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Doubt & Assurance
Doubt, assurance, unbelief, and confidence in Christ
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The Lamentations of Jesus
Luke 19:41
… We may weep at the graves of those we love and yet be guiltless of unbelief as to their resurrection, for Jesus knew that Lazarus would rise again …
SERMON • SERMON 3331Knowing and Believing
2 Timothy 1:12
… and I know whom I have believed." It is all assurance and not a shadow of doubt! Let us imitate the Apostle, or ask for Grace to be …
SERMON • SERMON 792Mary Magdalene
Mark 16:9
… I do not deny that sin may have prepared her for the Satanic possession and was, no doubt, also occasioned by it, but she is not brought before …
SERMON • SERMON 2847Barriers Obliterated
Isaiah 44:22
… Even those who are born-again and who love the Lord, find within themselves an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God and I feel …
SERMON • SERMON 3288Why the Gospel Is Hidden
2 Corinthians 4:3
… Heaven He bids you put on, Oh, could you be better arrayed? Then doubt not your welcome, since God has declared There remains no more to be done …
SERMON • SERMON 1053Testimony And Experience
John 4:39-42
… Proclaim, then, your personal testimony, each of you, for this is the most effectual weapon for overcoming human unbelief and bringing men to Christ! But, then, you will …
SERMON • SERMON 1606Ziklag—or David Encouraging Himself In God
1 Samuel 30:6
… where your Lord had none! If you adopt the paltry shifts suggested by unbelief, not even, then, shall you avoid affliction! The probabilities are that you will be …
SERMON • SERMON 2711The Sight of Iniquity
Habakkuk 1:3
… If anyone had asked us, "Are you the Lord's?" we dared not have answered, "Yes, we are," for our corruptions were so strong, and unbelief had become …
SERMON • SERMON 1604Heart Disease Curable
Isaiah 61:1
… We are told that, "He could not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief." He did not intend to exhibit Himself as a mere wonderworker and …
SERMON • SERMON 625Jesus Appearing To Mary Magdalene
Mark 16:9
… If you have no communion with Him, Believer, it is because unbelief darkens your eyes—or grief, or care, or sin makes you blind. But Jesus Christ was …
SERMON • SERMON 2497A New Leaf for the New Year
Genesis 42:21
… We lifted Him high up on the Cross of our transgressions and then we pierced His heart through with the spear of our unbelief! This is the treatment …
SERMON • SERMON 3480Fragrant Graces
Songs 1:12
… Ah, too, there is our unbelief which puts a heavy stone on all our Divine Graces, and blows out the heat which was burning the frankincense, so that …
SERMON • SERMON 460Faith and Repentance Inseparable
Mark 1:15
… So long as thou continuest in unbelief thou continuest in sin, and art increasing thy sin; and to give thee leave to be an unbeliever for an hour …
SERMON • SERMON 3240The Blood of Christ's Covenant
Zechariah 9:11
… No doubt we boasted of our free will, but our will, itself, was enslaved with all the rest of our powers. There is no greater mockery than to …
SERMON • SERMON 1785The Children and Their Hosannas
Matthew 21:15
… As to faith, I am sure that no one who has seen converted children will ever doubt their capacity for faith. In the hand of God's Spirit …
SERMON • SERMON 768A Prayer for the Church Militant
Psalm 28:9
… Some of Your people have very weak faith, save them from their unbelief, for it is a great sin and at the same time a great sorrow to …
SERMON • SERMON 3236The Gospel Cordial
Proverbs 31:6
… so and Christ at once honored her faith and gave her the gracious assurance that she might "go in peace"—and keep the cure that she had, as …
SERMON • SERMON 2148The Tenderness of Jesus
Hebrews 4:15
… No doubt the high priest was resorted to that he might console the sorrowful. It must have been a great relief for those who were of a sorrowful …
SERMON • SERMON 619The Golden Key Of Prayer
Jeremiah 33:3
… It is not now a, "perhaps," or a possibility—I know that my Lord answers me and I dare not doubt! It were, indeed, folly if I did …
SERMON • SERMON 2184A Private Enquiry
1 Samuel 3:17
… You may have to live in the frigid zone of doubt and anxiety, instead of sunning yourselves in the full blaze of Divine Love. It was so with …
