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Suffering & Affliction
Pain, trials, sickness, affliction, and trusting God in hardship
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Believers Tested by Trials
Job 23:8-10
… Job had to experience one trial which must have been very keen, indeed, for it was brought about by his three choice friends who were evidently men of …
SERMON • SERMON 870Things Present
1 Corinthians 3:22
… Your affliction shall not be too much for you—it shall be just such a trial as you require. There shall be no more and no less of …
SERMON • SERMON 2974A Wafer of Honey
2 Corinthians 12:9
… So that although Christ dwells in a man, he must not reckon that he will be free from suffering, pain and sickness, for the body has not yet …
SERMON • SERMON 2174Fever and Its Cure
Luke 4:38
… from affliction—I am not sure that we should wish for it. But then, it so happened—and it so happens always—that just when the trial came …
SERMON • SERMON 751More Than Conquerors
Romans 8:37
… pressure—either from sickness or from loss of goods, or from bereavements—or from some other of the thousand and one causes from which affliction springs. The Christian …
SERMON • SERMON 1543The Sheep Before The Shearers
Isaiah 53:7
… I have shown that He measures and tempers our affliction and sends the trial at the right time. I have shown you in many ways that we are …
SERMON • SERMON 3214Two Wilderness Incidents
Numbers 21:1-6
… While we are hard at work for the Lord, watching against temptation, striving against sin, or bravely enduring trial, we behave ourselves well. But full often when we …
SERMON • SERMON 2374Blessed Discipline
Psalm 94:12-15
… I never knew affliction and trial to make us do that, but when the gourds are taken away, then the sun shines on us. How often has God …
SERMON • SERMON 2912Comfort for Tried Believers
1 Corinthians 10:13
… a dreaded sickness, or to a painful operation, or to business losses which may sink you from your present comfortable position to one of great trial and poverty …
SERMON • SERMON 2603Comfort for the Tempted
1 Corinthians 10:13
… Well, that is a sore trial and I know that, personally, I would do anything I could to escape from the affliction that often besets me, but if …
SERMON • SERMON 1452AThe Sick Man Left Behind
2 Timothy 4:20
… ourselves! This also delivers us from regarding affliction as being always brought upon men by their personal sin. Many a sickness has been the direct result of intemperance …
SERMON • SERMON 1629Two Good Things
Psalm 119:71
… not see how they can be, apart from affliction. One of them is patience. If a man has no trial, how is he to be patient? We all …
SERMON • SERMON 1121Christ Asleep in the Vessel
Mark 4:38
… And the man who dies of sickness does not die because of some unforgivable force in Nature, but because God continues to give energy to destructive agencies. The …
SERMON • SERMON 2945Night-and Jesus Not There!
John 6:17
… There are many precious promises that are written with this invisible ink and, until you hold them to the fire of affliction or trial, you will never read …
SERMON • SERMON 1262The Turning Of Job's Captivity
Job 42:10
… I will try and indicate, briefly, when I think God may turn your trial. Sometimes He does so when that trial has revealed to you your special sin …
SERMON • SERMON 3076The Cause and Effect of Heart Trouble
John 14:27
… They have been tried, but their heart has not even been wounded in the trial. The more their troubles have come upon them, the higher have they risen …
SERMON • SERMON 2666The Sorrowful Man's Question
Job 3:23
… me! Oh, how often a proud spirit has been cut back by affliction and trial, like a vine that is made to bleed, that the clusters that followed …
SERMON • SERMON 3255The Pearl of Patience
James 5:11
… Yet, as I thought of the patience of Job, it caused me to hope! If Job was patient under trial and affliction, why should I not be patient …
SERMON • SERMON 2299Thorns and Thistles
Genesis 3:18
… If any of you are vexed with trial after trial, I pray you do not think it a strange thing—you are not at all alone in such …
SERMON • SERMON 3175'Peace! Perfect Peace!'
