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Doubt, assurance, unbelief, and confidence in Christ
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A Visit From the Lord
Psalm 106:4
… Is it unbelief? He can strengthen your faith. Is it covetousness? He can deliver you from that abomination and give you a contented spirit. Is it anger? Oh …
SERMON • SERMON 355Portraits Of Christ
Romans 8:29
… songs as Heaven itself is full of music! By faith in Christ, or unbelief, your destiny may be known! Do you believe in Christ? You are predestinated to …
SERMON • SERMON 2609Our Thoughts About God's Thoughts
Psalm 139:17
… helpless and could do nothing whatever for ourselves—it ought to check our unbelief, because, if God took charge of us, then, and found means for our protection …
SERMON • SERMON 2787Christ's Triple Character
Isaiah 55:4
… And the wonder increases when you recollect that the word translated, "people," might be just as accurately rendered, "nations." No doubt the Lord's intention, here, is to …
SERMON • SERMON 992A New Order of Priests and Levites
Isaiah 66:21
… Others would say it points to the Jews, rejected for their unbelief and dispersed in judgment among all nations. When their own Messiah came, it was not with …
SERMON • SERMON 612Jesus Washing His Disciples' Feet
John 13:6
… I doubt my Father—I am guilty of a want of love to Him, or obedience to Him. I offend as I could not offend if I were …
SERMON • SERMON 1804Obadiah; or, Early Piety Eminent Piety
1 Kings 18:12
… Jezebel knew it, I have no doubt whatever. She did not like him, but she had to endure him, she looked askance at him, but she could not …
SERMON • SERMON 2313Charity and Purity
James 1:27
… hatred of Deity! Doubt of every kind is in the air—this is the day of doubt. Keep yourselves unspotted from the world's unbelief. This is the …
SERMON • SERMON 1837A Great Gospel for Great Sinners
1 Timothy 1:15-17
… but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 563The Barley Field on Fire
2 Samuel 14:29-31
… God may seem unkind to unbelief, but faith can always see love in his heart. Oh! what a mercy that Sinai has ceased to thunder! Lord, let Jesus …
SERMON • SERMON 1309The Little Dogs
Matthew 15:26
… for that which disputes is unbelief! Faith in God implies agreement with what God says and, consequently, it excludes the idea of doubt. Genuine faith believes anything and …
SERMON • SERMON 1366The Danger of Unconfessed Sin
Psalm 32:3
… I have no doubt that David prayed after a sort, but he must have presented very formal and mutilated prayers so long as he refused to acknowledge his …
SERMON • SERMON 1926Love's Complaining
Rev 2:4
… This church was not honeycombed with doubt; it laid no claim to breadth of thought and liberality of view; it was honest to its Lord. He says of …
SERMON • SERMON 2651The Christian's Service and Honor
John 12:26
… In the strength of the Lord we cry, "Nil desperandum!" We still believe that Christ is our Shield, and Christ our Sun, and doubt not that we shall …
SERMON • SERMON 1860"Behold, He Prays"
Acts 9:11
… he could say by way of apology was, "I did it ignorantly, in unbelief." Look at him there, alone in his chamber, with his eyes opened and yet …
SERMON • SERMON 1189The Turning Point
Luke 15:20
… be feared many will whose sorrow for sin leads them into a proud unbelief and wilful despair of God’s love; but he was wise, for he shook …
SERMON • SERMON 1689The General Convocation Around Mount Zion
Hebrews 12:22-24
… The Apostle, I do not doubt, had seen it. At any rate, the words which he uses properly and naturally suggest it. Think for a moment! Before us …
SERMON • SERMON 737God—All in All
Job 34:29
… And I doubt not, that when the dog is barking, he imagines that the good man who rides by is sorely troubled by the noise. And yet, if …
SERMON • SERMON 3340'Take Away the Frogs'
Exodus 8:8
… He never thought about his unbelief, Brothers and Sisters, without the deepest imaginable regret. How far is this from the spirit of those who look upon the ungodly …
SERMON • SERMON 1677A Great Mistake and the Way to Rectify It
Revelation 3:17
… is sound! They say, "No doubt it is all correct." If their conscience is touched and they are troubled, they call it unbelief—though it is quite another …
SERMON • SERMON 2399"Your First Love"
Jeremiah 2:2
… New Testament about her, does not say anything concerning her lie, or her unbelief, but He mentions the only good thing about her speech, which was that she …
SERMON • SERMON 2649Girded for the Work
1 Peter 1:13
… Laxity is the helper of unbelief and tempts to all manner of evil the souls of those who are under its malign influence. Therefore, dear Friends, do not …
SERMON • SERMON 2869Prayer Found in the Heart
2 Samuel 7:27
… The lower we are and the more we fear and tremble—not through unbelief, mark you, (that kind of fear I denounce with all my heart), but with …
SERMON • SERMON 747'Make This Valley Full of Ditches'
2 Kings 3:16-18
… But the most of people say, "Well, you know, of course, if God sends a blessing, we must then enlarge." Yes, that is the way of unbelief, and …
SERMON • SERMON 2832Christ's Yoke and Burden
Matthew 11:30
… The yoke of sin—the yoke of selfishness, the yoke of greediness, the yoke of drunkenness, the yoke of unbelief—is the heaviest yoke of all! The crux …
SERMON • SERMON 2989Near the Kingdom, or in It?
