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Antonyms: honor, pride, respect, glory, praise, dignity, honor, esteem, glorification, laud, compliment, regard, credit, elevate, acclaim, pleasure, favor, kudos, recognition, flatter, admiration, greatness, happiness, self-confidence, reverence

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1. The Christian's Tears of Failure

Matthew 26:69-75

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... the hands of his enemies and the cross was inevitable. When we survey the damage done by our failure to follow Jesus, one reaction is remorse. We are appalled at the enormity of our crime, and we loathe ourselves for what we have done. When I was a child, I ... problems with the Law. Failure, to be sure, is a common experience as a part of life. Failure brings tears of disappointment and remorse. But, when we know that God can transform failure into success, our tears cease flowing. Failure may be God's way of ...

2. Are You Sorry Enough to Wash Your Face?

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... ! It is that emotional sense that I not only know intellectually that I am guilty and I feel a sense of deep shame for who I am and what I have done, but in my soul I feel my guilt and the consequences of my sin. That is remorse, the second component of repentance. The third component of repentance is a return to God. "I declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout the countryside of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God..." (Acts 26:20). This ...

3. Written On The Heart

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... that he joined the Catholic Church "to get rid of my sins." Martin Luther left that church for the same reason: "I am dust and ashes and full of sin," he said. Both men, though, made splendid contributions to their world as a result of their pain of remorse; so, as in all of these consequences, God can bless them. Damaged relationships. As a pastor and counsellor, I have seen a few cases where, like Hosea, one or another member of a marriage has been willing to work through an act of unfaithfulness. This is ...

4. LENT: The Passion of Christ: "Denied!"

John 13:36-38; 18:12-27

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... we think there aren't any more chances, when we think there is no way God could ever use us again, just when we feel the most useless, God intervenes. Jesus reaches out His hands and lifts you up. With a right Spirit of repentance and remorse, we can experience FORGIVENESS IN THE FACE OF FAILURE. It took both the Crucifixion and the Resurrection for Peter to feel the full scope of that Forgiveness. But I believe, that in some sense, when their eyes locked for that eternal instant across that charcoal fire ...

5. Judas

Luke 22:1-6

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... say you are sorry when you sin, and even feel bad for a while, but let me assure you, there is a big difference between remorse and repentance. Perhaps it will help if I tell you a little more about myself. I grew up in Kerioth, a village in the southern ... Yet even there, when I betrayed him in the garden, he had called me, "friend." Later when I saw what was happening, I was filled with remorse. What could I do? Where could I go to find peace? How could I make up for the dreadful deed that I had done? I tried ...

6. A Thousand Years Of Ashes

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the LORD, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing . . .” SOME OF US MAY FEEL GREAT REMORSE FOR OUR SINS. “Yet even now, says the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning . . .” We don’t know the burdens that many people carry around in their hearts. The Boston Globe once reported the ...

7. If the Confession Doesn't Fit You Cannot Acquit

Proverbs 28:13

Sermon

James Merritt

... specifically what He has told you have done. You see, our problem is, we want to sin retail; we want to confess wholesale. Well, with God it doesn't work that way. True confession specifically names the sin and then asks forgiveness. b. Confession Involves Remorse Back in Ps. 51 David wrote in v.17, "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart—these, O God, You will not despise." When you hear someone start making excuses, start blaming others, start changing the subject, that ...

8. Eating in the Echoing Hall

2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... of praise to God. (You can read those words in 2 Samuel 23.) While regret is not something we can turn off, there are some constructive things we can do to allow us to continue living without being controlled by regret. For one thing, we can move from regret to remorse. I have heard those two words sometimes used as synonyms but they really are different things. Regret is based in hopelessness and looking backward at the "if only's." It dwells on what cannot be changed ...

