Doubt & Assurance

The Entreaty of the Holy Spirit

Hebrews 3:7

… inconsiderable in power to condemn in comparison with this sin of unbelief! Oh, do not, therefore, doubt my Lord! Come, you blackest, filthiest sinner out of Hell! Jesus …

Unbelievers Upbraided

Mark 16:14

… So, remember that oftentimes our unbelief has come in the teeth of our own assurance to the contrary. Do you not sometimes catch yourself saying, after a very …

Beware of Unbelief

2 Kings 7:2

… Why, then, do we doubt him? Now observe, secondly, that unbelief often shows itself by shutting up the Lord to one mode of action. This man thinks that …

"Verily, Verily"

John 5:24

… There must be an end to all doubt when Jesus says, "Verily, verily." His ordinary word is true, for nothing but the Truth of God can come from …

God's Prison, Warden and Prisoner

… Oh, keep that assurance! Pray that no evil doubt may come in to make you think that God does not love you. Ask that you may be always …

Strong Consolation

Hebrews 6:17

… No doubt, the great end of God in this, so far as Abraham's life on earth was concerned, was to produce in Abraham a model of unstaggering …

Believing To See No.

Psalm 27:13

… It is your assurance of its being a diamond that would set you to work to take it to the lapidary to have it put upon a seal …

A Caution to the Presumptuous

… Satan gives him unbelief, and we often mistake the one for the other. So with the best of virtues, the saving grace of faith, when it comes to …

Hold Fast Your Shield

Hebrews 10:35

… Old Master Brooks says, "Assurance will make us leave off sinning, or sinning will make us leave off assurance." And, depend upon it, it will. He who lives …

The Question of Questions

John 9:35

… Yes, diligence grows out of assurance. And what a help assurance will be in the time of trouble! You have a great affliction coming on, but if you …

What God Cannot Do!

Titus 1:2

… Moreover, through weakness, we are led to doubt what we know to be God's Truth and even to speak unadvisedly with our lips. Now this can never …

Preparation for Heaven

2 Corinthians 5:5

… With the calmness and serenity, not merely of resignation and submission, but of assurance and courage, he appears joyous and gladsome, and even charmed with the hope of …

Faith Versus Sight

2 Corinthians 5:7

… Now sometimes, because there is a way of talking which looks very much like assurance, you may say, "I am not afraid. I never had a doubt or …

A Persuasive to Steadfastness

Hebrews 3:14

… A failure in this, as we observed in our reading, shut Israel out of the promised land. 'They could not enter in because of unbelief.' Unbelief is always …

Peter Walking on the Sea

Matthew 14:28-31

… IF AT ANY TIME FAITH SEEMS TO BE OVERTURNED BY AN INVASION OF UNBELIEF, IT THEN SHOWS ITS TRUE CONQUERING CHARACTER. Peter was soon made to doubt, but …

Unreasonable Reasons

Matthew 14:31

… and is afraid, "Why do you doubt? Why do you doubt? Why do you continue in this state of hesitancy and unbelief?" I. First, then, I have to …

Strong Consolation for the Lord's Refugees

Hebrews 6:18

… forever! Thus does God lay the stress of assurance where we are apt to put the force of our doubt. And by making His own promise sure, He …

Abraham's Great Reward

Genesis 15:1

… Let us feel the same assurance and brave confidence concerning God and even more than if we stood upon the footing of merits. "I am your reward," says …

Experiences after Conversion

… I was going to be perfect, — I fully calculated upon it, — and lo, I found an intruder I had not reckoned upon, an evil heart of unbelief in …

A Solemn Impeachment of Unbelievers

1 John 5:10

… And by your unbelief you have been saying so for years! You are practically saying it every moment that you remain in unbelief." That troubled one said to …

The Sealing of the Spirit

Ephesians 1:13

… They have not yet reached the full assurance of faith and they feel uneasy till they attain it. They feel that these matters are too important to be …

Two Choice Assurances

Genesis 15:1

… This was met by the assurance, "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield." When he had no other guard, Abram was garrisoned in God. He was like a …

Taking Possession Of Our Inheritance

Joshua 1:2

… But we may have, and we ought to have, the full assurance of faith. In full assurance lies the spring of perpetual serenity. The Lord can create in …

A Plain Talk Upon An Encouraging Topic

Jonah 2:7

… Some of us have enjoyed for years a full assurance of our pardon and justification. We have walked in the Light as God is in the Light, and …

Positivism

1 John 5:18-20

… we know." The full assurance expressed by the word, "know," arises from the fact that perfect love always casts out hesitancy and doubt which are a form of …

Essential Points In Prayer

1 Kings 9:2

… This makes me mention, thirdly, OUR ASSURANCE or ANSWER TO PRAYER. Can we have an assurance that God has heard and answered prayer? Solomon had it. The Lord …

My Own Personal Holdfast

Micah 7:7

… OBSERVE that the Prophet has no sort of doubt. He insinuates no "if or "an" or "but" or "perhaps," but he says it straight out as a fact …

Consecration to God—Illustrated by Abraham’s Circumcision

Genesis 17:1-2

… If you are ever to be sanctified unto God’s service, you must get a full assurance of your interest in all the convenant provisions. Doubts are like …

The Necessity of Growing Faith

2 Thessalonians 1:3

… Many persons doubt because they are not instructed. Some doubt whether they shall hold on to the end—they are ignorant of the Doctrine of the Final Perseverance …

Mary'S Song

Luke 1:46

… You feel yourself to be today so useless to the Church of God, so insignificant, so utterly unworthy, that your unbelief whispers, "Surely, surely, you have nothing to …

A Sad Interior and a Cheery Messenger

Mark 16:10

… of unbelief upon them and they dishonored the King's messenger by doubting her word. Worse still, they dishonored their Lord and Master by doubting His assurance when …

Receiving the Holy Spirit

Acts 19:2

… O Souls, live daily on what God gives you and you cannot doubt! Live near to Christ and you cannot doubt whether you love Him! Live in the …

Self-destroyed, Yet Saved

Hosea 13:9

… Here is, secondly, A HOPEFUL ASSURANCE— "But in Me is your help." Notice that this assurance came at a very fit time. Just when the man was made …

Away With Fear

Isaiah 41:10

… full assurance, "presumption," and are amazed that anybody should have confidence in God. But if they did but know it, there is more presumption in unbelief than there …

Prayer to God in Trouble an Acceptable Sacrifice

Psalm 50:15

… No doubt certain kings that gave great contributions to the house of God did it to show their wealth or to display their generosity, somewhat in the spirit …

Three Arrows—or Six?

2 Kings 13:18

… Come, my dear Friend, if you have little faith, do not rest till you have great faith, till you have full assurance, till you have the full assurance …

Comfort To Seekers From What The Lord Has Not Said

Isaiah 45:19

… But if unbelief has as many lives as a cat, as John Bunyan says, I will deal it the full nine blows and one over, to make assurance …

Faintness and Refreshing

1 Kings 19:8

… Heaven? Sometimes it has come to you in the form of a full assurance of your interest in Christ Your heart was very heavy. The work you had …

Perfect Cleansing

Joel 3:21

… When once the last stain of sin is removed, then you will never have a doubt; you will triumph in full assurance. Who can doubt when sin is …

Over The Mountains

… Nay, she had not last her assurance of His love to her, and of their mutual interest in one another; for she says, “My Beloved is mine, and …