Jesus so, and tell him that you have read …

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Morning, November 11

De 33:27

… Well, child of God, remember that when thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet “underneath” thee “are everlasting arms.” Sin may drag thee ever so low, but …

SERMON • SERMON 678

Praise Your God, O Zion!

Luke 19:37-40

… They had to struggle with inbred sin, and with temptation, and yet there seems to have been no one who on those grounds excluded himself from the choir …

DEVOTIONAL

Morning, July 14

Ex 20:25

… Trembling sinner, away with thy tools, and fall upon thy knees in humble supplication; and accept the Lord Jesus to be the altar of thine atonement, and rest …

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Morning, September 27

De 33:29

… joy, and shall his home-born children inherit sorrow and wretchedness? Shall the sinner, who has no part in Christ, call himself rich in happiness, and shall we …

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Evening, October 20

Is 43:6

… The mercy-seat is prepared for such as need mercy; a sinner’s cries will prevail with God. You are invited, nay, you are commanded to pray; come …

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Evening, November 13

Lu 18:1

… There are always some in her midst who are declining, or falling into open sin. There are lambs to be prayed for, that they may be carried in …

SERMON • SERMON 3004

The Christian's Manifestation

1 John 3:2

… My little children, these things I write unto you, that you sin not This is one of the great objectives of all that is written by Inspiration—that …