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Suffering & Affliction
Pain, trials, sickness, affliction, and trusting God in hardship
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The Two Yokes
Jeremiah 28:13
… Oh! it is grand to the believer to feel that, if there be a trial or a difficulty in the Christianity, Christ has borne it, and Christ is …
SERMON • SERMON 2430Christians, and Their Communion With God
Isaiah 26:8
… Not for a certain number of days during your season of trial, but if the trial should last a lifetime, "trust you in the Lord forever." 4. For …
SERMON • SERMON 363The Glorious Right Hand Of The Lord
Numbers 11:23
… head are all numbered, yet you still mistrust and doubt Him? Perhaps your affliction will continue upon you till you dare to trust your God, and then it …
SERMON • SERMON 2201The Sword of the Spirit
Ephesians 6:17
… Take all these things and see what they will do, but you make the trial at your own risk, and on your own heads the result of failure …
SERMON • SERMON 2475"My Garden"—"His Garden"
Solomon 4:16
… That is what we sometimes need, to be awakened and stirred from slumber! We may not know that we have any faith till there comes a trial— and …
SERMON • SERMON 520Confession With The Mouth
Romans 10:10
… Confession with the mouth should be carried out with double earnestness whenever we are called into trial for Christ's sake—when the avowing of Christ will bring …
SERMON • SERMON 1355Our Lord's Question to the Blind Men
Matthew 9:27-30
… Curious questions and idle speculations are never suggested by the Lord Jesus! His enquiries were all resolved into a trial upon one point—and that one point is …
SERMON • SERMON 170The Immutability of Christ
Hebrews 13:8
… Some of you have come here childless, or widows, or fatherless, still weeping your recent affliction. Changes have taken place in your estate that have made your heart …
SERMON • SERMON 912The Glorious Hereafter and Ourselves
2 Corinthians 5:5
… There are times when the most patient of the Lord's banished ones feel the home sickness strong upon them. Like those beasts which we have sometimes seen …
SERMON • SERMON 3349'The Garment of Praise'
Isaiah 61:3
… iron bars can make and a fetter such as no smith can forge. Sickness is a trifle compared to it—it is to some men less endurable than …
SERMON • SERMON 3127A Promise and Precedent
John 16:14
… for your highest ambition, that you may, by some means or other, by sickness or by health, by poverty or by wealth, by life or by death, bring …
SERMON • SERMON 1502Satan in a Rage
Revelation 12:12
… The Lord will find wings for this poor soul, that he may flee away from the trial which, as yet, he is not able to bear. I have …
SERMON • SERMON 291A Christmas Question
Isaiah 9:6
… What matters your poverty? “Unto you a child is born.” What matters your sickness? “Unto you a Son is given.” What matters your sin? For this child shall …
SERMON • SERMON 1971The Blood Shed For Many
Matthew 26:28
… Blood represents suffering, but it goes further and suggests suffering unto death. "The blood is the life thereof" and when blood is too copiously shed, death is suggested …
SERMON • SERMON 3312The Carpenter's Son and His Relations
Matthew 13:55
… We are all very much alike when we are sitting in the House of God, and when we are lying upon the bed of sickness—and especially when …
SERMON • SERMON 106Turn or Burn
Psalm 7:12
… There are ten thousand arguments against one, that if you repent not in health, you will never repent in sickness. Too many have promised themselves a quiet season …
SERMON • SERMON 3124Real Contact With Jesus
Luke 8:46
… 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 …
SERMON • SERMON 178The Work of the Holy Spirit
Galatians 3:3
… of a child, it will take many a repetition of the rod of affliction upon the shoulders of a Christian before that folly is taken out of him …
SERMON • SERMON 46The Glorious Habitation
Psalm 90:1
… air, In search of a home and a rest; A balm for the sickness of care, A bliss for a bosom unblest.” Read the lives of any men …
SERMON • SERMON 814Life by Faith
Galatians 3:11
… An active, operative faith is by the Holy Spirit implanted in the Christian and it is sent to him on purpose to sustain him under trial. I shall …
