Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 4152. Few questions arrive in a pastor’s study carrying more fear than this one, and the unforgivable sin has tormented more tender consciences than almost any other phrase in the Bible. People lie awake convinced they have crossed a line from which there is no coming back. So I want to handle this with…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4187. There is no hour in which the ministry of the Spirit is more precious than the last, and to ask how He will comfort a dying believer is to ask about the place where all our theology is finally tested. I have sat at many bedsides, holding the hand of a brother or…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4186. The ministry of the Spirit in doubt is something I wish more Christians understood, because doubt frightens believers far more than it needs to. A question rises that you cannot answer. A wave of unbelief washes over you in the night. You wonder whether any of it is true, or whether you were…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 04046. When Paul calls the Spirit’s guarantee a deposit on our inheritance, he reaches for a word straight out of the ancient marketplace, and once you see what it meant, something genuinely wonderful opens up. He uses it three times. In 2 Corinthians 1:22 God has put His Spirit in our hearts as a…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 04041. Few questions unsettle a tender conscience like falling away, and few passages of Scripture stir more argument than Hebrews 6:4-6. There the writer describes people who were once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly gift, who shared in the Holy Spirit, and who tasted the goodness of the word of God, and yet fell…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 04027 The assurance of salvation is one of the sweetest gifts the Holy Spirit gives, and one of the most attacked. I have lost count of the believers who love the Lord yet lie awake wondering whether they are truly His. They are not careless people. They are tender consciences who long to know…