Death & Dying

Consolation From Resurrection

Hosea 13:14

… For— "There the dear flesh of Jesus lay, And left a blessed perfume." Death, you are not death! Grave, you are no grave! The names remain, but the …

The Tomb of Jesus

Matthew 28:6

… The grave-clothes were left behind for every departed Christian to wear. The bed of death is well sheeted with garments of Jesus, but the napkin was laid …

The Doors of the Shadow of Death

Job 38:17

… They may be rich as Croesus, but they cannot save a comrade from the grave. They may pay the physician, but they cannot bribe death. How little is …

Christ the Destroyer of Death

1 Corinthians 15:26

… Bowed to the grave, destroyed it so, And Death, by dying, slew." When Christ died He suffered the penalty of death on the behalf of all His people …

The Death of the Christian

Job 5:26

… He did not come to his grave, but Death fetched him to it—the grave came to him. But Death said to the other man, “I am come …

Our Last Journey

Job 16:22

… A funeral has left our gates and little boys have gathered around a grave to see one like themselves laid in the silent earth. Death has set his …

Psalm 49

Psalm 49

… Folly has no immunity from death. Off goes the jester's cap, as well as the student's gown. Jollity cannot laugh off the dying hour; death who …

Dying Daily

1 Corinthians 15:31

… The pains which we call dying pains are really pains caused by life's struggles to hold its own. Death gives us no pain whatever. It is the …

Memento Mori

Deuteronomy 32:29

… MAN IS UNWILLING to consider the subject of death. The shroud, the mattock and the grave, he labors to keep continually out of sight. He would live here …

Death and Life in Christ

Romans 6:8-11

… Just as Jesus had a new life after death, so have we a new life after death, wherewith I trust we rise from the grave. But we must …

The Miracles of Our Lord's Death

Matthew 27:50-53

… to come out of his grave. Far from it. Life loves not the prison of death. So may God grant that the dying Savior may fetch you out …

Concerning Death

Job 30:23

… We shall have the Lord's company even to our dying hour—"You will bring me to death." He leads me even to those still waters which men …

A Royal Funeral

John 19:38-42

… In this matchless duel, He has set Himself to fight not only with death, but with death and the grave combined—and hence the paean of victory is …

A Challenge and War Cry

1 Corinthians 15:55-58

… death by dying! He has disrobed the grave of its triumphal garments by wearing its cerements Himself! He consecrated the sepulcher by slumbering in its dark recess! Death …

Christ with the Keys of Death and Hell

Revelation 1:18

… As to Death, you know how our Lord vanquished him! By death he conquered Death! When His hands were nailed, they became potent to fight with the grave …

The Last Enemy Destroyed

1 Corinthians 15:26

… the edge of the grave. Picture yourself dying. Conceive yourself breathing out your last breath and see whether, then, you can look at Death without quaking—whether you …

Sermons From Saintly Deathbeds No. 783

Genesis 49:33

… O Death, where is your sting? O Grave, where is your victory? I am now a witness for Christ, and for the reality of religion. I have peace …

A Home Mission Sermon

Ecclesiastes 9:10

… And, now, the third part of the exhortation was, Why? We are to do it with all our might death is near. and when death comes there will …

Crossing the Jordan

Joshua 1:10

… No Satanic force can hurl us to the grave before our time— "Plagues and death around us fly, Till He bids we cannot die." In due time there …

The Destroyer Destroyed

Hebrews 2:14

… O children of God! death hath lost its sting, because the devil’s power over it is destroyed. Then cease to fear dying. Thou knowest what death is …

The Spiritual Resurrection

John 11:43

… Even when a soul is called by Divine Grace from death to life, yet it often wears its grave clothes for a long while. Many of my dear …

The Last Three Months at Mentone;–and Afterwards

… believe what we sang at the grave, the truth that Mr. Spurgeon lived to preach, and died to defend, — " ' Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood Shall never lose …

Death—a Sleep

1 Thessalonians 4:13

… And is not this sleep of death a resting after toil? The poor limbs are weary. They are now stretched in the grave and covered over with the …

Might Have Been, or May Be

John 11:37

… is the death of His saints." He loves us so that He will love us when we die, even as He loved Lazarus at the grave's mouth …

The Blood of the Covenant

Hebrews 13:20-21

… the covenant even to death, then he began to fulfill his portion of the contract by bringing back his Son from the grave to life, from shame to …

Over Against the Sepulcher

Matthew 27:61

… Even after death He acted as a priest and poured out a libation of blood and water— and it was, therefore, right that in the grave He should …

God's Valiant Right Hand

Psalm 118:16

… It did not seem as if He would vanquish death, my Brothers and Sisters, when He lay in the grave. The image of death was set as with …

Beloved, and yet Afflicted

John 11:3

… miss one point of fellowship, in not dying and rising like their Lord. Beloved, all things are yours, and death is expressly mentioned in the list, therefore do …

An Awful Premonition

Matthew 16:28

… Ah, you do not know what death means! The demise of the body is but a prelude to the perdition of the soul. The grave is but the …

The Fear of Death

Hebrews 2:14

… It would be well if we were all so familiar with death that we could say as one old saint did, "Dying? Why, I have died daily for …

'David's Spoil'

1 Samuel 30:20

… But oh, how bright it is now that He has completed His glorious work! Death is no more the dreaded grave of all our hopes. Hell exists no …

The Sphere Of Instrumentality

John 11:39

… I know at this time some real Christians who are going about with relics of their grave clothes upon them, and they appear very unseemly. Those grave clothes …

Thoughts on the Last Battle

1 Corinthians 15:56-57

… O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” Yet, with all that majestic language, with all that bold flight of eloquence, he does not …

The End of the Righteous Desired

Numbers 23:10

… But the Christian is not made a bankrupt by the grave—death to him is gain. "Go," said the dying Saracen hero, Saladin, "take this winding sheet and …

The Man Who Shall Never See Death

John 8:51-53

… Throughout eternity, if I die, I shall be able to say I had actual fellowship with Christ in the article of death and in descent into the grave …

Resurrection—Christ The First Fruits

1 Corinthians 15:20

… The winter of the grave shall soon give way to the spring of resurrection and the summer of glory. Blessed is death, since it answers all the ends …

Love and Jealousy

Solomon 8:6

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave." Song of Solomon 8:6. TAKEN in its most natural sense …

Last Things

Proverbs 5:11

… And then, as if the muster roll were not complete—as if Death could not be satisfied till the year had yielded up yet another grave—we heard …

The Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus

2 Timothy 2:8

… No man in this world was ever more surely dead than He. "He made His grave with the wicked and with the rich in His death." As dead …

The God of Peace and Our Sanctification

Hebrews 13:20

… War brings down death, but the God of Peace brings back from the dead. The restoration of the Lord Jesus from the grave was a peaceful act and …