Doubt & Assurance

Mourners, Inquirers, Covenanters

Jeremiah 50:4

… No doubt, all that are now lost lament that they have brought themselves into such a ruin, but that lamentation is no evidence of reconciliation with God—many …

Working Out What is Worked In

Philippians 2:12

… It is not the fear which is the enemy of full assurance, but it is the fear which is opposed to carnal security or recklessness. But the "trembling …

A Business-Like Account

Philippians 3:7-9

… He is speaking very positively as to his present confirmed assurance and established judgment. Look at him, then, again, making his estimate today, after he has been, for …

Anxiety, Ambition, Indecision

Luke 12:29

… No doubt there are some people who are in easier circumstances than others—some who are in positions where they enjoy many comforts, while others are in places …

A Witness and a Partaker

1 Peter 5:1

… I have no doubt that, sometimes, when he preached the Word, his soul was all aglow with holy fervor. I know that, often, I have been so graciously …

Examination Before Communion

1 Corinthians 11:28

… And when the Lord's Supper is dishonored, there is no doubt that the sickness and sleep here mentioned will follow. "For this cause many are weak and …

The Master’s Profession—The Disciple’s Pursuit

Psalm 40:9

… Drudgery ceases to be irksome when the ruling passion of laboring for the Lord has begun to ferment in your breasts, and the sweet assurance that your labor …

The Power of the Risen Savior

Matthew 28:18-20

… Often do I pray, and I doubt not the prayer has come from you, too, that God would raise up leaders in the Church—men full of faith …

The Looking Glass

James 1:23-25

… By the force of sheer ignorance a man can climb to a desperately false assurance of his own excellence. He can cry, "Peace, peace," when there is no …

Believers as Blessed as the Blessed Virgin

Luke 11:27

… the Word of God, and keep it!" You are blessed! Does not that assurance make you happy? It ought to. It ought to fill you with a calm …

Cheering Words

John 15:9

… Jesus Christ, then, says, "You do not doubt that the Father loves Me. Now, just as surely as the Father loves Me, I say, solemnly and truly, that …

Songs of Deliverance

Judges 5:11

… No hymn of joyful assurance suited you, but you began moaning out— “‘Tis a point I long to know, Oft it causes anxious thought, Do I love the …

The Lord Leading—David Following

2 Samuel 5:24

… No doubt written after some great victory and also before another severe struggle. The Christian man seldom escapes from one difficulty without falling into another. Thanks be unto …

A Message to the Glad and the Sad

Job 22:29

… But I do wish to say over again that if all joyful Believers who have attained to full assurance of faith would more often speak to troubled ones …

The Word of a King

Ecclesiastes 8:4

… Those who doubt the power of the Gospel and leave it for other forms of hopeful good, leave strength for weakness, Omnipotence for insufficiency. More and more I …

Lukewarmness

Revelation 3:15

… The saints who profess to believe what he says, trifle over it, and are, no doubt, in their hearts, as incredulous as we are." Let the minister be …

The Best Thing in the Best Place

Psalm 37:31

… A true Christian would sooner die than that this should happen! And he may comfort himself with the assurance that if the Law of his God is in …

Shutting, Sealing and Covering—or, Messiah's Glorious Work

Daniel 9:24

… in that hallowed friendship and live in the assurance of it! Now you have the anointing, do not doubt it! Christ has made it yours by His death …

Self Low, But Christ High

Matthew 8:8

… We sink deep in humility, but soar high in assurance. As we decrease, Christ increases. To make this point clear, I shall say, first of all, that a …

Glorious Predestination

Romans 8:29

… No doubt, however, the text means that these will for ever love and honor the Lord Jesus Christ himself. The children look up to the firstborn. In the …

Humility, the Friend of Prayer

Genesis 32:10

… gone to prepare a place for me? Does He give me His own assurance that He will come again and receive me to Himself? Am I a joint …

Filling the Empty Vessels

Philippians 4:19

… The Apostle makes to them an assurance in the following verses that they shall be abundantly repaid for all that they have done. He says to them, "You …

The Unrivalled Eloquence Of Jesus

John 7:46

… For though the officers did not hear all that Jesus said, I have no doubt that the qualities which shone in His entire ministry were, many of them …

A Second Word to Seekers

Jeremiah 29:13

… God deliver you from this great evil! Secondly, many are hindered, I doubt not, by remains of self-confidence. If they knew that they could not save themselves …

Concerning Death

Job 30:23

… assurance that we are in Christ and that, come what may, nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Doubt …

My Hourly Prayer

Psalm 119:117

… Or, if you please, if God teaches us to pray for any good thing, we may gather, by implication, the assurance that He means to give it! If …

The Lover of God's Law Filled With Peace

Psalm 119:165

… Many, no doubt, perceive the Truths which are taught in God's Word and so become orthodox in their professed creed. But without love their faith is dead …

The Dream of the Barley Cake

Judges 7:13

… What was there in it? Many a time, no doubt, this son of the desert would have cried, "I have had a dream—past the wit of man …

The Fourfold Treasure

1 Corinthians 1:30

… Never forget or doubt that Jesus is still with his people. They who know how to enter into the secret place of the tabernacles of the Most High …

The Sunday School and the Scriptures

2 Timothy 3:15

… This expression is, no doubt, used to show that we cannot begin too early to imbue the minds of our children with Scriptural knowledge. Babes receive impressions long …

The Middle Passage

Habakkuk 3:2

… His goings forth of old were so grand and glorious that to doubt Him is to slander Him! His Nature is so unchangeable that to reckon upon the …

A Waiting God and a Waiting People

Isaiah 30:18

… Once more, I do not doubt that the Lord waited in this case to be gracious until the people should begin to pray, for that seems to be …

Golden Bowls Full Of Incense

Revelation 5:8

… No doubt it is a vision referring to some special occasion, but at the same time we may regard it as descriptive of the usual worship which is …

A Call to the Lord's Own Flock

Ezekiel 34:30

… Even more than this—I doubt not that many are removed by death when they become obstacles to the Truth of God, or fall into sin. "For this …

Five Links in a Golden Chain

Titus 1:4

… Your faith and my faith, if they are both true faith, are, "the common faith." I may have very little faith and you may have the full assurance …

A Weighty Charge

… Many get into the sunlight of full assurance, but they soon leave it and are darkened with doubts and fears. They are chilled with insensibility and indifference and …

The Best Friend

Proverbs 27:10

… You shall find, in life and in death, that "there is a Friend that sticks closer than a brother." Let us be cheered by the assurance that He …

The Private Tutor

John 14:24-26

… Did a saying come from Christ? Has Jesus set forth a Truth in these Scriptures? Then it is not ours to judge, not ours to doubt, but ours …

The Joy Of Jesus

Luke 10:21

… We do not hear that He laughed, though it is thrice recorded that He wept and here, for once, as quite unique, we find the Inspired assurance that …

The Everlasting Arms

Deuteronomy 33:27

… Then comes in this gracious assurance—"Underneath are the everlasting arms." Against this mysterious, because incomprehensible foe, whose darts are so painful and deadly, God has been pleased …