Suffering & Affliction

Prayer 12 — On Holy Ground

… This life is full of trial. There are many that are perplexed about temporary things. Let not the enemy lead them to do or think aught that is …

Joy in Salvation

Psalm 9:4

… It may be that you will be in peril, or it may be that afterwards you shall be in sickness. Well, may this evening's congregation in this …

Paul As a Pattern Convert

1 Timothy 1:16

… PAUL'S CASE WAS A PATTERN OF OTHER CONVERSIONS AS AN INSTANCE OF LONG-SUFFERING. "That in me, first, Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering for …

"Where Are The Nine?"—or, Praise Neglected

Luke 17:15

… soul would come to Christ, tonight—some leper to be healed of sin-sickness! If he does find healing, let him come out and, with a loud voice …

Psalm 100

Psalm 100

… That you may be true amid superstition, hopeful in contrition, persistent in supplication, unwearied in exertion, calm in affliction, firm in temptation, bold in persecution, and happy in …

The Determination of Christ to Suffer for His People

Mark 15:23

… Was it out of any love to suffering that He thus refused the wine cup? Ah, no, Christ had no love of suffering. He had a love of …

The Gospel of Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac

Romans 8:32

… The trial was covertly a great privilege, unveiling as it did to the Patriarch, the heart of the great Father in His great deed of love to men …

Real Contact With Jesus

… The more I feel my sickness, the more shall I adore and bless Him when He makes me whole. You see, the woman did really touch Christ, and …

Father’s Furlough, and how I Shared it

… The text which for years has been our consolation is that wliich saith, " I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction." Happy enough is the man who …

The Rising Sun

Malachi 4:2

… die, but live and proclaim the works of the Lord—for the soul sickness of a saint is not unto death! He shall be recovered from it and …

Under The Apple Tree

… You know a doctrine beyond all fear of contradiction when you have proved it for yourself by personal test and trial. The bride in the song as good …

Samuel and the Young Man Saul

1 Samuel 9:27

… But you shall find the clue of it, you shall thread the labyrinth, you shall see how even your afflictions work for your good, how your sickness means …

Spiritual Transformations

Isaiah 4:13

… A little starving brings on an appetite for health-giving food—and a brief absence from the House of God through sickness, or by reason of distance, makes …

Psalm 49

Psalm 49

… Poverty is a civil pestilence, which frights away both friends and kindred, and leaves us to a "Lord, have mercy upon us." It is a sickness very catching …

“Westwood”

… The faithful friend in the time of affliction was "Punch's" son, "Gyp." He was not as wise as his father ; indeed, he was often called a stupid …

Morning, March 29

Heb 5:8

… But there is one very comforting thought in the fact of Christ’s “being made perfect through suffering”—it is, that he can have complete sympathy with us …

“In Labours More Abundant”

… The congregation that day had the somewhat unusual privilege, or affliction, of listening to two preachers discoursing by turns upon the same text ! The passage was that grand …

Psalm 51

Psalm 51

… Sorrow for sin exceeds sorrow for suffering, in the continuance and durableness thereof: the other, like a landlord, quickly come, quickly gone; this is a continual dropping or …

A Word From the Beloved's Own Mouth

… The human standard of purity is itself grossly incorrect, and therefore to be judged by it is but a poor trial, and to be acquitted a slender comfort …

The Question of Fear and the Answer of Faith

Job 23:6

… Thy path may be one of little temptation, and of shallow trial; but thou wilt be drowned in the floods yet, unless Almighty power preserve thee. Mark me …

Spring In The Heart

Psalm 65:10

… But when a mother nurses her own dear children, as soon as ever upon the cheek or in the eye there is a token of approaching sickness, she …

The Absent Pastor’s Care for his Flock

Whenever the Pastor had to be away from his people, seeking necessary rest after arduous toil, or restoration after painful affliction, he gave them constant proofs that he …

Spring in the Heart

… upon the cheek or in the eye there is a token of approaching sickness, she perceives it at once. I wish we had just as quick an eye …

The Sacred Love-Token

Exodus 12:13

… Remember, first, what it was—blood, the token of suffering. Your sin deserves suffering. Christ has suffered for sin. Think what suffering He endured, what contradiction of sinners …

Psalm 110

Psalm 110

… It was pain, sorrow, suffering, death. This was the "brook" of which he drank. The "cup" which his Father gave him to drink was filled with the bitter …

John Ploughman's Pictures

… 163 Teacher writes many a bright lesson on the black-board of affliction. Scant fare teaches us to live on heavenly bread, sickness bids us send off for …

Might Have Been, or May Be

John 11:37

… It is Christ's love that has let you remain in affliction, because the Divine benefit that has come of it is more to your profit than the …

All Or None—or, Compromises Refused— a Sermon With Five Texts

Exodus 10:26

… Now the Lord begins to deal with the man, perhaps, in a way of affliction and trouble. His wife sickens. A child dies. He is, himself, unhealthy—he …

Sin Immeasurable

Psalm 19:12

… your own covenant which you voluntarily made with God in the home of sickness. You have, some of you perhaps, been thrown from a horse, or have been …

Psalm 103

Psalm 103

… Kimchi understands the phrase as expressing David's recovery from sickness. In sickness the soul abhorreth bread, and even dainty meat, Job 33:20. The physician, too, limits …

Exhortation—"Set Your Heart"

1 Chronicles 22:19

… You, my Brother, are released from all that affliction which wearied you a few weeks ago—therefore praise the Lord! Your enemies are quiet, your anxieties do not …

Are You Mocked?

Psalm 14:6

… The Christian has found God faithful to him, has found him support him in the time of trial, has found him answer his prayers in the hour of …

Enduring the Cross

… I know it was the joy of fulfilling His Father’s will–of sitting down on His Father’s throne–of being made perfect through suffering; but still …

First Sermons at New Park Street Chapel

… the love displayed towards each other, that suffering would be removed in a moment. Ask the cherubim if they ever knew a jar in Christ’s glorified Church …

Christ's Motive and Ours

2 Corinthians 8:9

… And He that lived, here, the life of a peasant, toiling and suffering, was that same God who made the heavens and the earth, but who deigned to …

Jerusalem the Guilty

Luke 13:33

… But the time of trial comes—that time which tests the metal whether it is gold or not. She gives her heart to another than her Savior. Once …

A Dire Disease Strangely Cured

Isaiah 53:5

… Yet, after terrible as all this was, it was only the shell, the externals of His bodily suffering! The suffering of His soul was the very soul of …

The Pierced Heart of Jesus

John 19:32-37

… They called Him a "deceiver," and they even pretended to "remember" what "He said, while He was yet alive." At His trial, their false witnesses gave another meaning …

The Captain of Our Salvation

Hebrews 2:10

… There is not one low or mean inhabitant of Heaven! There are many there who were despised on earth—the lowly and the suffering and the persecuted—but …

Stewards

… He who is faithful over a small charge shall be selected for a post of harder work and sterner trial; this is the promotion to which loyal servants …