Isaiah 26:3
… in sickness. Nothing is so convincing to ungodly men as to see Christians very calm in time of danger, very resigned in the hour of affliction, very patient …
SERMON • SERMON 3017Seeing God's Goodness Here
Psalm 27:13
… But there are some conditions of life in which it is really a trial to faith to believe in the goodness of the Lord, as, for instance, that …
SERMON • SERMON 3239Woe and Weal
Micah 7:9
… The "necessity" is not only for the trial, but for the "heaviness" which results from the trial, for you remember that the Apostle says, "If necessary, you are …
SERMON • SERMON 662Consolation In The Furnace
Daniel 3:25
… It is rather a wonder when a Christian is not in trial, for to wanderers in a wilderness, discomfort and need will naturally be the rule rather than …
SERMON • SERMON 2133"My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?"
Matthew 27:46
… If God will cheer and sustain Him, He is not suffering for sin. The Judge is not inflicting suffering for sin if He is manifestly encouraging the smitten …
SERMON • SERMON 1363Sudden Sorrow
Jeremiah 4:20
… affliction fall upon the unsuspecting sons of Adam. As the earthquake all of a sudden overthrows a city, so does adversity shake the estate of mortals. Sudden trial …
SERMON • SERMON 2146Joy, Joy Forever
Psalm 5:11
… of God that affliction is sent to develop and mature the Christian life. "Ah, well!" says Faith, "then, thank God for it. No trial for the present seems …
SERMON • SERMON 257The Scales of Judgment
Daniel 5:27
… stand the test of trial and trouble. Remember Job; what a scale was that in which he was put! What weights of affliction were those east in one …
SERMON • SERMON 1950Earthquake But Not Heartquake
Psalm 46:1-3
… For brightness, give me not the sunlight, but that superior Glory with which the Lord lights up the darkness of affliction! It is not necessary for happiness that …
SERMON • SERMON 3368Fathomless
Psalm 36:6
… Perhaps an affliction which I can understand is meant to direct my attention to some known sin— but it may be that the trial which I cannot understand …
SERMON • SERMON 1340Manoah's Wife and Her Excellent Argument
Judges 13:22
… send it, and to say, "Lord, if spiritual growth implies trial. If it signifies a long sickness of body. If it means deep depression of soul. If it …
SERMON • SERMON 1753Blessed Promises For Dying Outcasts
Jeremiah 30:17
… as an affliction from God—when you hear Conscience whisper, "You have procured this unto yourself"—then the wormwood is mixed with gall and the suffering knows no …
COMMENTARYPsalm 30
Psalm 30
… Before the affliction: Ps 30:6. 2. Under the affliction: Ps 30:7-10. 3. After the affliction: Ps 30:11-12. —William Jay. Verse 1. ( first clause …
SERMON • SERMON 879An Assuredly Good Thing
Psalm 73:28
… One may persuade you to contemplate your trial from its darkest side and another may call your attention solely to the brighter lights. But if you know, through …
SERMON • SERMON 493Gethsemane
Luke 22:44
… All these rose up before his mind, and, as it is a general law of our nature that the foresight of trial is more grievous than trial itself …
SERMON • SERMON 1872My Comfort In Affliction
Psalm 119:50
… already quickened me! Notice the next verse, in which the Psalmist was suffering the great trial of scorn. "The proud have had me greatly in derision." Ridicule is …
SERMON • SERMON 730Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
John 14:1
… this visible thing, this loss of yours, this cross of yours, this trial, this present affliction—exercise faith about that. Jesus Christ did, in effect, say to His …
DEVOTIONALEvening, March 10
Job 14:1
… There is a time appointed for weakness and sickness, when we shall have to glorify God by suffering, and not by earnest activity. There is no single point …
SERMON • SERMON 2832Christ's Yoke and Burden
Matthew 11:30
… That heavy hammer falling on us helps to shape us! Therefore let affliction and trouble and trial come. Rutherford said that he thought Christ might almost be jealous …
COMMENTARYPsalm 105
Psalm 105
… So, now, God makes the climax of trial the herald of spiritual blessedness. By suffering we are loosened from the bonds of time and sense; there is one …
SERMON • SERMON 1704All Joy in All Trials
James 1:2-4
… My brethren, I reckon that the endurance of every imaginable suffering and trial would be a small price to pay for a settled assurance, which would for ever …