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Doubt & Assurance
Doubt, assurance, unbelief, and confidence in Christ
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The Man Whose Hand Stuck to His Sword
2 Samuel 23:9
… Every now and then some wise men think to convert us to skepticism, or what is very like it—modern thought—and they approach us with full assurance …
SERMON • SERMON 1994Sweet Peace For Tried Believers
John 16:33
… It is an acquired taste, no doubt, but he that has it will be at peace about trouble. It shall help you greatly to attain peace if you …
SERMON • SERMON 2486Overcoming Christ
Solomon 6:5
… I have known You too long to doubt You now, my blessed Lord. You have done too much for me in the past for me to turn away …
SERMON • SERMON 494The Betrayal
Luke 22:47
… Beyond a doubt, however, the main reason for this was that Christ might offer a perfect atonement for sin. We may usually read the sin in the punishment …
SERMON • SERMON 435Obtaining Promises
Hebrews 11:33
… Doubt and be distrustful about the promise that you have, and you cannot expect God to increase His Revelation to your soul. Be afraid, stagger through unbelief at …
SERMON • SERMON 822The Panting Deer
Psalm 42:1
… Liberate him from his unbelief. Let him have his freedom and he will fly at once to his Lord Jesus! And nothing can tempt him to linger or …
SERMON • SERMON 3077Death—a Sleep
1 Thessalonians 4:13
… We doubt not that God will guard the dust of the precious sons and daughters of Zion. We believe that in the Resurrection there shall be a perfect …
SERMON • SERMON 3431The King Passing Over Kidron
2 Samuel 15:23
… No doubt Mark was the great friend of Peter, and writes his Gospel from Peter's point of view, so Peter, in the Gospel of Mark records the …
SERMON • SERMON 23Thoughts on the Last Battle
1 Corinthians 15:56-57
… repent, and we will be better for the rest of our lives; no doubt God is merciful, and he will forgive us.” And we hear many divines often …
SERMON • SERMON 521The Power Of Aaron'S Rod
Exodus 7:12
… There is not one doubt which the craft of Hell can insinuate—there is not one difficulty which the infernal wisdom of Diabolus can suggest—but simple faith …
SERMON • SERMON 2958The Saints' Love to God
Psalm 31:23
… how fervently should you do it, who stand upon the mountaintops of full assurance and walk in the bright sunlight of confidence in God! I address myself to …
SERMON • SERMON 649Songs For Desolate Hearts
Isaiah 54:1
… for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the Lord." Doubt not but that the Lord will appear for His …
SERMON • SERMON 686Obedience Better Than Sacrifice
1 Samuel 15:2
… of offering sacrifice to God—but Samuel met him at once with the assurance that such sacrifices were no excuse for an act of direct rebellion. In so …
SERMON • SERMON 412God'S First Words To The First Sinner
Genesis 3:9
… But now I must turn, lest time should fail us, to a fourth way in which no doubt this verse was intended. It is an arousing voice, a …
SERMON • SERMON 3189The Tenderness of God's Comfort
Isaiah 66:13
… O let us, dear Friends, as often as we can, gather together with the Lord's people for praise and prayer! No doubt, "in Jerusalem" we shall find …
SERMON • SERMON 3019The Hungry Filled, the Rich Emptied
Luke 1:53
… His soul cries, "Lord, give me Christ! Give me salvation! Give me assurance to know that my many iniquities are cast behind Your back, to be remembered against …
SERMON • SERMON 966Joseph's Bones
Hebrews 11:22
… No doubt he would have had a sumptuous tomb enough in Egypt. But no, he will not be buried there, for he is not an Egyptian. In Sakhara …
SERMON • SERMON 1246The Blessings Of Following On
Hosea 6:3
… Their confident assurance when they were as certain of their interest in Divine Love as of their own existence—we shall climb to that and stand upon our …
SERMON • SERMON 1276Unconditional Surrender
James 4:7
… Such humility is not at all inconsistent with believing that we are saved, nor with the fullest assurance of faith, nay, not at all inconsistent with the nearest …
SERMON • SERMON 2961'Heirs of God'
Romans 8:17
… There may be times when we shall doubt it, but we shall know it, partly by the indwelling of the Spirit, as Paul wrote to the Galatians, "Because …
