Doubt & Assurance

The Peacemaker

Matthew 5:9

… For then the assurance greets him, "So persecuted they the Prophets that were before you." And whereas he has a command to rejoice at all times, yet he …

Deliverance From the Pit

Job 33:24

… Oh, will you not trust Him? Can you doubt Him? If God takes upon Himself our nature and in that nature, dies, I cannot only trust Him with …

Other Sheep and One Flock

John 10:16

… Therefore doubt and fear should be banished and the very name of despair should be unknown among the Israel of God! Now are we sure of the love …

May I?

Matthew 9:21

… Perhaps if she had, it might not have troubled her so much, for a silent doubt usually eats right into the heart. You have heard of the Spartan …

The Best Burden for Young Shoulders

Lamentations 3:27

… Our shoulders bow themselves with gladness to the burden which Jesus declares to be profitable to us! This assurance from His lips makes His yoke easy to bear …

Psalm 116

Psalm 116

… We who have accepted him as ours have no doubt as to his mercy, for he would never have been our God if he had not been merciful …

The Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus

2 Timothy 2:8

… He who believes these Truths of God, aright, has believed the Gospel and, believing the Gospel, he shall without doubt find eternal salvation! But men want novelties. They …

Pray For Jesus

Psalm 72:15

… with you always, even to the end of the world," is the blessed assurance that Jesus is our Captain in the great fight of faith, and is still …

The Best of All—god Is With Us

1 Chronicles 22:18

… Brothers and Sisters in Christ, the Lord our God is with us! I do not entertain any doubt upon that point and I hope you do not. Is …

"After Two Days Is the Passover"

Matthew 26:2

… He had often repeated to them the assurance that it would be so, but, somehow, they had not truly believed it, realized it, grasped it. Ah, but Hehad …

A Discourse For A Revival Season

Jeremiah 8:19

… Remember that He has said, "There am I in the midst of you." Be content with that assurance. You have not, as it were, to mount up to …

Future Punishment A Fearful Thing

Hebrews 10:31

… If you doubt the punishment of the future state, doubt the inspiration of Scripture at once—for to doubt one and hold the other is impossible! Do not …

Dressing In The Morning

Romans 13:11-14

… Now speak your own experience, Christian man—did you ever feel yourself moved to sin by the assurance of being justified by Christ's righteousness? Never was there …

Heavenly Geometry

Ephesians 3:16-19

… The respite which keeps the sinner out of Hell is no doubt the result of that love which said, "Spare it yet a little longer, till I dig …

Order and Argument in Prayer

Job 23:3

… maketh flesh his arm,” then will you suck unutterable sweetness from the divine assurance, “Blessed is he that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is …

High Doctrine And Broad Doctrine

John 6:37

… When sin hampers you, when doubt drags you down, when you cannot do what you want to do—still it is decreed and determined that some people must …

Light—Natural And Spiritual

Genesis 1:1-5

… THIS is, no doubt, a literal and accurate account of God's first day's work in the creation of the world, but the first creation is not …

Psalm 54

Psalm 54

… aliens to his truth, men who from unbelief have estranged themselves from all lot and portion in his covenants—oppress and persecute. William Hill Tucker. Verse 3. ( first …

Psalm 83

Psalm 83

… and yet it needs faith to make a pause, for unbelief is always in a hurry. Verse 9. Do unto them as unto the Midianites. Faith delights to …

“Forward!”

… They swallow the medicine of every spiritual quack who has enough of brazen assurance to appear to be sincere. I say to you, as Paul wrote to the …

Psalm 99

Psalm 99

… Oh, the blessed assurance that nothing can disturb our standing in the covenant. Answer and forgiveness are certain, though vengeance is taken of our inventions. How every word …

The Preacher’s Power, and the Conditions of Obtaining It

… We could not doubt any truth which He could reveal; neither, in our heart of hearts, would we quarrel with anything which His will could appoint. If anything …

Jesus, The Gread Object of Astonishment

… no doubt His countenance bore the signs of a matchless grief. There were ploughings on His brow as well as upon His back; suffering, and brokenness of spirit …

Faith.

… We look upon our congregations, and perhaps are ready to cry in our unbelief, “Master, what shall we do?” but our eyes are opened, and we see horses …

Psalm 113

Psalm 113

… These up liftings of grace are here ascribed directly to the divine hand, and truly those who have experienced them will not doubt the fact that it is …

Jesus, The Substitute For His People

Romans 8:34

… His sufferings, I doubt not, were vicarious long before He came to the Cross, but, still, the substance of the penalty due to sin was death, and it …

Psalm 89

Psalm 89

… It will also be always desirable to make it known, for men are too apt to forget it, or to doubt it, when hard times press upon them …

Baptismal Regeneration

Mark 16:15-16

… Three times over the thing is put, lest there should be any doubt in it. The word regeneration may, by some sort of juggling, be made to mean …

Psalm 128

Psalm 128

… behold it by faith in the promise; behold it by observation in the performance of the promise; behold it with assurance that it shall be so, for God …

Psalm 36

Psalm 36

… While we are under the cloud we are in the region of God's faithfulness; when we mount above it we shall not need such an assurance. To …

Unknown Depths and Heights

Luke 23:34

… And it might have been said to them, "You did it ignorantly in unbelief." I grant you that this was the immediate meaning of Christ's words, but …

Psalm 7

Psalm 7

… A good conscience is a flowing spring of assurance. "For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly …

Psalm 39

Psalm 39

… The firmest believers are exercised with unbelief, and it would be doing the devil's work with a vengeance if they were to publish abroad all their questionings …

Psalm 60

Psalm 60

… Though thou didst for a time give up thine Israel into the hands of their enemies, thou hast now given them an assurance of thy having received them …

An Indictment with Four Counts

Zephaniah 3:2

… will then turn to woe! And the not trusting in the Savior, the unbelief—what woe that will bring! The not drawing near to God—what woe that …

Smoking Flax

Isaiah 42:3

… That is, no doubt, the first meaning of this passage, as you will see by the connection in Matthew. It is said, "A bruised reed shall He not …

The Son Glorified by the Father and the Father Glorified by the Son

John 17:1

… Do we speak of shame? No doubt they spat upon Him and derided Him. Do we speak of weakness? No doubt He slept in a grave. But in …

Pressing Questions of an Awakened Mind

Acts 9:5

… Paul was a great man and, on the way to Damascus, I have no doubt he rode a very high horse. He verily thought that he was doing …

The Broken Fence

… slipping along, descending like a stream of slime into the Dead Sea of Unbelief—get solid walls built around your life, around your faith, and around your character …

“Thus Saith The Lord:” Or, The Book of Common Prayer Weighed in the Balances of the Sanctuary

Ezekiel 11:15

… a man of God, a bishop whom you have been in the habit of considering a most gracious, godly man, and such no doubt he may be, in …