SERMON • SERMON 248Little Sins
Genesis 19:20
… Surely it must be an affliction for a tender child to be separated from his father. We know that in our childhood it was always so, and we …
SERMON • SERMON 3360Pleading With the Indifferent
Lamentations 1:12
… In Him was no sin and neither suffering nor death could lawfully have been laid upon Him had He not made Himself the Substitute for His people. Behold …
SERMON • SERMON 1640The Touch
Mark 5:30
… He took our sicknesses, therefore is He able to deliver us from spiritual sickness and make us every bit whole. Oh, see, my Brothers and Sisters, God Incarnate …
SERMON • SERMON 856The Importunate Widow
Luke 18:1-8
… We should pray in all circumstances—in our poverty and in our wealth, in our health and in our sickness, in the bright days of festival and in …
SERMON • SERMON 3173'As' and 'So'
Colossians 2:6
… And we took Christ—at least I know I did—for better or worse, in health or in sickness, to have and to hold so that even death …
COMMENTARYPsalm 50
Psalm 50
… The trial of the visible people of God will be a most awful ceremonial. He will thoroughly purge his floor. He will discern between his nominal and his …
SERMON • SERMON 20The Carnal Mind Enmity Against God
Romans 8:7
… had a tolerable share of health; you have been recovered many times from sickness; when lying at the gates of death, his arm has held back your soul …
SERMON • SERMON 884Help for Seekers of the Light
Isaiah 59:9
… After a sickness, or when there has been a death in the family—you have then zealously bestirred yourself! But soon you have declined into the same carelessness …
SERMON • SERMON 234Corn in Egypt
Genesis 42:1
… At a hospital, the best recommendation is sickness. He that is a little sick needs some help to get him there, but let me be run over in …
SERMON • SERMON 2252The Unknown Giver and the Misused Gifts
Hosea 2:8
… When you have been laid aside on the bed of sickness, then have you understood that, unless God gave health, the breadwinner could not go forth to his …
SERMON • SERMON 349The Wailing of Risca
Jeremiah 4:20
… Perhaps we shall die falling asleep in our beds after long sickness, but probably we shall be suddenly called in such an hour as we think not to …
SERMON • SERMON 135Presumptuous Sins
Psalm 19:13
… They have had warnings so terrible that they might have known better; they have gone into lusts which have brought their bodies into sickness, and perhaps this day …
SERMON • SERMON 3562Peter Walking on the Sea
Matthew 14:28-31
… the Valley of Humiliation, groaning in spirit, diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction and sorrow! One day you may be as strong as a giant and all …
SERMON • SERMON 3421Prayer Meetings
Acts 1:14
… of God's people should bebrought out of prison, or raised up from sickness, or saved from need—but if it is the Master's will and is …
SERMON • SERMON 199A Free Salvation
Isaiah 55:1
… This he gives you; ’Tis his Spirit’s rising beam.” There is no need to pass through years of penance, of hard labor, and of trial; the gospel …
SERMON • SERMON 843Effectual Calling—Illustrated by the Call of Abram
Genesis 12:5
… The present light affliction incident to a godly life is not worthy to be compared with the Glory which shall be revealed in you! See, then, Brothers and …
SERMON • SERMON 2395The Blessings of Public Worship
Luke 18:10
… should we do this when we have been restored from beds of languishing sickness and pain, or when we come up from the house of mourning. But what …
SERMON • SERMON 3234Strangers and Sojourners
Psalm 39:12
… It is always a blessed reason for resignation when we can say of any bereavement or affliction, "The Lord has done it." Shall He not do as He …
SERMON • SERMON 2088The Form of Godliness Without the Power
2 Timothy 3:5
… The form without the power has nothing in it to warm the heart, to raise the spirits, or to strengthen the mind against the day of sickness, or …
SERMON • SERMON 1077The Lord Blessing His Saints
Psalm 115:15
… If He blesses, poverty cannot starve you, sickness cannot kill you, toil cannot wear you out, sorrow cannot consume you, life cannot allure you, death cannot slay you …