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Suffering & Affliction
Pain, trials, sickness, affliction, and trusting God in hardship
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Why Men Reject Christ
Luke 9:52
… I will mock when your fear comes." The messengers of God and the messages of God are not to be trifled with! Sickness, losses, convictions of conscience and …
SERMON • SERMON 1271Pride Catechized and Condemned
1 Corinthians 4:7
… another has been as willing to work, but he has been disabled by sickness; many another man has had as keen an eye, but alas, his judgment has …
SERMON • SERMON 1507Soul Saving Our One Business
1 Corinthians 9:22
… You who wish to visit the sick must sympathize with them in their sickness. Get to speak as you would like to be spoken to if you were …
SERMON • SERMON 2050A Paradox
2 Corinthians 12:10
… If we say concerning sickness, "I shall never be impatient. I can bear it like a stoic." What if that? You will then have done no more than …
SERMON • SERMON 666Holy Work For Christmas
Luke 2:17-20
… My Brethren, what would you give, sometimes, when you are shut up by sickness and cannot meet with the great congregation—when your heart and your flesh cry …
SERMON • SERMON 1911Hideous Discovery
Mark 7:20-23
… He must have felt as some true physician feels who looks upon a patient, marks the serious nature of the sickness and plans a remedy—while some quack …
SERMON • SERMON 728Good Cheer for the New Year
Deuteronomy 11:12
… poverty who has not where to lay his head! Ask the daughter of sickness, tossing by night and day on that uneasy bed, "Could you do without your …
SERMON • SERMON 1341Retreat Impossible
Judges 11:35
… Can the Swiss forget his country when he listens to the home music which he heard as a child amidst his native hills? Does not the home-sickness …
SERMON • SERMON 2090A Delicious Experience
Hebrews 4:3
… Never mind, you may come just as you are, with all your sickness, weakness, or family trouble, and you may now rest in the Lord. Tell your grief …
SERMON • SERMON 2539The Joy of Holy Households
Psalm 118:15
… Nothing occurs in your family history, whether of birth or death, of coming or departure, of loss or of gain, ofjoy or of sorrow, of sickness or of …
SERMON • SERMON 1335A Cheery Word in Troublous Times
Acts 27:25
… How dare I be impatient if you have to suffer so?" Now, if you go and see sick folk—and I suppose you do, and if no sickness …
SERMON • SERMON 14The Victory of Faith
1 John 5:4
… God sends affliction and sorrow, until life is a prison-house, the world its jailer—and a wretched jailer too. Have you ever been in trials and troubles …
SERMON • SERMON 2684Two Arguments Against Sin
Jeremiah 44:4
… addressing one who, but a little while ago, was on a bed of sickness and, as you were lying there looking into eternity, you cried, "Lord, save me …
SERMON • SERMON 3141Women's Rights—a Parable
Numbers 17:5
… feel the straitness of it, and that if it were a land of sickness, theywould have to be the nurses, yet coveted to have their share in it …
SERMON • SERMON 977The Master’s Profession—The Disciple’s Pursuit
Psalm 40:9
… I mean, of course, if not disqualified by sickness, and even then there is a sphere for testimony. You can make a sick bed a pulpit to preach …
SERMON • SERMON 1200The Power of the Risen Savior
Matthew 28:18-20
… nature of all human power! The proudest princes have been made to feel sickness, pain and death. After all, they were but men, and oftentimes their weaknesses have …
SERMON • SERMON 1668The Still Small Voice
1 Kings 19:12
… to blame yourselves till first you have seen whether your sadness arises from sickness or from sin—from a feeble body or a rebellious mind. Do not think …
SERMON • SERMON 333Three Homilies From One Text
Matthew 4:23-25
… SPURGEON, AT EXETER HALL, STRAND. "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom and healing all manner of sickness …
SERMON • SERMON 335A Single Eye And Simple Faith
Matthew 6:22
… But, my Brothers and Sisters, there is one disease of faith which will not merely bring disease into the soul, but positive death! There is one sickness of …
SERMON • SERMON 2200The Covenant Promise of the Spirit
