Suffering & Affliction

Jesus, The Stumbling Stone Of Unbelievers

1 Peter 2:7

… Their patient suffering shall give Him praise—Heaven shall be the sweeter rest to them and the brighter place of Glory to them when He shall return with …

The Pastors’ College, 1861-1878

… Yet I bless God for this suffering also, and believe that your prophetic card will be truer than Dr. Cumming’s vaticinations. “Yours ever lovingly, “C. H. S …

"Living, Loving, Lasting Union"

Ephesians 5:30

… Because of this life of Christ which was in him, he bore suffering without flinching. If there was anything that could equal the industry of his work, it …

The Rider on the White Horse and the Armies with Him

Revelation 19:11-16

… therefore, the tender, affectionate heart of John would never permit his Master's suffering image to fade from his memory. Truly, if he had spoken to us in …

The Long Pastorate Commenced, 1854

… Immersion in suffering has preceded the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Fasting gives an appetite for the banquet. The Lord is revealed in the backside of the desert …

The Well-Beloved

… How lovely He was to my eyes when I was sinking in despair! To see Him suffering for my sin upon the tree, was as the opening of …

Seeking the Souls of Men

… Of course, I told him that I was very glad to hear that he had sympathy for the suffering, and that I considered it far better to be …

Psalm 85

Psalm 85

… of tribulation may be shortened, lest our spirit should utterly fail beneath the trial. Verse 6. Wilt thou not revive us again? Hope here grows almost confident. She …

The Strait Gate

Luke 13:24

… reposing all his confidence in the Atonement once made by the Man of Suffering on Calvary's tree. On earth he is saved, and in the article of …

The Christian—A Debtor

Romans 8:12

… air we breathe the purchase of their death? Did not they, by bitter suffering, achieve our liberty for us? And are we not debtors to them? Shall we …

Messengers Wanted

Isaiah 6:8

… up, and have bowed before the regal splendor of Divine Love, incarnate in suffering humanity, and resplendent in agony and death. If you have ever beheld the vision …

Delay Is Dangerous

Genesis 24:55

… more unlikely to receive it again, for no man cripples his conscience without suffering injury." If I say to my awakened conscience, "No, I will not hear you …

Two Advents Of Christ

Hebrews 9:27

… of Judgment—so Christ shall be here twice—once in His life of suffering and then again in His hour of triumph, THE TWO COMINGS OF CHRIST HAVE …

Rahab's Faith

Hebrews 11:31

… forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, and equally patient in suffering when he endured as seeing him who is invisible. We have faith dividing seas …

A Typical Week’s Work

… interested, left all too little leisure for the weary brain and the oft-suffering body. But if his holiday was a time of toil, what must have been …

Cambridge Life and Letters, 1850-1851

… Through a violent cold, I have for the last fortnight been suffering from inflammation on the chest, which has rendered so much speaking extremely painful, and now at …

The First and Great Commandment

Mark 12:30

… I marvel at God’s long-suffering toward men. I see the foul-mouthed blasphemer curse his God. O God! how canst thou endure it? Why dost thou …

Forgiveness and Fear

Psalm 130:4

… And the long-suffering of God ought much more to lead you to repentance and not induce you to continue in your sins. This design of God is …

Faith

Hebrews 11:6

… a man does not please God, he inevitably brings upon himself sorrow and suffering in this life; he puts a worm and a rottenness in the core of …

The Believer's Challenge

Romans 8:34

… Stern was the labour, toilsome was the work; he dug on, and on, and on, through rocks of suffering, into the deepest caverns of misery; but the resurrection …

Things That Accompany Salvation

Hebrews 6:9

… very eye and center; it is bathed in tears; it is overwhelmed with suffering. See its humility; it never talks about boasting now. Mark its repentance, the sins …

The Angelic Life

Matthew 22:30

… May you and I do this to some of those who, under conviction of sin, are smarting and suffering but have no liberty. Go today, if you have …

Justice Satisfied

Romans 3:26

… of the Virgin Mary; was cradled in a manger; lived a life of suffering, and at last died a death of agony. If you will but think of …

Sins of Omission

Jeremiah 11:8

… to supply you with life! Suppose the infinite God should omit His long-suffering mercy for an hour! Suppose He should refuse for an hour to restrain the …

Christ—Our Substitute

2 Corinthians 5:21

… He passed through the wilderness of suffering, but into the wilderness of sin he could never go. “He knew no sin;” mark that expression and treasure it up …

Why Christ Is Not Esteemed

Isaiah 53:3

… Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, for the pattern to them which should hereafter believe …

A Vivid Contrast

John 7:53

… great enemy of souls! If you and I had to bear some terrible suffering, it is very likely, (for the flesh is so weak), that we would try …

Clinging to Christ

John 6:67

… your Savior? Do you, in your heart, say, "I will never again endure suffering and reproach for His name's sake. I will never again put my trust …

Daniel Facing the Lions' Den

Daniel 6:10

… If we quail at suffering for Christ, and evade his cross, we may have to encounter a fiercer doom than the terror from which, in our craven panic …

Voices from the Excellent Glory

Matthew 3:16

… Baptism itself, the fulfilling of all righteousness, we have seen to be the type of His death, and of His immersion in suffering. On Tabor, on the second …

Grace Abounding

Romans 5:20

… turn to the dear, patient Lamb of God, and as I see Him suffering for me, I say to Him, "Oh, what wondrous Grace it must have been …

Our Champion

Judges 16:3

… They lift Him up, a spectacle of scorn and suffering and now, while dying in extreme pangs, and especially when He closes His eyes and cries out, "It …

Simple Fact and Simple Faith

Acts 13:38

… the Prophets did not your fathers slay?" Yet in the teeth of extreme suffering, or of violent death, they seem to have been compelled by a Divine furor …

A Personal Application

Hebrews 9:26

… nor to shun sacrifice! Let us, rather, court labor and invite opportunities of suffering and occasions for the giving of ourselves and of our substance to His cause …

The Wordless Book

Psalm 51:7

… His mental suffering also constituted a very vital part of the Atonement—the sufferings of His soul were the very soul of His sufferings. If you can comprehend …

'The Church of the First-born'

Hebrews 12:23

… God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without suffering. And the Son who was without sin was the "Man of Sorrows and acquainted …

An Awful Contrast

Matthew 26:67

… must first be given up to shame and to contempt—and then to suffering and to death and, consequently, He was not spared this last and most brutal …

True Unity Promoted

Ephesians 4:3

… Are any suffering? Let us weep with them. Do we know one who has less love than others? Then let us have more, so as to make up …

Our Lord's Posture in Ascension

Luke 24:50-53

… We cannot have His righteousness apart from His suffering. We cannot get power to conquer sin and Satan apart from the hands that were pierced— "When wounded sore …

A Divided Heart

Hosea 10:2

… It is not an acute disease, which brings pain, and suffering, and sorrow with it, but it is chronic, it has got into the very nature of the …