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Suffering & Affliction
Pain, trials, sickness, affliction, and trusting God in hardship
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Our Lord's Heroic Endurance
Hebrews 12:3
… aspect, that is, as a Sufferer, and from one particular form of trial, namely, "suffering the contradiction of sinners against Himself." It seem to me as if the …
DEVOTIONALAug. 14 — CHILD CHASTISEMENT NOT FOREVER
I Kings 11:39
… This was a sore affliction to the house of David, and it came upon that dynasty distinctly from the hand of God, as the result of unholy conduct …
SERMON • SERMON 731A Word in Season
Job 22:29
… There is hope about your pecuniary difficulties, about your sickness, about your present affliction. God can help you through it. Do not sit down with your elbows on …
SERMON • SERMON 676Man'S Thoughts And God'S Thoughts
Isaiah 55:8
… You have been restored, brought here again after much affliction. God has been gracious to you. He has passed by much sin in His long-suffering. Oh, let …
COMMENTARYPsalm 77
Psalm 77
… It shall be so with us in our hour of trial, the God of grace will hear us in due season. Verse 2. In the day of my …
SERMON • SERMON 1072My Prayer
Psalm 119:37
… affliction. The 107th verse teaches us that. "I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O Lord, according to Your Word." Times of great temptation of spirit and trial …
COMMENTARYPsalm 6
Psalm 6
… Long affliction, without any prospect of remedy, does, in process of time, begin to distress the soul itself. David was a man often exercised with sickness and the …
SERMON • SERMON 2223Abraham's Trial—a Lesson for Believers
Genesis 22:1
… The trial was terrible, but still, Abraham believed. Possibly he did not understand the trial—he did not need to understand. He believed and he took God at …
SERMON • SERMON 1236The Best House-visitation
Mark 1:29-33
… When they are brought into this trial in the course of providence they have need of great grace to remain firm under it. Beloved brother, if in your …
SERMON • SERMON 1779Grappling Irons
Psalm 119:88
… enjoyed by men who are sinful and foolish, for they are suffering under a soul-sickness which kills holy appetites. The prayer of our text answers David's …
SERMON • SERMON 283The Sweet Uses of Adversity
Job 10:2
… business runs cross against you; sickness is never out of your house; while in your own person you are the continual subject of a sad depression of spirit …
SERMON • SERMON 2854Lame Sheep
Hebrews 12:13
… I marvel not that He lets you suffer so much when your suffering yields such rich perfume! Well, dear Friends, when we get so choice a compensation, now …
DEVOTIONALMorning, December 1
Ps 74:17
… Losses, crosses, heaviness, sickness, poverty, and a thousand other ills, are of the Lord’s sending, and come to us with wise design. Frosts kill noxious insects, and …
SERMON • SERMON 1312Good News for Seekers
Psalm 22:26
… He had, at last, been heard and delivered, and He exclaimed with joy, "He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the Afflicted, neither has He hid …
SERMON • SERMON 3358'Grace and Glory'
Psalm 84:11
… Perhaps you are untried at suffering, but He will give you Grace. Perhaps you are naturally of an impatient spirit—wait upon Him—He knows how to bring …
SERMON • SERMON 1123A Welcome Discovery
Genesis 21:19
… or Sister, that instead of your present pinch and trial being a strange thing, you are only suffering what God's children have the most of them suffered …
SERMON • SERMON 3441God's Memorial Of His People
Isaiah 49:16
… the trial. If you are engraved on the palms of God' s hands, though you should have to lie long and pine on that couch of suffering, He …
SERMON • SERMON 2046Consolation From Resurrection
Hosea 13:14
… If God, therefore, shall restore us from the sepulcher, He can certainly restore us from sickness, from poverty, from slander, from depression of spirit, from despair. That is …
SERMON • SERMON 3184Maroth—or, the Disappointed
Micah 1:12
… but evil came down from the Lord." This expression must not be misunderstood. "Evil came down from the Lord." The word, "evil," here means trial, affliction, chastisement, and …
SERMON • SERMON 2767Jesus in Gethsemane
