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Suffering & Affliction

Pain, trials, sickness, affliction, and trusting God in hardship

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The Magnanimity of God

Job 36:5

… If you wish to see this, look at the forbearance and long-suffering which He manifests towards the disobedient. How matchless is His patience! How enduring His mercy …

SERMON • SERMON 2405

Joy, a Duty

Philippians 4:4

… joy to you! I believe that a man of God—under trial and difficulty and affliction, bearing up, and patiently submitting with holy acquiescence, and still rejoicing in …

SERMON • SERMON 2859

The Lions' Den

Daniel 6:20

… I have felt a holy pride in some of you when I have seen how you have borne trial. Witness the man who has a shop which brings …

SERMON • SERMON 2461

Rejoicing and Remembering

Solomon 1:4

… But oh, what His love to me since then has been! His love in sickness, in sorrow, in labor, in backsliding, in prayer, in tears, in unbelief, in …

SERMON • SERMON 3260

Spiritual Convalescence

Zechariah 10:12

… You are anticipating some important duty for which you feel quite unfit, or it may be that the shadow of some impending trial is just beginning to fall …

SERMON • SERMON 1824

The History of Sundry Fools

Psalm 107:17-20

… they were afflicted. "Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted." Their affliction was evidently the result of their folly and their transgression. Do …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 91

… back into the town of deadly sickness he went, leading the people to repent, and watching over them in their suffering, visiting the hospitals, and, by his own …

SERMON • SERMON 2212

The Private Thoughts and Words of Jesus

Matthew 20:17-19

… When our Lord, on this occasion, spoke to the 12, the time was significant—it was on the way to a great trial. To Him, His coming suffering …

SERMON • SERMON 2313

Charity and Purity

James 1:27

… But the same trial may be both a temptation and a trial—and it may be a trial from God's side, and a temptation from Satan's …

SERMON • SERMON 1233

Healing Leaves

Revelation 22:2

… One of the worst ills that can happen to a man is sickness, for, if he is suffering from disease, his gold is cold and cheerless metal. If …

SERMON • SERMON 2626

"Peace in Believing"

Romans 15:13

… There is sickness in the body, or loss in the business, or suffering of various kinds—all this is the passing of God's great plow up and …

SERMON • SERMON 521

The Power Of Aaron'S Rod

Exodus 7:12

… None but Jesus! None but Jesus! We need to have a faith which can endure every form of trial and as long as life lasts. One day last …

SERMON • SERMON 164

The Loved Ones Chastened

Revelation 3:19

… Those more enlightened easterns, who talked with Job in the days of his affliction, got but little further; for they believed that all who served God would have …

SERMON • SERMON 2538

An Epistle Illustrated by a Psalm

Psalm 118:13

… Let us be sarcastic with him." If you do not meet with that kind of persecution, yet you will have to endure affliction and temptation in the world …

SERMON • SERMON 2637

The Place of Prayer and Pardon

2 Chronicles 6:28-30

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1882. "Whatever burden or whatever sickness there is: then what prayer or what supplication shall be made …

SERMON • SERMON 3070

A Visit to Christ's Hospital

Psalm 107:17-22

… The sight of others' sickness tends to make us grateful for our own health. And it is a great thing to be kept in a thankful frame of …

SERMON • SERMON 1432

Divine Interpositions

Psalm 18:16

… We cannot help thinking of this dire affliction, and, therefore, we had better think of it with some practical purpose. I believe that this sudden grief comes, like …

SERMON • SERMON 3153

Paul Cheered in Prison by His Lord

Acts 23:10-13

… Many and diverse are the prisons of affliction in which the Lord's servants are shut up. One may be lying in the prison of pain, chained by …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 44

… The reasoning is that the Lord himself knew the people to be sincerely his followers, and therefore was not visiting them for sin; hence, then, affliction evidently came …

SERMON • SERMON 2104

The Inner Side of Conversion

Jeremiah 31:18-20

… hand of God even in that affliction. I see the suffering man before me—he has been brought low by sickness. But he has not considered who it …

