Category Archives: Trials, Temptations & Afflictions

trials & temptations in the christian life

God’s Sifting & Testing of Gideon’s Troops

Posted on August 25, 2017 by The Editor

Judges 7:1-6 Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, … Continue reading →

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The Greatest Peril of Perilous Times

Posted on September 17, 2016 by The Editor

2 Timothy 3:1-6; Matthew 24:10-13 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Medicine & Preventative Prescriptions

Posted on August 7, 2015 by The Editor

I Peter 1:6 Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (347-407): God measures out affliction to our need. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES (1899-1981): “If need be”―if such proves needful—if God, in looking upon … Continue reading →

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Is Every Affliction a Judgment of God Upon Sin?

Posted on May 29, 2015 by The Editor

John 9:1-3        And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, … Continue reading →

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Considering God in the Midst of Our Adversities

Posted on March 19, 2015 by The Editor

Job 2:10; Ecclesiastes 7:14        What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?        In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set … Continue reading →

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Teaching Times

Posted on January 29, 2015 by The Editor

Hebrews 5:8        Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. JOHN GILL (1697-1771): Christ’s sonship did not exempt him from obedience and sufferings. MATTHEW HENRY (1662-1714): He was a Son; the only-begotten … Continue reading →

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A Christian’s Best Revenge

Posted on June 4, 2014 by The Editor

Ephesians 4:26; Psalm 37:8; Romans 12:19-21        Be ye angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.        Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.        Dearly … Continue reading →

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Singing in the Rain

Posted on November 2, 2013 by The Editor

Job 5:7-11        Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: who giveth rain upon … Continue reading →

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The Certainty of Temptations & Trials, Troubles & Tribulations

Posted on September 25, 2013 by The Editor

John 16:33; Acts 14:22        In the world ye shall have tribulation.        We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. BROWNLOW NORTH (1810-1875): Every Christian may settle it as a truth in his own mind, that … Continue reading →

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Riches & Honours: The Subtle Snare of Worldly Prosperity

Posted on August 10, 2012 by The Editor

2 Chronicles 18:1,2        Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab…And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people he had with him, and persuaded him to go up … Continue reading →

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