I Can't Repent!

I'll Be Honest

I Can't Repent!

Ichabod Spencer | 18:33 | A Pastor's Sketches

Ichabod Spencer

"Do you think I am self-righteous?" said he."I know you are. That is your grand difficulty. You have been trying to save yourself. You are trying now. When you tried to repent, your heart aimed after repentance, as something to recommend you to God, and constitute a reason why he should forgive and save you. It was just an operation of a self-righteous spirit. It was just an attempt to save yourself, to have your religion save you, instead of relying by faith upon Jesus Christ, to be saved from wrath through him." - Ichabod Spencer

Mary Ann's Last Hour—Afraid To Believe She Was A Believer

June 8, 2024 • Ichabod Spencer

"The very point of her anguish consisted in this,—namely, that she believed Christ to be a full and free Savior, and yet could find no evidence in her heart that she trusted in Him. The promises were precious things in her heart’s estimation, but they seemed to her to be precious things which she did not embrace. She distrusted herself, but not God. She was afraid to believe that she was a believer. She was so tremblingly afraid of getting wrong, that she dared not think she could possibly be right." "She was in darkness, not because she had no faith, but because she did not believe she had any. She had a title to heaven, without having eyes to read it."

I Can't Feel

Ichabod Spencer

The Bible never tells you that you must feel but that you must repent and believe. Your complaint that you 'can't feel,' is just an excuse, by which your wicked heart would justify you for not coming to Christ now.

How Believers Handle Despair Differently from Unbelievers

May 24, 2024 • Ichabod Spencer

There is a difference between the despondency of a believer, and the despondency of an unbeliever. A desponding believer still has faith. It only needs to be brought into lively exercise, and his despondency will melt away. He becomes desponding, because he has lost sight of the objects of faith, and has fixed his thoughts upon himself and his sins. Let the matters of faith be brought up before his mind, and they are realities to him,—unquestionable realities. He only needs to keep his eye upon them.