Doubt & Assurance

The Faithfulness of Jesus

John 13:1

… His love was stronger than their unbelief and ignorance. My brethren, when we love a person, we expect to have some little sympathy from him in the great …

Fullness of Joy Our Privilege

1 John 1:4

… I do not doubt but you have very suggestive proofs of this, yourselves, in your external circumstances. You cannot always rejoice because, although your treasure is not in …

The Planter of the Ear Must Hear

Psalm 94:9

… Because of their own conceit, they question His wisdom, cavil at His Word, doubt His justice, impugn the sentences of His bar and speak evil of Him even …

Dec. 28 — ABSOLUTE ASSURANCE

Heb. 13:5

… He has often repeated it, to make our assurance doubly sure. Let us never harbor a doubt of it. In itself the promise is specially emphatic. In the …

Over the Mountains

Song 2:16

… No, she had not lost her assurance of His love to herand of their mutual interest in one another, for she says, "My Beloved is mine, and I …

Nov. 9 — NECESSARY KNOWLEDGE

Ezek. 34:30

… Faith saves us, but assurance satisfies us. We take God to be our God when we believe in Him; but we get the joy of Him when we …

Sweet Stimulants for the Fainting Soul

Psalm 42:6

… Why, it is possible for you to have real faith and yet to have the most grievous unbelief! "Oh," you say, "how can faith and unbelief live together …

The Filling of Empty Vessels

2 Kings 4:3

… Therefore, I say to you whose turn seems to come last—be strong to wait and do not dishonor the Lord by unbelief. Waiting in faith is a …

Tokens For Good

Psalm 86:17

… Never forget that it was a token asked in faith and not in unbelief, for there is a great distinction here. Dear Brothers and Sisters, we have no …

The Yoke Removed and the Lord Revealed

Ezekiel 34:27

… whenever He brings us to full assurance! But there are certain of God's people who are so very prone to unbelief that on the very slightest turn …

A Blessed Wonder

Matthew 8:10

… In the case which we spoke of this morning, He marvelled at the unbelief of His fellow townsmen. In the narrative before us, He marvelled at the faith …

Pleading and Encouragement

Ezekiel 18:23

… We know that this speech of his is authentic; it comes to us by an inspired prophet, concerning whose call by God we entertain no doubt whatever. Let …

'As' and 'So'

Colossians 2:6

… Not exactly so, for there should be no unbelief in it. As for myself, I must confess that I never realize Christ's preciousness so much as when …

The Beginning, Increase, and End of the Divine Life

Job 8:7

… They reasoned no doubt in their own esteem logically enough; but the Spirit of God was not with hem in their speech, therefore with regard to any sentiment …

Satan's Arrows and God's

Lamentations 3:12

… God's Spirit, but are the result of the uprising of their own unbelief stirred and agitated by the diabolic suggestions of Satan. He knows that it is …

The Sojourn in Mesech

Psalm 120:5

… And they went and told it unto the rest, but they did not believe them either Unbelief is not easily driven out of even true disciples, but let …

One More Cast of the Great Net

Joel 2:32

… I fear that, on the contrary, it is little other than an incidental form of a flippant unbelief which treats all doctrines of God's Word as antiquated …

A Welcome for Jesus

Luke 8:40

… I hope I do. 'Lord, I believe; help You mine unbelief!'" Still more fervently he cries, "Lord, give me rest! Lord, come and take away the burden of …

The True Position of the Witness Within

1 John 5:10

… If anybody had said to the prodigal son—"I doubt whether you have a father. I doubt your father's love. I doubt whether he has any house …

Idolatry Condemned

1 John 5:21

… Then we climb up to the full assurance of faith. From full assurance we mount still higher to the clear conviction that God hears prayer—and from that …

The Fruit of the Spirit—Joy

Galatians 5:22

… They are afraid of Assurance, for they dread presumption! They dare not speak of their own salvation with the certainty with which the Bible saints were known to …

Fresh Grace Confidently Expected

Psalm 92:10

… He will make you feel that the anointing of the Head is still descending upon you and you shall thus rejoice again and again in full assurance that …

The Last Census

Psalm 87:6

… not be satisfied even with the assurance of an Apostle, if it came from his own judgment, we must have the assurance of the Holy Spirit, the Witness …

Ingratitude of Man

John 1:11

… And though He continued to come unto them preaching and working such miracles among them as no other man did, so that their unbelief was without excuse, they …

Possessing Possessions

… Why this fickleness? Some do not stay long enough in the garden of Assurance to see a single fruit ripen—they do not possess their possessions. It is …

Experience and Assurance

Psalm 63:7

… God help us to climb these three rounds of the ladder of light—experience, expectation, full assurance! If we stop at the top when we get there it …

Sin Subdued

Micah 7:19

… But by whom shall iniquity be subdued? How satisfactory the assurance of our text, "He will subdue our iniquities"! We find that our inward enemies are assisted by …

Crossing the Jordan

Joshua 1:10

… No doubt or fear shall venture near. We read, "All the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan." Not an …

Scriptural Salvation

Romans 10:11

… The Apostle does not say, "Whoever believes on Him with full assurance, or with a high degree of confidence shall not be ashamed." No, it is not the …

Cured At Last!

Luke 8:43

… This created, no doubt, great loneliness of spirit, and made her wish to hide herself out of sight. In the narrative before us she said not a word …

A Psalmist's Question and Answer

Psalm 130:3

… dying upon it ought to give us such an assurance of God's forgiveness that we might never doubt it! There is forgiveness with God! Each wound of …

The Big Gates Wide Open

John 6:37

… If you believe in Jesus Christ, you are one of the elect! Beyond all doubt, if you come to Him, He cannot shut you out because of some …

To Those Who Are Angry With Their Godly Friends

Genesis 4:6

… I entreat you to see what that sin is! Is it unbelief? In most cases unbelief is the damning sin. You will not believe God's Word. You …

Joy in Harvest

Isaiah 9:3

… Why do we doubt Him? If we never doubt Him till we have cause for it, we shall never know distrust again! Encouraged by the return of harvest …

Good Cheer for the Needy

Psalm 9:18

… help my unbelief." My witness is that some of the best children in the whole family of God never have the enjoyment of full assurance, but they are …

New Tokens of Ancient Love

Jeremiah 31:3

… We sing over and over again— "Did Jesus once upon me shine? Then Jesus is forever mine!" And we delight to repeat that confident assurance of Toplady, whose …

Strength And Recovery

Zechariah 10:12

… It relates to the Jews, no doubt, and in them will have a form of fulfillment. In the first utterance of it, it relates to that nation, but …

The Hunger-Bite

Job 18:12

… And he intended, no doubt, to insinuate that Job was just such a person—that he had been a deceiver and that, therefore, God's Providence had at …

Hope, Yet No Hope—No Hope, Yet Hope

Isaiah 57:10

… Yet, dear Friends, albeit that I know only Divine Grace can turn you from the delusive path of vain ceremonies, I would like to suggest a doubt or …

Alive or Dead—Which?

1 John 5:12

… They no doubt understand the reason of it, that the mind is so perverted and corrupt that manhood is nothing better than a reeking sepulcher. Unbelief of the …