Fanaticism Is Not Faith

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Fanaticism Is Not Faith

Ichabod Spencer | 3:54 | Audiobook

February 15, 2022 • Ichabod Spencer

The heart that has once been drunk with fanaticism is ever after exposed to the same evil; it will mistake excitement for true religion. Fanaticism is not faith. When the affections and mere-sensibility of the heart are excited, and the understanding and conscience are but little employed, there is a sad preparation for a false hope or some wild delusion for fanatical faith.

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.