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Confession Of Sin — A Sermon With Seven Texts

No. 113-3:49. A Sermon Delivered On Sunday Morning, January 18, 1857, By C. H. Spurgeon, At The Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens.

1. My sermon this morning will have seven texts, and yet I pledge myself that there shall be only three different words in all of them; for it so happens that the seven texts are all alike, occurring in seven different portions of God’s holy Word. I shall require, however, to use all of them to exemplify different cases; and I must request those of you who have brought your Bibles with you to refer to the texts as I shall mention them.

2. The subject of this morning’s discourse will be this — CONFESSION OF SIN. We know that this is absolutely necessary for salvation. Unless there is a true and hearty confession of our sins to God, we have no promise that we shall find mercy through the blood of the Redeemer. “Whoever confesses his sins and forsakes them shall find mercy.” But there is no promise in the Bible to the man who will not confess his sins. Yet, since upon every point of Scripture there is a liability of being deceived, so more especially in the matter of confession of sin. There are many who make a confession, and a confession before God, who notwithstanding, receive no blessing, because their confession does not have in it certain marks which are required by God to prove it to be genuine and sincere, and which demonstrate it to be the work of the Holy Spirit. My text this morning consists of three words, “I have sinned.” And you will see how these words, in the lips of different men, indicate very different feelings. While one says, “I have sinned,” and receives forgiveness; we shall find another who says, “I have sinned,” and goes his way to blacken himself with worse crimes than before, and dive into greater depths of sin than he had previously committed.

The Hardened Sinner

Pharaoh — I have sinned. {Exodus 9:27}

3. I. The first case I shall bring before you is that of the HARDENED SINNER, who, when under terror, says, “I have sinned.” And you will find this text in Exodus 9:27: “And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.”