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Doubt & Assurance
Doubt, assurance, unbelief, and confidence in Christ
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An Anxious Enquiry for a Beloved Son
2 Samuel 18:29
… David was no doubt, in this case, weak in his excessive tenderness. But, brethren, it is much more easy for us to blame a father under such circumstances …
SERMON • SERMON 1477Jesus Admired In Them That Believe
2 Thessalonians 1:10
… You will be there, you poor feeble folk who, when you say, "Lord, I believe," are obliged to add, "help You my unbelief." He shall be admired in …
SERMON • SERMON 2132Christ Put On
Romans 13:14
… Mine not to argue, or doubt, or criticize—the Christ has said it and I, putting Him on, find in His authority the end of all strife. What …
SERMON • SERMON 1094Always and for All Things
Ephesians 5:20
… A soul condemned for its unbelief is not a soul that can be accepted for its gratitude—it cannot be condemned for one thing and accepted for another …
SERMON • SERMON 1241Honest Dealing with God
1 John 1:8-10
… this is casting the blame of your unbelief upon God and disowning it yourself. According to your ideas you are a poor innocent whom God delays to bless …
SERMON • SERMON 2568Sabbath-work
John 5:9
… No doubt it was a trouble for her to walk and she was a very pitiable object—yet she loved the place. I believe she was a gracious …
SERMON • SERMON 480A Message from God for Thee
Lamentations 4:22
… I hear your last shriek of awful anguish; there is not a single note of unbelief in it now; as you go down and the gurgling waters cover …
SERMON • SERMON 2354Scarlet Sinners Pardoned and Purified
Isaiah 1:18
… It is no doubt so, but what I have to say to you is that if you have sprung from an ancestry of drunks, if right straight up …
SERMON • SERMON 2402Under Arrest
Galatians 3:23
… We had a great many shortcomings and failures, no doubt, but in some mysterious way we fancied that all would get rectified and we would be all right …
SERMON • SERMON 1815The Great Birthday and Our Coming of Age
Galatians 4:3-6
… God alone knows the times and seasons for a Church and, no doubt to Him, the 4,000 years of the old dispensation made up a fit period …
SERMON • SERMON 1000Number One Thousand; Or, “Bread Enough and To Spare”
Luke 15:17
… And does such a one come to redeem? Is there room to doubt as to his ability, if that be the fact? I do confess this day, that …
SERMON • SERMON 1103The Conditions Of Power In Prayer
1 John 3:22-24
… gratification of his own unbelief and a dishonor to his parent! For instance, suppose this child should take it into his head to doubt whether his father would …
SERMON • SERMON 2645'The Time of Jacob's Trouble'
Jeremiah 30:7
… No doubt he did, but the Bible does not say so—it says, "There wrestled a Man with him." There was a great deal in Jacob that needed …
SERMON • SERMON 1970Loving Persuasion
Acts 28:23
… I have no doubt that he had spread out on the table before him the Books of Moses and the various rolls of the Prophets. To these he …
SERMON • SERMON 2282David's Prayer in the Cave
… Yet with all the sensitiveness of his nature, he did not fall into unbelief, for his sensitiveness was balanced by his confidence in his God. You will see …
SERMON • SERMON 1811The Road to Honor
1 Samuel 2:30
… that the man who did not believe every word of it would, "without doubt, perish everlastingly," yet I should feel great trembling for myself if I could not …
SERMON • SERMON 453Compassion For The Multitude
Matthew 14:17
… More was left than there had been at the first! No doubt that was done to disarm doubt and to defeat skepticism. In after days, some of those …
SERMON • SERMON 1008Love's Logic
1 John 4:19
… Brethren beloved, if you know that God has loved you, then you will feel grateful; every doubt will diminish your gratitude, but every grain of faith will increase …
SERMON • SERMON 2533The Ever-present Crisis
2 Peter 3:17
… an iron grip, hold what you hold in these evil times of doubt and unbelief. To my mind, it is a pleasant thing, nowadays, to meet with a …
SERMON • SERMON 2622Watching to See
Habakkuk 2:1-4