SERMON • SERMON 491

Our Stronghold

Proverbs 18:10

… Or else you have had personal sickness—you have long lain on the bed of weariness, tossing to and fro, and then the temptation has come into your …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 38

… Soul sickness tells upon the entire frame; it weakens the body, and then bodily weakness reacts upon the mind. One drop of divine anger sets the whole of …

DEVOTIONAL

July 18 — WILDERNESS COMMUNION

Hosea 2:14

… In the deserts of affliction the presence of the Lord becomes everything to us, and we prize His company beyond any value which we set upon it when …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 31

… One day a person who, by the calamities of war, sickness, and other affliction, had been reduced from a state of affluence to penury, came to Gotthold in …

SERMON • SERMON 2140

A Homily for Humble Folks

Proverbs 30:2

… You have seen them in sickness and marked their patience and joy—and their acquiescence in the Divine will and you have been greatly humbled, which was well …

SERMON • SERMON 556

The Sinner's Friend

Matthew 11:19

… You will, perhaps, have days of sickness, but he will come and make your bed in your sickness for you. You will, perhaps, be poor, but your bread …

SERMON • SERMON 253

A Psalm of Remembrance

1 John 4:16

… I have had to pass also through severe suffering and trial from the calamny and scorn of man, with abuse hailed pitilessly on my head. And I have …

SERMON • SERMON 2805

'Life for a Look'

Isaiah 45:22

… Why, some of us have actually trusted ourselves more than we have trusted the lord and, sometimes, in the hour of trial, we have fled to a friend …

SERMON • SERMON 2977

Plowing Rock

Amos 6:12

… but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. It is not wrong for a person, to whom God has given much of the good things of …

SERMON • SERMON 818

The Pleiades and Orion

Job 38:31

… Need and sickness, and bereavement invade us at the Lord's bidding, and although we may greatly mitigate their rigor, yet we cannot avert them, for the ordinances …

SERMON • SERMON 3169

The Believer's Present Rest

Hebrews 4:3

… Notice the antithesis here. "Light affliction"—a "weight of glory." "Affliction" is not set in contrast with peace, or freedom from affliction, but with "glory." The "light affliction …

SERMON • SERMON 2029

Let Him Deliver Him Now

Matthew 27:43

… It may come as a taunt from enemies; it will certainly come as a trial of your faith. The arch-enemy will assuredly hiss out, "Let him deliver …

SERMON • SERMON 2885

Christ's Sympathy With His People

Hebrews 2:18

… A trial in one's own house is one of the saddest places where it can come—the saddest, perhaps, with the exception of a thorn in the …

SERMON • SERMON 2664

Things Unknown

Jeremiah 33:3

… When affliction and adversity, sickness and suffering are trying us, there is no man-made raft upon which our soul can float through floods of tribulation and waves …

SERMON • SERMON 2990

The Believer Not An Orphan

John 14:18

… If you really do bring forth fruit to God, you must expect to have trial, trouble, affliction—and that full often. 3. Now you are clean through the …

SERMON • SERMON 1907

"The Tender Mercy of Our God"

Luke 1:77-79

… What sickness! What poverty caused by sickness! What pains poor bodies are capable of enduring! Oh, come, let us help them! Let us give to the support of …

SERMON • SERMON 1784

Unbelief Condemned and Faith Commended

Deuteronomy 32:20

… Faith will make you sing with the author of this Psalm, "I waited patiently for the Lord." Faith says, "I am in deep trial, but all things work …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 123

… The injurious effect of freedom from affliction is singularly evident here. Place a man perfectly at case and he derides the suffering godly, and becomes himself proud in …

SERMON • SERMON 3058

The Joy of Harvest

Isaiah 9:3

… from poverty, from sickness, from beds of dust and silent clay. They shall be gathered from slander and rebuke, from persecution and from suffering, from the lion's …

SERMON • SERMON 1176

The Eternal Day

Isaiah 60:20

… You have been suffering in body, though rejoicing in soul. The head has ached, though the heart has triumphed. You have feasted at the table of God, but …