Suffering & Affliction

The Superlative Excellence Of The Holy Spirit

John 16:7

… Mourn as they may under the severe trial, Jesus will not remain with them because His departure is in the highest degree expedient. Beloved, let us expect to …

Three Names High on the Muster Roll

Daniel 3:16-18

… They were getting on in the world and I believe that God sent this trial to Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego because they were prospering. They might have …

A Hasty Expression Penitently Retracted

Psalm 31:22

… against Him either because of bereavement, or loss of property, or sickness, or disappointment, or trial and they keep on sulking because they cannot have their own way …

The Warnings and the Rewards of the Word of God

Psalm 19:11

… We see on the pages of Inspiration that we cannot be crowned without warfare, nor honored without suffering. Jesus went to Heaven by a rough road and we …

The Faculty of Impromptu Speech

… Besides this, a man may be called upon to preach at a moment’s notice, through the non-arrival of the expected minister, or his sudden sickness; at …

Winnowing Time

Jeremiah 23:28

… Suppose we were exposed to the trial of a bleak night? Suppose we were taken away from the Church of which we are members and made to live …

A Psalm For The New Year

2 Peter 3:18

… It is a mark of sickness. It is an unhealthy child that grows not, a cankered tree that sends forth no fresh shoots. More—it may not only …

The Tender Enquiry of a Friend

Jeremiah 47:5

… From wealth you have descended to poverty, from health you have come down to sickness, from honor you have fallen to obscurity. Is not this enough to humble …

Christ's Prayer and Plea

Psalm 16:1

… Not only was He suffering the terrible pangs that were inseparable from death by crucifixion, but He had to bear the still greater grief that was His portion …

Promises and Precepts

… to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a …

A Sermon For Spring

Solomon 2:10-13

… The day was with this Church in the olden times, when we were diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. We could not meet more than …

"Your Rowers Have Brought You Into Great Waters"

Ezekiel 27:26

… Oh, that it may be so during this service! Sorely tossed about in sickness and in need, both of them the result of your sin, you are in …

The Spur

Ecclesiastes 9:10

… I should say, "Blessed be God for letting me come back to have one more trial with my unconverted hearers, for perhaps they may yet be led to …

Offended Because of Christ?

Matthew 11:6

… Prison may have been a severe trial to the Baptist—we are all affected by the atmosphere in which we dwell. Today has been a very heavy day …

Two Pauls and a Blinded Sorcerer

Acts 13:12

… Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, henceforth calls him Paul, and that name must often have cheered the suffering Apostle. When he was persecuted, he would remember …

Morning, July 26

2Pe 1:5-6

… Add to this, by God’s Holy Spirit, patience ; ask him to give thee that patience which endureth affliction, which, when it is tried, shall come forth as …

The Simplicity and Sublimity of Salvation

John 1:11-13

… by Psalmist, Prophet, Evangelist, Apostle, very God of very God, yet truly Man, suffering in your place, bearing the sin of men in His own body on the …

A Lesson of Humility

… For the apostle Paul was surrounded by a great fight of affliction; and yet he could say, “Nevertheless I am not ashamed.” But what is it which preserves …

Concerning Prayer

Psalm 86:6

… Often and often trial has to rap our fingers to make us let go our harmful confidences and turn to the Lord. With our vain-confidence we are …

Evening, June 19

Song 2:16-17

… A shade of sadness is cast over your heart, perhaps by affliction, certainly by the temporary absence of your Lord, so even while exclaiming, “I am his,” you …

"A People Prepared for the Lord"

Luke 1:17

… He also told them that the trial of a life would be by its weight as well as by its fruit. "Look," he said, "at the heap that …

Morning, May 11

Mt 28:20

… Go, sorrowing son of affliction, tell thy secrets to the Friend who sticketh closer than a brother. Trust all thy concerns with him who never can be taken …

Evening, October 31

Ho 13:5

… Men have not known me when scorn has awaited me, but thou hast known my soul in adversities, for no affliction dims the lustre of thy love. Most …

An Indictment with Four Counts

Zephaniah 3:2

… Possibly, however, you have endured affliction. You are not well. You have been made to look into eternity through death's door. Perhaps one or another of your …

Evening, December 23

Ps 74:16

… The night of affliction is as much under the arrangement and control of the Lord of Love as the bright summer days when all is bliss. Jesus is …

Morning, March 20

Song 2:8

… separate her from the love of Christ, and declares that neither persecutions, distress, affliction, peril, or the sword have been able to do it; nay, he joyously boasts …

How to Read the Bible

1 Timothy 4:13

… Our service of the Lord does not screen us from trial, but rather secures it for us! The Psalmist was a consecrated man and yet a chastened man …

Is It True?

Daniel 3:14

… trial which comes of it. Shrink not from the flames. Settle it in your minds that, by Divine Grace, no loss, nor cross, nor shame, nor suffering shall …

A Command and a Promise

James 4:8

… Blessed is the man that endures temptation. [See Sermon #1874, Volume 31—A DISCOURSE UPON TRUE BLESSEDNESS HERE AND HEREAFTER.] Or, trial. The man that holds on and …

Evening, November 11

Ps 47:4

… shipwreck, if your divine Captain did not steer you into the depths of affliction where waves of trouble follow each other in quick succession. Some plants die if …

Morning, March 4

2Co 12:9

… who still glories in Jesus; when we see the bereaved widow overwhelmed in affliction, and yet having faith in Christ, oh! what honour it reflects on the gospel …

Death—a Sleep

1 Thessalonians 4:13

… Here, the sympathy of loving kindred, in the midst of sickness or suffering, can alleviate our pain, but there, the mutual upbraiding and reproaches of fellow sinners give …

Evening, March 30

La 3:40

… A text of Scripture, a threatening, a touch of the rod of affliction, and you went to your Father’s feet, crying, “Show me wherefore thou contendest with …

Morning, May 3

Jn 16:33

… to his image? Wilt thou not require much refining in the furnace of affliction to purify thee? Will it be an easy thing to get rid of thy …

Evening, July 25

Ho 5:15

Evening, July 25 Go To Morning Reading “In their affliction they will seek me early.” Hosea 5:15 Losses and adversities are frequently the means which the great …

Morning, July 28

Ps 73:22

… foolish outcry of “Not so, my Father,” when he crossed his hands in affliction to give you the larger blessing; think of the many times when you have …

Life In Christ

John 14:19

… life, yet even on the dunghill of poverty, and in the wretchedness of sickness, your spirit shall still maintain its holy life, and you shall prove it so …

Evening, November 9

Is 33:16

… your head are all numbered, will you mistrust and doubt him? Perhaps your affliction will continue upon you till you dare to trust your God, and then it …

The Son Glorified by the Father and the Father Glorified by the Son

John 17:1

… The lost in Hell cannot bear the wrath of God! An eternity of suffering will not have discharged the dreadful penalty and yet He bore that burden in …

Morning, April 22

Ac 5:31

… Be content to live unknown for a little while, and to walk your weary way through the fields of poverty, or up the hills of affliction; for by …