… He wants a cover on his unbelief for that is something he has good need to cover! There is something about his daily walk that does not agree …
SERMON • SERMON 943The Spur
John 9:4
… Only presumptuous unbelief ever dares suppose the Lord to be perplexed. It will be much better for us to do the work of Him that sent us than …
SERMON • SERMON 795Joshua's Vision
Joshua 6:10-27
… smite our sins, to cut to the heart His adversaries, to slay their unbelief, to lay their iniquities dead before Him! The sword is drawn, not in the …
SERMON • SERMON 959Right Replies To Right Requests
Luke 11:11-13
… But since we are such sinful creatures, the chapter proceeds to deal with a grave doubt which may arise in the troubled mind. "It may be God will …
SERMON • SERMON 2483The Objective of Christ's Death
Galatians 1:4
… And I have no doubt that there are some left who cannot bear to hear of the will and the purpose of God! But to us these words …
SERMON • SERMON 2641God's Heart the Source of All Blessing
2 Samuel 7:21
… So, when you are praying, if unbelief would stop you, and say, "Do not ask for this or that, for it is too much for you to have …
SERMON • SERMON 2922An Infallible Sign Of Revival
Isaiah 2:11
… swathed in mist and fog, shall come out of the cloud of her unbelief and out of the darkness of her sin, and shine like her sister stars …
SERMON • SERMON 1500Number 1500, Or Lifting Up the Bronze Serpent
Numbers 21:9
… We ought to have no doubt about this! But most of those who profess to doubt it are those who fear that it will be their own portion …
SERMON • SERMON 940The Winnowing Fan
Hebrews 12:14
… voice is hoarse, and bass notes preponderate, and you see traces of doubt and unbelief which never appeared before. Beware of his sin lest you fall into his …
SERMON • SERMON 2336The Love Of Jonathan and the Love Of Jesus
2 Samuel 1:26
… In fact, I do not doubt that Jonathan thought David's life much more valuable than his own and that he was quite willing to expose himself to …
SERMON • SERMON 564A Promise For Us And For Our Children
Isaiah 44:1-5
… There can be no doubt that we have here a promise made to God's ancient people, the Jews. Whatever their sins may have been, God has not …
SERMON • SERMON 1437Others To Be Gathered In
Isaiah 56:8
… Our Lord Jesus has redeemed so great a multitude from among men and His precious blood is of such an infinite value that we know beyond all doubt …
SERMON • SERMON 2556Life Proved by Love
1 John 3:14
… No doubt they are just as safe as others, but they lack a good deal of comfort afterwards and, sometimes, persons who are very readily converted and who …
SERMON • SERMON 441The Elders Before The Throne
Revelation 4:4
… THE universe of God is one—Heaven and earth are not so separate as unbelief has dreamed. As the Lord has but one family, written in one register …
SERMON • SERMON 671The Reward Of The Righteous
Matthew 25:31-36
… Come!" You came near enough to say, "Lord, we believe, help You our unbelief!" You looked to Him on the Cross and were lightened. You had fellowship with …
SERMON • SERMON 1064Salvation All of Grace
Ephesians 2:8
… You bid me repent, but see how hard my heart is! You command me to believe in Jesus, but my unbelief is very strong! You tell me to …
SERMON • SERMON 1360The Good Samaritan
Luke 10:25-37
… Moreover, the Jews were great haters of the Samaritans and, no doubt, this Samaritan might have thought, "If I were in that man's case, he would not …
SERMON • SERMON 1292The Soul-Winner
Proverbs 11:30
… I told her she was not a Believer in Christ and had been, no doubt, a hypocrite for many years. She could not stand that and asserted, in …
SERMON • SERMON 961The Saint One With His Savior
1 Corinthians 6:17
… It will not help you to be holier to doubt your union to your Lord. Men never grow in Grace by departing from the Savior by unbelief. The …
SERMON • SERMON 2623How Faith Comes
John 4:39-42
… We have left the darkness, the doubt and the difficulty. And 'now we believe.'" Are there any of you, dear Friends, who have been amusing yourselves for years …
SERMON • SERMON 2413Despised Light Withdrawn
John 12:36
… Himself, bids you to do so! Very often, at the bottom of our unbelief, there lies this thought, "I am, after all, somebody of importance." It is the …