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Suffering & Affliction
Pain, trials, sickness, affliction, and trusting God in hardship
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Purging Out the Leaven
1 Corinthians 5:6-8
… He is the Lamb of our Passover, sacrificed on our behalf, that we might not be sacrificed—roasted in the fire of suffering that we might go free …
SERMON • SERMON 782Saving Knowledge
John 4:10
… His holy life and His suffering death were the gifts of God to us, for "He spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all …
SERMON • SERMON 656Preceding Grace
Galatians 1:15
… model, or pattern of the way in which God shows forth His long-suffering to them that are led to believe on Him. It appears from my text …
SERMON • SERMON 2987The 'Beau Ideal' of Life
Psalm 90:14
… The way of so-called "pleasure" is a delusion and a snare, and the end thereof is sorrow, suffering and woe! Alas, that so many should continue to …
SERMON • SERMON 2881Feeble Faith Appealing to a Strong Savior
Mark 9:24
… He was suffering from an equally bad disease, though the symptoms were different—and Jesus meant to cure him as well as his boy! 21, 22. Andhe askedhis …
SERMON • SERMON 3295Communion With Christ and His People
1 Corinthians 10:16
… Certain of us have had large fellowship with the Lord Jesus in affliction. "Jesus wept." He lost a friend and so have we. Jesus grieved over the hardness …
SERMON • SERMON 3051Lessons From a Dovecot
Isaiah 60:8
… We will serve the King!"? I would rather suffer any personal affliction or calamity than that God's work of Grace should be stopped among us. It is …
SERMON • SERMON 2306Servitude Or Service—Which?
2 Chronicles 12:8
… And if He calls you to great suffering, He will give you greater patience. He does not require of you more than He is prepared to give you …
SERMON • SERMON 1862The True Tabernacle, and Its Glory of Grace and Peace
John 1:14
… the weakness, the suffering, the mortality of our manhood He actually took into union with Himself. He was no phantom, or apparition, but He had a human body …
SERMON • SERMON 2073Two Essential Things
Acts 20:21
… Another has been indulging the passions of his corrupt nature, and he finds himself suffering for it, and therefore he repents of his wickedness. There are many cases …
SERMON • SERMON 973The Power of Christ Illustrated by the Resurrection
Philippians 3:20
… Does it not sometimes appear to the children of sickness as if this body were fashioned with a view to suffering; as if all its nerves, sinews, veins …
SERMON • SERMON 1020'The Sun of Righteousness'
Psalm 19:4-6
… That was the time when the bridegroom was in his chamber, being made perfect through suffering and perfectly conformed unto his church, hearing her sicknesses and her sorrows …
SERMON • SERMON 712War With Amalek
Exodus 17:8
… Have you not observed this? If your present trial had come at another time you could not have borne it. If your present temptation had presented itself but …
SERMON • SERMON 3112A Sermon and a Reminiscence
1 Peter 2:7
… He is precious to us by experience because He has helped us in many a dark hour of trial. I shall not tell you tonight how often He …
SERMON • SERMON 1900Rejoice Evermore
1 Thessalonians 5:16
… If slander is to make us dance, when are we to fret? Suppose some other kind of trial should come upon you? You are still to rejoice in …
SERMON • SERMON 1638Men Without Heart, Sight, or Hearing
Deuteronomy 29:4
… You have been preserved in accident and restored from sickness. The stars in their courses have seemed to fight for you—and the stones of the field have …
SERMON • SERMON 593Inward Conflicts
Solomon 6:13
… This Canticle is a marriage song—it therefore speaks less of the battlefield than some other portions of Scripture, for at the marriage feast allusions to trial and …
SERMON • SERMON 543Once A Curse But Now A Blessing
Zechariah 8:13
… You unconverted Men! You make every day a draught upon the exchequer of long-suffering, and the day shall come when the golden sun shall all be expended …
SERMON • SERMON 766Believing To See No.
