Doubt & Assurance

The Christian's Great Business

Psalm 51:12-13

… of your holy war with any force while your arm is trembling with doubt. You must know in yourself that you are forgiven and that you have proved …

The Saint'S Horror At The Sinner'S Hell

… A state of doubt and terror and suspense—a place from which consolation is banished, where the "wrath to come" perpetually afflicts them. There in captivity abide the …

The Love of God and the Patience of Christ

2 Thessalonians 3:5

… But oh, His patience with each one of us! How He has put up with our unbelief, our mistrust, our hard hearts, our indifference, our strange ways! Never …

'Ready, Yes, Ready!'

Isaiah 27:13

… I have read or heard many ingenious arguments for unbelief and I have often wished that half the ingenuity thus vainly spent could be exercised in discovering reasons …

All Things Are Ready, Come

Luke 14:17

… Nevertheless come to the supper and say, "Lord, I believe; help You my unbelief." Others were blind people and when they were told to come they could not …

Joy, Joy Forever

Psalm 5:11

… They must not so pity themselves as to make an excuse for their unbelief—but we must remember that often the spirit truly is willing, but the flesh …

The Lad's Loaves in the Lord's Hands

John 6:11

… Never despair about Providence! There sits, tonight, somewhere in a chimney corner in the country, a man that will turn the current of unbelief and win back the …

Carte Blanche

Matthew 15:28

… If you can fully believe in Him and not dare to doubt Him, you shall have your children put at your disposal. He will deal graciously with them …

Order Is Heaven's First Law

Joel 2:8

… wrath that will come upon the impenitent, they shudder with inward unbelief and try to doubt it—and, perhaps, manage to find texts of Scripture which look as …

'And It Was So'

Genesis 1:7

… It is a very hard thing that we should doubt our God, but we do. And therefore let us shoot arrows at unbelief. Note well that when God …

Truth Stranger Than Fiction

Joel 2:25

… Very precious children of God may fall into the Slough of Doubt. Diamonds may be hidden away in dark mines. Some of God's rarest pearls lie deep …

The Saint and the Spirit

John 14:17

… But you will never doubt the existence of the Holy Spirit after such an experience of His power as a consuming fire and a rushing mighty wind! When …

Sovereignty and Salvation

Isaiah 45:22

… is only one way of salvation for all. “He hath concluded all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.” He hath passed a sentence of condemnation …

The King's Sharp Arrows

Psalm 45:5

… If they were not wicked, they would not doubt, but because they will not be holy, they will not believe. To answer many of their questions would be …

A Life-Long Occupation

Hebrews 13:15

… His name. Doubt snaps the harp-strings. Question mars all melody. Trust Him, lean on Him, enjoy Him—you will never praise Him otherwise. Unbelief is the deadly …

Christ in Bonds

John 18:24

… No doubt these people will be wanting to join the church. We shall have to summer them and winter them—and try them a good deal—we do …

Infallibility—Where To Find It and How To Use It

Matthew 4:4

… One of his greatest works of mischief is to make men doubt. "If"—with what a sneer he whispers this in the ear of the newly-converted. "If …

'The Star Out of Jacob'

Numbers 24:17

… He my Rising Sun." One glimpse of Christ and the midnight of your unbelief is over. But a sight of the five wounds and your sins are covered …

Is Conversion Necessary?

2 Corinthians 5:17

… The bishop does not doubt for a moment that my own conversion was correctly described by me—and that like cases have occurred at other times—but he …

A Look and Its Lessons

Isaiah 51:1

… capable of committing any crime that other men have committed! Some of you doubt that assertion and feel inclined to say what Hazael said to Elisha when the …

Pilate and Ourselves Guilty of the Savior's Death

Matthew 27:24

… You quietly say, "No doubt it is a pity, but I cannot help it." Just so. But by your inaction you side with His foes! Do you say …

Visits From the Lord

John 21:7

… but Him they saw Him not They made out a very clear case against their own unbelief here. They had the evidence of the women, and they had …

Christ the End of the Law

Romans 10:4

… While you chasten yourselves and mourn your sin, do not doubt your Saviour, nor question his righteousness. You are black, but do not stop there, go on to …

Hosanna!

Matthew 2:19

… into the midst of His Church, again, and end these black days of doubt, we must and will shout, or else the very stones will cry out! Yes …

Paved With Love

Solomon 3:10

… to this day? Have not even your trials been sent in love? Blind Unbelief called it severity. Look, now, as Jesus sits at your side and say, was …

The Everlasting Counselor

Micah 4:9

… to those who are so incredulous, or rather, so credulous in their unbelief, as to doubt it! There are such things, Beloved. They may not often happen in …

The Bitterness of the Cross

Zechaariah 12:10

… I never had a doubt about that and yet I did not believe in Him. I acknowledged Him to be the Son of God. From my childhood I …

Declaring the Works of the Lord

Psalm 118:17

… you, then so much the greater will be their sin in remaining in unbelief after they have had the honest and hearty witness of a true man whose …

Laying the Hand on the Sacrifice

Leviticus 4:29

… It will be a matter for sighing and groaning if unbelief is the only answer to our earnest declarations concerning Christ. 2. For He—That is, Jesus— 2 …

The Sphere Of Instrumentality

John 11:39

… Had there been neither loaf nor fish I do not doubt He would have commenced with an act of creation, but as it was, since there were a …

Christ's Sympathy With His People

Hebrews 2:18

… enter the land of perfect peace and rest, still find the temptation to unbelief too much for them and they begin to look for something good in the …

The Pity of the Lord—the Comfort of the Afflicted

James 5:11

… We do not deem those to be happy who sport their lives away and end a wasted life of luxury by a dreadful death in unbelief. We do …

Rejoicing and Remembering

Solomon 1:4

… But oh, what His love to me since then has been! His love in sickness, in sorrow, in labor, in backsliding, in prayer, in tears, in unbelief, in …

The Church As She Should Be

Solomon 6:4

… Ritualism, with its superstition, its priestcraft, its sacramental efficacy, its hatred of the doctrines of grace; and on the other side Rationalism, with its sneering unbelief and absurd …

Hindrances to Prayer

1 Peter 3:7

… There can be no doubt, also, that prayer is hindered by having too little to do. If you want a thing well done, you must go to the …

Sovereign Grace and Man’s Responsibility

Romans 10:20-21

… They will tell you that if they are abundant in faith yet there are times when they are superabundant in unbelief; that if sometimes they are full of …

The Christian's Helmet

1 Thessalonians 5:8

… The helmet of salvation, then, will preserve the head in times of skepticism! The head, again, is very greatly in danger from the attacks of personal unbelief. Who …

A Cheering Incident at Bethabara

John 10:39-42

… If you cannot destroy the reasoning, you may, perhaps, destroy the reasoner—and this naturally suggests itself to the heart which is rendered cruel by obstinate unbelief—he …

Pleading, Not Contradicting

Matthew 15:27

… And, no doubt, many a father, broken in spirit by the likelihood of losing a darling child, has turned his face towards the Lord Jesus in his distress …

Trembling at the Word of the Lord

Isaiah 66:2

… I turn away from the multitude of books which advocate doubt and error. The evil is too painful for me. If I could be content to be an …