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Suffering & Affliction
Pain, trials, sickness, affliction, and trusting God in hardship
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Personal and Effectual Calling
John 10:3
… read, "In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of His Presence saved them." You have sometimes been in sharp sickness and have had "cruel pains …
SERMON • SERMON 2852Comfort for the Fearful
Matthew 8:26
… All the trouble in the world cannot harm you as much as half a grain of unbelief! Poverty cannot make you as poor as mistrust can and sickness …
SERMON • SERMON 1427A Wilderness Cry
Psalm 63:1
… And he learned by experience that sickness is not the best time, as he had formerly thought it was, for drawing near to God. The effects of sickness …
SERMON • SERMON 350A Blow at Self-Righteousness
Job 9:20
… hawthorn bush, that would go a great way towards it?” conceiving that his suffering might, in some degree at least, assist him in getting into heaven. You would …
SERMON • SERMON 1382The Touch
Mark 5:28
… Her constitution had been sapped and undermined—her very existence had become one of constant suffering and weakness—yet what courage and spirit she displayed! She was ready …
SERMON • SERMON 2983A Wonderful Transformation
John 16:20
… Unfelt trial is no trial! Certainly it would be an unsanctified trial. Christ never meant Christians to be stoics. There is a wide and grave distinction between a …
SERMON • SERMON 2726Fourfold Satisfaction
Jeremiah 31:14
… And I really and honestly believe that, of the two, I have gained more by affliction than by joy. And I have more reason to praise God, at …
SERMON • SERMON 2835Patients for the Great Physician
Luke 5:31
… Perhaps someone asks, "If the man is so diseased, what are the effects of his sickness?" The usual effect of all sickness is that the man's strength …
SERMON • SERMON 495The Greatest Trial on Record
Psalm 2:2
… an interview with the prisoner, and instead of suffering the accused to take a little rest before a trial so important, upon which his life and character depended …
SERMON • SERMON 2000Number Two-thousand—Healing by the Stripes of Jesus
Isaiah 53:5
… Even as a sickness of body is called a disorder, so is sin the disorder of the soul. Human nature is out of joint, out of health and …
DEVOTIONALEvening, May 6
Job 14:14
… We should not have full fellowship with Christ if we did not for awhile sojourn below, for he was baptized with a baptism of suffering among men, and …
SERMON • SERMON 2679Christ's Indwelling Word
Colossians 3:16
… Long-suffering. Continue to put up with others, remembering the Lord's long-suffering with you. 13. Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man has …
SERMON • SERMON 262Distinguishing Grace
1 Corinthians 4:7
… Oh! well did the poet say,— “When any turn from Zion’s way, Alas! what numbers do!” No trial is greater to the true minister than the apostacy …
SERMON • SERMON 2316Twelve Covenant Mercies
Isaiah 55:3
… He is also very prosperous—God gives to him great wealth, which he discreetly and wisely uses, but he has had a very sharp affliction come upon him …
SERMON • SERMON 1703Hands Full of Honey
Judges 14:8
… He had been happier far had he been like his father, called, from his earliest days, to trial and conflict, for this might have taught him to stand …
SERMON • SERMON 3540A Remarkable Benediction
Deuteronomy 33:16
… Surely Moses meant, "May the Lord grant you the blessings of trial and the blessings of preservation." For all through the various branches and twigs of that bush …
SERMON • SERMON 2142Our Lord's Triumphant Ascension
Psalm 68:18
… The shame, suffering, blasphemy and rebuke are far beneath Him now. The sun has risen and the darkness of night has fled. He has gone up beyond the …
SERMON • SERMON 3143Shoes for Pilgrims and Warriors
Ephesians 6:15
… sickness, persecution and pain have lost their sting when sin is pardoned! What is there that a man needs to fear when he knows that in no affliction …
SERMON • SERMON 665Open House For All Comers
Luke 15:2
… There must be sickness to involve the necessity for a physician. Why his art? Why his skill in pharmacy if men are safe and sound without it? And …
SERMON • SERMON 3448God's Glory and His Goodness
Exodus 33:18-23
… affliction, you have been conscious of the same inward desire—your heart has craved after some extraordinary dispensation of Grace to counterbalance the extraordinary visitation of suffering that …
SERMON • SERMON 1620Is It Nothing To You?
