Doubt & Assurance

The First Setting Up of the Bronze Serpent

Numbers 21:4-9

… Lie down, O dog of doubt! Lie down, O cur of unbelief! If you have no better bark than this, be quiet! Oh, for God's Grace to …

The Prince of Life

Acts 3:15

… Each of my crimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear." Sin is Christicide. I have in my reading, in old books, found holy men speaking of sins …

Secret Drawings Graciously Explained

Jeremiah 31:3

… The Lord did not cut us off in our unbelief—there in is love. Some read this text, "therefore in loving kindness have I respited you," or, "therefore …

The First Appearance of the Risen Lord to the Eleven

Luke 24:36-44

… Find if you can, Beloved, one occasion in which Jesus inculcated doubt, or bade men dwell in uncertainty! The apostles of unbelief are everywhere, today, and they imagine …

The Trial of Your Faith

1 Peter 1:7

… To him that believes it is said, "All things are yours." Faith is the assurance of sonship, the pledge of inheritance, the grasp of boundless possession, the perception …

The Woman Which Was a Sinner

Luke 7:37-38

… The Law has concluded us all in unbelief, and then the abounding Grace of God, looking upon us all as equally cast away and ruined both by Adam …

Psalm 62

Psalm 62

… The prophet found himself remarkably well furnished in reference to that part of piety which consists in pleroforia, the full assurance and perfection of faith; and therefore he …

The Tent Dissolved and the Mansion Entered

2 Corinthians 5:1

… Thus, from the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, we gather assurance that we shall not wander to and fro unhoused, even though this mortal frame should …

A Question for a Questioner

Psalm 77:9

… another, so may we also silence the questions of unbelief by further questions which shall strip our doubt of all disguises. The question which makes our text is …

Clearing the Road to Heaven

Isaiah 62:10

… run into all excess of outward sin and wicked unbelief. Repentance of sin is necessary, but to doubt the mercy of God and to run into despair are …

Perfect Justification and Perfect Pardon

Jeremiah 50:20

… It is amazing, my Brothers and Sisters, how soon our unbelief finds a ground for fear lest we should be lost. It seems to find such a reason …

The Blessing of the High Priest

Numbers 6:22-27

… Give Him, my Soul, your cause to plead, Nor doubt the Father's Grace." But next, this benediction is yet of a higher order than intercession. Every man …

"Your Rowers Have Brought You Into Great Waters"

Ezekiel 27:26

… repose of full assurance. "Your rowers have brought you into great waters." Uncertainty follows uncertainty and the wind of fear tosses the billows of doubt. You will have …

Increased Faith the Strength of Peace Principles

Luke 17:5

… He detected unbelief in his own heart and yet he saw faith there, too, whereas a great many Christians, if they discern some unbelief in their hearts, straightway …

Good Cheer From Grace Received

Matthew 9:20-22

… This woman, no doubt, had a very deep reverence for the Lord Jesus Christ She had such an esteem for Him that even His garments were thought by …

"There Is Forgiveness"

Psalm 130:4

… In our text I see, besides the whisper of hope, AN ASSURANCE OF THE WORD OF GOD— "There is forgiveness with You." Dear Friends, "there is forgiveness." Nature …

Faith Omnipotent

Mark 9:23

… Through unbelief staggers not, for God has spoken the word— "Faith, mighty faith the promise sees, And looks to that alone, Laughs at impossibilities, And cries, 'It shall …

'A Song of My Beloved'

Solomon 2:16

… He feeds among the lilies." So peaceful, so full of assurance, so bursting with happiness and contentment is it, that it might well have been written by the …

The Joy of Harvest

… Wherefore do we doubt him? If we never doubt him till we have cause for it we shall never know distrust again. Encouraged by the return of harvest …

Where The "If" Lies

Mark 9:23

… If we were what we ought to be it would never occur to us to doubt our Lord Jesus; and our shameful unbelief of him is the most …

Gratitude for Deliverance from the Grave

Psalm 118:17

… In this full assurance he went bravely to meet his enemies at the Diet of Worms and, indeed, went courageously whenever duty called him. He felt that God …

Believing On Jesus—and Its Counterfeits

John 8:30-32

… Unbelief calls itself, "Honest doubt," and not without cause, for we would not have known it to be honest if it had not labeled itself so. When a …

Faith and Regeneration

1 John 5:1

… Whenever self-examination has been proposed to them they have avoided it as an assault upon their assurance, and when they have been urged to try themselves by …

Faith in Perfection

Psalm 138:8

… I believe that the happiest of Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but who take his word simply as it …

The Immovability of the Believer

Psalm 125:1

… The stronger your faith the better—the more faith you can have the richer and happier your life will be—but the assurance of our text is for …

Sounding Out the Word of the Lord

1 Thessalonians 1:8

… These trumpeters had received the Word of God themselves in much assurance and with much power. Note the fifth verse—"For our Gospel came not unto you in …

"Christ First, Me Last—Nothing Between But Love"

Galatians 2:20

… Unbelief says, "Yes, Christ is very loving," but if you have true faith, you will say, "He loved me." Unbelief says, "I know that Christ loves His people …

A Most Needful Prayer Concerning The Holy Spirit

Psalm 51:11

… I begin again with, "God be merciful to me, a sinner," and by degrees rise up again to faith, and onward to assurance. When assurance is gone, and …

Little Faith and Great Faith

Matthew 14:31

… Notice how our Lord puts it—"O you of little faith, why did you doubt?" Faith is spiritual common sense. Unbelief is unreasonable. For look, if Christ was …

Psalm 9

Psalm 9

… If we read this verse literally, there is, no doubt, a glorious fulness of assurance in the names of God. We have recounted them in the "Hints for …

Psalm 138

Psalm 138

… The first clause of the verse is the assurance of faith, and this second one reaches to the full assurance of understanding. God's work in us will …

Secret Sins Driven Out By Stinging Hornets

Deuteronomy 7:20

… Now allow me to suggest that among the sins which lurk in us there is the old one of unbelief. You have had a very great deliverance, my …

Jesus At Bethesda—or, Waiting Changed for Believing

John 5:1-9

… I challenge the whole world to find any Gospel of God in which an unconverted man is told to abide in unbelief Where is the sinner told to …

A Wilderness Cry

Psalm 63:1

… Many remain in this condition far longer than is necessary—what might be soon ended is drawn out into 40 years by unbelief! Then comes that blessed stage …

Psalm 20

Psalm 20

… So when, by unbelief, we hardly conceive of God and of his goodness, or for want of knowledge are ignorant of his good name, even of all his …

A God Ready to Pardon

Nehemiah 9:17

… But, all this being allowed, the light which nature affords us is, upon this subject, rather conjecture than assurance. My brethren, let us thank God we are not …

The Sermon of the Seasons

Genesis 8:22

… assurance of one promise, and why such frequent distrust of others equally true? When God's promises appear to be difficult of fulfillment, wherefore do we doubt them …

All Joy in All Trials

James 1:2-4

… be a small price to pay for a settled assurance, which would for ever prevent the possibility of doubt. Never mind the waves if they wash you upon …

With or Without Shedding of Blood

Hebrews 9:22

… But to us there is a still sweeter assurance—God has provided the Lamb for a burnt offering! Listen to this, you who would have remission! God Himself …

The Fullness of Christ the Treasury of the Saints

Colossians 1:19

… O accursed Unbelief, will you always pervert the Truth of God? Will you never understand this Word of God—"It pleased the Father that in Him should all …