Mark 12:34
… There is still much unbelief in your soul, though there is a gleam of what looks like faith now and then. In fact, to put the matter very …
SERMON • SERMON 1060Behold The Lamb!
John 1:36
… Take heed that He is not an object of terror to you as He will be if you continue in unbelief, but turn unto Him that He may …
SERMON • SERMON 1743A Loving Entreaty
Isaiah 43:26
… stone to flesh! Lord, I have been unbelieving, yes, desperately full of doubt and unbelief. Oh, demonstrate in me the truth that faith is the gift of God …
SERMON • SERMON 1563The Duty of the Present Hour
Hosea 10:12
… the deadly nightshade of superstition, the hemlock of error, or the thistle of doubt! Is it not so with some of you who listen to me at this …
SERMON • SERMON 1585Truthfulness
Jeremiah 5:3
… Superstition follows on the heels of unbelief, for bad men are frequently among the most ardent votaries of superstition. Cast off a pure God and you need a …
SERMON • SERMON 2128Heaven Above and Heaven Below
Revelation 7:16
… This is a miracle-working Book! It may be opposed, but never conquered! It may be buried under unbelief, but it must rise again! Blessed are they to …
SERMON • SERMON 2570Jesus Sitting on the Well
John 4:6
… What was the sin that shut them out? "So then," says the Apostle, "they could not enter in because of unbelief." Christ will not always be quibbled at …
SERMON • SERMON 2269Impotence and Omnipotence
John 5:5-9
… doubts, nobody to whom we can tell the anxieties of our hearts." No doubt some of you would talk in the same fashion and I must admit that …
SERMON • SERMON 1324Unwillingness to Come to Christ
John 5:40
… cant of sinners and it is detestable! And so men will live in unbelief, but if you ask them to say decidedly, "I do not believe," or to …
SERMON • SERMON 2029Let Him Deliver Him Now
Matthew 27:43
… You say, "I trusted in God." Yes, but you had reason to cry, "Lord, help my unbelief." Brethren, we have not a tithe of the faith we think …
SERMON • SERMON 1288Truly Eating the Flesh of Jesus
John 6:53-56
… Judicially blinded as the result of unbelief, they stumbled at noonday as in the night and refused to see what was plainly set forth. The veil was on …
SERMON • SERMON 2221The First, Last—And the Last, First
Matthew 19:30
… To do a great deal of work with a great deal of unbelief is to do very little, after all, for if a prayer that is unbelieving does …
SERMON • SERMON 1700A Monument for the Dead, and a Voice to the Living
Romans 10:5-9
… I do not come to-day with a gospel veiled in mystery and shrouded in doubt; I do not bring a message which you cannot understand or receive …
SERMON • SERMON 2209The Best Strengthening Medicine
Hebrews 11:34
… Suppose that you are called to testify for the Truth of God in the midst of those who doubt, disbelieve, or even deride it? You look to those …
SERMON • SERMON 2893An Instructive Truth
Jeremiah 10:23
… No doubt the highest desire I ever cherished has been granted to me, but my first plans and purposes were not realized. I am not, today, where I …