Lamentations 1:12
… Christ was dying and suffering in the place of others—and by that dying and suffering He was putting away the sin of others! This is the substance …
SERMON • SERMON 2611A Lost Christ Found
Luke 2:44-46
… And it would be better for you to be cast into the fiery furnace of affliction, where you can be refined, than to be left to lie down …
SERMON • SERMON 740Stephen's Martyrdom
Acts 7:55
… He stands up, actively sympathizing with His suffering witness. Well, Beloved, this is just what we see in Heaven. The Man of Sorrows is alive and sympathizes with …
SERMON • SERMON 3411Joining the Church
2 Corinthians 8:5
… How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their generosity. It is good to …
SERMON • SERMON 2248Sad Fasts Changed To Glad Feasts
Zechariah 8:19
… Sometimes the day of affliction becomes as a fast which has been turned into a feast. It is a trying thing to lose one's health and to …
SERMON • SERMON 3182Boldness at the Throne
Hebrews 4:16
… He was made perfect through suffering that He might perfectly sympathize with all His suffering saints. Do not imagine that you can ever get into any condition in …
SERMON • SERMON 2288The Empty Place—a Christmas Day Sermon
1 Samuel 20:25
… Perhaps some of you have not had a single hour's sickness during the past year. I will remind you of your mercies that you may be very …
SERMON • SERMON 1279Amazing Grace
Isaiah 57:18
… But how often these visitations end in disappointment! The man is sick—he lies suffering on the brink of eternity. He makes promises of reformation, but what happens …
SERMON • SERMON 300Spiritual Peace
John 14:27
… Then again, this peace will help us to bear affliction. Paul describes it as a shoe. As he says, “Your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel …
SERMON • SERMON 1365The Trees in God's Courts
Psalm 92:13-15
… Indeed, in the early childhood of Christian life, we undergo a world of trial. Such was our weakness and such our exposure to the bleak atmosphere of this …
COMMENTARYPsalm 27
Psalm 27
… This verse records a past deliverance, and is an instance of the way in which experience should be employed to reassure our faith in times of trial. Each …
SERMON • SERMON 2057The Lord's Own Salvation
Hosea 1:7
… The connection of our text suggests the thought that there is a limit to the long-suffering of God. He bade Hosea say, "I will no more have …
SERMON • SERMON 1364Nevertheless, Hereafter
Matthew 26:64
… He was a spectacle of meek and lowly suffering led by His captors like a lamb to the slaughter, with none to speak a word on His behalf …
SERMON • SERMON 2274God's People Melted and Tried
Jeremiah 9:7
… are passing through such a trial as that? God grant that your poverty shall lead you to the best riches! And your sickness conduct you to eternal health …
SERMON • SERMON 2233Both Sides of the Shield
Exodus 17:8
… They are both wrong! You must have Joshua and you must have Moses, too, in the time of trial! Go before God with your sickness, but if there …
SERMON • SERMON 1099The Man Of Sorrows
Isaiah 53:3
… So that the double refection that all the work of suffering is finished by the Redeemer and that, from now on He beholds the success of all His …
COMMENTARYPsalm 70
Psalm 70
… Occasion of his prayer. (a) Affliction. (b) Helplessness. 2. Subject of his prayer. Deliverance, help. 3. Importunity of his prayer. The time of deliverance may be an answer …
SERMON • SERMON 1513Cheer Up, My Comrades!
2 Chronicles 35:2
… If by sickness you are detained at home,’if for any other reason, such as age or infirmity, you are not able to enter into actual service, yet …
SERMON • SERMON 522Mealtime In The Corn Fields
Ruth 2:14
… And I am certain that when trouble, affliction, persecution and bereavement become the most painful to us, it is then that the Lord hands out to us the …
SERMON • SERMON 794Jesus and the Lambs
Isaiah 40:11
… They were examples of suffering, affliction and of patience—they were ready to live or to die for the truth, but that truth was love to God and …