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Doubt & Assurance
Doubt, assurance, unbelief, and confidence in Christ
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A Clarion Call to Saints and Sinners
Micah 2:10
… Bunyan wrote, who lost his roll of assurance, there, and had to come back and search for it with many tears. If any of you are very comfortable …
SERMON • SERMON 2720The Savior Resting in His Love
Zephaniah 3:17
… a kind of unbelief that is begotten of excessive delight. We know something to be true and yet there comes the recoil and the doubt, "Surely it is …
SERMON • SERMON 3133Christ's Prayer for Believers
John 17:20
… and this makes me preach! I come into this Chapel tonight with the assurance that God has some child of His in this place—not yet called—and …
COMMENTARYPsalm 88
Psalm 88
… This was no doubt an exaggeration of a depressed spirit, and yet perhaps Heman may have been born under the cypress, and have been all his days afflicted …
SERMON • SERMON 853A Sermon for the Most Miserable of Men
Psalm 77:2
… Beware of nursing despondency! Does it creep upon you today through unbelief? O shake it off if possible! Cry to the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, to loose you …
SERMON • SERMON 987Marah; or, The Bitter Waters Sweetened
Exodus 15:23-25
… It is a notion, I have no doubt, of very young Christians who still have the shell upon their heads and are scarce hatched, that their trials are …
SERMON • SERMON 1009Travailing for Souls
Isaiah 66:8
… He cannot do any mighty work here because of our unbelief; and, if our unbelief were cast out, and if prayer went up to God with eagerness, and …
SERMON • SERMON 1402"Lead Us Not Into Temptation"
Matthew 6:13
… Though the fear may be the fruit of unbelief, yet make it known to your Lord and do not harbor it sullenly. Remember, the Lord's prayer was …
SERMON • SERMON 2024What Is the Wedding Garment?
Matthew 22:11-13
… Oh that the King would come here this morning in that sense and look into all your faces and give you all the full assurance that you are …
SERMON • SERMON 2751'A Prepared Place for a Prepared People'
John 14:2
… Even though they should see Him die, they were not to doubt Him. "You believe in God, believe also in Me." 2. In My Father's house are …
SERMON • SERMON 2233Both Sides of the Shield
Exodus 17:8
… That is what you should do with difficult doctrines—make a quiet haven of the mysterious Truth of God and let it shelter you in time of doubt …
SERMON • SERMON 164The Loved Ones Chastened
Revelation 3:19
… Like Jeshurun of old, of whom it is said, “Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked.” Let us for a little time enjoy the full assurance of faith; self-conceit …
SERMON • SERMON 2189A Call To Prayer and Testimony
Isaiah 62:6
… Unbelief shuts up that Force—as it is written, "He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief." Faith, on the other hand, sets the sacred …
SERMON • SERMON 464A Sermon For Gleaners
Ruth 2:15
… is mixed with unbelief! It is marvelous, it is miraculous, that a spark of faith can live in the midst of an ocean of unbelief. You will find …
SERMON • SERMON 1062Why Am I Thus?
