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I invite to your attention the subject of sickness. The subject is one which we ought frequently to look in the face. We cannot avoid it. It needs no prophet’s eye to see sickness coming to each of us in turn one day. “In the midst of life we are in death.” (Matthew Henry’s commentary on 2 Kings 20). Let us turn aside for a few moments, and consider sickness as Christians. By God’s blessing

Beloved, when we came to Christ for salvation – with all the glorious things that such a “coming” entailed, and that I intend to discuss with this sermon – we at the same time also “came” to about seven additional entities – all as itemized in Heb. 12:22-24; to wit:  “But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

Note: The lying Arminian doctrine of will-worship – the foolish, nonsensical notion that God loves everybody – leads directly and immediately to that form of nation-destroying idolatry that doomed the world of the wicked antediluvians. The greatest theological treatise ever written – i.e., “The Letter of Paul to the Romans” – begins with describing how male and female sodomites got that way (Note: “homosexual” is not a Bible word; it was invented by imaginative sodomites

“Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses [God’s house!], and brethren [these brothers!], and sisters [these beloved sisters], and mothers [these mothers in Israel!], and children [faithful children, raised up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord!],