Suffering & Affliction

"All Hail!"

Matthew 28:9

… You cannot pour out your blood to mingle with His, for the Atonement is complete and needs no suffering on your part—anything added to it would spoil …

The Baptist's Message

John 1:29

… And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease …

A Blast of the Trumpet Against False Peace

Jeremiah 6:14

… He was seized with sickness; he lay in the jaws of the grave; he woke up; he lived, and lived as vilely as he had lived before. Often …

Faith Victorious

Matthew 15:21-28

… Perhaps they have never breathed a prayer except in an hour of extreme sickness, or in some time of great alarm, as in the midst of a storm …

Psalm 71

Psalm 71

… The cry of "make haste" has occurred many times in this portion of the Psalms, and it was evoked by the sore pressure of affliction. Sharp sorrows soon …

The Fullness and the Filling

John 1:16

… Do not imagine that He is less tender than you would be towards the weak and suffering—He is full of tenderness. His heart melts with love. A …

The Shulamite'S Choice Prayer

Solomon 8:6

… floods drown it." Christ has endured many waters already—the waters of bodily affliction, the waters of soul travail, the waters of spiritual desertion. Christ was in this …

The Old Man Crucified

Romans 6:6

… The suffering of crucifixion was extreme. All men have put that into their general belief—their language creed—for we say of great pain it is excruciating, that …

Christ and His Table-Companions

… If you are suffering, do not doubt His love, but believe that He works all things for your good. If you are vexed with cares, prove your confidence …

Jesus At Bethesda—or, Waiting Changed for Believing

John 5:1-9

… So common was sickness in the days of the Savior that the infirmities of men intruded upon the place which had been allotted to cattle! And the place …

First Literary Friends

… speaking, I will hear.'" The memory, infected by the Fall, is described as ' suffering the glorious timbers from the forest of Lebanon to swim down the stream of …

The Shame and Spitting

Isaiah 50:6

… Our suffering Lord has consecrated every place whereon He stood, and therefore our hearts must be filled with reverence while we linger under the shadow of His passion …

The Believer's Death Day Better Than His Birthday

Ecclesiastes 7:1

… I shall not suffer a repetition of that same sickness. I shall not feel those pains over again. I shall not groan through those same weary nights for …

The Savior's Precious Blood

1 Peter 1:19

… I think it should scarcely ever be pronounced without a shudder. "The blood is the life thereof." When shed, it indicates suffering—suffering more intense than that of …

The Way

John 14:6

… are condemned already, you who lie at Hell's dark door bound in affliction and iron, shut out from mercy, as you think—Christ is the way for …

Life In Earnest

2 Chronicles 31:21

… You are to be the deliverers of those who sit in the valley of the shadow of death bound in affliction and iron. Will you sit still, will …

Earnestness: Its Marring and Maintenance

… Those empty benches also are a serious trial, and if the place be large, and the congregation small, the influence is seriously depressing: it is not every man …

A Rich Life

… can say, as did one of old, “This is my comfort in my affliction; for Thy word hath quickened me.” “Wait on the Lord,” said Isaiah, and then …

Little, But Lovely

Luke 12:32

… Did He not teach as one having authority? Did He not heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease as though no symptom could baffle His …

A Clear Understanding

Matthew 13:51

… Eyes that cannot see are a trial, but "blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear." It is nothing but the Grace of …

A Song Concerning Loving Kindnesses

Isaiah 63:7

… It is such a Divine sentence, it must be Inspired. "In all their affliction He was afflicted." Was there ever anything more worthy of being mentioned as a …

Psalm 97

Psalm 97

… Particularly (1) Times of affliction have been to the upright, seasons of reaping the joy sown. By this they have been prepared for sufferings, supported under them, and …

"Beautiful Forever"

Psalm 149:4

… This kind of conduct brings no good to anybody and it often causes increased suffering. The more the ox kicks against the goad, the deeper is the sharp …

Reminiscences as a Village Pastor

… Many a pecuniary trial have I had in connection with the College work, which depends for funds upon the Lord’s moving His people to liberality: my faith …

Strange Dispensations and Matchless Consolations

Hosea 2:14

… Moreover, by the wilderness, doubtless, is meant affliction, for full often, when God means to bring a man to Himself, He sends affliction upon him. This is the …

The Comforter

John 14:26

… I have found some in the fetters of despair. “O, I am the man,” say they, “that has seen affliction; pity me, pity me, O, my friends;” and …

The Good Man’s Life and Death

Philippians 1:21

… Here you go to the house of God, but you are distracted with worldly cares and thoughts of suffering; but there, there are no groans to mingle with …

Overcoming Christ

Solomon 6:5

… So is it with our dear suffering friends, at times—yet they have learned patiently to wait till their change came. But often their eyes have been so …

Psalm 86

Psalm 86

… Compassion upon suffering, grace towards unworthiness, long suffering to provocation, mercy towards sin, truth towards the promise. Verse 16. 1. My pedigree— "son of thine handmaid." 2. My …

A Bit of History for Old and Young

Genesis 48:15

… my Friend, to be marked out for peculiar sorrows? Do the arrows of affliction make your life their target and are you chastened above all other men? Do …

A Gross Indignity

Matthew 27:30

… Soon after He stood before Pilate and now, after the mockery of a trial, He is given up to the soldiers, that they may mock Him before His …

The Tender Pity of the Lord

Psalm 103:13

… He was thinking of suffering and death while they were dreaming of robes and coronets. The mother of Zebedee's children even asked for her sons that one …

Christ's Care of His Disciples

John 18:8

… Learn also, Christians, from your Master's example, the duty of putting yourselves in the way of suffering when you can save your Brothers and Sisters. Oh, there …

Prayer 16 — He Ever Liveth

… May we be a happy people, not because screened from affliction, but because we are walking in the light of God. Again we offer prayer for the many …

The Exaltation of Christ

Philippians 2:9-11

… If we once got rid of that, sorrow would be sweet, sickness would be health, sadness would be joy, penury would be wealth, so far as our feelings …

Angelic Interest in the Gospel

1 Peter 1:12

… We would not travel slowly and painfully over this rough road and have our feet cut with every sharp flint—and our spirit pierced with every sore trial …

Sorrow at the Cross Turned into Joy

John 16:20-22

… The unsuffering kingdom of the suffering Shepherd, inaugurated by His death, established by His Resurrection, extended by the Pentecostal descent of the Holy Spirit and secured by the …

The Unspeakable Gift

2 Corinthians 9:15

… stop somewhere and I will pause here, at the truth of His vicarious suffering—the gift is unspeakable when we have spoken our very best and so let …

The Objective of the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:26

… So the broken bread which we eat at the Communion sets forth the suffering of Jesus. And the juice of the grape also sets forth suffering, for the …

Reasons For Parting With Sin

Isaiah 1:18

… The almost persuaded have, in fact, been our peculiar trial. Some of you, my Hearers, have remained under the sound of the Gospel now for years, not without …