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Suffering & Affliction
Pain, trials, sickness, affliction, and trusting God in hardship
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God's Time for Comforting
Psalm 119:82
… one who has had much experience with the disease from which he is suffering, he sends for him at once if he is a wise patient. David knew …
SERMON • SERMON 2347The Lord's Famous Titles
Psalm 146:7-9
… is my lot, almost wherever I may be, to be followed by persons suffering in mind. I sometimes laugh and tell them that "birds of a feather flock …
SERMON • SERMON 3160The Call of 'Today'
Hebrews 3:7
… was divided into four parts." I remember the sermon well enough—I was suffering from great pain at the time. "The point which lasted longest was that in …
SERMON • SERMON 3463Why Men Do Not Believe
John 5:46
… among the lost that howl in the Pit and yet, despite His long-suffering goodness, you have not thanked Him, but gracelessly gone up and down the world …
SERMON • SERMON 3211'Feed My Sheep'
John 21:16
… What suffering or reproach will he endure for Him? What of his substance will he consecrate to His service? What of himself will he use for the Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 3390Hoping in God's Mercy
Psalm 33:18
… sin He bore for our sakes! His whole Being is a mass of suffering in our place! Now, why all this miraculous and sacrificial endurance? Surely that bearing …
SERMON • SERMON 2243His Own Funeral Sermon*
Acts 13:36
… He would almost frighten me, sometimes, with his jubilation under pain—for when he was in agonies of suffering and could only sit on the platform for a …
SERMON • SERMON 1037The Poor Man's Friend
Psalm 72:12
… We have need in preaching, need in hearing; we have need in working, need in suffering, need in resting. What is our life but one long need? All …
SERMON • SERMON 1731Accepted of the Great Father
Ephesians 1:6
… Hell! Be startled, my Soul, at this thought—that nothing but infinite long-suffering has kept you out of the Pit that is bottomless, "where their worm dies …
SERMON • SERMON 2908The Saint's Heritage and Watchword
Isaiah 54:17
… Cruel torture, awful suffering was endured by the saints of God. The elect cried and said, "O Lord, how long? Let it repent You concerning Your servants." The …
SERMON • SERMON 2389Guidance To Grace and Glory
Psalm 73:24
… sometimes is with the captain of a vessel—if someone on board is suffering from the yellow fever, the ship master will not send a boat to shore …
SERMON • SERMON 181Particular Redemption
Matthew 20:28
… Hark to His groans! Did ever man wrestle as He wrestles? Go and look in His face! Was ever such suffering depicted upon mortal countenance as you can …
SERMON • SERMON 3233God's Firebrands
Zechariah 3:2
… think that such an one as you, after so many years of long-suffering, should not be melted thereby! Now, suppose the Lord should appear to you tonight …
SERMON • SERMON 2661A Marvelous Change
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
… on, perhaps for 20 or 30 more years!" Possibly a man who is suffering from neuralgia comes to see him, and he says, "I am not sure whether …
SERMON • SERMON 1125The World On Fire
2 Peter 3:10
… Because the Lord, in His infinite long-suffering, has suffered transgression to go for awhile unpunished, therefore they have wickedly said, "How does God know? The Almighty does …
SERMON • SERMON 913Method and Music, Or the Art of Holy and Happy Living
Colossians 3:17
… Therefore this I will not do, be the consequences what they may of loss or of suffering. I am not authorized by Christ to follow this course, neither …
SERMON • SERMON 2153The Iniquity of Our Holy Things
Exodus 28:36-38
… How impatient in suffering. How backward in alms-giving. How apt to compromise with the world! If the Lord should mark iniquity, who among us could stand? When …
SERMON • SERMON 3287The Only Door
John 10:9
… this sort! May not this going out also mean to go out to suffering? You and I are sometimes called to bear great bodily pain, or losses, or …
SERMON • SERMON 2751'A Prepared Place for a Prepared People'
John 14:2
… strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto allpatience and long-suffering with joyfulness; giving thanks unto the Father, who has qualified us to bepartakers of …
SERMON • SERMON 3102The Forerunner
Hebrews 6:20
