Death & Dying

Questions Which Ought To Be Asked

Job 35:10-11

… Some of us have been sick’nigh unto death, but we have almost loved our suffering chamber, and scarce wished to come out of it, so bright has …

Owl or Eagle?

Psalm 102:6

… In a moment he has passed from darkness into marvelous light, from bondage into liberty, from death unto life! Now, like the eagle, he stretches his wings and …

The Man Of Sorrows

Isaiah 53:3

… Our Savior is no longer in Gethsemane agonizing, or upon the Cross dying—the crown of thorns has been replaced by many crowns of sovereignty! The nails and …

The Gentleness Of Jesus

Matthew 12:19

… Jesus, the Friend of man, will "send forth judgment unto victory." He will do this in a certain sense at the death of every ungodly man and woman …

Additions to the Church

… WE are just coming to the most beautiful season of the year—Spring—when everything around us is shaking off the chill grave clothes of winter and putting …

Christ's Great Mission

Matthew 20:28

… Believer is yours, now, and after death the Glory of Christ shall be your portion, too! Remember the words of the dying monk when putting aside the "extreme …

Life More Abundant

John 10:10

… There is death within us and that death struggles with our life. Our life has dashed Death down and holds it beneath its feet—but tremendous is the …

Oct. 31 — IMMORTAL TILL WORK DONE

Ps. 118:17

… in despair -- a defeated, dishonored man? Do my enemies begin to dig my grave? What then? Shall I yield to the whisper of fear, and give up the …

All At It

Acts 8:4

… And prisons in those days were so foul and noisome as to be the vestibules of the grave. One went this way and one went the other way …

April 3 — SENSITIVE TO WARNING

II Kings 22:19

… Yet rest in this promise, "Thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace: and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon …

The Parent's and Pastor's Joy

… in life and what she said in death, and we have talked together before we have gone to the grave with a subdued sorrow which was near akin …

Patients for the Great Physician

Luke 5:31

… What a contrast there is between life and death! Yet there is not half such a contrast between life and death as between the mere act of dying …

False Justification and True

Job 9:20

… and Savior Jesus Christ in whom death once sheathed his sting." And when Dr. Watts, that sweet singer of Israel, was dying, he said to one who stood …

Psalm 9

Psalm 9

… After this fashion doth our Glorious Redeemer ask of death, "Where is thy sting?" and of the grave, "Where is thy victory?" The spoiler is spoiled, and he …

The Glory of Our Strength

Psalm 89:17

… Christ, at the very first, when we rise out of the grave of our spiritual death. There we lie, bound hand and foot in that dark sepulcher—and …

Spiritual Sight and Eternal Life

John 14:19

… At the grave, especially, things are said of men who have lived and died in sin, which are calculated to make unsaved survivors think lightly of their own …

Established Work

Psalm 90:17

… SOME of us have been to the grave this afternoon and the most forcible impression upon our minds at this time is that of our mortality. We cannot …

Abraham, A Pattern To Believers

Hebrews 11:9

… By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death. Faith has conquered death, itself, or else avoided it. There is scarcely anything which faith cannot do …

Sept. 3 — OUT OF SPIRITUAL DEATH

Ezek. 37:13

… This is the greatest and most remarkable of all changes that a man can undergo -- to be brought out of the grave of spiritual death, and made to …

Untitled Sermon

Psalm 119:144

… Many abide in death, even as the Apostle says—"To be carnally-minded is death; but to be spiritually-minded is life and peace." The enquiry came home …

The Great White Throne

Revelation 20:11

… great Leveler has put you all upon a footing now! Death laid you in one equal grave, and now Judgment finds you standing at one equal bar to …

The Three Witnesses

1 John 5:8

… dying for his enemies, unselfishly suffering an ignominious doom that he might redeem those who had rejected and scoffed at him, his invincible love triumphed over death itself …

The Hairs of Your Head Numbered

Matthew 10:30

… of a bone of the ransomed, be left in the dominion of death and the grave. When the trumpet shall sound, the whole of redeemed manhood shall start …

The King's Weighings

1 Samuel 2:3

… I remember a good man who said, when he was dying, that he once began to separate his good works from his bad works. But he found them …

Love's Complaining

Rev 2:4

… Our translators put it in italics, and well they might, for it is a bad word, since it seems to make a small thing of a very grave …

The Sinner's End

Psalm 73:17

… and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. One woe is past, but there are other woes to come. If death were …

Jesus Angry with Hard Hearts

Mark 3:5

… He challenged observation, though he knew that his opposition to ecclesiastical authority would involve his own death, and hasten the hour of the cross. He did not defy …

No Quarter

1 Kings 18:40

… in Baptism unto death. Solemnly have you been baptized into His name and in His name have been raised up from the liquid grave—will you be false …

The Best Bread

John 6:48

… No, you must eat, or else there might be tons of bread within reach and yet you would die of famine! You might be buried in a grave …

Free Will—A Slave

John 5:40

… Eternal death is the death of the soul; it takes place after the body has been laid in the grave, after the soul has departed from it. If …

Sin Condemned And Executed By Christ Jesus

Romans 8:3

… death has not taught man the evil of the root which produced so dire a fruit. Man sins although he stands upon the brink of the grave. It …

I Know That My Redeemer Liveth

Job 19:25-27

… First, let us, with the patriarch, descend into the grave and behold the ravages of death . Then, with him, let us look up on high for present consolation …

Underneath

Deuteronomy 33:27

… the grave's overshadowing vault? What will happen to us in eternity? Life will soon end—what is death? What is the immediate result of death? What shall …

Let Him Deliver Him Now

Matthew 27:43

… Grave after grave has the good man visited till it seemed that his whole race was buried, and yet his heart has not been broken; but he has …

Present Privilege And Future Favor

Deuteronomy 33:27

… You may be full of pain and anguish and the spirit may sink into a spiritual death even before the natural death comes on. You may feel dying …

God's Hand at Evening

Ezekiel 33:22

… we begin to feel its chilly dews settling upon our dying brow. When the hoar-frost of death shall be upon every limb, how blessed it shall be …

Two Arguments Against Sin

Jeremiah 44:4

… They lie against their neighbors' characters and they are never better pleased than when they can, by exaggeration, make some little flaw into a grave fault. God says …

Faith and Regeneration

1 John 5:1

… Faith lays her hands on Jesus, desiring to receive the benefit of his substitutionary death. A still more remarkable representation of faith was that of the healing look …

Morning, August 12

Ps 97:1

… Death’s darts are under the Lord’s lock, and the grave’s prisons have divine power as their warder. The terrible vengeance of the Judge of all …

Facts and Inferences

Psalm 37:35-37

… So when my latest breath Shall rend the veil in twain, By death I shall escape from death, And life eternal gain!' The good man believes in the …