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Suffering & Affliction
Pain, trials, sickness, affliction, and trusting God in hardship
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The Last Sermon for the Year
Luke 16:2
… Tossing to and fro upon my bed, suffering great pain, I have thought that those of you to whom I have preached, now, these many years, will have …
SERMON • SERMON 1219A Voice From Heaven
Revelation 14:12
… If there are no works and no labors for Christ, no suffering or patient endurance, we lack the main evidence of being the people of God at all …
SERMON • SERMON 1074The Paraclete
John 14:16
… In all your suffering ask Him to sustain you. In all your teaching ask Him to give you the right words. In all your witness-bearing ask Him …
SERMON • SERMON 625Jesus Appearing To Mary Magdalene
Mark 16:9
… She was with Him, bearing His Cross and suffering His reproach. I like the thought of her being with the Savior. How much she must have seen! She …
SERMON • SERMON 492Nominal Christians—Real Infidels
John 8:46
… To say that faith could save would be an unreasonable thing—but that the Object of faith, the Divine suffering Savior can save—is no unreasonable doctrine. Now …
SERMON • SERMON 2270Two "I Wills" In Isaiah 41
Isaiah 41:18
… Their tongue failed them because of their suffering from thirst. Yet says the lord, "I will hear them." A glib tongue is bad at praying. When a man …
SERMON • SERMON 434Threefold Sanctification
1 Corinthians 1:2
… It sees Jesus suffering on the tree and it says—"I vow revenge against the sins which nailed Him there." And thus His precious blood works in us …
SERMON • SERMON 1785The Children and Their Hosannas
Matthew 21:15
… You teach the children while suffering from a headache—and they do not always behave as you would wish. But pray work on for poor London's sake …
SERMON • SERMON 855Everyday Usefulness
John 1:42
… all the members of the Church would preach Jesus by their patience in suffering, by their endurance in temptation, by exhibiting in the household those Graces which adorn …
SERMON • SERMON 991The Fourfold Treasure
1 Corinthians 1:30
… My soul is free from slavery, but my poor trembling and much suffering body feels the chains of death. Weakened by pain, my body shall in all probability …
SERMON • SERMON 949The Unconquerable King
Daniel 4:34
… And after passing through certain processes of suffering and humiliation, the man is compelled to add his witness to the testimony of God's Spirit with regard to …
SERMON • SERMON 1326Christ the Conqueror of Satan
Genesis 3:16
… Your suffering as a Christian is not brought upon you for your own sake; ye are partners with the great seed of the woman, ye are confederates with …
SERMON • SERMON 399A Peal of Bells
Zechariah 14:20
… Let those kind acts of yours to the distressed poor, let those divine acts of stooping down to the poor wayfarer in his suffering, consecrate your practice. Let …
SERMON • SERMON 1378The Righteous Father Known and Loved
John 17:25
… You shall never descend to poverty and suffering. You shall never have Your hands and feet pierced. You shall never be despised and spit upon and put to …
SERMON • SERMON 702Peter'S Three Calls
John 1:37
… May it come to pass that this very evening some may look to the Lamb of God, dying, bleeding, and suffering. Sinner, He is the Sin-Bearer. He …
SERMON • SERMON 2545The Greatest Folly in the World
Romans 3:11
… Let us pray that it may be removed in the case of any who are suffering from it. I. So, first, may the Spirit of God help me …
SERMON • SERMON 1723"Knock!"
Matthew 7:12
… But put not off your day of knocking because of God's long-suffering mercy, but rather, today, knock, knock now, while sitting in the pew, and if …
SERMON • SERMON 2580Partnership With Christ
1 Corinthians 1:9
… wherever He goes—into any measure of shame, or scorn, or loss, or suffering, or even to death by martyrdom, itself, for His dear sake. I told you …
SERMON • SERMON 1524Your Personal Salvation
1 Peter 1:9-12
… They had no distinctions but those of shame and suffering. They had no power but that of the Holy Spirit. I hear them fearlessly lifting up their voices …
SERMON • SERMON 1707"Herein Is Love"
1 John 4:10
… Him to grief." Christ's death was, in fact, God in human form suffering for human sin! God Incarnate bleeding because of our transgressions! Are we not, now …
SERMON • SERMON 1049Intercessory Prayer
Psalm 141:5
… an injury to the knee, yet, rest assured there would be a sympathetic suffering. No single cell or sac within the whole system can be out of order …
SERMON • SERMON 1682Ask and Have
James 4:2
… Did you ever see a dumb man under a strong excitement, or suffering great pain and, therefore, anxious to speak? It is a terrible sight to see! The …
SERMON • SERMON 1903Who Found It Out?
