Death & Dying

His Name—the Mighty God

Isaiah 9:6

… And who shall be the death of death, the plague of the grave, the destroyer of destruction, but God? Who but immortal life, who but the Self-existent …

Prepare To Meet Your God

Amos 4:12

… They vary from grave to gay, from dread to delight—"Prepare to meet your God." Why, methinks there are no more joyous words under Heaven than these under …

Christ Glorified

Isaiah 55:5

… What did Jesus, by His dying a painful death, do for us? Why, first, as you all know, He put away all His people's sins. There are …

Experiencing Confirming Testimony

Psalm 48:8

… Him living, dying, rising, ascending and to mark the Pentecost, and to see the history of the Church right down until now—such a grave and revered man …

Full Redemption

Exodus 10:26

… Evil is hard in dying; it will not readily be overcome. But this is the demand of God, and to he last will he have it. “All my …

Why the Gospel Is Hidden

2 Corinthians 4:3

… So then death works in us, but life in you. These Apostolic men lived as if they were on the borders of the grave—lived expecting to die …

Why Men Do Not Believe

John 5:46

… They fell when the mower's scythe laid the grass in the net—and they are dying now—dying fast while the sere leaves are descending and heaping …

Number 1500, Or Lifting Up the Bronze Serpent

Numbers 21:9

… the cross as a spectacle to all beholders, all slain by our dying Lord. Sin, death, and the curse are as dead serpents now. Oh, what a sight …

Sickness and Prayer, Healing and Praise

Psalm 107:17-22

… of death is a prevailing prayer! We earnestly urge all to repent long before they come to a dying bed, but if they are on a dying bed …

Psalm 37

Psalm 37

… Sorrow may bring us to the earth, and death may bring us to the grave, but lower we cannot sink, and out of the lowest of all we …

The Universal Remedy

Isaiah 53:5

… His holy life is the inheritance of His people, and His suffering death, with all its pangs and griefs, belongs to those whom He represented. They did, in …

Prayer Meetings

Acts 1:14

… They are dying! They are dying! They are dying without hope! I stood yesterday at the grave's brink at the funeral of one of our Brothers, an …

Our Expectation

Isaiah 53:10

… His death. They went in the morning after the Sabbath to embalm Him. They were all persuaded that He had really died. Blessed be the dying Christ! Here …

A Sermon For Spring

Solomon 2:10-13

… Dying, all but dead, diseased, pained, chained, scourged, bound in fetters of iron, in darkness and the shadow of death, Jesus appeared unto me. My eyes looked to …

Jesus Putting Away Sin

Hebrews 9:26

… Easily said, but what a weight of meaning in it! Now, what merit there must be in the suffering and death of the dying Mediator! What power there …

The Glory of Grace

Ephesians 1:6

… Ah, I shall soon be dying. Time quickly fades away. Speed on, O Time! Roll on your wheels and every year fly on apace! The shorter the road …

Witnesses for God

Isaiah 43:10

… One word from His mouth in Pilate's Hall would have broken the spell which bound Him to death, but He would not speak it. And now, if …

Psalm 39

Psalm 39

… What wait I for? In life, in death, in a dying world, in a coming judgment, in an eternity at hand; what is it that I need? —G …

Paul's Persuasion

Romans 8:38

… The Apostle says next, "nor life." I must confess that I am more afraid of life than of death. "Oh," says one, "but dying is such hard work …

John Ploughman's Talk

… they are false as the devil's promises, and as cruel as death and the grave. Religious deceivers are the worst of vermin, and I fear they are …

Love's Reward

Psalm 91:14

… Already you have borne to the grave some of the nearest and dearest of your kindred—and others are going. Fear haunts your breast that you will soon …

Our Place—at Jesus' Feet

Luke 7:38

… for he had only one daughter, about twelve years of age and she lay a dying." Many of us know what it is to intercede with God for …

Let Him Alone

Hosea 4:17

… Dare any of you imagine that an opportunity of hearing the Gospel is given to you that you may tread it under foot? Oh, what would dying men …

Paul, the Ready

Romans 1:15

… grave. May the Lord in mercy and love keep us right! If He teaches us how to live, we shall know how to die. It is not dying …

Plain Words With the Careless

Luke 8:28

… you in your dying hour? Do you expect that these things will buoy you up amidst the chill waves of the black sea of Death? No, you admit …

Sudden Sorrow

Jeremiah 4:20

… an immortal son? Did you, a dying father, expect to be the parent of a daughter who would never see death? Your love is astonishing, but your reason …

Turning From Death

Ezekiel 33:11

… and he lay there, fast dying, and I knelt by his bedside. Now, suppose that were to be your case?— "Shouldswift death this night overtake you, And your …

The Lord No More Angry with His People

Isaiah 54:9

… My Brethren, how this alters the look of death. If death is a punishment to a Believer, then death wears gloomy colors. But if it is not so …

The Profit Of Godliness In The Life To Come

1 Timothy 4:8

… Man has scarcely ever been befooled into the belief that death is the finis of the volume of his existence. Few, indeed, have been so lost to natural …

Lovest Thou Me?

John 21:15-17

… How very much like to Christ before his crucifixion was Christ after his resurrection! Although he had lain in the grave, and descended into the regions of the …

The Secret Of Health

Psalm 42:11

… in the death of Christ to save them all if God had so willed it! We cannot conceive any boundary to the merit of the dying Son of …

Paul's Sermon Before Felix

Acts 24:25

… You have a judge extremely willing to put the prisoner to death, because he desired to please the Jews; you have, on the other hand, a prisoner, unabashed …

Jehovah-Shammah

Ezekiel 35:10

… death, you are come to the borders of the dark valley. Or else, bereavement will befall you and you will have to visit and re-visit the grave …

Faith and Its Attendant Privileges

John 1:11-13

… That is the death which Adam died and which every impenitent sinner will have to die. No, that is the death which every sinner is under now, for …

Law and Grace

Romans 5:20

… Did we lose natural life and subject ourselves to painful death by sin? Has not grace revealed an immortality for the sake of which we are too glad …

The Cross Our Glory

Galatians 6:14

… a man might go to prison and to death? The modern speculations are not worth a cat's dying for them, much less a man! A something lies …

God's Thoughts Of Peace and Our Expected End

Jeremiah 29:11

… The new nature has a hard struggle to hold its own against this embodied death. We are, as it were, chained to a rotting carcass and we cry …

The Ever-Living Christ

Revelation 1:18

… Even after Christ had risen from the grave a whole week, Thomas was still unbelieving. He had said that he would not believe that his Lord had risen …

Satan's Banquet

John 2:9-10

… The sinner has at the end brought himself to the grave. His hopes and joys were like gold put into a bag full of holes, and they have …

'Oh, How He Loves!'

John 11:36

… burnt to death for Christ's sake, while many of those who looked on learned to imitate their noble example. And others who heard their dying testimonies and …