Doubt & Assurance

A Powerful Reason For Coming To Christ

Mark 3:8

… You do not think that conversion is all a delusion—you have not reached that degree of unbelief. Indeed, instead of unbelief, you are filled with ardent admiration …

The Holy Spirit's Threefold Conviction of Men

John 16:8-11

… shall be lost, after all." This unbelief is another sin. Strange way of escaping from sin by plunging into it! To doubt the Lord is to add sin …

Christ the Cure for Troubled Hearts

Luke 24:38

… Therefore, do not be in doubt or fear because of a supposition. I could bother you with suppositions if I liked to do so. Suppose there were to …

Labor In Vain

Jonah 1:12

… If you will go here and there seeking answers to the devil's suggestions of unbelief you may travel the whole world and end your fruitless task in …

The Anchor

Hebrews 6:17-20

… Holy Writ neither offers commendations of unbelief, nor presents motives nor reasons for its cultivation. Experience does not prove it to be strength in life's battle, or …

The Song of a City, and the Pearl of Peace

Isaiah 26:3

… Let it not be said, "They could not enter in because of unbelief." No, let it be ours to sing of salvation because we enjoy it to the …

Jacob and Doubting Souls a Parallel

Genesis 45:28

… Joseph is, without doubt, torn in pieces." He had no doubt about it, yet it was not true. And we have many hearers who will believe anything that …

The Chief Physician and the Centurion's Servant

Matthew 8:7

… I cannot doubt that a man who had built a synagogue would be sure to go to it—and there he had learned of the Coming One—foretold …

The Ethiopian

Jeremiah 13:23

… There are, no doubt, some men who, for a time, feel an intense satisfaction in sin. Yes, and not only in their own sins, but they take pleasure …

A Warning Against Hardness Of Heart

Hebrews 3:13

… They were very prone to the great sin of unbelief. They believed in God after a fashion while they saw His wonders, but the moment they were brought …

Psalm 119

Psalm 119

… So the Psalmist tells us that however our hearts stagger at a promise through unbelief, nay, and our unbelief makes us believe that the promise often is shaken …

Hope for Your Future

… Even if we do not talk much about assurance and say nothing about getting near perfection, yet we lie humbly before God and do not doubt that we …

Hearken and Look; or, Encouragement for Believers

Isaiah 51:2-3

… Jesus Christ as ministers or deacons, we must never dishonour the Lord by unbelief. Doubt everything but God. Let God be true and every man a liar. This …

Patient Job and the Baffled Enemy

Job 1:22

… I felt it would be Hell to me to have a doubt of my adoption and whatever pain I might suffer was a trifle so long as I …

Religion–a Present Enjoyment

… misery; we have seen them so full of doubts, that we pitied their unbelief; but we never heard them say, even then, “I regret that I gave myself …

Letters to Father and Mother, January to June, 1850

… Yet soon I doubt again; then I am sorrowful; again faith appears, and I become confident of my interest in Him. I feel now as if I could …

The Blind Beggar

Mark 10:46-52

… last chance.” And, therefore, what unbelief would argue as a reason for stopping his mouth did but open it the wider. Unbelief might have said, “He is surrounded …

The Believer's Challenge

Romans 8:34

… One blow might, we should have imagined, have been enough to have smitten to death our unbelief for ever; the cross ought to have been enough for the …

Noah's Flood

Matthew 24:39

… they will rot forever! The second reason for this indifference lay, no doubt, in universal unbelief. Is it not a strange thing that they did not, one of …

A Personal Application

Hebrews 9:26

… I do but interpret the meaning of your unbelief. It must be so. For you are bent on upholding sin while Christ is bent on putting away sin …

A Refreshing Promise

Isaiah 27:3

… He said, "I will redeem it," and He has kept His Word—and now, if He declares, "I will water it," it would be a superfluity of unbelief …

A Precious Drop Of Honey

Isaiah 49:16

… How can it be? How dare you doubt My constant remembrance, when the memorial is set upon My very flesh?" Unbelief, how strange a marvel you are! I …

A Safe Prospective

Daniel 8:19

… When I would serve God, still there is an evil heart of unbelief that checks me in it all. And I believe that if men could see their …

Eyes Opened

Genesis 21:19

… Dear Friend, I pray that the Word of God may remove your unbelief. May you see today the light of Jesus Christ by simply trusting Him! I believe …

The Honored Guest

Luke 19:6

… God has concluded the whole race of man in unbelief. He has shut them all up in condemnation! There is no escape from the universal doom except by …

Psalm 65

Psalm 65

… And if all, why not me? You may as well doubt that he is God, as doubt that he will not reward, not hear prayer; so Jas 1 …

The Soul Winner

… You do not doubt that you once enjoyed full assurance; and now, if you have sorrow- fully to confess, "Alas! I do not feel the full power of …

'Marvelous Loving Kindness'

Psalm 17:7

… It is to meet that suggestion of unbelief that I am going to address you now. I. And my first remark is that ALL THE LOVING KINDNESS OF …

The Compassion of Jesus

Matthew 9:36

… some lingering doubt about the Savior's willingness? Yet I beseech you breathe this prayer, "Lord, I believe, I believe Your power. Help You my unbelief which lingers …

God's Time for Comforting

Psalm 119:82

… for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God." Beloved, let none of us give way to despair! No doubt Satan …

The Old Way of the Wicked

Job 22:15-17

… There is no doubt that Eliphaz is here alluding to those who sinned before the Flood. He is looking to what were ancient days to him. Living as …

Cheer for Despondency

Proverbs 27:1

… There are more who have to howl under the lash of unbelief than there are who have to weep under the gentle rod of God's Providential dispensation …

The Perseverance of Faith

Matthew 15:28

… Of a certain place it is said, "He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief." Their doubt blocked the way! But when faith lowers the …

The Iniquity of Our Holy Things

Exodus 28:36-38

… Oh for more faith that our unbelief might not mar our holy things! But suppose we do not fail in any of these respects—do you know what …

The Errand of Mercy

Luke 19:10

… There is no hope for us." Herein they betray both their ignorance and their unbelief—their ignorance, for to be lost is nothing so peculiar that they should …

The Mysteries of the Brazen Serpent

John 3:14

… Many of them laughed in the jollity of unbelief—absurd, ridiculous; who ever heard of such a thing, how can it be? A serpent of brass lifted up …

Psalm 14

Psalm 14

… With what earnestness should we shun the appearance of doubt as to the presence, activity, power and love of God, for all such mistrust is of the nature …

Soul-winning

Proverbs 11:30

… THE text does not say, "he that wins money is wise," though no doubt he thinks himself wise and perhaps, in a certain groveling sense in these days …

Alto and Bass

Luke 1:53

… Many a child of God is dumb because of unbelief. Mary believed and, therefore, she sang a holy, joyous song—a sweet canticle of delight—"My soul does …

The Pastors’ College, 1861-1878 (Continued)

… Since then, I have done a little in a life-assurance agency, and tried to get up a school, beside selling tea; but my path is hedged up …