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Suffering & Affliction
Pain, trials, sickness, affliction, and trusting God in hardship
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Servus Servorum
Luke 22:27
… As our Lord Jesus looked upon His eleven Apostles, He felt that their time of greatest trial was fast approaching. Beyond anything they had ever endured before, they …
SERMON • SERMON 3465The Suffering Christ Satisfied
Isaiah 53:11
… CERTAIN RESULTS GUARANTEED FROM THE SUFFERING OF THE LORD. The Eternal Father says, "He shall see the fruit of the travail of His soul." That is, He shall …
SERMON • SERMON 2371Freedom At Once and Forever
Isaiah 61:1
… Many husbands died, and many widows in Israel were left desolate in those terrible days of trial. 26. But unto none of them was Elijah sent, save unto …
SERMON • SERMON 3457All Are Guilty
Matthew 27:22
… As if to say, "How foolish are you to think there is any danger from Him—look at Him in all His suffering and shame." 5, 6. Then …
SERMON • SERMON 2572Fellowship With Christ
1 Corinthians 10:16
… Another of my friends was exceedingly sick, but I was not suffering, just then, so that when he spoke of his illness, I could not commune with him …
SERMON • SERMON 2173Little Faith and Great Faith
Matthew 14:31
… Notwithstanding this grave trial, though there was nothing to comfort her at home, she was a woman of great faith. And why should not we be like she …
SERMON • SERMON 2207Redemption Through Blood—The Gracious Forgiveness Of Sins
Ephesians 1:7
… who Himself wills to stand in your place and vindicate My justice by suffering the penalty due to you"—then I say that the Grace of God is …
SERMON • SERMON 1399Am I My Brother's Keeper?
Genesis 4:9
… did not help to sow in him the sins which are now your trial? Come, have you done all that could be done? If, in a week's …
SERMON • SERMON 1450The Immovability of the Believer
Psalm 125:1
… themselves—they shed light upon each other and we learn enough from one trial to begin to unfold the mysteries of another. The 124th Psalm must first, to …
SERMON • SERMON 922Sincerity And Duplicity
1 John 2:3
… To know that you know Christ is a perennial joy, and an unfailing consolation under the heaviest trial. This is a candle that will shine in the dark …
SERMON • SERMON 2017'David's Spoil'
1 Samuel 30:20
… see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor." And we see in Jesus human nature …
SERMON • SERMON 3028God's Glory Our Rereward
Isaiah 58:8
… A few choice men have always been raised up by God and they have led the way, both in testimony and in suffering. The race of the Prophets …
SERMON • SERMON 596Praying And Waiting
1 John 5:13-15
… It is ours, but our God sees fit to reserve it for a season for a further trial of our faith. If a man had nothing more than …
SERMON • SERMON 1300Life's Need and Maintenance
Psalm 22:29
… The sudden change from the highest and holiest contemplations to the trifles and vexations of earth subjects the soul to so severe a trial that the poet did …
SERMON • SERMON 3383The Plowman
Isaiah 28:24
… Even then the long-suffering God has followed up His work—plowing, plowing, plowing, plowing till darkness ended all! Do I address any aged ones whose lease must …
SERMON • SERMON 3451Grand Glorying
Galatians 6:14
… But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no la . Surely, neither human nor Divine …
SERMON • SERMON 1267The God of Bethel
Genesis 31:13
… He uses trial and trouble full often to compass His wise designs. It is not the winds that blow directly towards the harbor that are always the best …
SERMON • SERMON 1894The Two Appearings and the Discipline of Grace
Titus 2:11-14
… Oh, if His suffering life and cruel death had been the only appearing, we might have feared. But it is not—it is but the first—and the …
SERMON • SERMON 2297Sealed and Open Evidences
Jeremiah 32:14
… What more could God do than He, here, promises? It looks like a trial of strength between sin and Grace! Sin was like a mountain, but the Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 1038Another Royal Procession
Matthew 21:5
… was it laid to the Lord's charge by his enemies on his trial. As for the scribes and Pharisees, they did no more than bark a little …
SERMON • SERMON 464A Sermon For Gleaners
Ruth 2:15
… We are very apt, unless we have much trial and trouble ourselves, to lose the lady's hand which is so necessary for a physician of souls. We …
SERMON • SERMON 1381A Sunday School Sermon
Isaiah 40:11
… critical state, carry it where it shall be at ease and secure from trial or toil. Here in His bosom it will not be pinched by the frost …
SERMON • SERMON 1062Why Am I Thus?
