Doubt & Assurance

The Word a Sword

Hebrews 4:12

… It not only casts down the strongholds of doubt but it cuts off the head of Giant Despair. No cell or cellar in Doubting Castle can hold a …

Our Lord's Trial before the Sanhedrin

Mark 14:64

… I do not doubt that the Christian religion might be received in many places if it were shorn of its Strength—if, in fact, its very soul and …

A Warning to Believers

Colossians 2:18

… Do not be tempted by anything that is said to doubt the completeness of a believer in Christ. Hold this, and as you hold it, enjoy it! Do …

Simple But Sound

John 9:25

… Gospel in my own case." Lifted up from sin, delivered from bondage, from doubt, from fear, from despair, from an intolerable agony —lifted up to unspeakable joys and …

Christians Kept From Sin

1 Samuel 25:32

… When backsliders are restored, we cannot help standing in some doubt concerning them—and let them afterwards live as carefully as they may, it will be very difficult …

Our Stronghold

Proverbs 18:10

… We ought never to doubt our God. Let the heathen doubt his god, for well he may, but our God made the heavens. What a happy people we …

The Servants and the Pounds

Luke 19:12

… This story of what had been done 30 years before would, no doubt, rise up in the recollection of the people when Jesus spoke, for Archelaus had built …

Renewing Strength

Isaiah 40:31

… The most devout may grow lukewarm, the strongest Believer may doubt, the most sanctified may backslide! It is a heavenly strength, but so far as it is transfused …

The Northern Iron and the Steel

Jeremiah 15:12

… It is a proverbial expression, no doubt, and applicable to many other matters besides that of the prophet and the Jews; it is clearly meant to show, that …

The First Note of My Song

Psalm 103:3

… I say again, nobody ever sings over an uncertain pardon! A doubt as to our forgiveness is fatal to all joy, for it lets in the dread fear …

A Word for the Persecuted

1 Samuel 20:10

… they are? Your valiant soldier in quiet barracks at home could fight, no doubt, but how do you know till he has passed through a campaign? He who …

A Special Benediction

… Paul wrote as if he had been branded with Christ's mark and I doubt not that Jude might have done the same. "From henceforth," says Paul, "let …

Paul—His Cloak And His Books

2 Timothy 4:13

… There is no doubt whatever that the other parts of his garments were getting very dilapidated—that he was, indeed, in a state of rags. And so he …

Special Protracted Prayer

Luke 6:12

… I do not doubt but that very spiritual minds can pray for a great length of time without the motion of the lips, but I think the most …

Fathers In Christ

1 John 2:13

… Perhaps the doctrine is new, though even this we doubt! But if it is new, it is not true, for the Truth of God must necessarily be as …

For Whom Is The Gospel Meant?

Mark 2:17

… No doubt they looked at it and rubbed it in their hands and smelled it. And how glad they were when Moses said, "This is the bread which …

The Principal Wheat

… To be like Paul there is no need to have weak eyes; to be like Thomas there is no necessity to doubt. If you copy any good man …

Bankrupt Debtors Discharged

Luke 7:42

… If they could have disputed the creditor's claim, no doubt they would have done so. If they could have pleaded that they were never indebted, or that …

Loving the Law of the Lord

Psalm 119:97-100

… That was not David's plan—he could say, "O how I love Your Law! It is my meditation all the day." And no doubt he meant every …

The Lord's Chosen Ministers

Luke 10:21

… The casting out of devils was included, no doubt, but it was not specifically mentioned, and this being an extra beyond the words of their commission, they were …

Means for Restoring the Banished

2Samuel 14:14

… The modes of expression of some men are, I doubt not, fashioned by the Lord with a view to certain characters which by no other means could be …

The Known and the Unknown

Ecclesiastes 6:12

… I do not doubt that there are some men who could never have sinned as they have done if they had not been successful in acquiring wealth. They …

'The Ministry of Reconciliation'

2 Corinthians 5:18

… Well, you may doubt me if you like, but you must not doubt my God, or doubt the bleeding Lamb! And He has said, "Him that comes to …

Shining Christians

Isaiah 60:1

… I know that there are some who I cannot doubt are good people, but who are a very surly sort of folk. Dear Hearts, they will be all …

The Love of Our Espousals

Jeremiah 2:2

… But I stand in doubt when I hear you say, "It shall never be so with me. If I forget my Lord and love Him less than I …

God, the Children's Teacher

Psalm 71:17

… He says in the text, "O God, You have taught me from my youth." I have no doubt that David had other teachers, but all the teachers he …

The Last Sermon for the Year

Luke 16:2

… I have no doubt that he was a saved man, but God made him a steward over his own family as well as a Prophet to Israel, and …

Peter's Fall and Restoration

Luke 22:61

… Now let us read Mark's account, which will especially interest you if you remember that, probably, Mark wrote under the direction of Peter and, no doubt, received …

A Voice From Heaven

Revelation 14:12

… No doubt they fulfill service in Heaven. It would be an unhappy Heaven in which there should be nothing for our activities to spend themselves upon. But such …

Confession Of Sin Illustrated by the Cases of Dr. Pritchard and Constance Kent

Psalm 32:5

… I cannot but hope and pray that we may gather some few lessons of warning from crimes which have no doubt exercised a great influence for evil upon …

Enoch

Genesis 5:21-24

… Then, as we read that Enoch walked with God, we have no doubt it signifies that he had very familiar communion with the Most High. I scarcely know …

The Meat and Drink of the New Nature

John 6:55

… Brothers and Sisters, we have no doubt as to the true and proper Deity of our Lord Jesus. We have long since passed out of the region of …

Strong Meat

Hebrews 5:14

… Beyond a doubt, the historical parts of Scriptures are intended to be instructive allegories, setting forth heavenly mysteries. See how the Apostle Paul used several of them. There …

Faith in Christ

Acts 16:31

… I have no doubt that there may remain a remnant to whom this will be news but, in this city, after the great stir that was made, I …

Why They Leave Us

John 17:24

… The translators of the Revised Version were, no doubt, excellent Greek scholars, and if they had known a little more English, they might have come a little nearer …

Early Criticisms and Slanders

… I do not here refer to his personal destiny at all, — though no doubt many would have been glad to have seen me commit myself, by rushing in …

The Conversion of Saul of Tarsus

Acts 26:14

… If anyone had told the apostle Paul when he was going to Damascus, that he would one day become a preacher of Christianity, he would no doubt, have …

The Prodigal's Climax

Luke 15:17

… No doubt he was glad that the other sheep were not lost, but that joy was, for a while, quite eclipsed in the more striking and vivid joy …

Grace Exalted—Boasting Excluded

Romans 3:27

… The man who doubts that precious Truth of God has quite as much reason to doubt the Trinity, to doubt the divinity of Christ, or the fact of …

Comforted and Comforting

2 Corinthians 1:3

… A little child who loves his father has no doubt about his father's comforting him next year as well as this. And you must have no doubt …