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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 1107A 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 …
CHAPTERPromises 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 908Assured 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 2024What 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALEvening, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALEvening, 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 3231A 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 …
COMMENTARYPsalm 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 1227Spiritual 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 …
DEVOTIONALEvening, 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 …
DEVOTIONALEvening, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALEvening, 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 …
DEVOTIONALEvening, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALEvening, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALEvening, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 2360Come, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 678Praise 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALEvening, 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 …
DEVOTIONALEvening, 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 3004The 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 …