Doubt & Assurance

The Sitting of the Refiner

Malachi 3:3

… I have no doubt that He very frequently uses gracious Providences, as we call them—that is, Providences which please us by gratifying our natural wishes. Some people …

Conversions Desired

Acts 11:21

… You to whom these Truths are the light of your lives can scarcely realize the power of unbelief of this kind and yet some men live and die …

A Honeycomb

Hebrews 12:3

… Tell me, what did Jesus ever do that you should doubt Him? He says He will save you if you will trust Him. Point to one promise He …

The Abiding of the Spirit the Glory of the Church

Haggai 2:4-5

… of the Spirit of God; to doubt is natural to fallen men; for we have within us an evil heart of unbelief. It is abominably wicked, I grant …

Plain Gospel For Plain People

Deuteronomy 30:11-14

… No doubt some men have obtained a reputation for wisdom because they have not been understood, but this was fictitious and unworthy of true men. If they had …

Men Without Heart, Sight, or Hearing

Deuteronomy 29:4

… They could not enter in because of their unbelief. The land that flowed with milk and honey lay smiling in the calm sunlight on the other side of …

The True Gospel Is No Hidden Gospel

2 Corinthians 4:3

… It is abundantly evident that he has no doubt whatever that the Gospel which he proclaims is assuredly true. No, that it is so manifestly true that if …

Reasons For Doubting Christ

Matthew 14:31

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON SUNDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1876. "Why did you doubt?" Matthew 14:31 . OUR Lord did not begin His dealings with Peter …

The Holy Spirit—the Need of the Age

Micah 2:7

… Trust, implicitly trust, for the Spirit of God is not straitened! Your despondency and unbelief are not His doings, they are your own. He has not driven you …

An Inscription for the Mausoleum of the Saints

Hebrews 11:13

… And if you have lived in faith, do not doubt that you will die in faith! Joyfully, with all the strength I have, my quivering lips shall sing …

Prayer 17 — To Be Like Christ

… sometimes subject to unbelief. If trials come which we expected not or if the body grows faint, how liable we are to begin to doubt the faithful promise …

Seeking For Jesus

John 6:24

… I do not doubt that some persons who were once sincere but unrenewed seekers, have now given up all thought of seeking Christ, because they continued to seek …

A Luther Sermon at the Tabernacle

Habakkuk 2:4

… Progress in Grace comes not of carnal wisdom, or legal effort, or unbelief. No, the flesh brings no growth unto the spiritual life and efforts made in unbelief …

The Bird Escaped from the Snare

Psalm 124:7

… mountains of full assurance and stand there with your foreheads bathed in sunlight, breathing that serene atmosphere which is untainted by a cloud of doubt! The text reads …

The Glories of Forgiving Grace

Ephesians 1:7

… Is it possible for you to look at the Lord Jesus and doubt His willingness to forgive? He whose eyes wept over a guilty city? He whose hands …

The Bliss of the Glorified

Revelation 7:16

… And here, too, brethren and sisters, we very rightly hunger and thirst after full assurance and confidence. Many are hungering after it; they hope they are saved, and …

Salvation By Works, A Criminal Doctrine

Galatians 2:21

… This self-confidence also arises from wicked unbelief, for through his self-conceit, man will not believe God. Nothing is more plainly revealed in Scripture than this—that …

Supposing Him to be the Gardener

John 20:15

… How came it to be—here an oasis of life in a desert of death? how came faith in the midst of unbelief, and hope where all is …

"Where Are The Nine?"—or, Praise Neglected

Luke 17:15

… He had full assurance upon that point and the next impulse of his spirit was to get back to where Jesus stood who had been his glorious Physician …

The Lord’s Hand behind the Maid’s Mistake

… I thank you most sincerely for your very kind offer, and also for your assurance that I am at perfect liberty to act as I think it is …

Today! Today! Today!

Psalm 95:7

… Yet the sermon will not be altogether and only for the unbelieving, for, alas, even in God's people there is a measure of unbelief and deafness of …

Jonah's Resolve—or, 'Look Again!'

Jonah 2:4

… Jonah, no doubt, suffered from those inconveniences which, apart from miracle, would have ended his life right speedily. A dark, stifling, pestilential cell would have been preferable to …

The Pilgrim's Grateful Recollections

Deuteronomy 8:3-6

… Their hunger was, no doubt, increased in its power to humble them by their position. They were not hungry, in Goshen, nor in Canaan, but hungry in a …

Faith Among Mockers

Psalm 22:8

… beings that unbelief of God is folly, but that faith in the Eternal is essential wisdom. God give us more faith in Himself! No doubt we may expect …

Till We Meet Again

Revelation 22:21

… comes to be full assurance, till you know the love which Christ has towards you and no more doubt it than you doubt the love of the dearest …

Perfection in Faith

Hebrews 10:14

… Therefore, brethren, let us come boldly; let us “draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and …

The Believer Not An Orphan

… His permanent sepulchre. “He lives, the great Redeemer lives, What joy the blest assurance gives!” We are not orphans, for “the Lord is risen indeed.” The orphan has …

My Comfort In Affliction

Psalm 119:50

… am with you, Israel, passing through the fire," may well describe the Covenant assurance. May we realize the fire if only thus we can realize the Divine Presence …

Psalm 74

Psalm 74

… Superstition, unbelief, and carnal wisdom have endeavoured to usurp the place of Christ crucified, to the grief of the church of God. The enemies without do us small …

Four Choice Sentences

Genesis 28:15

… I am so thankful for that! If He were to cast us off because of our unbelief, is there one of us who would not have been cast …

A Savior Such As You Need

Hebrews 10:15-18

… It is true that the true saints under the old dispensation, did, I have no doubt, obtain peace and rest, but that was because they looked through and …

Prospect—"He Will Keep"

John 17:11

… keep through Your own name those whom You have given Me." We cannot doubt the personality of the Father and of the Son, nor their essential unity. There …

Early Wedded Life (Continued)

… so that I may have plenty of time to prepare ? " With my loving assurance that I would watch the time for him, and call him soon enough, he …

Two Coverings and Two Consequences

Proverbs 38:13

… All who have trusted in the atoning sacrifice which was presented by the Lord Jesus Christ upon Calvary may accept this welcome assurance, "God. has covered all their …

Eyes Opened

Genesis 21:19

… He has gone to his rest, I doubt not. Older friends have also ascended to God just lately, rejoicing to enter into the joy of the Lord. Between …

Deacons and Elders; Pastors and Teachers (Continued)

… I have not the slightest doubt but that, as our numbers shall increase in answer to earnest prayer, the Spirit of God will be poured out yet more …

Seekers Directed and Encouraged

Jeremiah 29:13

… A cheering assurance is given to those who seek in hearty earnest and to this requirement of heartiness we must give earnest need. At this time I shall …

To Workers with Slender Apparatus

… In the strange perversities of unbelief, the singular constructions and misconstructions which the desponding put upon their feelings and upon scriptural statements, you will often find a world …

The Covenant Pleaded

Psalm 74:20

… Why do you stagger at it through unbelief?— "His every work of Grace is strong As that which built the skies! The Voice that rolls the stars along …

Difficulty in the Way of Believing

… But if for some reason I had a doubt about it, and yet wished to believe the news, how should I act? Should I not hunt up all …