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The seriousness of sin, temptation, guilt, and the need for cleansing
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Evening, November 30
Rev 12:7
… Michael will always fight ; his holy soul is vexed with sin, and will not endure it. Jesus will always be the dragon’s foe, and that not in …
DEVOTIONALEvening, February 5
Mt 11:25
… that God is true and faithful to his promise, or to confess the sin of which the Spirit of God has convinced us, or to acknowledge the mercy …
DEVOTIONALEvening, October 2
Da 10:11
… Son for you, what was this but being greatly beloved? You lived in sin, and rioted in it, must you not have been greatly beloved for God to …
DEVOTIONALEvening, October 9
Mt 15:23
… A deeper sense of sin may be given to you instead of a sense of pardon, and in such a case you will have need of patience to …
DEVOTIONALEvening, October 12
Jn 14:26
… He convinces of sin; he illuminates and instructs; but still the main part of his work lies in making glad the hearts of the renewed, in confirming the …
COMMENTARYPsalm 148
Psalm 148
… What riches of long suffering is manifested in a life of sixty or seventy years! If you have lived in a state of sin all that time, have …
SERMON • SERMON 2940'He Must Reign'
1 Corinthians 15:25
… O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks …
SERMON • SERMON 2268A Question for Communicants
Exodus 12:26
… Now they were to have a perpetual pledge of the pardon of sin, in the cup, which was the emblem of Christ's blood, "shed for many for …
DEVOTIONALMorning, September 11
2Co 6:17
… it be wrong, though you would gain by it, you must scorn the sin for your Master’s sake. You must have no fellowship with the unfruitful works …
DEVOTIONALMorning, December 7
1Co 1:28
… Go across the seas to the place where a man will gnaw a bone upon which is reeking human flesh, and there is a sinner there. Go where …
SERMON • SERMON 3391Preparation for the Lord's Supper
1 Corinthians 11:28
… You may come—you are invited to come—you cannot stay away without sin if Christ, indeed, is yours! The question may assume another form. This Supper was …
DEVOTIONALEvening, February 28
1Ki 17:16
… You shall see the sinner’s hope perish, for he trusts his native strength; you shall see the proud Pharisee’s confidence totter, for he builds his hope …
DEVOTIONALMorning, June 12
Da 5:27
… felt as David felt? Has my heart ever been broken on account of sin, as his was when he penned his penitential psalms? Has my soul been full …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 2
Col 1:5
… Here sin is a constant grief to us, but there we shall be perfectly holy , for there shall by no means enter into that kingdom anything which defileth …
SERMON • SERMON 3130'In Remembrance'
1 Corinthians 11:24
… That is not an ill memory with which to come to our Lord's Table—with our eyes full of the tears of repentance for our past sin …
DEVOTIONALMorning, January 5
Ge 1:4
… When the Holy Spirit gives us spiritual light, and opens our eyes to behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, we behold sin in …
DEVOTIONALEvening, May 6
Job 14:14
… are yet ordained to minister light to souls benighted in the wilderness of sin. Our prolonged stay here is doubtless for God’s glory . A tried saint, like …
DEVOTIONALEvening, June 29
2Ch 32:31
… Here is quite enough to account with the Babylonians; for if the grace of God should leave the best Christian, there is enough of sin in his heart …
DEVOTIONALMorning, July 25
Ge 39:12
… No ties of friendship, no chains of beauty, no flashings of talent, no shafts of ridicule must turn me from the wise resolve to flee from sin. The …
DEVOTIONALMorning, February 3
Ro 8:12
… Consider what you owe to his power ; how he has raised you from your death in sin; how he has preserved your spiritual life; how he has kept …
DEVOTIONALEvening, May 27
2Sa 9:8
… humbled mind to have a preference above itself, because they have never contracted sin: a dog may be greedy, fierce, or filthy, but it has no conscience to …
DEVOTIONALMorning, June 5
Ge 7:16
… Into the sin, the gaiety, the pursuits of the multitude we cannot enter; we cannot play in the streets of Vanity Fair with the children of darkness, for …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 9
Jude 24
… Oh, if we are kept from falling, how must we bless the patient power which watches over us day by day! Think, how prone we are to sin …
DEVOTIONALEvening, January 5
Ge 1:4
… This is the foundation, “The Lord knoweth them that are his.” You may be sighing and groaning because of inbred sin, and mourning over your darkness, yet the …
DEVOTIONALEvening, February 25
Jon 1:3
… in thy presence.” In the next place, Jonah lost all peace of mind . Sin soon destroys a believer’s comfort. It is the poisonous upas tree, from whose …
DEVOTIONALEvening, March 14
Ps 39:1
… in your heart, “I will go hither and thither, and I shall not sin;” for you are never so out of danger of sinning as to boast of …
DEVOTIONALMorning, May 23
Ps 138:8
… Look at the evil of your heart, you can never conquer sin; remember the sinful pleasures and temptations of the world that beset you, you will be certainly …
DEVOTIONALEvening, August 29
Nu 6:4
… Surely this is a lesson to the Lord’s separated ones, teaching them to come away from sin in every form, to avoid not merely its grosser shapes …
DEVOTIONALEvening, October 10
Je 15:21
… Lord is on our side, whom shall we fear? If we run into sin to please the wicked, we have cause to be alarmed, but if we hold …
DEVOTIONALMorning, November 23
1Jn 1:6
… He desires to drive out sin—behold we fight under his banner. He desires that his Father’s name may be loved and adored by all his creatures …
DEVOTIONALMorning, January 10
2Ti 4:8
… If thou believest in the Lord Jesus, if thou hast repented of sin, if thou hast been renewed in heart, thou art one of the Lord’s people …
DEVOTIONALMorning, January 27
Jn 1:16
… There is a fulness of atoning efficacy in his blood, for “the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all sin.” There is a fulness of …
DEVOTIONALEvening, April 19
Rev 3:14
… is the great Confirmer; immutable, forever is “the Amen” in all his promises. Sinner , I would comfort thee with this reflection. Jesus Christ said, “Come unto me all …
DEVOTIONALEvening, June 2
Matt. 19:16
… He was good to me when I was dead in sin, for he raised me by his Spirit’s power; he has been good to me in all …
DEVOTIONALEvening, September 1
Ps 62:8
… Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience. Trusting God, you will not be guilty of self …
SERMON • SERMON 2048A Life-Long Occupation
Hebrews 13:15
… Every sin forgiven is a favor granted. Every duty performed is also a grace received. The people of God have an inexhaustible treasury of good things provided for …
DEVOTIONALMorning, March 25
Lu 22:48
… Holy Spirit, let me not, a poor frail son of man, be betrayed with a kiss! But what if I should be guilty of the same accursed sin …
DEVOTIONALEvening, August 22
Eph 3:8
… My Lord is more ready to pardon than you to sin, more able to forgive than you to transgress. My Master is more willing to supply your wants …
DEVOTIONALEvening, November 25
Ro 9:15
… When we are brought to see our own utter ruin and ill desert, and the justice of the divine verdict against sin, we no longer cavil at the …
SERMON • SERMON 2783A Worthy Theme for Thought
Psalm 48:9
… And I have thought of Your loving kindness to me when I grew up to manhood and, alas, my folly ripened into sin. I have thought of Your …