Suffering & Affliction

The King Passing Over Kidron

2 Samuel 15:23

… When it comes to the pinch, how we struggle against suffering, and especially against dishonor and slander! How many there were who would have gone on pilgrimage, but …

A Sermon Upon One Nothing by Another Nothing

2 Corinthians 12:11

… If it should be necessary for us to be buffeted, or to endure a thorn in the flesh, may the affliction be as much sanctified to its end …

Others To Be Gathered In

Isaiah 56:8

… He met with some whose great trial was sore affliction, temptation and sorrow. Magdalene is a chief instance—beloved name in the Christian Church! Magdalene, out of whom …

Experience and Assurance

Psalm 63:7

… In your own person you have suffered sickness, but when you have tossed upon the bed, in great anguish, God has been your help. You have experienced trial …

The Glories of Forgiving Grace

Ephesians 1:7

… As an adder in the path, it bites at our heels and it will be our daily trial, like the fiery serpents in the wilderness, till we enter …

Psalm 12

Psalm 12

… Moses was heard at the Red Sea, though he said nothing; and Hagar's affliction was heard despite her silence. Jesus feels with his people, and their smarts …

Constraining Love

Psalm 31:23

… Brothers and Sisters, one of the first things which love to Christ will do for you is it will make you bear suffering for Christ with joyousness. Remember …

Peter's Blunder—a Lesson for Ourselves

Acts 10:14

… Whenever you are called to endure trial, do not complain of the particular form it takes. Perhaps it is great bodily pain and you say, "I could bear …

Counting the Cost

Luke 14:28-30

… These people were nowhere to be found when the time of trial came. And remember, dear Friends—and I dwell with great emphasis upon this point—we need …

Abijah, or Some Good Thing Towards the Lord

1 Kings 14:13

… The Lord, who usually brings forth the rod before he lifts the axe, sent sickness into his house: his son Abijah was sore sick. Then the parents bethought …

Heaven's Nurse Children

Hosea 11:3

… Surely we have a sickness for every day in the year, but the Beloved Physician has a remedy for every complaint. Glory be unto him who forgiveth all …

Early Wedded Life (Continued)

… Human love would have protected him at any cost from an ordeal so terrible, and suffering so acute ; but God's love saw the end from the beginning …

Seeing Jesus

John 14:19

… Yes, and if any of us should be overtaken by the gradual closing of the eyes, heavy as such an affliction must be, we thank God we shall …

The Question Between the Plagues

Exodus 10:3

… He has been smitten with sickness and that not merely once or twice, but many times. Turning over the pages of his diary he can note on such …

Cheer for Despondency

Proverbs 27:1

… Supposing the trial does come, your God has promised that as your days, so shall your strength be. Has He not said it many times in His Word …

The Cleansing of the Leper

Leviticus 13:12-13

… When once he is no more a leper, but a leper cleansed, then for the love he bears his master’s name, there is no trial too arduous …

Psalm 64

Psalm 64

… How aptly a portion of this Psalm applies to the suffering Truth Himself in the days of his affliction, when, pierced in his spirit by lying words, he …

Christ's Hospital

Psalm 147:3

… Consider, first, the patients and their sickness—"He healed the broken in heart." Then, consider, the Physician and His medicine and, for a while, turn your eyes to …

The New Park Street Pulpit

Revelation 1:12-17

… I will keep it night and day." There is never a trial to the Church, there is never a pang she feels but those eyes of fire discern …

Salvation by Knowing the Truth

1 Timothy 2:3

… This I know by sad trial of it, and failure in it. But I do know that there is real salvation by believing in Christ. Know it? I …

The Great Assize

2Corinthians 5:10

… Thou shalt have a fair trial and a full trial, too. There shall be no concealment of anything in thy favour, and no, keeping back of anything against …

The Rule of Christ

2 Samuel 23:4

… of that! There will be the rain of affliction and trial—but we are taught to rejoice in affliction and to count it all joy when we fall …

"A Man Under Authority"

Matthew 8:8

… In this case, it was a servant, not a child, who was suffering and, as if the Savior would pay the greater attention where the rank was lower …

Knowing and Believing

2 Timothy 1:12

… Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and Doctrine. That is, do not exhort with mere declamation, but put some argument into your exhortation! Some men think it …

Christ’s Prayer for His People

John 17:15

… I should never have known the Saviour’s love half so much if I had not been in the storms of affliction. How sweet it is to learn …

Feb. 19 — BETTER FARTHER ON

Nah. 1:12

… 1:12 There is a limit to affliction. God sends it and God removes it. Do you sigh, and say "When will the end be?" Remember that our …

Sweetness in Sorrow

Do you not feel, in looking back upon seasons of affliction, that they have been times when, notwithstanding the trials, you have had unusual peace and happiness in …

An Earnest Entreaty

Psalm 17:7

… The spirit is filled with ecstasy and flooded with delight! These seasons, when they do come, give us strength to perform fresh labor and to endure future trial …

Solitude, Silence, Submission

Lamentations 3:28

… I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath. He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Some …

Christ—Perfect Through Sufferings

Hebrews 2:10

… sorrows had a part." Disease, sickness of body, poverty, need, friendlessness, hopelessness, desertion—he knows all these. You cannot cast human suffering into any shape that is new …

Predestination and Calling

Romans 8:30

… What a trial to Abraham’s faith, when he had to leave all that was so dear to him, and go he knew not whither! And yet God …

Psalm 124

Psalm 124

… In the great water floods of persecution and affliction who can help but Jehovah? But for him where would we be at this very hour? We have experienced …

Morning, December 14

Ps 84:7

… Thou shalt never find a bundle of affliction which has not bound up in the midst of it sufficient grace. God will give the strength of ripe manhood …

Ecce Rex

John 19:14

… The suffering nations will yet see their true Deliverer in their suffering Lord. That scepter of a reed will secure Him power far greater than a rod of …

God Our Portion and His Word Our Treasure

Psalm 119:57

… the portion of His saints when under different forms of trial, then when you are in deep affliction and when you come near to die, you, also, may …

Kicking Against The Pricks

Acts 9:5

… There are some who are suffering at this very day for their sins. The sins of their youth are in their bones, and yet they stagger to their …

Christian Sympathy

Job 30:25

… Was Alexander ever more royal than when his troops were suffering from thirst, and a soldier offered him a bowl full of the precious liquid, he put it …

God's Pupil, God's Preacher—an Autobiography

Psalm 71:17

… It is called the schoolhouse of sore affliction. Whoever does not go to that school, every minister whom God blesses to the salvation of souls will have to …

"You Are Now the Blessed of the Lord"

Genesis 26:29

… But God had prepared some better thing for him and "he looked for a city which has foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God." Thus, this trial became …

The Shameful Sufferer

Hebrews 12:2

… The text speaks of shame, and therefore before entering upon suffering, I shall endeavor to say a word or two upon the shame. Perhaps there is nothing which …