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

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SERMON • SERMON 2445

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 1219

A 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 1074

The 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 625

Jesus 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 492

Nominal 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 2270

Two "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 434

Threefold 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 1785

The 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 855

Everyday 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 991

The 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 949

The 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 1326

Christ 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 399

A 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 1378

The 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 702

Peter'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 2545

The 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 2580

Partnership 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 1524

Your 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 1049

Intercessory 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 1682

Ask 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 1903

Who 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 1477

Jesus 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 1535

Christ'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 566

General 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 409

Fellowship 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 1660

The 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 2602

Good 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 1970

Loving 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 567

Labor 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 1080

Our 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 2659

Fallen 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 2388

Once 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 1875

The 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 795

Joshua'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 2465

Our 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 1624

Welcome! 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 2449

The 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 …