Psalm 27:13
… It is, in fact, your sickness and your bad health which give you any sort of congruity in entering there." So, when you tell me that you have …
SERMON • SERMON 1009Travailing for Souls
Isaiah 66:8
… know what to do with little children, and would leave them to much suffering. Let us thank God, brethren, if he has given us any degree of the …
SERMON • SERMON 1680Bochim—Or, the Weepers
Judges 2:4
… Mischief will surely come of this lax state of things to the Churches of this day as surely as affliction came abundantly to Israel of old! Note, next …
SERMON • SERMON 2809Faith—life
Habakkuk 2:4
… If faith is weak, we are weak all over—for service, for suffering, for everything! But when faith is strong, it imparts strength to all the members of …
SERMON • SERMON 2429Converts, and Their Confession of Faith
Isaiah 44:5
… That is to say, he took up his position with the people of God under their lowliest title. "There," he said, "I am prepared to suffer affliction with …
SERMON • SERMON 2205"My Times Are In Your Hand"
Psalm 31:15
… that is to say, my ups and my downs, my health and my sickness, my poverty and my wealth—all those are in the hands of the Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 2875Confirming the Witness of Christ
1 Corinthians 1:6
… But He, in His wondrous long-suffering and His mighty patience was not pleased to do so. Being full of tender mercies and loving kindness, He determined on …
SERMON • SERMON 2821'Until He Finds It'
Luke 15:4
… When they went into business—and neglected the Sabbath and forsook the house of God—the Good Shepherd still tracked them by affliction, by Christian neighbors, by the …
SERMON • SERMON 3178The Preparatory Prayers of Christ
Luke 3:21
… I have selected a few which occurred either before some great work or some great suffering, so our subject will really be the preparatory prayers of Christ—the …
SERMON • SERMON 600The Centurion—Or An Exhortation To The Virtuous
Luke 7:4-9
… If Jesus Christ was able to cure those who were far gone in sickness, you might infer that He would certainly be able to heal those who, though …
SERMON • SERMON 2485Love's Vigilance Rewarded
Solomon 3:4
… My hands while I look on I see The wounds I received when suffering for thee." Now, have you found Him? If you have pictured Him in your …
SERMON • SERMON 2375Found By Jesus—And Finding Jesus
John 1:43-45
… in the darkness! He begins to enjoy the privileges of liberty, instead of suffering the horrors of slavery! He is started on the way to Heaven, instead of …
SERMON • SERMON 2211God Rejoicing in the New Creation
Isaiah 65:17-19
… has been new-created and that my nobler part could rise above the suffering and soar into the pure heavens of the spiritual realm! And I have said …
SERMON • SERMON 910Overwhelming Obligations
Psalm 116:12
… strange and awful sensation to be suddenly reduced by the unnerving hand of sickness to the feebleness of infancy. For giant strength to lie prostrate, and busy activity …
SERMON • SERMON 2165The Serpent's Sentence
Genesis 3:14
… The suffering of the Church, however great, is but a light affliction, not worthy to be compared with the far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Thank …
SERMON • SERMON 1138Morning And Evening Songs
Psalm 92:2
… But oh, if that poor soldier's mother could come into the hospital and see her boy suffering, she would show him loving-kindness, which is something far …
SERMON • SERMON 1010Light for Those Who Sit in Darkness
Matthew 4:15-16
… I cannot disbelieve, when I see incarnate God suffering for the guilty, the just for the unjust, to bring them to God. “Sinners! come, the Savior see, Hands …
SERMON • SERMON 1198The Master
John 11:28
… He was made "perfect through suffering." He teaches us no Truth of God as mere theory, but as matter of actual experiment on His own Person. The remedy …
SERMON • SERMON 3158The Fifth Beatitude
Matthew 5:7
… He who passed by their ills without sympathy and saw their suffering without relieving them, might prate as he would about inward Grace, but Divine Grace in his …
SERMON • SERMON 3447A Present Helper
Acts 18:10
… He has passed through all, that as the Captain of our salvation He might be made "perfect through suffering." "Tempted in all points like as we are," there …
SERMON • SERMON 2979Our Banner
Psalm 60:4
… The devil doesn't care a bit for this! But talk about Christ! Preach about the suffering of the Savior! Tell sinners that there is life in a …
SERMON • SERMON 1778A Heavenly Pattern for Our Earthly Life
Matthew 6:10
… That ‘will’ may bring us bereavement, sickness, and loss; but let us learn to say, ‘It is the Lord: let him do what seemeth him good.’ We should …