SERMON • SERMON 1978Untitled Sermon
Ephesians 1:12
… But this alone was not sufficient, for many saw the Lord and remained in unbelief, enemies of the Cross of Christ. These could not have been Apostles since …
SERMON • SERMON 825The Sieve
Amos 9:9
… This prophecy is no doubt originally applicable to the long-afflicted seed of Israel. How terribly has it been fulfilled! Have not the sons of Jacob been sifted …
SERMON • SERMON 2294The Memory Of Christ's Love
Solomon 1:4
… in the atoning Sacrifice of His dear Son and you shall have the assurance that you are also the subject of His saving Grace—His love shall be …
SERMON • SERMON 2203"Lo, I Come"—Application
Psalm 40:7
… And when the world attains to its utmost unbelief and iniquity, Jesus will come. So at this moment my Hearer may be saying, "I cannot be worse than …
SERMON • SERMON 2389Guidance To Grace and Glory
Psalm 73:24
… You may well stop and say, "I must have a guide, I dare not go alone a step further on such a perilous path." No doubt the Psalmist …
SERMON • SERMON 3474Blessings Manifold and Marvelous
Psalm 18:19
… discern the hope of your calling! Though you had come to the full assurance of understanding, you could not take hold of one Covenant Promise with the slightest …
SERMON • SERMON 2698The First and the Second
Hebrews 10:9
… and to leave your happy home—but you may be comforted by the assurance of the text, "He takes away the first, that He may establish the second …
SERMON • SERMON 1101An Old-Fashioned Conversion
Job 33:29
… Some ears are stopped up by unbelief—they have heard the glad tidings of salvation but they have not received it as an Infallible Revelation from Heaven, a …
SERMON • SERMON 3414'Brief Life Is Here Our Portion'
Psalm 39:4
… And, above all, that he might know his end by having a full assurance of being saved in Christ Jesus, so that his end should be everlasting peace …
SERMON • SERMON 1611The Word of the Cross
1 Corinthians 1:18
… Those who thus veil an unwelcome Truth of God imagine that they make disciples, whereas they are only paying homage to unbelief and comforting men in their rejection …
SERMON • SERMON 3148Christ's Ambassadors
2 Corinthians 5:20
… tongues, And words of peace reveal!" Let me add to this the comforting assurance that peace has been effectually made already in tens of thousands of instances. There …
SERMON • SERMON 2559Co-workers With God
Psalm 127:1
… Harrowing, fertilizing, sowing—these are all the pitiful shifts of unbelief. I shall do nothing with the land, I shall just wait. I cannot doubt that God can …
SERMON • SERMON 467Flesh And Spirit—A Riddle
Psalm 73:22-25
… We said yesterday, "Now I shall never doubt God again. He has helped me through this great trouble, and I know that I shall be able to trust …
SERMON • SERMON 2240A Challenge and a Shield
Romans 8:34
… It also delivers us from every fear and doubt. The death of Christ gives us a full salvation. I cannot mention all the accusations which sin makes, but …
SERMON • SERMON 926The Sine Qua Non
John 13:8
… He who rejects Jesus as an atoning Sacrifice is sure to doubt His Godhead, and so to reject His grander nature. The deniers of the Atonement, who are …
SERMON • SERMON 3422A Call to the Depressed
Isaiah 52:2
… a grievous state as to their faith and their assurance of their own interest in Christ. They doubt whether they are Christians at all, whether their experience is …
SERMON • SERMON 2419Repentance after Conversion
Psalm 51:17
… He felt sure that if he once told his tale of love, others would be melted and would turn to God—and no doubt it was the case …
SERMON • SERMON 2499Christopathy
Isaiah 53:5
… sins, His chief tormentors were! Each of my crimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear." We certainly had a share in His sorrows. Oh, that we were …
SERMON • SERMON 1342Dagon's Ups and Downs
1 Samuel 5:2-4
… I have no doubt it took them a long pull and a great heave to haul the uncomely lump of marble into its place again. Many strong limbs …
SERMON • SERMON 1444The Moral of a Miracle
Mark 11:22
… of the world in the name of God? Doubt would have ruined him! Let us chase the spirit of unbelief away. The Lord help us to do so …