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Doubt, assurance, unbelief, and confidence in Christ
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Remember!
Deuteronomy 15:15
… When you are honored of the Lord and happy in the full assurance of faith, remember that you were a bondman—walk humbly with your God. In the …
SERMON • SERMON 1417"Your Salvation"
Luke 2:28-30
… Simeon, I doubt not, saw in the presentation of Christ in the temple, a foreshadowing of His death on the Cross. The time would come when He must …
SERMON • SERMON 3268The Savior's Silence
Matthew 15:23
… Your eyes may be familiar with His marred visage, your faith may have beheld Him exalted on high, and you may have no doubt as to the might …
SERMON • SERMON 2569The Backslider's Door of Hope
Hosea 2:15
… A third vineyard is that of full assurance of faith. May a backslider ever come back to that vineyard? Yes, that he may! If you, poor Wanderer, do …
SERMON • SERMON 2034Peter's Restoration
Luke 22:60-62
… His Master had said to him, "What, could you not watch with Me one hour?" And no doubt there was more meaning in the words than appeared on …
SERMON • SERMON 1085Dwell Deep, O Dedan!
Jeremiah 49:8
… of our union with Him and a solemn conviction deepening into a full assurance of our exaltation in Him! Beloved, this is, indeed, to dwell in the Goshen …
SERMON • SERMON 2748Rest As a Test
Jeremiah 6:16
… which is fed by the articles in Reviews which spread all sorts of doubt on every hand! If you will just come to the Bible and say— "This …
SERMON • SERMON 2703The Preservation of Christians in the World
John 17:15
… prove, Zion still dwells upon the heart Of everlasting love." How that gracious assurance should comfort the little handful, the "remnant, weak and small," of God's people …
SERMON • SERMON 957Jesus No Phantom
Matthew 14:26
… We can no more doubt our conflicts than the wounded soldier doubts the bloodiness of the battle. All these things are evermore before our eyes to our grief …
SERMON • SERMON 2084The Bible Tried and Proved
Psalm 12:6
… Doubt has been cast upon them here and there and at times with great show of reason—doubt which it has been impossible to meet for a season …
SERMON • SERMON 2971The Right Kind of Fear
Proverbs 28:14
… To doubt His promise—to suppose that He will not make it good—this is, indeed, a fear which has torment. To doubt God's faithfulness—to suppose …
SERMON • SERMON 2928Sham Conversion
2 Kings 17:25
… He can mimic assurance with presumption. He can give us the pleasures of this world instead of the joy of the Lord and, instead of a simple confidence …
SERMON • SERMON 828Dying Daily
1 Corinthians 15:31
… He must have his sins forgiven and he must know it by infallible assurance or else death will be to him, of all things, the most terrible. He …
SERMON • SERMON 585A Mystery! Saints Sorrowing and Jesus Glad!
John 11:14-15
… Faith increases in solidity, assurance, and intensity, the more she is exercised with tribulation, and the more she hath been cast down, and lifted up again. Let not …
SERMON • SERMON 1905Healing and Pardon
Isaiah 33:24
… and doubt holds us in bondage under sin. But high thoughts of God beget hope in the soul and hope leads to confidence—and confidence brings assurance of …
SERMON • SERMON 1298Gathering to the Center
Mark 1:45
… No doubt many are charmed by Christian society, by the comforts of religious worship and by the degree of respectability which arises out of a profession—but they …
SERMON • SERMON 2154The Pastor's Joy and Confidence
Philippians 1:3-7
… So I am constantly told and I have no doubt upon the matter. Now, why was all this joy in the Apostle's mind with regard to the …
SERMON • SERMON 31The Desire of the Soul in Spiritual Darkness
Isaiah 26:9
… I think, when a man says, “I never doubt,” it is quite time for us to doubt him, it is quite time for us to begin to say …
CHAPTERJubilee Joys
… No doubt this restriction somewhat reduced the total sum ultimately reached, for many generous helpers said that, as the Pastor gave away the whole of the ^6,500 …
SERMON • SERMON 1423A Sacred Solo
Psalm 28:7
… It is not even the Lord's work in my soul, nor the assurance of my faith, nor the ardor of my love that has become my strength …
SERMON • SERMON 1574I Was Before
1 Timothy 1:13