Romans 7:22
… fulfilled in the little kingdom within our souls! It has a long struggling trial before the full subjugation and there are many harassing rebellions to encounter, but at …
SERMON • SERMON 1544Mahanaim—or, Hosts Of Angels
Genesis 32:1
… not fine weather friends, but such as were true in the hour of trial. See their generosity! What a mass of goods they brought to sustain David's …
SERMON • SERMON 227Compel Them to Come In
Luke 14:23
… Begotten of the Holy Ghost, he was born of the Virgin Mary; he lived in this world a life of exemplary holiness, and of the deepest suffering, till …
SERMON • SERMON 2516Jesus and His Brethren
Genesis 45:1-5
… May you see the wounds He endured when suffering for your sins! Then will you sing with the disciple whom Jesus loved, "Unto Him that loved us and …
SERMON • SERMON 3338The Witness of the Lord's Supper
1 Corinthians 11:26
… and Omnipotent became a humble working Man, putting on the garment without seam, suffering, toiling and at last yielding up His life! As each drop of wine shall …
SERMON • SERMON 1659A Feast for the Upright
Psalm 84:11
… Do you fear the darkness of future trial? The Lord God is your Sun! Do you fear dangers which lie before you in some new sphere upon which …
SERMON • SERMON 2080The Power of His Resurrection
Philippians 3:10
… It was essential for the confirmation of His life-teaching and His death-suffering, that He should be raised from the dead. If he had not risen but …
SERMON • SERMON 2193A Poor Man's Cry—and What Came Of It
Psalm 34:6
… My prayer came in unto You, into Your holy Temple." Wherever you may be and in whatever trial you may be involved, the Lord will hear your cry …
SERMON • SERMON 2907The Holy Spirit Glorifying Christ
John 16:14
… Ah, me! These were the men who said they believed in Him, yet, in His time of trial they fled like cowardly unbelievers! God help us and sustain …
SERMON • SERMON 205A Lecture for Little-Faith
2 Thessalonians 1:3
… What cares he about trouble, trial, or duty? He that helped him bears him through, And makes him more than conqueror too.” He would face an army single …
SERMON • SERMON 2729Christ's Transfigured Face
Matthew 17:2
… How He comes back to that point! Evidently the chief thought in our Savior's mind was concerning His suffering. On another occasion He said, "I have a …
SERMON • SERMON 1408The Reason Why Many Cannot Find Peace
James 4:7-10
… If your plea is, "not guilty," you will be committed for trial according to justice—and then you cannot be forgiven by mercy! You are in a hopeless …
SERMON • SERMON 3038Justice Vindicated And Righteousness Exemplified
Romans 3:24-26
… There stands he who killed his Friend who died to save him! Yes, in the very act and suffering of murder that Friend gave Himself up to bleed …
SERMON • SERMON 3293'The Blood of the Testament'
Hebrews 9:19
… Think of such a Being suffering instead of you! What must be the merit of such suffering, and what an honor to God's Justice that such an …
SERMON • SERMON 750A Triumphal Entrance
Psalm 24:9
… unspeakable bliss to live to the glory of Christ! Even when one is suffering, suffering is sweet if it brings Him honor! If one is despised for Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 2524Fearing and Hoping
Psalm 147:11
… May we have hope in God's power to deliver us when we are under the fear of any trial or danger! May we have hope in God …
COMMENTARYPsalm 19
Psalm 19
… Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Then shall we know …
SERMON • SERMON 2556Life Proved by Love
1 John 3:14
… lightened—and that first grand deliverance ensures that, in every other time of trial, in every other flood of great waters, when I cry unto God, He will …