John 18:1
… circumstances—while Christ's Church is suffering— while Christ's cause is suffering—while Christ's people are suffering—while a trial is coming upon you to help …
SERMON • SERMON 1287Strengthening Words from the Savior's Lips
2 Corinthians 12:9
… And so, in Paul's case, the trial was not taken away from him, but he was strengthened by kind, assuring words and by being led to see …
SERMON • SERMON 1701Gladness For Sadness
Psalm 90:15-17
… Wisdom allots each one his talent and his work—his strength and his trial. What would a sparrow do with an eagle's wings? Given the eagle's …
SERMON • SERMON 2591Pride the Destroyer
Habakkuk 2:4
… And so, indeed, it would seem to do while they were suffering—and the Prophet here hints at the reason why God's merciful deliverances may sometimes be …
SERMON • SERMON 2696Wordless Prayers Heard in Heaven
Isaiah 41:17
… Sometimes when people begin groaning and grumbling, I wish I was down the next street—but God is so patient and long-suffering that He hears all that …
SERMON • SERMON 1415Great Difference
Malachi 2:17
… God is, in this life, preparing His people for a better world and part of that process is effected by trial and affliction so that it frequently happens …
SERMON • SERMON 2298The Christ-Given Rest
Matthew 11:28
… Oh, Beloved, did you ever enjoy the rest that Jesus gives? Were you ever tossed about with a great trial? Did you ever have a heavy load of …
SERMON • SERMON 500Ebenezer!
1 Samuel 7:12
… Shall I remind you of our black and dark day? Never erased from our memory can be the time of our affliction and trial. Death came into our …
SERMON • SERMON 1306Fat Things, Full of Marrow
Isaiah 54:7-10
… If he were to descend into the deeps of affliction so low that the earth, with her bars seemed to be about him forever. If not one ray …
SERMON • SERMON 29Christ Manifesting Himself to His People
John 14:22
… Do not imagine that the time of your sickness has been lost to you. You were not only profiting yourselves, but actually serving God by your suffering, if …
SERMON • SERMON 2921An Old-fashioned Remedy
Psalm 107:20
… THE healing of natural sickness is not accomplished without the power of God. Vain were the skill of the most learned physician unless the God of Nature cooperated …
SERMON • SERMON 623Satan Considering the Saints
Job 1:8
… It may be a more severe trial for a man in the possession of great worldly wealth suddenly to be deprived of the bodily power of enjoying it …
SERMON • SERMON 2531A Boundless Benediction
Genesis 49:25
… It seems as if it were necessary for a life which is to win the highest blessing, that it should be greatly checkered with affliction. You must go …
SERMON • SERMON 3332The Dumb Become Singers
Isaiah 35:6
… He has opened our mouth by a trial and though when we had a thousand mercies we did not bless Him, when He sent a sharp affliction, then …
COMMENTARYPsalm 69
Psalm 69
… They could find no real fault in him, but were forced to hatch up a lying accusation before they could commence their sham trial of him. The bottom …
SERMON • SERMON 2564Strange Ways of Love
Hosea 2:14
… I t was not to afflict them that He brought them into the wilderness— it was to take them out of affliction that He led them there—and …
COMMENTARYPsalm 34
Psalm 34
… Make a trial, an inward, experimental trial of the goodness of God. You cannot see except by tasting for yourself; but if you taste you shall see, for …
SERMON • SERMON 888The Silken Fetter
Hosea 3:5
… Believe me, there is no trial so great as no trial, even as an old Divine used to say that there was no devil so bad as no …
SERMON • SERMON 1094Always and for All Things
Ephesians 5:20
… To bear sickness and pain patiently, because it is according to His will, is to thank God. To sympathize with suffering saints for love of Jesus is to …
DEVOTIONALMorning, December 29
1Sa 7:12
… through wealth, through sickness, through health, at home, abroad, on the land, on the sea, in honour, in dishonour, in perplexity, in joy, in trial, in triumph, in …
SERMON • SERMON 2129Pleading, Not Contradicting
Matthew 15:27
… Ah, my Lord! You have many ways of bringing Your wandering sheep back and among them You even send the black dog of sorrow and of sickness after …