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Suffering & Affliction
Pain, trials, sickness, affliction, and trusting God in hardship
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Come, My Beloved!
Solomon 8:14
… Napoleon's soldiers who were well-near cut to pieces—lying dying, bleeding, suffering, agonizing on the battlefield—but when the Emperor rode by, every man lifted himself …
SERMON • SERMON 2118The Planter of the Ear Must Hear
Psalm 94:9
… with serene spirit, since it is written, "Jehovah-Shammah, the Lord is there." Suffering is no mean thing, if we suffer in full submission to the will of …
SERMON • SERMON 166The Destroyer Destroyed
Hebrews 2:14
… If there be any evil, any suffering and pain, that is not God’s work. God may permit it, overrule it, and out of it educe much good …
SERMON • SERMON 3004The Christian's Manifestation
1 John 3:2
… to have an immortal body, a spiritual body, a body incapable of pain, suffering, decay—a body which shall be suited to your emancipated spirit, a body having …
SERMON • SERMON 3472A Solemn Deprival
Ephesians 2:12
… These things have you done, and I kept silent God, in His long-suffering, bears with these sinners. "You thought that I was altogether such an one as …
SERMON • SERMON 21Christ’s People—Imitators of Him
Acts 4:13
… on the tree, quivering with agony, and hanging in the utmost extremity of suffering, he submitted to die for our sakes, that we might be saved. Behold in …
SERMON • SERMON 826Christ, the Glory of His People
Luke 2:32
… I found this in the mines of a Savior's suffering. All this came to me through my bleeding, buried, risen, coming Lord, and He shall have the …
SERMON • SERMON 636The Church'S Love To Her Loving Lord
Solomon 1:7
… When Ignatius was led to his martyrdom, as he contemplated the nearness of his death and suffering, he said, "Now I begin to be a Christian." He felt …
SERMON • SERMON 151The Condescension of Christ
2 Corinthians 8:9
… Amongst all those who are poor, I have always found the greatest amount of suffering in those who had seen better days. I can remember, even now, the …
SERMON • SERMON 2197Christ's Resurrection and Our Newness Of Life
Romans 6:4
… Baptism sets forth, as in a picture, the union of the Believer with the Lord Jesus in His baptism of suffering and in His death, burial and Resurrection …
SERMON • SERMON 2145Scriptural Salvation
Romans 10:11
… wink at sin, but that Jesus came to vindicate the Divine Law by suffering in our place, I rested with all confidence on that blessed fact! My heart …
SERMON • SERMON 2407Feeding on a Whole Christ
Numbers 9:11
… There were some who took the opposite side and were willing to receive Christ as God, but not as a bleeding, suffering Man. But you cannot receive Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 3198What Christians Were and Are
Ephesians 2:3
… Not only were we "children of wrath" by descent, by nature and by practice, but had not God, in His long-suffering patience, spared us until we were …
SERMON • SERMON 2972Forgiveness
Psalm 130:4
… earth they dwelt Sinners once of Adam's race— Guilt, and fear, and suffering felt, But were saved by Sovereign Grace!" Here are scores and hundreds of us …
SERMON • SERMON 1330The Great Birthday
Luke 2:10
… The Captain of our salvation could only be made perfect through suffering—it is necessary that since the children were partakers of flesh and blood, He, Himself, also …
SERMON • SERMON 1404Over Against the Sepulcher
Matthew 27:61
… All and everything that has to do with shame, suffering and paying of penalty is ended once and for all. What became of the Cross? You find in …
SERMON • SERMON 184The Glorious Gospel
1 Timothy 1:15
… I was a blasphemer, a persecutor, and injurious, but I have obtained mercy, that in me first God might show his long-suffering.” Now, if Christ has saved …
SERMON • SERMON 925Individual Sin Laid On Jesus
Isaiah 53:6
… O for many a Christian who, like the Roman hero, will hold his hand in the fire if need be, and flinch not, feeling that all suffering were …
SERMON • SERMON 674The Mighty Arm
Psalm 89:13
… O Sinner! Remember that this long-suffering will not last forever! Beware, lest He tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you! He is strong …
SERMON • SERMON 2710Christ the Cause of Division
John 7:43
… His robes of Glory that He might take upon Himself our nature, our suffering and our sin, so that He might redeem us from all our iniquities. There …
SERMON • SERMON 23Thoughts on the Last Battle
1 Corinthians 15:56-57
… satisfy justice; but as to any literal taking away of our sins, and suffering the actual penalty for us, they do not consider that God’s law requires …
SERMON • SERMON 2940'He Must Reign'
1 Corinthians 15:25
… know right well that the price of pardon for us was Christ's suffering and death. We understand that there was no other way of access for us …
SERMON • SERMON 2868'Ready, Yes, Ready!'