9. Failures Need Not Be Fatal!

Mark 14:66-72

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... so horrified that I couldn't get her out quickly enough. Then I realized that if that place is not fit for her, it's not fit for her daddy either. I'll never set foot in there again." And he didn't. Those were good tears, tears of honest remorse and repentance. ACT IV FINDS PETER BEING RECOMMISSIONED AS AN OFFICER IN THE ARMY OF CHRIST. It began on Easter morning when the women, bless their hearts, who were last at the cross and first at the tomb, those women met an angel at the tomb of Jesus. The angel ...

10. The Judas Gene

Matthew 26:14-16

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... . We betray Jesus. The Judas gene. We all sputter. Fortunately that Judas gene carries with it, not only the capacity for betrayal, but the capacity for remorse as well. After the dastardly deed was done, Judas was nothing if not remorseful. He returned his ill-gotten gain to the Temple tyrants who had given it and then went out and hanged himself. Too bad his remorse was so strong that he could not have lasted for just another day. He might have heard some words from the cross which would have helped ...

11. Why Did He Do It?

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... rejection or simply a moral fog that came over him. We only know three things for certain. ONE THING WAS THAT HE WAS REMORSEFUL. He pleaded to the chief priests to take back the thirty pieces of silver. When they refused he threw the money down and fled. How many ... of Eve as she went forth from paradise. When we gaze upon the Easter lilies next Sunday we might see in them Judas' remorse over his betrayal. THE SECOND THING WE KNOW IS THAT JUDAS MET A HORRIBLE END AS A DIRECT RESULT OF HIS BETRAYAL. The ...

12. The Chicken or the Egg

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... three occasions prior to his release, he had been offered parole, but each time he rejected it because he was unwilling to accept its conditions. One condition was that he express some remorse for his crime and promise never to kill again. But Streleski said, “I do not feel remorse. I have never felt remorse.” (The Bellevue (Ohio) Gazette, Sept. 9, 1985, p. 1) Repentance is important. Confession is important. Obviously, when we confess our sins to Almighty God, we are not giving God any information God ...

13. The Judas Gene

John 18:1-11

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David E. Leininger

... our hatred of enemies. We betray Jesus. The Judas gene. Fortunately that Judas gene carries with it, not only the capacity for betrayal, but the capacity for remorse as well. After the dastardly deed was done, Judas was nothing if not remorseful. He returned his ill-gotten gain to the temple tyrants who had given it and then went out and hanged himself. Too bad his remorse was so strong that he could not have lasted for just another day. He might have heard some words from the cross that would have helped ...

14. Seismic Shift

2 Corinthians 7:2-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... Worldly sorrow is crocodile tears. Don’t misunderstand. People can truly feel sorry for their sin in a very worldly way, but it doesn’t lead to true repentance. It leads to death. The best biblical example of that is Judas. There is no question that Judas was genuinely remorseful. He was sorry. His heart was broken over what he did to Jesus. Where did that sorrow get him? He hung himself. Instead of going to the One that hung on a cross he hung himself on a tree. Here is the way his life ended. He goes ...

15. The Agenda Factor

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

William L. Self

... to his private chaplain, Nathan, that he had great plans for God's house too. Perhaps David felt guilty about the disparity between his house and God's tent. It could be that after all of this building for himself, he was beginning to have buyer's remorse or builder's remorse. Perhaps it was a rainy night in Jerusalem, and while he was feeling safe and dry in his great house, he had a pang of conscience as he thought of the ark of God in a very vulnerable shelter. Could he not hear the flapping of the ...

16. Yes, But How?

Sermon

Lee Griess

... those who feel the pain of a guilty conscience and grieve in the awareness that we have failed to live up to the expectations of God and those around us. Confession is good for the soul -- yes, we know that -- but how can we develop a true sense of heartfelt remorse for our sinfulness and a real desire to change our ways? Most of us are willing to confess our sins as long as we don't have to change. We are willing to admit to a blemish or two on our moral complexion but nothing that can not be cosmetically ...

