Death & Dying

Good News For You

Luke 10:33

… See a poor young girl dying of consumption and poverty. Tell her, if you dare, "If you could get to the seaside, and if you could eat so …

Footsteps Of Mercy

Job 33:23

… You remember Elihu has been describing a man greatly afflicted, chastened with pain, wasted with disease, reduced to a skeleton and brought near to death. We have shown …

John Mark—or, Haste in Religion

Mark 14:50-52

… stand at the grave's mouth, till sometimes, when, week after week and twice each week, I stand there, I fancy myself talking to dying men, and not …

A Searching Question

1 Samuel 30:13

… that I live in a dying world! Standing with my foot once or twice a week on the edge of the grave and saying, "Dust to dust, and …

Your Own Salvation

Philippians 2:12

… Dying will have to be our own personal business; and in that dying we shall have either personal comfort or personal dismay. When death is past, salvation is …

The Power of the Holy Ghost

Romans 15:13

… By his own power and godhead he could not be held by the bond of death, but as he willingly gave up his life he had power to …

The Royal Prerogative

Deuteronomy 32:39

… No angel's arm could save us from the grave, nor could a myriad of angels confine us there when once again He shall bid us rise. God …

Walking In The Light And Washed In The Blood

1 John 1:7

… Oh, how He must have loved, to have descended from Heaven to earth and from earth to the grave! How He must have loved, to have chosen us …

A Lost Christ Found

Luke 2:44-46

… I have chastened you sorely, but I have not given you over unto death. The clouds have not quenched the sun, you shall yet see the light. I …

The Search Warrant

John 6:64

… I am too sick." Now that man is as much a suicide, spiritually, as though he took poison, or stabbed himself to death! God says that He is …

Christ's Triple Character

Isaiah 55:4

… Do you believe in Christ's ability to carry you over the river of Death and to take you to Heaven? Then, trust Him to do it! He …

'The Time Is Short'

1 Corinthians 7:29

… The symptoms grow serious, the disease is dangerous, your death is imminent. Pain unnerves you. Terror distracts you. Your family and your friends look at you with helpless …

And Why Not?

Luke 17:22

… that, for they are in Heaven, and you are dying without hope! You are going down to the grave, now, and will never again have to complain of …

Simeon's Swan Song

Luke 2:29

… He who has once seen Christ as God's salvation is not afraid to see death. "Now," he says, "I can look death in the face without dread …

The Pastor's Life Wrapped Up with His People's Steadfastness a Pleading Reminder for the New Year

1 Thessalonians 3:8

… On the other hand, if God does not bless the word of His servants, it is like death to them! To be preaching and to have no blessing …

Good Cheer for Many That Fear

Isaiah 35:4

… They know the living Savior, but they fear the dying hour. They think Death's stream is dark, cold and deep—how shall they pass through it to …

The Empty Place—a Christmas Day Sermon

1 Samuel 20:25

… As I came here, I was thinking of what inroads death has made in this congregation this year. There have been many vacancies made and there will be …

Constancy And Inconstancy—a Contrast

Hosea 6:3

… When God's time comes to turn mourning into joy, none shall say no to Him! Neither shall cold death freeze the genial current of our soul, nor …

Urging Lot

Genesis 19:15

… In the name of the dying Savior, now exalted in Heaven, whose disciples we profess to be, let us awaken ourselves and let us seek with heart and …

A Message to the Glad and the Sad

Job 22:29

… And as an instructor in theology he still remains, under Christ, next to the Apostle Paul, the master-teacher of the churches—yet, as he lay dying, he …

The Great Emancipator

Exodus 4:22

… And though they basely submit to the claims of the Wicked One and make a covenant with Death and a league with Hell, yet shall Jehovah's claim …

Washed to Greater Foulness

Job 9:30

… How is this? Some diseases are so insidious that the sufferers fancy that they are getting better, while in very truth they are hastening to the grave. After …

Man, Whose Breath Is In His Nostrils

Isaiah 2:22

… Death has torn Jonathan away from David. It has come closer and stolen the child from its mother and the wife from the husband. Man is always dying …

Men Chosen—Fallen Angels Rejected

Hebrews 2:16

… Oh! death, where is the man that can rend thy sepulchre, or open thy door? Thine iron bars, O death, cannot be filed by mortal, and thy chains …

Lecture II: Anecdotes From The Pulpit.

… Of course, our notion of making truth clear by stories did not suit the dignified death of the period, and it was only when the dry bones began …

Without Christ—Nothing

John 15:5

… decline and death of old-fashioned evangelism! I have read once or twice that I am the last of the Puritans, the race is all dying out! To …

The Wall Daubed with Untempered Mortar

Ezekiel 13:10-12

… death will make you quiver! And if death does not do it—for some men die like lambs, and, like sheep are they laid in the grave (but …

Ecce Rex

John 19:14

… He dispensed crowns when He was on the Cross—He gave the dying thief a promise of an entrance into Paradise. In His death He shook the earth …

The Unrivalled Eloquence Of Jesus

John 7:46

… death. Talk of it solemnly and softly, for put it in whatever light you may, it is dread work to die. But when we lie a dying, and …

The Incarnation and Birth of Christ

Micah 5:2

… And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave, that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.” A singular incident this—almost prophetic. Might not Mary …

A Jealous God

Exodus 34:14

… His love is strong as death towards you, and therefore will be cruel as the grave. He will be as a cruel one towards you if you do …

"Jehovah-Rophi"

Exodus 15:26

… You have felt as if you were utterly spent and ready for the grave. The last trial was too much for you! You could bear up no longer …

Justice Vindicated And Righteousness Exemplified

Romans 3:24-26

… But, oh, remember the world to come! You shall soon pass through the gates of the grave—the death-sweat will settle on your brows—the night of …

Freedom Through Christ's Blood

Zechariah 9:11

… Jesus Christ has been delivered from the bondage of the grave and I have to remind you, first, that there are other prisoners who have been set free …

A Message from God for Thee

Lamentations 4:22

… And then thou diest; thy death shall be the foretaste of the second death. Thy soul descends into the pit amongst thy kindred, and thou beginnest to feel …

Confirming the Witness of Christ

1 Corinthians 1:6

… Oh, if when you come to die, you are able to say, "O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?" And if you can …

The Essence of Simplicity

John 9:35

… He was scourged, tormented, crucified and slain—the stripes He bore were the chastisements due to human sin—and the death He endured was the death threatened to …

A String Of Pearls

1 Peter 1:3-5

… The ark of the Eternal Covenant has gone before, death is dried up, so that we can say, "O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is …

"Forever With The Lord"

Philippians 1:23

… Do not blame Death for what he does not do. It is Life that brings pain! Death to the Believer ends all evil. Death is the gate of …

The Spur

John 9:4

… If no death, no Resurrection. If no Fall, no new Covenant. If no rebellious race, no Incarnation, no Calvary, no Ascension, no second advent. That is a grand …