Romans 7:22
… He cannot have gone through all the chambers and searched them thoroughly, or he would have discovered somewhere that there is an evil heart of unbelief in departing …
SERMON • SERMON 2562Cries From the Cross
Psalm 22:1
… why have You forsaken Me?" In our case, this is the cry of unbelief. In His case it was the utterance of a fact, for God had really …
SERMON • SERMON 2529Compassion on the Ignorant
Hebrews 5:2
… Sometimes ignorance is attended with a degree of very gross unbelief. When the man is made to know after a certain sense, yet he says that he cannot …
SERMON • SERMON 1439Receiving the Kingdom of God as a Little Child
Luke 18:17
… If it had been a prince who wished to come to Jesus, no doubt Peter and the rest of them would have diligently secured him an introduction. But …
SERMON • SERMON 1100Good News for the Lost
Luke 19:10
… So let us pray the Holy Spirit to sweep away, with His Divine wind, the clouds of our unbelief and enable each earnest eye in the light of …
SERMON • SERMON 2369Blood Even on the Golden Altar
Leviticus 4:7
… There is some defilement, even, in the saltwater of our penitent tears! There is some unbelief, even, in our most acceptable faith! There is some lack of holiness …
SERMON • SERMON 2163Immanuel—The Light of Life
Isaiah 9:1
… O despairing Soul, does not Immanuel, God with us, make it hard to doubt the mercy of the Lord? We have comfort in the fact that our Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 2761The Free Agency of Christ
Mark 8:22-25
… Neither, dear Friends, must we, for a moment, try to tie the Lord Jesus Christ down to work in our particular manner! I have no doubt that these …
SERMON • SERMON 3326The Wondrous Covenant
Hebrews 8:10
… His door is open to us—we have Divine welcome unto His Grace and we abide in it—abide in it with certainty and full assurance! 2. By …
SERMON • SERMON 3085An Exciting Enquiry
Matthew 21:10
… The theater services which have been lately attempted have no doubt proved a great blessing—the opening of cathedrals was a step in the right direction—but everybody …
SERMON • SERMON 917Precious, Honorable, Beloved
Isaiah 43:4
… Let me even remind you that the calling of the Gentiles is the consequence of the putting away of Israel for awhile because of unbelief, and that the …
SERMON • SERMON 2492Paul's Persuasion
Romans 8:38
… Did he not learn it by Revelation? I doubt not that God at first supernaturally revealed it to him, but yet, in order that he might be still …
SERMON • SERMON 2931Return! Return!
Jeremiah 3:12
… And God made you useful to souls that are now in Heaven—yet you have begun to doubt whether you will ever get there yourself! O Soul, remember …
SERMON • SERMON 1733On Humbling Ourselves before God
1 Peter 5:6
… If, however, you feel as if you could not do that, let me urge you to go to God in secret and admit the sin of this unbelief …
SERMON • SERMON 3028God's Glory Our Rereward
Isaiah 58:8
… It is a blessed thing to enjoy full assurance of faith and yet, no doubt, there are thousands in the fold of Jesus who never reach this attainment …
SERMON • SERMON 1652The Singing Pilgrim
Psalm 119:54
… break in upon my spirit." Is there not much sweetness in this hopeful assurance, much to make our text overflow with meaning? And now I invite you to …
SERMON • SERMON 2046Consolation From Resurrection
Hosea 13:14
… That is clear—who shall doubt it? God will delight to work the work of our deliverance. If He takes pleasure in raising a dead body, He will …
SERMON • SERMON 3261The Covenant
Psalm 111:5
… That "if" hinged upon the question whether the Lord Jesus would obey the Law and pay the ransom—a question which His faithfulness placed beyond doubt! There is …
SERMON • SERMON 1973God's Nearness To Us
Acts 17:27
… There is nothing between you and your Savior but your unbelief. Let unbelief go and you shall see Jesus to your heart's joy! A prisoner was taken …
SERMON • SERMON 1569The Golden Lamp and Its Goodly Lessons
Zechariah 4:1-3
… To their apprehension, no doubt, it seems very wonderful. They may strike their matches and light their candles if they will—we are more than satisfied with the …
SERMON • SERMON 2226"Lay Hold on Eternal Life!"
1 Timothy 6:12
… So— "Take, with rejoicing, from Jesus at once The life everlasting He gives! And know, with assurance, you never can die, Since Jesus, your righteousness, lives." Once more …
SERMON • SERMON 3528A Promise and a Providence
Ezekiel 34:15
… Can you doubt that when Christ prayed that His people might be one, He was heard? It were almost blasphemy to think that His petition was denied! Very …
SERMON • SERMON 559The Cripple at Lystra
Acts 14:9-10
… But you need not doubt that a practiced eye can learn to read the one as well as the other. The languor and indifference of some; the curious …
SERMON • SERMON 2092God's Own Gospel Call
Isaiah 55:3
… Such a gracious assurance should lead us to come to Him, should it not? What more sweet sounding bell can ring us unto God's table than these …
SERMON • SERMON 3022God's Innumerable Mercies
Psalm 71:15
… the Psalmist wrote, "You have given commandment to save me," with the full assurance that he would be saved. And all God's people can say to Him …
SERMON • SERMON 176The Prodigal's Return
Luke 15:20
… I have no doubt you, each of you, find it harder to unlearn than to learn. To get rid of old prejudices and preconceived notions is a very …