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Suffering & Affliction
Pain, trials, sickness, affliction, and trusting God in hardship
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Salvation All of Grace
Ephesians 2:8
… up a good character as a plea, though I believe that in the trial you would break down mightily, for you are as full of sin as an …
SERMON • SERMON 1670One Lion, Two Lions, No Lion at All!
Proverbs 22:13
… a mere mouse! Where is your manliness to tremble at so insignificant a trial? Perhaps you have an acquaintance who would be parted from you if you became …
SERMON • SERMON 2519When Should We Pray?
Luke 18:1
… said, "My Grace is sufficient for you." Paul still had to bear the trial, but he received from the Lord the Grace to enable him to bear it …
SERMON • SERMON 1928Our Ascended Lord
1 Peter 3:22
… consciously and deeply felt how very near He came to us in His suffering condition and how very near He still is to us as truly Man. On …
SERMON • SERMON 472Believers—Lights In The World
Philippians 2:14-16
… consolation afforded by the fact that all the saints have endured the like trial. Are you in the midst of a crooked people? So was Paul. So was …
SERMON • SERMON 592The True Position Of Assurance
Ephesians 1:13
… Your poor soul stands on trial and you have been listening to the accusations of Satan and your own sins! And the moment Christ gets up to show …
SERMON • SERMON 565The Great Liberator
John 8:36
… Borne on angels' wings to Heaven—up from calamity, imperfection, temptation and trial shall you mount—flitting with the wings of a dove far above the clouds of …
SERMON • SERMON 324Effects Of Sound Doctrine
Matthew 24:24
… But has not that very fact of God's long-suffering helped to lull sinners to sleep and weaken the power of that tremendous Word of God, "Today …
SERMON • SERMON 1385Jesus Interceding For Transgressors
Isaiah 53:12
… He was beginning to suffer the pangs of death, suffering in soul as well as in body, for He had freshly come from the Garden where His soul …
SERMON • SERMON 872The Perseverance of the Saints
Philippians 1:6
… If some heavy personal trial should pass over you, hear the words, "I am the Lord, I change not." Believe that if He hides His face, He still …
SERMON • SERMON 1128Love's Crowning Deed
John 15:13
… person loving will be willing to subject himself to crosses and losses—to suffering and self-denials. After all, the value of a thing in the market is …
SERMON • SERMON 1134Paved With Love
Solomon 3:10
… Sin and suffering have a natural relationship. If God is just, sin must bring evil consequences upon the man who commits it and until conscience understands that this …
SERMON • SERMON 2479Spices, Flowers, Lilies and Myrrh
Solomon 5:13
… to the smiters—if you do but know something of Him as the suffering Savior, you shall find that there is inexpressible delight in Him and, with the …
SERMON • SERMON 2078The Believing Thief
Luke 23:42-43
… When we are the subjects of acute suffering it is not easy to exhibit that faith which we fancy we possess at other times. This man, suffering as …
SERMON • SERMON 408Accidents, Not Punishments
Luke 13:1-5
… It is only because he hath had mercy, and been very long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that we should perish, but that we should come to …
SERMON • SERMON 783Sermons From Saintly Deathbeds No. 783
Genesis 49:33
… God permits the Jordan to overflow its banks when some of His best children are passing through, for He designs to magnify His Grace in the last trial …
SERMON • SERMON 1088The Essence of Simplicity
John 9:35
… Now, it is not at all likely that any person here is feeling the same trouble, but many may be suffering from something similar. It may be that …
SERMON • SERMON 3230The Last Message for the Year
John 6:37
… Gratitude, love, joy, hope, peace, courage, long-suffering, gentleness, meekness, temperance and every other "fruit of the Spirit" will spring from the blessed root-Grace of faith in …
SERMON • SERMON 2305No Fixity Without Faith
Isaiah 7:9
… or night, so, dear Friends, God puts us down these deep wells of trial, and then we see His starry promises shining brightly! I would rather take the …
SERMON • SERMON 2077The Gospel of the Glory of Christ
2 Corinthians 4:4
… Born of a virgin, our Lord has come among us and has lived on earth a life of service and of suffering—there must be hope for us …
