Suffering & Affliction

The Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ

2 Corinthians 4:6

… select any single incident in which Jesus appears, whether in the chamber of sickness or at the grave, whether in weakness or in power, you shall, in each …

Man'S Weakness—God'S Anointing

2 Samuel 3:39

… Sometimes they are diminished, and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow; the eyes of their faith grow dim and the light of God's Countenance, being withdrawn …

The Blood of Christ's Covenant

Zechariah 9:11

… And he shall pass through the sea with affliction. In the restoration of Israel, there is to be an even greater triumph than that which was achieved at …

Preparation for Revival

Amos 3:3

… If by sickness, if by serious calamities, if by slander and rebuke, more honour can be brought to him, then hail! and welcome! all these things; they shall …

Beholding God's Church

Psalm 48:12-14

… Why cry you for your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable for the multitude of your iniquity. "These are dark words," says one. If they are incurable, what more …

The Approachableness of Jesus

Luke 15:1

… this evening; I should be glad to go even to the school of affliction if I might learn to preach more successfully. But I can do no more …

The Main Matter

John 20:30

… The practice of reading skeptical works is a very dangerous one—we have enough tendency to sickness in our own constitutions without going to fever hospitals to test …

Am I Clear Of His Blood?

Genesis 4:10

… you awake, there is the redness of the eyes, the headache, and the sickness. But the next night when your master wants you, you go again. And so …

Christ Glorified as the Builder of His Church

Zechariah 6:13

… When we get to heaven, there will be no sanctifying us there, no squaring us with affliction, no hammering us with the rod, no making us. We must …

God's Writing Upon Man's Heart

Jeremiah 31:33

… sometimes be sharpened—and so ministers must sometimes feel the sharp knife of affliction so as to make them more fit to preach God's Word. Need I …

First Forgiveness, Then Healing

Luke 5:20

… This affliction usually comes up all of a sudden—men who have been about their business as actively as usual have been, in a moment, struck down with …

The Father and the Son

1 John 1:3

… Yet, suffering in that fashion in the house where the one business carried on is the healing of the sick, I will suppose that you refuse to put …

An Infallible Sign Of Revival

Isaiah 2:11

… He can easily do that with some of us—a little twinge of pain and sickness—and we are useless! We seem to say, "Lord, what am I …

A Most Needful Prayer Concerning The Holy Spirit

Psalm 51:11

… to present it, for God's Presence is to us our comfort amid affliction. He is "a very present help in trouble." It is our greatest delight—of …

Job Among the Ashes

Job 42:5

… Notice that in order to this close vision of God, affliction had overtaken him. It was not till after he had scraped himself with the potsherd, nor till …

The Power Of Prayer And The Pleasure Of Praise

2 Corinthians 1:11

… But if the pilot should fall over, or the captain should be smitten with sickness, or the helmsman be washed from the wheel, then what is the vessel …

A Plea From the Cross

Luke 23:34

… There was a special symbolical reason for Christ's suffering outside the gate, and His followers are bid to "go forth unto Him outside the camp, bearing His …

Everybody's Sermon

Hosea 12:10

… did you think how often God has mended you; how many stones of affliction he has cast upon you; how many waggon-loads of warnings you have had …

Diamond Hinges - 'as' and 'so'

Isaiah 54:9

… You say, "I am the man that has seen affliction," but, for all that, not a drop of God's wrath, nor even a rebuke, in the strong …

Righteous Hatred

Psalm 97:10

… bring them back in his mouth; he will allow sore trouble and sharp affliction to lay hold upon them, so that they are cast down almost to the …

Despised Light Withdrawn

John 12:36

… our Lord. "What shall I say? Shall I ask to be delivered from sickness? Shall I ask that I may not endure the troubles which are the common …

The Redeemer Described by Himself

Isaiah 50:2-6

… What a wondrous Christ He is—Divine and, therefore, able—Human and struck and suffering and, therefore, full of compassion! "It behooved Him in all things to be …

Christ Is All

Colossians 3:11

… Are you sick? He will make your bed in your sickness, and will so make your sick-bed better than the walks of health. Are you persecuted? Be …

Holiness, The Law of God's House

Ezekiel 43:12

… Where the sacred Presence abides, sickness of soul disappears! Jehovah-Rophi heals His people among whom He dwells and the inhabitant shall no more say, "I am sick …

Taking Possession Of Our Inheritance

Joshua 1:2

… This privilege is enjoyed none the less because of daily affliction, bodily pain, opposition and reproach—it may even be enjoyed all the more because of these—if …

Exposition: 1 John 3:1-10

… your heart this morning? Are you in the lowest depths of sorrow and suffering? ” Now are you a son of God.” Does corruption rise within your spirit, and …

Four Contrasts

Isaiah 43:1-4

… Only by affliction could we be made to assume the shape and pattern that the Lord had determined for us. At other times it has been the touch …

The King and His Court

Psalm 101:6

… sing." Winter or summer, "I will sing." Poverty or riches, "I will sing." Sickness or health, "I will sing." Life or death, "I will sing"— "I will love …

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

Luke 15:4-7

… No, nothing of the kind; we are only speaking of the joy which comes of recovery from sickness. Take another case: you have a son who has been …

Our Lord's Last Cry from the Cross

Luke 23:46

… It stands alone in the unutterable agony of men, women and children in that dreadful time of suffering. 31. For if they do these things in a green …

The Widow of Sarepta

1 Kings 17:8

… A physician who attended him during his sickness, a godly man, desiring to convince him of his error, said to him as he stood by his bedside, "I …

Despair Denounced and Grace Glorified

Ezekiel 37:11

… Despair, which is the mind's declaration that there is no hope, is not so much a sickness of the understanding as a sin of the soul. It …

'That Day' and Its Disclosure

2 Timothy 1:18

… Take your full share in whatever affliction the Gospel brings upon Christians. "According to the power of God." 9. Who has saved us, and called us with an …

From The Dunghill To The Throne

Psalm 113:7

… room—those saints of God who owe to charity their daily food because sickness has deprived them of the means of earning their bread? My poor Hearer, you …

"God With Us"

Matthew 1:23

… This is a wonderful fact! God the Infinite once dwelt in the frail body of a child and tabernacled in the suffering form of a lowly man. "God …

Our Lord's Substitution

1 Peter 2:24

… Can anybody measure the self-denial of the Savior in acting thus? Is it possible for us to estimate the stoop of love and the amazing suffering which …

Marrow and Fatness

2 Samuel 7:18-22

… then you understand its exceeding greatness! When you know His faithfulness in deep affliction and great need, then you see it! And when you taste His mercy under …

If So—what Then?

1 Peter 4:18

… any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men, everyone against his neighbor But now I will not …

Christ's Crowning Glory

Psalm 21:5

… And, multiplying and increasing, there would be many millions of spirits in the universe, all rebellious against God and, consequently, all suffering! There would be countless myriads, born …

A Door of Hope

Hosea 2:15

… I may be speaking to one who says, "I am convinced that my affliction is a door of hope, but the door is shut." "Ah," says another, "and …