Category: Unless Ye Repent
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 17, But Is Repentance Desirable? By H A Ironside
Now I come to discuss, in this closing chapter, what many will feel should have been the first question raised and settled: Is repentance, after all, desirable? According to much of the humanistic thought of the day, there is no occasion whatever to call on mankind in general to repent.…
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 16, Preaching That Produces Repentance, By H A Ironside
In all that I have written, I have failed completely to express what was surging up in my soul if I have given anyone the impression that I think of repentance as something meritorious which must be produced in man by self-effort before he is fit to come to God…
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 15, City-Wide Repentance, By H A Ironside
While repentance is distinctly an individual exercise, yet we have in the Word of God, as we have already seen, churches called on to repent, and we learn from our Lord’s words, in Matthew 12:41 and Luke 11:32, of the repentance of a city: “The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with…
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 14, Hopeless Repentance, By H A Ironside
The tragedy of Judas is unquestionably the saddest story of human sin and perfidy ever recorded. That one could be in the chosen circle of the intimate friends and disciples of Jesus for over three years, listening to His teaching, beholding the works of power that He wrought, and observing…
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 13, Repentance And Forgiveness, By H A Ironside
We may be instructed as to the how and when of divine forgiveness if we consider carefully what the Scriptures teach as to our own attitude toward our sinning brethren. This will emphasize anew what has come before us so frequently in these studies. While God gives remission of sins…
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 12, Impossible To Renew To Repentance, By H A Ironside
In Peter’s second letter, I believe he identifies for us the author, under God, of the Epistle to the Hebrews. He mentions a letter written to Jewish believers by “our beloved brother Paul,” “in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest…unto…
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 11, Does God Ever Repent?, By H A Ironside
In Jehovah’s dealings with the people of Israel, there is perhaps no story more to the point than that of Balak’s effort to induce Balaam to curse them when they were encamped on the plains of Moab. The faithless prophet, who loved the wages of unrighteousness, was eager to comply…
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 9, Repentance In The Apocalypse, By H A Ironside
The book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ fittingly closes the volume of Holy Scripture. It deals with both the present age and the coming era, climaxing all God’s ways with man, and bringing before us the eternal issues of the long conflict between good and evil. It is the…
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 8 Repentance From Dead Works, By H A Ironside
In the remarkably difficult passage warning against apostasy in Hebrews 6, there is an expression that may well claim our serious attention. In setting forth the “word of the beginning of Christ” (note the marginal reading), which we are exhorted to leave in order to press on to the full…
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 7 Repentance Not To Be Repented Of, By H A Ironside
In any discussion of the nature and importance of repentance, it would be a great mistake to overlook the fact that children of God may have as much occasion to repent as anyone else. For we should never forget that, after all, saints are sinners. This may seem to be…
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 6 The Ministry Of Paul, By H A Ironside
In reading the Epistles of the great Apostle to the Gentiles, one can hardly help noting his peculiar use of the terms, “my gospel,” and “the gospel which I preached.” He makes it clear that he did not receive it of men, neither was he taught it by those that…
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 5 The Ministry Of Peter, By H A Ironside
When the Lord Jesus, in the days of His earthly ministry, sent His disciples to go throughout the land of Israel heralding His word, He evidently commanded them to emphasize the same message that John the Baptist preached and which He Himself proclaimed; for we are told in Mark 6:12 that “they…
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 10, They Repented Not, By H A Ironside
More than once in the Holy Scriptures we are distinctly told that God speaks to men in the wonders of creation. “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor…
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 4 Christ’s Call To Repent, By H A Ironside
“The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” Notice that combination—grace and truth. Men must face facts if they would enjoy grace. Surely there never was a more insistent call to repentance than that put forth by Him of whom it could be said,…
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 3 John’s Baptism Of Repentance, By H A Ironside
The New Testament opens with a call to repentance. The ministry of John the Baptist was pre-eminently devoted to emphasizing its importance. Sent by God in the spirit and power of Elijah to prepare the way of the Lord, he found a self-satisfied, self-righteous nation prating about being the chosen…
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 2 The Book Of Repentance, By H A Ironside
“Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy” (James. 5:11). If asked to give the primary theme of the Book of Job in one word, I should reply, “Repentance.” As Genesis is…
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Unless Ye Repent, Chapter 1 Repentance: What Is It? By H A Ironside
More and more it becomes evident that ours is, as Carlyle expressed it, an “age of sham.” Unreality and specious pretense abound in all departments of life. In the domestic, commercial, social, and ecclesiastical spheres, hypocrisy is not only openly condoned, but recognized as almost a necessity for advancement and…
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Unless Ye Repent, Foreword, Preface, and Introduction, by H A Ironside
Foreword It is a tribute to Dr. Ironside’s books that they are still in demand even if he, himself, has been with the Lord since 1951. It is especially timely that his book, Unless You Repent, should be reprinted at this time. It deals with issues that are the subject of some…
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