2 Kings 7:3-7
… They are suffering and they cannot earn anything, let them die." Besides, when the supplies within the city were exhausted, you could hardly blame the citizens if they …
SERMON • SERMON 1477Jesus Admired In Them That Believe
2 Thessalonians 1:10
… of us can guess, except that we know that Christ was in them suffering in His members. Eternally will Jesus be wondered at in them as all intelligent …
SERMON • SERMON 1535Christ's Universal Kingdom and How It Comes
Psalms 2:8
… For the suffering of death He is crowned with Glory and honor. The heavenly host proclaim His worthiness to take the Book and open its seven seals, singing …
SERMON • SERMON 566General And Yet Particular
John 17:2
… All the long-suffering mercy of God seems to me to flow through the channel of the Savior's authority over all flesh. It is in virtue of …
SERMON • SERMON 409Fellowship With God
1 John 1:3
… up.” And at times, in the thoughts of serving God and even of suffering for him we have said, “I have a baptism to be baptized with, and …
SERMON • SERMON 1660The Perpetuity of the Law of God
Matthew 5:18
… all the lost in Hell can ever give by their miseries, for their suffering is never complete, their debt is never paid! But He has borne all that …
SERMON • SERMON 2602Good News for the Aged
Matthew 20:6
… this time, you have still provoked your God to smite you! His long-suffering arm has not crushed you and His mercy has kept back the sword of …
SERMON • SERMON 1970Loving Persuasion
Acts 28:23
… of the Ethiopian eunuch and, opening up to his audience the Person and suffering of the Lord Jesus who was led as a lamb to the slaughter for …
SERMON • SERMON 567Labor In Vain
Jonah 1:12
… I do understand a Substitution—Christ taking the place of the Believer—Christ suffering the quid pro quo for the Believer's punishment—Christ rendering an equivalent to …
SERMON • SERMON 1080Our Gifts and How To Use Them
2 Timothy 1:6
… He is called to the front, though his modesty would have kept him in the rear, and he is exhorted to command and teach, suffering no man to …
SERMON • SERMON 2659Fallen Asleep
1 Corinthians 15:6
… Besides, the Apostles were always in jeopardy of their lives—if they were suffering poverty, persecution and the fear of death by martyrdom, all for a lie——they …
SERMON • SERMON 2388Once Dead, Now Alive
Ephesians 2:1
… With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love. This is the very spirit of Chris-tianity—to be able to bear and forbear …
SERMON • SERMON 1875The Preacher's Last Sermon for the Season
John 7:37
… Now, Soul, if you are suffering from fear or despondency—if your heart is heavy and you have disquietude of spirit—if you have a longing, a sighing …
SERMON • SERMON 795Joshua's Vision
Joshua 6:10-27
… glow like seraphs, being made equal to every labor, and capable of every suffering! Then shall the Spirit of the Lord be upon us, and our old men …
SERMON • SERMON 2465Our Omnipotent Leader
Matthew 28:18
… As if there were so much suffering to be endured to bring in the redeemed from the world and so much self-sacrifice to be made in order …
SERMON • SERMON 1624Welcome! Welcome!
Luke 9:11
… I invite you to come, dear Friend, though you are suffering from the same unfit-ness as these people were! Come just as you are and come with …
SERMON • SERMON 2370"Christ First, Me Last—Nothing Between But Love"
Galatians 2:20
… Love, it was a shameful waste, putting upon Christ a terrible burden of suffering which was totally unnecessary. Galatians 3:1 . O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you …
SERMON • SERMON 2449The Rule and Reward of Serving Christ
John 12:26
… If you are His, it is true of you, "I am glorified in them"—not only by them, but in them—"their suffering with patience, in their laboring …