17. Death Shall Be No More

Isaiah 25:1-12

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... dealing with us than is a good and loving dad or mom. But how does the universe hold together if we're not held accountable? Speaking for myself, a day rarely goes by but what I say or do something which, upon reflection, I know was wrong. Blanket forgiveness without remorse would be license to do wrong. What, then? Doesn't it make sense to believe that we are in a state of process, becoming what we are to be but are not yet? Maybe it will be like Oscar Wilde's story of "The Portrait Of Dorian Gray," the ...

18. Times Of Refreshing

Acts 3:11-26

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... isn't automatic. I am to reach out in the form of a self-recognition, then a desire to be different, coupled with admission of my guilt, and a willingness to allow a higher power to send me off in a new direction. That's repentance. Mere remorse is not repentance. I'll always remember a haunting little story told years ago by a well-known radio preacher. It happened in a slum neighborhood, one of those blazing hot nights, too many people living together, no air-conditioning, too much booze. A father and son ...

19. Uzziah is Dead!

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Donald Zelle

... , or in our nation and world that we are most conscious of our frailties and sins? God uses especially these critical times to address us. When we think the end for us has come, God gives a new beginning. When the difficult times come, the days of extreme guilt or remorse; when the sins of the hour, the day, or a life-time weigh heavy on us, and we pronounce our own "woes" upon ourselves, and beg freedom from them, God has a word for us. It is a word of forgiveness. That forgiveness is as purifying as a hot ...

20. God Doesn't Ask A Fig Tree To Produce Bananas

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Lee Griess

21. Two Thieves

Luke 23:32-43

Sermon

Erskine White

... I think he was still looking for an angle, a way out. I think he was one of those people who is beyond remorse. People like this have lost their conscience somewhere along the way. They can use or hurt other people, even viciously, and not think ... what we are getting, but this Man is innocent. This Man has done nothing wrong. Are you so cynical that even now, you have no remorse?" Then Dysmas turned his eyes to Jesus and said in a gentle voice, "Remember me when You come into Your kingdom." This was Dysmas’ ...

22. A Word For All Reasons

John 20:19-23

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... were forgotten in forgiveness and the disciples reveled in the warmth of reconciliation. With a simple word from Jesus' lips, stomachs which had been turned inside out were calmed, and minds which were raw with remorse were soothed. It happened because Jesus did not come with angry words of judgment or criticism, or disappointment (although the situation would certainly have warranted it). Indeed, there were many reasons why this initial meeting of Jesus and his disciples could have been disastrous, many ...

23. Rejoice! It's Lent

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... But, just as we do not always understand the meaning of Lent, we frequently fail to understand the meaning of the word "repent." When we hear the word "repent," we immediately conjure up visions of sackcloth and ashes, tear-stained faces of guilty sinners filled with remorse, sorrow and regret crying out in their misery for the mercy of God. Now, sorrow and regret are certainly a part of the process of repentance in the Bible; but, they are not the main elements in the process. The basic thrust of the word ...

24. He Commanded Us to Preach

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... and be forgiven of something. We all need to learn to forgive ourselves and forgive others of wrongdoing. Christ forgives us of our sins and we are to forgive others. But there should also be repentance, a turning away from sin and a turning towards remorse and conviction to make ourselves and others better. We cannot therefore compromise the gospel of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection, for he commanded us to preach. Our great commission may be found in Luke 4:18-19 as well as Matthew 28:19-20: “The ...

25. Turn Right with the Right Turn

Luke 13:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... mind." Whatever else repentance is, it is a change that brings a change. It is indeed a turning right at the right turn. You see, repentance means not only to be broken over your sin, but also to be broken from your sin. It doesn't result just in remorse, which makes you sorry for your sin. It doesn't result just in reformation, where you try to get away from your sin; it results in regeneration where your heart and mind are changed and you become a new creature in the Lord Jesus Christ. You see, when you ...

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