Isaiah 27:13
… I think I can describe, from experience, what some of you are now suffering. You are ready to perish, in the first place, because you feel sure that …
SERMON • SERMON 3391Preparation for the Lord's Supper
1 Corinthians 11:28
… God and the destiny of men? God made flesh—God Incarnate—Jesus, Immanuel, suffering to put away the sins of His people—The Christ of God presenting salvation …
SERMON • SERMON 718The Standard Uplifted In The Face Of The Foe
Isaiah 59:19
… Soul, will be the CROSS! He will lift up before your eyes the suffering Son of God! This is the standard that makes Hell flee! Satan knows the …
SERMON • SERMON 2878Good Cheer for the Needy
Psalm 9:18
… Patience will yet have her perfect work and the suffering will end when it has accomplished its purpose. You are persecuted and despised, perhaps, but you shall not …
SERMON • SERMON 2816Invitation to a Conference
Isaiah 1:18
… the first Adam, has come and, instead of all who are in Him, suffering, He has suffered in their place upon a strictly righteous principle. At any rate …
SERMON • SERMON 1183Is Conversion Necessary?
2 Corinthians 5:17
… But this is an error, for he says, himself, that Jesus Christ in him showed forth all long-suffering for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe …
SERMON • SERMON 3137Soul Satisfaction
Psalm 35:3
… would be gain to him, for then he would be delivered from all suffering—there would be no more shipwrecks, no more being beaten with rods, or being …
SERMON • SERMON 946The Profit Of Godliness In The Life To Come
1 Timothy 4:8
… O why will you die? Why will you die? Why will you, by the love of sin, bring upon yourselves an eternity of sin, an eternity of suffering …
SERMON • SERMON 444The Portion Of The Ungodly
Isaiah 47:14
… then too late; Justice has closed mercy's door, And God's long-suffering is no more." It is inevitable, we say. How can they avoid it? Man …
SERMON • SERMON 1772Slaying the Sacrifice
Leviticus 1:5
… that your dreadful guilt could by any possibility be cleansed! Sin-bearing and suffering for sin can never be pleasant things—neither should the type which sets it …
SERMON • SERMON 3150'Never, No Never, No Never'
Hebrews 13:5
… And being likely, therefore, to take your own turn of suffering and to need the sympathy of your fellow Christians. Show sympathy to others while they need it …
SERMON • SERMON 2534The Greatest Gift in Time or Eternity
Isaiah 55:4-6
… While yet the 12 hours of the day are not all counted out—I mean, the day of the Lord's long-suffering mercy— seek Him, I pray …
SERMON • SERMON 2753Patience, Comfort and Hope From the Scriptures
Romans 15:4
… He is the pattern of patient silence under the reproaches and sarcasms of wicked men, the image of patient suffering as He bowed His head unto death, even …
SERMON • SERMON 1724Supposing Him to Have Been in the Company
Luke 2:44
… We look for Him where honest men are laboring hard for their daily bread, or where they are suffering His Father's will, but we never dream of …
SERMON • SERMON 2796A Man of God Alone With God
Psalm 119:26
… can, what he feels and what is the disease from which he is suffering. I think, too, that we might use another figure to illustrate the meaning of …
SERMON • SERMON 684Hope, Yet No Hope—No Hope, Yet Hope
Isaiah 57:10
… The reason for salvation lies not in my repenting, but in Christ's suffering—not in my renunciation of sin, but in Christ's having borne my sin …
SERMON • SERMON 1738"Glory Be Unto the Father"
Ephesians 1:3
… whom He blesses is blessed." Satan may curse you; you may already be suffering the curse of the Fall; but, if God blesses you, what of all that …
SERMON • SERMON 713Soul Murder—Who Is Guilty?
Psalm 51:14
… There are some things which I feel I might do, as far as I am concerned, which I believe I might do without suffering any personal hurt. But …