… Christ and that Christ is one with you! When you suffer, Christ is suffering in one of the members of His mystical body. And when He rejoices, it …
SERMON • SERMON 2768Debtors and Debtors
Luke 7:41
… Heaven, and sends Him here in human flesh and blood to bear shame, suffering and death for guilty men—and they say that they will not believe on …
SERMON • SERMON 122Christ About His Father’s Business
Luke 2:49
… You can do your Master’s business, by Iying on a bed of suffering, for him, if you do it patiently. The soldier who is ordered to lie …
SERMON • SERMON 850Soul-winning
Proverbs 11:30
… And there is not a laboring man, a suffering woman, a servant girl, a chimney sweeper, or a crossing sweeper, but what has opportunities for serving God. And …
SERMON • SERMON 3397A Timely Expostulation
Luke 24:5
… And shall not God stand up for His Sovereign prerogative, enforce His own Law and make men feel that they cannot violate that Law without suffering the retribution …
SERMON • SERMON 2339Baptism Essential To Obedience
Mark 16:16
… you gaze upon the nailed hands and feet and pierced side of this suffering Man, who is, at the same time, very God of very God, and can …
SERMON • SERMON 2806'Jesus Our Lord'
Romans 4:24
… She knows Him to have been a suffering Man, yet she calls Him, "Lord." Yes, even though, on the Cross, she beholds, with tearful eyes, His agony and …
SERMON • SERMON 3222'The Lamb of God'
John 1:29
… He stood up and simply told the story that I have again told you tonight—the story of Christ suffering in the place of sinners and of Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 3326The Wondrous Covenant
Hebrews 8:10
… new heart comes from the bleeding heart, the changed nature comes from the suffering nature. You must look to Jesus, and looking to Jesus, know that— "There is …
SERMON • SERMON 3085An Exciting Enquiry
Matthew 21:10
… God and Man, concerning the work of Christ as taking human guilt and suffering for it, concerning the worth of that work as being able to take away …
SERMON • SERMON 2437Prayer, the Proof of Godliness
Psalm 32:6
… and He did it that He might show forth in me all long-suffering, for a pattern to them who should hereafter repent and believe." Another motive for …
SERMON • SERMON 2801A Fear to Be Desired
Hosea 3:5
… I think you can see, dear Friends, without my needing to enlarge further upon this point, that while a time of sorrow and suffering is often, to the …
SERMON • SERMON 2224"If You Can"—"If You Can"
Mark 9:22
… Do you not see how the suffering child was tossed about—sometimes this way, sometimes that? You may have seen some poor man or woman who is subject …
SERMON • SERMON 3357Heedful Hearing
Luke 8:18
… with the salvation of the elect, but that by his earnest striving and suffering, the word of the Gospel was brought to their hearing—faith, then, came by …
SERMON • SERMON 559The Cripple at Lystra
Acts 14:9-10
… in your heart, “Ah! ah! what is it? Christ taking men’s sins, suffering in their stead? That suits me. Is God doing this? Ah! then he must …
SERMON • SERMON 2092God's Own Gospel Call
Isaiah 55:3
… By the long-suffering that has kept you in being until now. By the love that has borne with your ill manners and provocations, I beseech you, now …
SERMON • SERMON 2918Facing the Wind
2 Thessalonians 3:13
… from the insinuations of idle people who, I hope, did not know the suffering they were causing or they would have run to give help instead. But there …
SERMON • SERMON 2051Setting Jesus at Nothing—Treating Him with Contempt
Luke 23:11
… If we could be burnt at a slow fire for a century for Him, He deserves all our suffering and all our life. Could our zeal know no …
SERMON • SERMON 3067A Bold Challenge Justified
Romans 8:34
… in Your blows and, therefore, I can bear them without complaining"? Are you suffering severe losses and carrying heavy crosses? They ought to seem very light to you …
SERMON • SERMON 1034The Only Atoning Priest
Hebrews 10:11-14
… Oh, would we not exalt him if we could! Is there anything in this world that we would keep back from him? Is there any suffering from which …
SERMON • SERMON 2376"I Will," Yet, "Not As I Will"
John 7:24
… distress and begin to pray about yourself, and about a possible escape from suffering, always say, under such circumstances, "Nevertheless not as I will, but as You will …