Ezekiel 36:27
… He comes to heal the sick and the point He looks to is our sickness. When a physician is called in, he has no patience with things apart …
SERMON • SERMON 3322Hiding Among the Stuff
1 Samuel 10:22-23
… For my part, I thought that terrible as such an affliction would be, perhaps God might overrule it to the waking up of the slumbering multitudes of this …
SERMON • SERMON 1384A Round of Delights
Romans 15:13
… In the midst of bereavements and sickness we may scarcely be able to rejoice, but we may be at peace. When faith cannot break through a troop with …
SERMON • SERMON 1282Conversions Desired
Acts 11:21
… up to the House of God, every word may have power over her. Sickness and pain, shame and poverty, often produce a condition of mind most hopeful for …
SERMON • SERMON 1313A Second Word to Seekers
Jeremiah 29:13
… there is on earth or in Heaven any remedy for your soul's sickness, you will have it if seeking can obtain it! When the Lord has made …
SERMON • SERMON 1015The One Thing Needful
Luke 10:42
… It is weakness, sickness, sin, and sorrow for a believer to leave his Lord and become either his own leader or reliance. We are only safe while we …
SERMON • SERMON 2489Singing Saints
Psalm 30:4
… looking for, to be absolutely free from sin! We would not mind sorrow, sickness, pain, persecution, or anything of that sort, so long as we could but get …
SERMON • SERMON 3308Gathering in the Chosen
Jeremiah 31:8
… Those who are brought to Him in great affliction very often afterwards know more of Christ and more of the love of God than any others!
SERMON • SERMON 3000COME AND WELCOME
John 6:37
… where to lay His head." He can sympathize with you in the deep affliction of your poverty, so go to Him! You should go, above all others—you …
SERMON • SERMON 767The Echo
Psalm 27:8
… You had it after that in your own flesh, when through sickness you tossed on your bed. You had it afterwards from kind teachers, from earnest ministers. Some …
SERMON • SERMON 907Christ—the Fall and Rise of Many
Luke 2:34
… I earnestly pray that this long affliction may be for my spiritual growth and that you may all profit by that which my Lord has taught me in …
COMMENTARYPsalm 131
Psalm 131
… In affliction of every kind. 5. In death.— G. R. Verse 2. 1. The soul has to be weaned as well as the body. a) It is first …
SERMON • SERMON 2414The Prodigal's Climax
Luke 15:17
… men have spent all and poverty has followed on their reckless-ness—and sickness has come at the call of their vice—then it is that Omnipotent Grace …
SERMON • SERMON 514Tell It All
Mark 5:33
… the garments worn upon the living Body of the Savior might remove her sickness. She had true faith, but there was, to say the least, a tinge of …
SERMON • SERMON 1728The Works of the Devil Destroyed
1 John 3:8
… Still, the best Reformer is the Christ of God! The one medicine for man's moral sickness is the Cross and nothing but the Cross. Preach the Crucified …
SERMON • SERMON 1742Spiritual Knowledge and Its Practical Results
Colossians 1:9
… When our eyes grow dim, we can still see to pray! When, by sickness, we are altogether laid aside, we can still pray! And when we meet with …
SERMON • SERMON 2686The Deceived Heart
Isaiah 44:20
… Infidelity will do very well for you when you can have a heated dance and merry revelry, but sickness and death are tests which it cannot endure! Many …
SERMON • SERMON 1726Buying Without Money
Isaiah 55:1
… drive off somewhere else! He will do most business where there is most sickness. When Christ Jesus became a Soul-Physician, He had His eyes on the spiritually …
SERMON • SERMON 3374Sin's True Character
Romans 7:13
… You may not have many more opportunities, for sickness comes so suddenly and puts the strong man aside so soon. Do use for God what time you have …
SERMON • SERMON 311The Beginning, Increase, and End of the Divine Life
Job 8:7
… He will go on with his chisel of affliction, using wisdom and the graving-tool together, till by-and-bye it shall appear what you shall be for …
SERMON • SERMON 280The Chaff Driven Away
Psalm 1:4
… You may rejoice now, but what will you do upon the bed of sickness, when fever shall make you toss from side-to-side, when head and heart …