Death & Dying

Where Is the God of Elijah?

2 Kings 2:14

… What is there to be afraid of in death? "The pain," says one. What pain? "The pain in dying." There is no pain in dying! There can be …

Morning, October 6

Jn 4:14

… The heart is as insatiable as the grave till Jesus enters it, and then it is a cup full to overflowing. There is such a fulness in Christ …

Loving Persuasion

Acts 28:23

… Oh, what a comfort and joy it gives you in that hour to have the Presence of your Lord! After death comes the forever and ever. What bliss …

Evening, November 21

Jn 12:2

… We too were once dead, yea, and like Lazarus stinking in the grave of sin; Jesus raised us, and by his life we live—can we be content …

Evening, November 19

Job 23:3

… O that I might see my children restored from the jaws of the grave, and my property once more brought from the hand of the spoiler!” but the …

The Redeemer's Face Set Like a Flint

Isaiah 50:7

… He said to Himself in His last agonies, "I am dying, but I am, by My death, redeeming My people from destruction. I am suffering more than tongue …

Another Royal Procession

Matthew 21:5

… His omnipotent voice had said, 'Lazarus, come forth!' and Lazarus came forth, and the grave clothes were loosed from him; then and for that cause did the people …

Compel Them to Come In

Luke 14:23

… simply look at his bleeding dying son, and trust your souls in the hands of him whose name alone can save from death and hell. Is it not …

Evening, September 26

Zec 11:2

… I trust we do not, by often hearing of death, become callous to it. May we never be like the birds in the steeple, which build their nests …

Evening, September 8

Eph 1:19-20

… All the soldiers and the high priests could not keep the body of Christ in the tomb; Death himself could not hold Jesus in his bonds: even thus …

The Tent Dissolved and the Mansion Entered

2 Corinthians 5:1

… This changed, for Paul, the very idea of death—death was transformed from a demon into an angel! It was but the removal of a tottering tent that …

Enoch

Genesis 5:21-24

… escape the pangs of death but walk with God, and you will be able to say, "O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory …

Pedigree

2 Corinthians 11:22

… It sounds like the voice of a dying man, like the voice of a man in pain—a rough voice, too, as if it belonged to some very …

The Sleep of Death

“The sleep of death”–what is this sleep? We know that the surface idea connected with sleep is that of resting . The eyes of the sleeper ache no …

Love's Vigilance Rewarded

Solomon 3:4

… Come and seek Him, again, and your fears, your doubts, your distresses of mind shall be buried in the same deep grave! So the spouse sings of her …

The Gladness of the Man of Sorrows

Psalm 45:7

… Consider, my brethren, the work accomplished; Chiist has borne the wrath of God; God is reconciled to his people; death has been destroyed; Christ as risen from the …

Circumcision and Uncircumcision

Galatians 5:6

… unseen world! And when your soul comes to the grave and you look across the narrow stream of death into the dim eternity, you will then have no …

A Hard Case

Job 33:14-18

… Many and many a man has dreamed of death, or dreamed of judgement—did you never have such a dream yourself? We do not attach any importance to …

The Flight to Zoar

Genesis 19:23

… When it has nothing left to call its own, but is reduced to death's door. In the hour of its extremity, then is God's gracious opportunity …

Young Man, Is This For You?

Luke 7:11-17

… His was a desperate case but death was conquered, for he sat up. He had been called back from the innermost dungeon of death, even from the grave …

Psalm 12

Psalm 12

… he has gone to his grave unreverenced and misunderstood, and lo! as generations come and go, upon a sudden the hero is unearthed, and lives in the admiration …

Luminous Words

1 Peter 4:1-3

… Our Lord Jesus Christ has suffered for sin and He has suffered to the utmost extent, for He has paid the death penalty on His people's behalf …

Filling Up the Measure of Iniquity

Genesis 15:16

… The death-sentence has been pronounced upon him and he is only spared because the clock has not yet struck and the bell has not yet tolled for …

What God Cannot Do!

Titus 1:2

… But still His purpose equally included that Hezekiah should be brought so near to the gates of death that in the ordinary course of nature he must die …

Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit

John 19:30

… death. When pains and groans attend the last hour they frequently have the effect of discomposing the mind so that it is not possible for the dying man …

Accidents, Not Punishments

Luke 13:1-5

… he has thus preserved us from going down to the grave, and kept us alive from death. And then, will you allow me to remark, that the supposition …

A Drama in Five Acts

1 Corinthians 7:29-31

… Ah! how near is death to us! Perhaps he now stands looking over thy shoulder, young man; God holds back his hand, but the dart of death is …

Love's Medicines and Miracles

Isaiah 38:17

… of the grave could assuredly save him from the rage of mortal man! And He who used a poor lump of figs to disappoint death of its prey …

Concern For Other Men's Souls

Romans 9:1-5

… you speak at my grave. Do speak to him, then. God will bless him." And he did and her father was converted! The death of his child brought …

Kicking Against The Pricks

Acts 9:5

… It lives and it dies, and both in life and death it answers the end for which God sent it into the world. But as for you, you …

Fields White For Harvest

John 4:35

… That reaper is DEATH! You may look upon this great city as the harvest field, and every week the bills of mortality tell us how steadily and how …

David's Dying Prayer

Psalm 72:10

David’s Dying Prayer A Sermon (No. 129) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, April 26, 1857, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens …

Psalm 22

Psalm 22

… Verse 26. "The meek shall eat and be satisfied." Mark how the dying Lover of our souls solaces himself with the result of his death. The spiritually poor …

The King’s Highway Opened and Cleared

… Oh, how swift is he! There is Moses armed with all the wrath of God, and Death following hard after him—a mounted rider upon his pale horse …

Self-Delusion

Luke 13:24

… It is not every man who has the hardihood to dance with death, and wear a mask upon the brink of the grave. Ah, how many there are …

Christ's Word with You

Matthew 11:28

… When a man is afraid to die, he may well be afraid to live—he who could not look death in the face—yes that could not look …

God's Works Made Manifest

John 9:3

… And if any have met with a very sudden death, we are apt to suppose that they must have been exceedingly guilty—but it is not so. Very …

A Monument for the Dead, and a Voice to the Living

Romans 10:5-9

… when he was sore sick and in the very agony of death, he repeated as his dying creed— "Nothing in my hand I bring: Simply to thy cross …

Brought Up from the Horrible Pit

Psalm 40:1-3

… his feet no longer sink, He is not held by the bands of death, He slides not into the grave again. He was dragged down, as it were …

A Singular But Needful Question

John 5:6

… In a death out of which there can be no deliverance. I must die to God, to holiness, to happiness, and exist forever in that everlasting death, that …