Suffering & Affliction

Open Praise and Public Confession

Psalm 138:1-3

… Oh, how many, nowadays, deny the great Truth of vicarious suffering, the substitutionary Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary, saying that He is our Exemplar, but not the Maker …

Sinners Bound with the Cords of Sin

Proverbs 5:22

… If, suffering, from some fatal malady, he never attempts to find a cure, you think the man is fit only for a lunatic asylum. But a person who …

Faith and Its Attendant Privileges

John 1:11-13

… to lull pain, or he is half asleep with coming death, or his suffering is so intense that he cannot think! Or if he can think, he counts …

The Father's Love to His Dying Son

John 10:17

… He did not go to a suffering of which He was not aware. He was not, as one said, like a man who went in among machinery to …

Faith and Life

2 Peter 1:1-4

… to bring many sons into glory, because he had been made perfect through suffering. Now, have we received Jesus Christ as our Saviour? Happy art thou, if thou …

Jehovah-Shammah—a Glorious Name for the New Year

Ezekiel 48:35

… And it made me feel that they were glorious places when I remembered that the Lord God was there, by His Spirit, with His suffering people—when holy …

Living on the Word

Deuteronomy 8:3

… For instance, to the sick, or to those in poverty, or those suffering from slander. As you read them over, one after the other, you say to yourselves …

Friendship's Guide

John 15:14

… Sermons at sick beds by holy women, sermons to drunk husbands by the patient godliness of the much-suffering wife, sermons by holy fathers and mothers in their …

The Lesson of the Almond Tree

Jeremiah 1:11

… not slack concerning His threat— that though He seems to tarry in long-suffering, yet He comes in due season after all. And when He comes—ah, when …

The Heart of The Gospel

… There never was in the heart of our blessed Lord a wish for an evil pleasure, nor a desire to escape any suffering or shame which was involved …

The True Lineage

Luke 11:27

… comfort those that are bowed down, are hearing the plaintive cry of a suffering Savior! And you are, with the breast of your consolation, supplying the needs of …

Cleansing—Wrong Or Right?

Job 9:30

… the stump of it and also a horrible ulcer from which he was suffering. I turned away sick at the sight and dreaded to go to that station …

Dead, Yet Alive

Romans 6:11

… Can you grasp the great Truth of God that whatever was due from us to God's Justice has been fully paid by Christ? Whatever of suffering was …

How Is Salvation Received?

Romans 4:16

… Because Jesus has risen to prove that His suffering was accepted on the behalf of Believers, there do we rest and trust, and that is the way in …

Sorrow and Sorrow

2 Corinthians 7:10

… We admit that many who come to Christ have passed through very great terror and agony before doing so, but a large part of their suffering was the …

Love's Birth and Parentage

1 John 4:19

… If you want to repent, do not so much consider your sin as the love of Jesus in suffering for your sin! If you desire to believe, do …

Silver Sockets—Redemption the Foundation!

Exodus 30:11-16

… In His suffering for us He was wet with His own blood. Is He not well worthy of your love?" When He comes forth in the vesture dipped …

The Great Cross-bearer and His Followers

Mark 15:20

… if there is any contumely; if there is loss; if there is any suffering—even if it were martyrdom—yet gladly take up the cross! Behold, the Father …

The Cross Our Glory

Galatians 6:14

… He cried, "O the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!" The plan of salvation by vicarious suffering is simple, but sublime. It …

A Prayer for Revival

Psalm 85:6

… It is the prayer of a nation that is suffering for its sin. It is the prayer of a sinner who sees what God has done for His …

A Test for True Seekers

Jeremiah 50:5

… Heaven and let them perish, but, must come here and be a lowly, suffering, despised, crucified Man, that He might redeem men. Yet, after all that He has …

The Restoration And Conversion Of The Jews

Ezekiel 37:1-10

… Christ Jesus, the Son of David and the Son of God! Jesus the suffering Savior by whose stripes we are healed! Jesus able to save unto the uttermost …

Consecration to God—Illustrated by Abraham’s Circumcision

Genesis 17:1-2

… There is his immersion in suffering; his death and burial; his coming up out of the water represents his resurrection; his coming up the banks of Jordan represents …

To Those Who Are "Almost Persuaded"

Acts 26:28

… O that men were wise enough to see that suffering for Christ is honor! That loss for the Truth of God is gain! That the truest dignity rests …

Warning and Encouragement

Genesis 27:38

… father chastens not?The Apostle's intention is to harden us to any suffering that may come to us in this mortal life. He does so first by …

Jesus At A Standstill

Mark 10:49

… penury has not bitten you more severely than many of the Lord's suffering saints! Misery had eaten into the heart of this poor blind man and yet …

And Why Not Me?

Matthew 8:2

… Poor Soul! Suffering as he was and in dread of a terrible death, he no sooner began to come to Christ than our Lord regarded him with His …

Joshua's Obedience

Joshua 1:7

… Presence of God the Holy Spirit, and such sweet smiles from the once suffering, but now reigning Savior that we shall have to bless God all our days …

Saints In Heaven And Earth One Family

Ephesians 3:15

… The saints militant are of the same host as the triumphant! Those who are suffering are of the same company as the beatified. None of these things part …

Good News For You

Luke 10:33

… obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on Him to life everlasting …

The Triumph Of Christianity

Psalm 22:27

… Its connection is full of sacrificial suffering. If you desire to comprehend its real meaning you must hear it from the dying lips of the Incarnate God. It …

'Even So, Father!'

Matthew 11:25

… What if God, willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction, so that …

Number 2500—or, "Entrance and Exclusion"

Matthew 25:10

… So, dear Friends, you have had all this life, all these years of your Lord's long-suffering and patient entreaty—and it will be just that the …

Mocking the King

Matthew 27:28-30

… For instance, the great central Doctrine of Substitution—Christ suffering in the sinner's place—how many turn away with contempt from that plainly revealed Truth! Then the …

Gospel Missions

Acts 13:49

… to die for poor unworthy man, that through his mediation, and death, and suffering, the people of God might be delivered. Now, if you will listen to me …

The Entreaty of the Holy Spirit

Hebrews 3:7

… this is very dangerous ground to trespass on, for although He is long-suffering and pitiful, yet remember it is of the sin against the Holy Spirit that …

The First Beatitude

Matthew 5:3

… How few believe the long-suffering, non-resistant Doctrines of our King! 42. Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn …

The Good Ananias—a Lesson for Believers

Acts 9:10

… were it for living or for dying, for giving or for losing, for suffering or for working, the same response would come forth—"Here am I, make what …

Sychar's Sinner Saved

John 4:10

… upon Himself the nature of man, was born into this world, lived a suffering and obedient life, died an ignominious and painful death! And now He has risen …

Remembering God's Works

Psalm 111:4

… He fulfilled righteousness to the utmost by His perfect life and by His suffering even unto death and now we are quite sure that no further strain will …