SERMON • SERMON 1576The Throne of God and of the Lamb
Revelation 22:3
… Oh, what comfort there is for suffering saints in this conjunction of Majesty and Mercy on the Throne of the Highest! The Sovereignty that is signified by this …
SERMON • SERMON 2344Christ's Dying Word for His Church
John 19:30
… And, first, as it concerns Christ, do you not feel greatly comforted to think that He is no longer to be humiliated? His suffering and shame are finished …
SERMON • SERMON 1912The Holy Road
Isaiah 35:8
… must find their wisdom in the Cross or die fools! In times of trial, men cannot endure speculations, mystifications and refining—they need the sure and plain Truth …
SERMON • SERMON 711A Feast For Faith
Isaiah 28:29
… knew how much you gained by that loss, nor how much misery that trial spared you. Some of you might never have been saved at all were it …
SERMON • SERMON 562“Alas For Us, If Thou Wert All, and Nought Beyond, O Earth”
1 Corinthians 15:19
… more than four years entirely deprived of the use of his limbs, and suffering extreme pain from swellings in all his joints. I approached him full of pity …
SERMON • SERMON 1095The Monster Dragged to Light
Romans 7:13
… gather from this forbearance on God's part? God has been very long-suffering and compassionate to them and, therefore, they defy Him again and return presumptuously to …
SERMON • SERMON 1557Walking Humbly With God
Micah 6:8
… It is the hypocrite who will not always call upon God—a little trial cools his love. Ah, Friend, this will not do. Complaining and rebelling are not …
SERMON • SERMON 2866Good News
Proverbs 25:25
… detestation anything like confidence in your prayers, or your tears, your doings, your suffering, your preparation, your repenting—or anything else—for it is none but Jesus who …
SERMON • SERMON 1889The Blood of Sprinkling (Second Sermon.)
Hebrews 12:24
… The long-suffering of God rules the age, and Jesus the Mediator is the gracious Lord-lieutenant of the dispensation. Instead of destroying offending man from off the …
SERMON • SERMON 482The Royal Pair in Their Glorious Chariot
Song 3:6-11
… endurance of her valiant sons? Wherever she goes, the thick smoke of her suffering goeth up to heaven. "We are alway delivered unto death," said the apostle. The …
SERMON • SERMON 1206Heart-Knowledge of God
Jeremiah 24:7
… The understanding perceives that God is just, powerful, faithful, wise, true, gracious, long-suffering and the like. Then the heart, being purified, admires all these glorious attributes and …
SERMON • SERMON 3425Days of Heaven Upon the Earth
Deuteronomy 11:21
… Negro slave in the days of slavery, who could say that, notwithstanding all suffering and all penury and every ill, a Christian's life was a happy one …
SERMON • SERMON 2126Something Done for Jesus
Matthew 26:10
… And that other part of Christian service, namely, endurance—the bearing of shame for Christ's sake, the patient suffering of the will of God in Providence—all …
SERMON • SERMON 986Victor Emmanuel, Emancipator
Isaiah 42:7
… He lingers lovingly, and his long suffering is salvation. The Lord’s decrees tarry not so long but what in the divine reckoning, and according to the Lord …
SERMONNonconformity
From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7
… How strange it is that the growth of the individual is generally through much suffering and many tears! I believe in the baptism of sorrow as well as …
SERMON • SERMON 2632"What Shall the Harvest Be?"
Hosea 8:7
… Joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Joy and peace seem to blossom and ripen out of love. Long-suffering, too, is part of the fruit …
SERMON • SERMON 2044All At It
Acts 8:4
… Here was the Redeemer of men suffering to the death to rescue men from eternal ruin. And they could not help telling abroad this miracle of love. They …
SERMON • SERMON 369The First Sermon in the Tabernacle
Acts 5:42
… have pointed upward, reminding you that divinity never had but one body, the suffering and crucified human frame of Jesus Christ, who ascended up on high. To them …
SERMON • SERMON 2390A Royal Funeral
John 19:38-42
… Throughout His life all things worked together for His good—not to screen Him from suffering, but to cause Him to suffer—and to make Him triumphant through …
SERMON • SERMON 1377Taking Hold of God
Isaiah 64:7
… Now, see how steadily that man moves about! Trial does not bow him down—he expected it and he expects to be delivered out of it. If you …