Suffering & Affliction

The Dual Nature and the Duel Within

Romans 7:23

… in prayer! But yet the captivity of your soul is great while the trial lasts and even in the remembrance of it. You say to yourself, "I am …

Angelic Studies

Ephesians 3:10

… Thus in one place "we see Jesus made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death," and in another place we learn, "that the Father …

Araunah's Threshing Floor

1 Chronicles 22:1

… Sin must have punishment! There is only one method whereby the sword can be sheathed—by Christ's suffering in your place! The Son of the Virgin, who …

The Love Of Jesus—What It Is—None But His Loved Ones Know

Ephesians 3:19

… sit down at His table till they shall know Ralph Erskine's blessed sickness of love and, in the conscious enjoyment of a precious Savior, shall say in …

How God Condemned Sin

Romans 8:3

… God condemned sin by bruising Christ, by suffering Him to be put to death, by deserting Him in the hour of nature's extremity, by permitting His soul …

Week-day Services, 1858-1860

… I had no sooner buckled on the harness to go forth to fight my Master's battle, than every ache and pain was gone, and all my sickness …

Kept From Iniquity

Psalm 18:23

… Well, my dear Brother or Sister, we sympathize with you in your trial and pray the Lord that you may carefully watch and that you may be kept …

Lessons From Christ's Baptism

Matthew 3:16

… Thus you have the Son suffering for you, the Spirit applying to you the merit of His atoning Sacrifice and the Father well-pleased with you because you …

Looking Unto Jesus

Psalm 34:5

… He is in suffering, and he needs sympathy, but they mock at him, and they say, “He saved others; himself he cannot save.” They misquote his words, they …

Five Fears

Ecclesiastes 8:12

… Many of you who are now before me have passed through that dreadful ordeal of suffering under a sense of the wrath of God. We, my brethren, shall …

'Accepted in the Beloved'

Ephesians 1:6

… eyes? He was a mass of love! He was Love performing and Love suffering. Love made Him live as He did and love made Him die as He …

Christ Made a Curse for Us

Galatians 3:13

… We have been accustomed in divinity to divide the penalty into two parts, the penalty of loss and the penalty of actual suffering. Christ endured both of these …

A Sermon From a Sick Preacher

1 Peter 2:7

… For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endures grief, suffering wrongfully. There is no credit in suffering rightfully—the credit is in patiently enduring …

Return! Return!

Jeremiah 3:12

… A man is very far gone in guilt when he reads Divine Grace the wrong way upwards and infers, from the long-suffering of the Lord, that he …

Knowledge Commended

Daniel 11:32

… Know Him in the singular complexity of His Nature—eternal God and yet suffering, finite Man. Follow Him as He walks the waters with the tread of Deity …

Why Should I Weep?

Luke 23:27-31

… Perhaps they judged Him to be weary with His night of watching and worn with His suffering from the scourge, and they feared lest He might die upon …

Cured At Last!

Luke 8:43

… She had endured much additional suffering through seeking a cure. That is the case with you who have not come to Christ but, being under a sense of …

Lecture 2: On Commenting

… Other men and wiser men have expounded before us, and anything undiscovered by them it were well to put to test and trial before we boast too loudly …

Laying the Hand on the Sacrifice

Leviticus 4:29

… While the Redeemer was here below, His state of poverty, obscurity, suffering and shame, was of such a character that few would believe in Him. And even those …

The Best War Cry

Numbers 23:21

… Then, too, suffering for Christ becomes pleasant, yes, any kind of suffering is easily borne— "I can do all things, or can bear All sufferings, if my Lord …

The Great Supreme

Deuteronomy 32:3

… work, He would give you Grace to stand in it! And if your trial should be one of persecution, if you are called to the stake, you need …

Death for Sin and Death to Sin

1 Peter 2:24

… You may thank Him, you sons of sorrow and daughters of suffering, for all your pangs, for now you have fellowship with Him. Blessed be Your love, O …

The Gentleness Of Jesus

Matthew 12:19

… The subject of this morning will be the gentleness and long-suffering of the Lord Jesus. Secondly, the outcome of it, "In His name shall the Gentiles trust …

The Mighty Power Which Creates And Sustains Faith

Ephesians 1:19-23

… Note the change from depths of reproach to heights of Glory! From fearful deeps of sorrow to glorious summits of bliss! From weakness, shame and suffering, to strength …

The Ever-Living Christ

Revelation 1:18

… face, for, as they look into it and see the lines of suffering, and of suffering despised—and see the marks of love, and of love rejected—of …

The Man Christ Jesus

Hebrews 7:4

… Born, growing, gathering strength, coming to manhood, suffering, dying, in all this he was man; yet he was never at any time less divine. Our Lord's humanity …

Grace for the Guilty

Isaiah 44:22

… I know there never was a natural birth without pangs and pains—and I am equally sure that there never will be a spiritual birth without some suffering …

Christ Our Passover

1 Corinthians 5:7

… Thus the Paschal Lamb might well convey to the pious Hebrew the person of a suffering, silent, patient, harmless Messiah. Look further down. It was a lamb without …

Feeding on the Bread of Life

John 6:47

… This is another picture of Christ's suffering—of His suffering even unto death. So the one picture has two panels and many subdivisions, as if the Lord …

God's Glory in Hiding Sin

Proverbs 25:2

… That amazing, that remarkable, that unique transaction of the Just suffering for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, has enabled God to cover our sin …

Believers Sent by Christ, As Christ Is Sent By the Father

John 17:18

… You are to have fellowship with the Only-Begotten in many ways and among the rest you are to be partakers of His suffering! Expect to be misunderstood …

'Flee From the Wrath to Come'

Matthew 3:7

… To sin against the patience and long-suffering of Almighty God is to sin with a vengeance! You do, as it were, defiantly put your finger into the …

The Lord's Supper—simple But Sublime!

1 Corinthians 11:25

… Let us seek that we may worship Christ in spirit and in truth while we receive the outward symbols of His suffering. EXPOSITION BY C. H. SPURGEON: JOHN …

The Sin-Offering for the Common People

Leviticus 4:27-31

… When He suffered, His suffering not being due to God on account of anything that He had personally done, He had much suffering to spare—and He has …

The Two Pillars Of Salvation

Romans 4:24

… You are to see Him as made sin for you, as your Substitute, standing in your place, and suffering in your place, delivered for your offenses. If you …

A Honeycomb

Hebrews 12:3

… WHEN the Hebrew Christians were suffering dire persecution the Apostle could suggest no better support for their faith than this, "Consider Him." He bade them look to Jesus …

A Cure for a Weak Heart

Psalm 31:24

… Sometimes we have seen those who hope in the Lord very weak in heart under great suffering. Pain follows pain—it seems as if every cut of the …

Love's Labours

1 Corinthians 13:7

… we rest in expectation that gentleness will win, and that long-suffering will wear out malice, for we look for the ultimate victory of everything that is true …

The Three Hours of Darkness

Matthew 27:45

… Yet we could not have wondered if one did say, as he is reported to have done, "God is suffering, or the world is perishing." Nor should I …

The Ever-present Crisis

2 Peter 3:17

… The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all …