SERMON • SERMON 1385Jesus Interceding For Transgressors
Isaiah 53:12
… No doubt the Savior included these rough Gentiles in His supplications. And perhaps their centurion who "glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous Man," was converted in …
SERMON • SERMON 2478Christ's Perfection and Precedence
Solomon 5:10
… assurance, that each one of you may be able to say of Christ, "This is my Beloved and this is my Friend—I would as soon doubt my …
SERMON • SERMON 2116The Unchanging God Cheering Jacob in His Change of Dwelling Place
Genesis 46:1-4
… Do you wonder that he was afraid? His fear also, no doubt, arose, next, from the fact that he was going into an idolatrous country of which he …
SERMON • SERMON 1086Jesus, The King of Truth
John 18:37
… Jesus gives sinners who believe in Him the Truths of God which they need to know—the assurance of sin forgiven through His blood, favor ensured by His …
SERMON • SERMON 32The Necessity of Increased Faith
Luke 17:5
… are great battles and great works to do, there must be great faith. Assurance can carry mountains on its back; little faith stumbles at a mole-hill. Great …
SERMON • SERMON 1090For The Troubled
Psalm 88:7
… Those of you who are happy and rejoicing in God, full of faith and assurance, can very well spare a discourse for your weaker Brothers and Sisters—you …
SERMON • SERMON 1865The Nobleman's Faith
John 4:46-53
… No doubt he had tried all the remedies known to the times, had sent for every physician that could be found within miles of Capernaum and now, having …
SERMON • SERMON 2744Lost Through One-Saved Through One
Romans 5:16
… And I feel very little doubt that there are many other anxious enquirers who are a long time looking for what is close to them all the while …
SERMON • SERMON 2718The Tenses
2 Corinthians 1:10
… I have no doubt that almost all of you have had, at one time or another, some very special proof that, "unto God the Lord belong the issues …
SERMON • SERMON 2935Christ's Joy and Ours
John 15:11
… heart made of if it does not leap with joy at such an assurance as that? You are Beloved of the Lord and a friend of the Son …
SERMON • SERMON 1046Covenant Blessings
Ezekiel 36:26
… And in looking into my own heart I saw no ground of comfortable assurance as to my being a possessor of the Grace of God—my feelings towards …
SERMON • SERMON 2443The Determination of Christ to Suffer for His People
Mark 15:23
… In His preaching He had been accustomed to say, "Verily, verily," and here He is, even on the Cross, still the same Preacher, for there was such assurance …
SERMON • SERMON 1932Love's Law and Life
John 14:15
… They had no sort of doubt as to the fact that the cloud received Him out of their sight and, moreover, they received assurance out of Heaven, by …
SERMON • SERMON 3260Spiritual Convalescence
Zechariah 10:12
… Possibly you have almost begun to doubt the veracity of your God or His faithfulness to His promise. Well then, in your case the promise of the text …
SERMON • SERMON 3178The Preparatory Prayers of Christ
Luke 3:21
… As I read the first text, no doubt you noticed that it was while Christ was praying that, "the Heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended in …
SERMON • SERMON 1480Constant, Instant, Expectant
Romans 12:12
… Were you not at prayer? When you first arose to go to your Father, was not you first step a prayer? When you received the assurance of salvation …
SERMON • SERMON 2275Belief, Baptism, Blessing
Acts 16:33
… It takes a long time to get some of them even a small distance on the road towards a comfortable assurance of salvation. I have no doubt that …
SERMON • SERMON 3139A Promise for the Blind
Jeremiah 31:8
… possessing a full assurance of being a child of God and then, every now and then, we hear of others who have a doubt, or only a hope …
SERMON • SERMON 1849Coming Judgment of the Secrets of Men
Romans 2:16
… He had a gospel, a definite form of truth, and he believed in it beyond all doubt; and therefore he spoke of it as "my gospel." Herein we …
SERMON • SERMON 1275One Greater Than the Temple
Matthew 12:6
… First there was the ark of the covenant, which precious chest was above all other things the token of Israel's high relationship to God, and the assurance …