Full Assurance
Full Assurance
Full Assurance from the work of H A Ironside CHARACTER COUNT Lesson 1: Striving For Assurance 3,266Lesson 2: An Example of God’s Work 3,329Lesson 3: Help for the Needy Soul 2,887Lesson 4: Assurance Forever …
Lesson 1: Striving For Assurance
Lesson 1: Striving For AssuranceIn penning this study, I have had but one outstanding object before me: to make as plain as I possibly can just how any troubled soul may find settled peace with God. I am thinking particularly of those people who bel…
Lesson 2: An Example of God’s Work
Lesson 2: An Example of God’s WorkFor much of my life this writer was a preacher of the gospel, travelling often as much as thirty to forty thousand miles a year to proclaim the boundless riches of Christ. In all these years I only recall two times…
Lesson 3: Help for the Needy Soul
Lesson 3: Help for the Needy SoulWho will read the words of this study I cannot tell, but I send it out with the prayer that it may prove a timely message to many a needy soul.If you are just as troubled as that young man in the last lesson, and sho…
Lesson 4: Assurance Forever
Lesson 4: Assurance ForeverThere is a very remarkable statement found in the book of Isaiah 32:17: "The effect of righteousness will be peace; and the result of righteousness quietness and assurance forever."Assurance forever! Is it not a wonderfull…
Lesson 5: A Saving Righteousness
Lesson 5: A Saving RighteousnessIt was God’s righteousness that stirred the soul of Luther, and brought new light and help after long, weary months of groping in the darkness, trying in vain to save himself in conformity to the demands of blind lead…
Lesson 6: The Old Account Settled
Lesson 6: The Old Account Settled"He was pierced for our transgressions." Make it personal! Put yourself and your own sins in there. Read it as though it said, "He was pierce for my transgressions." Do not get lost in the crowd. If there had never…
Lesson 7: Christ's Resurrection Gives Assurance
Lesson 7: Christ's Resurrection Gives Assurance Because of Jesus’ payment, God now says to every believing soul, "I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed you" (Isa:…
Lesson 8: Much Assurance
Lesson 8: Much AssuranceWhen I see that "He has made us accepted in the beloved," every doubt is banished, my soul is at peace. I have quietness and assurance forever. I know now that only "That which can shake the Cross, can shake the peace it gave…
Lesson 9: Living Grace
Lesson 9: Living GraceThe same missionary message which Paul preached has ever proven to be the dynamic of God unto salvation to all who believe. Paul's hearers were convicted of their sin. They realized something of the corruption of their lives.…
Lesson 10: The Character of the Gospel
Lesson 10: The Character of the GospelThe Thessalonian believers did not have to wait until facing death in order to enter into the positive knowledge of sins forgiven. Their election of God was a reality to themselves and to others, who saw what gr…
Lesson 11: A Dreadful Night in Egypt
Lesson 11: A Dreadful Night in EgyptWhen Israelites of old were about to leave Egypt, and the last awful plague was to fall on that land and its people, God Himself provided a way of escape for His own. They were to slay a lamb, sprinkle its blood…
Lesson 12: Not Saved by Good Works
Lesson 12: Not Saved by Good WorksPerhaps someone may ask, "But does it make no difference to God what I am myself? May I live on in my sins and still be saved?" No, assuredly not! But this brings in another line of truth. The moment one believes th…
Lesson 13: Born of God
Lesson 13: Born of GodThe new birth is by the Word - the message of the gospel - and the power of the Holy Spirit. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." These were our Lord's words to Nicodemus.…
Lesson 14: Full Assurance of Faith
Lesson 14: Full Assurance of Faith In the tenth chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, verses 19 to 22, are found the words which we will consider together as the theme of this present lesson. Read the entire passage very thoughtfully: “Therefore,…
Lesson 15: Living By Faith in Jesus Christ
Lesson 15: Living By Faith in Jesus Christ“Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we ha…
Lesson 16: Consider the Troubled Israelite
Lesson 16: Consider the Troubled IsraeliteLet us imagine that we stand near the altar in the temple court, as a troubled Israelite comes with his sacrifice. He leads a goat along to the place of the oblation. The priest examines it carefully, and fi…
Lesson 17: The Old Gentleman Had No Peace
Lesson 17: The Old Gentleman Had No PeaceMany years ago I was out driving (horses) with a kindly old gentleman who was attending the services nightly, but who was far from being sure of his personal salvation. As we drove along I put the definite qu…
Lesson 18: Full Assurance of Understanding
Lesson 18: Full Assurance of UnderstandingPlease do not misunderstand me. I do not discount the emotional element in conversion of the previous lesson, but I insist it will not do to rely upon it as an evidence that one has been forgiven. When…
Lesson 19: The Newborn Man
Lesson 19: The Newborn ManAs soon as one knows he is saved, he should begin, in dependence upon the Holy Spirit, a careful, regular, systematic study of the Word of God. The Bible is our Father's letter to us, His redeemed children. We should value…
Lesson 20: Discouraged Christians
Lesson 20: Discouraged ChristiansMany uninstructed believers become discouraged because of their own failures and Satan takes advantage of these to inject into their minds doubts as to whether they are not deceiving themselves after all in supposing…
Lesson 21: Another Man Shouts "Glory"
Lesson 21: Another Man Shouts "Glory"I am still in the body, but I belong to the new creation of which the risen Christ is the Head. It is only the failure to recognize and act upon this that will keep me from a life of victory.Paul was eager for th…
Lesson 22: Go On! Go On! Go On!
Lesson 22: Go On! Go On! Go On! The practical outcome of it is seen in the verses that follow (Colossians 3:5-17), where we are exhorted to mortify (that is, to put in the place of death, practically) our members which are upon the earth, judging ev…
Lesson 23: Full Assurance of Hope
Lesson 23: Full Assurance of HopeONE of the literati of this world has told us that “hope springs eternal in the human breast.” Regarding some phases of life this may be true, but concerning the eternal future the Word of God tells us that in our un…
Lesson 24: Praying for Patience
Lesson 24: Praying for PatienceThe story has often been told of the younger Christian who sought the counsel and help of an older brother, a minister of Christ. “Pray for me,” he asked, “that I may be given more patience.” Down on their knees they…
Lesson 25: The Young Man Convinced
Lesson 25: The Young Man ConvincedThe late Robert T. Grant once said that while travelling, he was sitting in the train reading his Bible, and he noticed the people around; many with nothing to do. He opened up his bag and got out some gospel tracts…
Lesson 26: The Unhappy Backslider
Lesson 26: The Unhappy Backslider Peter speaks of some who through waywardness have gotten so far out of fellowship with God that they have forgotten that they were purged from their old sins. This is a sad state to be in. It is what is commonly cal…
Lesson 27: The Great School of Grace
Lesson 27: The Great School of Grace Hope will be the mainspring of our loyalty to Him whom we long to see. We are exhorted to be “like servants who wait for their Lord” and are occupied for Him, that whether He come at morn, at noon, or at night,…