… Remember that we are not saved by a single act of faith which terminates the moment we receive the assurance of the Divine forgiveness, but by a faith …
SERMON • SERMON 459A Sermon For Men Of Taste
1 Peter 2:1-3
… No doubt, while the pew is to be supplied by the pulpit, the pulpit is acted upon very greatly by the chilliness and hardness of the pew. If …
SERMON • SERMON 1959The Watchword For Today—"Stand Fast"
Philippians 3:20
… I have no doubt that many slips and falls and apostasies among professors are due to the fact that they were not right at first—the foundation was …
SERMON • SERMON 1776Unbinding Lazarus
John 11:43
… They are wrapped about by many a yard of doubt, mistrust, anguish and remorse. "Loose them, and let them go." Another hindrance is the band offear. "Oh," says …
SERMON • SERMON 2144Believers Sent by Christ, As Christ Is Sent By the Father
John 17:18
… They declared it with the accent of assurance. Our Lord based upon that fact another. He says to His Father, "As You have sent Me into the world …
SERMON • SERMON 1538Divine Surprises
Isaiah 64:3
… of Grace in the soul, they are evidently all of God, for the assurance of faith, the confidence of hope and the consecration of love were never ascribed …
SERMON • SERMON 2959God's Love to the Saints
1 John 3:16
… Well, nobody could doubt the love of such a man for his country! If the question happened to be the love of humanity, we have the story—the …
SERMON • SERMON 2910The Harvest and the Vintage
Revelation 14:14-20
… Therefore He has given assurance unto all men in that He has raised Him from the dead." Even though we cannot comprehend some things that are foretold by …
SERMON • SERMON 2093The Curse and the Curse for Us
Galatians 3:10-14
… is likely to deliver that Truth to others with tender sympathy and full assurance. Such a preparation, I think, I have had—and I pray that you may …
SERMON • SERMON 1336A Family Sermon
Genesis 7:1
… For albeit we cannot doubt that he was a faithful minister and an earnest preacher. And, no doubt, he pleaded with the people day and night, yet, sad …
SERMON • SERMON 2800'Pray, Always Pray'
John 16:26
… You did not doubt your mother's words when you were little and she caught you in her arms and said, "I love you." You believed her, you …
SERMON • SERMON 1711A Sermon to the Lord's Little Children
1 John 2:12
… believe in Him—and, by His Grace, your sins are forgiven you! This assurance is as sweet to you as a seraph's song! I could not have …
SERMON • SERMON 1817The Ascension and the Second Advent Practically Considered
Acts 1:10
… That the Lord Jesus rose again from the dead is the warrant of our justification, and also a transcendently delightful assurance of the resurrection of all his people …
SERMON • SERMON 1321Why May I Rejoice?
Luke 10:20
… Let your faith grow until it reaches the full assurance of faith and then shall you rejoice that your names are written in Heaven! "How am I to …
SERMON • SERMON 1753Blessed Promises For Dying Outcasts
Jeremiah 30:17
… would overcome them all! Stick to this with unyielding assurance. Let not the devil force you to doubt the boundless power of your Lord. When our Lord Jesus …
SERMON • SERMON 2428The Marriage Supper of the Lamb
Revelation 19:9
… So, "to make assurance doubly sure," that we may not question its truth because of its greatness, we have this solemn declaration especially certified by order of the …
SERMON • SERMON 1539"The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved"
John 21:20
… I have heard a Brother with the deepest humility speak with full assurance of the Divine love and while some have thought that he was presumptuous, I have …
SERMON • SERMON 2105Preparation for the Coming of the Lord
1 John 2:28
… For if they had been of us they would, no doubt, have continued with us." "Abide in Him," then, and do not turn aside unto crooked ways, as …
SERMON • SERMON 2031David Dancing Before the Ark Because of His Election
2 Samuel 6:20-22
… No doubt there are particularly nice and dainty people who will censure God's chosen if they live wholly to His praise and they will call them eccentric …
SERMON • SERMON 1649Freshness
Job 29:20
… what a blessed thing it is if we can fall back upon that assurance, "I shall be anointed with fresh oil." Nature decays, but Grace shall thrive. The …