Doubt & Assurance

All Or None—or, Compromises Refused— a Sermon With Five Texts

Exodus 10:26

… he has not to go far before he finds infidels to help his unbelief. I am sorry to say that he can find them in the pulpit pretty …

Two Sorts Of Hearers

James 1:22-25

… He is quite astonished and cannot make it out! I have no doubt many of you here who are unconverted have felt this under a searching sermon. When …

Seeking the Souls of Men

… fast, but he has eluded me again and again with perverse ingenuity of unbelief. Sometimes, enquirers, who are really anxious, surprise me with their singular skill in battling …

Psalm 53

Psalm 53

… The seat of atheism is the heart; it is a moral unbelief not an intellectual, the language of the will not of the understanding. 3. Cause of atheism …

Psalm 86

Psalm 86

… Verses 8-10. —There are two kinds of doubt which are wont in the hour of temptation to assail the soul: the doubt as to God's willingness …

Kept From Iniquity

Psalm 18:23

… He had to flee for his life like a partridge upon the mountains—and all the while, no doubt— Saul and his partisans accused him of all manner …

The Way of Salvation

Acts 4:12

… I shall endeavor now merely to deal with any soul here present who entertains a doubt as to his own salvation in Jesus Christ; I shall single him …

Pride Catechized

Job 34:33

… and the sinner wearing Christ's righteousness—all this they absolutely reject! "No doubt Christ did something for sinners," they say, but they cannot define what He did …

The Call to the Ministry

… Young men in doubt will do well to take with them their wisest friends when next they go out to the country chapel or village meeting-room and …

Psalm 90

Psalm 90

… ask what he knows too welt to doubt? But in none of these things is there greater room for assurance than we have each one for himself, in …

The Old Man Crucified

Romans 6:6

… Each one of our sins has a horrible vitality about it. "As many lives as a cat," John Bunyan said unbelief had. And the like may be said …

Psalm 91

Psalm 91

… Aye, that is true, you will say, who makes any doubt of it? But how shall a man come to dwell, and get into this secret place, within …

Light at Evening Time

Zechariah 14:6-7

… Those questions invariably tend to unbelief. But who shall make void the promises of God? Are not nations to be born in a day? Will the wild Arab …

The Great Supreme

Deuteronomy 32:3

… Where is my Church to be housed, and where my congregation to be gathered? And but last night in unbelief I thought it never could be that such …

Psalm 96

Psalm 96

… Every man should praise God every day—on each returning morning, and on every evening—for the assurance that there is a way of salvation provided for him …

The Ploughman

… Many of your doubts and fears come of unbelief, or of Satan, or of the flesh, and are not of God at all. Blame him not for what …

Distinguishing Grace

1 Corinthians 4:7

… the man after God’s own heart hath still an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God. Oh! well doth the poet put it— “Methinks …

The Shulamite'S Choice Prayer

Solomon 8:6

… She seems to say, "Its vehemence never decreases; it is always burning to its utmost intensity." Nebuchadnezzar's furnace was heated seven times hotter, but no doubt it …

Psalm 137

Psalm 137

… But stop till the Christian's day of darkness comes—stop till sin and unbelief have brought him into captivity—stop till he is shut out from Zion …

To Die Or Not To Die!

2 Corinthians 5:8

… Why fear, then? Why doubt? Why tremble? Such pining after life, such fears of death because we doubt our Savior are disreputable in a Christian man. Let us …

Rahab's Faith

Hebrews 11:31

… And, without doubt, her salvation was not merely of a temporal nature, not merely a deliverance of her body from the sword, but redemption of her soul from …

Building “Our Holy and Beautiful House”

… and I have no doubt that the money will be forthcoming, — that matter is no burden to me. Some of you have done a great deal, but you …

Effectual Calling

Luke 19:5

… What did he do? He did as the boys were doing—for the boys of old times were no doubt just like the boys of the present age …

Psalm 71

Psalm 71

… When faith is understood, and the grounds of her confidence seen, the believer is no longer a wonder; but the marvel is that so much unbelief remains among …

The Tomb of Jesus

Matthew 28:6

… sins, His chief tormentors were, Each of my crimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear.” “Alas! and did my Saviour bleed? And did my Sov’reign die …

"Noli Me Tangere" ("Touch Me Not")

John 20:17

… I have no doubt that many a man feels very pious in the dim religious light of some old cathedral when the organ peals forth and tender tones …

Psalm 85

Psalm 85

… These I doubt are not like affected. The reason of my doubt. One of them, Righteousness, it is told here for great news, that she but "looked down …

Psalm 67

Psalm 67

… This is the fifth Psalm so entitled, and no doubt like the others was meant to be sung with the accompaniment of "harpers harping with their harps." No …

Israel at the Red Sea

Psalm 106:9

… No doubt the children of Israel supposed that now all was over; the Egyptians has sent them away, entreating them to depart, and loading them with riches. Terror …

Psalm 146

Psalm 146

… Full assurance is more than heaven in the bud, the flower has begun to open. We would not exchange with Caesar; his sceptre is a bauble, but our …

Samuel—an Example of Intercession

1 Samuel 12:23

… cast them out of My sight and let them go forth." Here there is no doubt an allusion to the prevalent prayer of Moses, when in the agony …

The Angelic Life

Matthew 22:30

… They have no proud thoughts which must be cast down, no depressions of spirit, no taunts of unbelief, no motions of self-will. They serve God without a …

Justice Satisfied

Romans 3:26

… Lord, give me mercy!” Don’t doubt but that God will give it you. You have his own pledge in your hand; you have his own bond in …

Christ Before Annas

John 18:12

… Annas, no doubt asked, "Who are these disciples of Yours? Where did You pick them up?" I dare say he knew that they were men of Galilee, mostly …

Sins of Omission

Jeremiah 11:8

… Yet, I doubt not, ignorance in many, many cases—willing, witting ignorance—does cause many sins of omission. Sins of omission, again, are very plentiful because men excuse …

Spiritual Transformations

Isaiah 4:13

… No doubt many a shaft has missed the mark because it has not been shot from the bow of a consistent preacher, or because it has been turned …

The Wounds of Jesus

Luke 24:40

… But these nail-prints, this pierced side, these were marks which they could not dispute, which unbelief itself could not doubt. And they all were convinced and confessed …

Jesus, the Example of Holy Praise

… Then, in that august period there will be a declaration, no doubt, of God in noonday light, for it shall be said, "The tabernacle of God is with …

Why Christ Is Not Esteemed

Isaiah 53:3

… Peter answered and said unto Him, Though all men shall be made to stumble because of You, yet will I never be made to stumble.No doubt Peter …

Psalm 126

Psalm 126

… Because the Lord has written doubtless, take heed that you do not doubt. No reason for doubt can remain after the Lord has spoken. You will return to …