Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 1:14-15
Mark 1:14-15 Repentance and Faith. I. Consider the insufficiency of repentance by itself to procure the forgiveness of sin. Turn to analogy; turn to experience; turn to reason, and you may equally prove the fallacy of the opinion, which would establish a necessary connection between repentance and forgiveness. So long as there is any notion of the virtue of repentance its virtue as a necessary procuring of pardon and acceptance there must be a suspicion that the atonement is not called for, and... read more
Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 1:14
Mark 1:14 Two things appear on the surface in the Psalmists' interpretation of the idea of the kingdom of God. I. One is its moral purpose. The kingdom of God is indeed exhibited in the Psalms in all its magnificence; in all its breadth; over nature and man; over the stars of the sky, and the cattle upon a thousand hills; over the storms of the desert and the waterfloods; over the march of history and the destinies of nations, and the secrets of the heart of man; over all that vast,... read more