Death & Dying

Magdalene at the Sepulcher—an Instructive Scene

John 20:10-16

… A vision of angels, even to the ungodly soldiers that watched the grave of Christ, had made them faint and become as dead men. But if you read …

Untrodden Ways

Joshua 3:4

… If it were better for them that there should be no devil and no death, there should be neither devil nor death, but to Heaven should they be …

Contentment

Philippians 4:11

… The cypress seems to have been created specially to stand at the grave’s head and be a weeper; and there are some men, and some women, that …

Concealing the Words of God

Job 6:10

… He felt that he could face death and even long for it because he had been loyal to his God and faithful to the light which had been …

The Underlying Gospel for the Dying Year

Romans 5:6

… They tell us that He died to confirm His testimony, in which respect His death is no better than the death of any martyr who dies to confirm …

Self-Examination

2 Corinthians 13:5

… There are no acts of pardon pass’d In the cold grave, to which we haste; But darkness, death, and long despair, Reign in eternal silence there.” “Examine …

A Prince and a Savior

Acts 5:31

… Cross, was risen from the grave. And they were astounded at the very thought that He, whom they had put to death with all the shame that they …

The Rider on the White Horse and the Armies with Him

Revelation 19:11-16

… He had even stood at the foot of the Cross and seen his Divine Master in the extreme agonies of death! And, therefore, the tender, affectionate heart of …

What Self Deserves

Ezekiel 36:31

… Ah! woman, may God bring thee back and thou wilt loathe thyself for having given up Christ for the love of a poor dying man. And others that …

Life From the Dead

Ephesians 2:1

… Corruption has not yet done its work and tender care has guarded the body from what will surely come to it, yet there is death—sure, complete death …

Solomon's Plea

1 Kings 8:53

… This is the nearest approach to Heaven this side of the grave! O, to be reserved for the Lord, hedged round about, shut up and enclosed for Jesus …

Christ’s First and Last Subject

Matthew 4:17

… Crimes long forgotten start up from the grave where his forgetfulness had buried them; sins, which he thought were no sins, suddenly rise up on their true character …

Our Lord's Humanity a Sweet Source of Comfort

Daniel 10:18

… Unless the Lord comes, "It is appointed unto all men, once, to die." In the presence of death and the grave, when we really get to look at …

Deacons and Elders; Pastors and Teachers (Continued)

… If I should die, it may be so, I suppose; but I do not think that anything but death would get me to go away from this spot …

David's Five-stringed Harp

… Even when Saul tried to hunt him to the death, you remember that he would not lift his hand against his adversary even when he might have slain …

The Blood-Shedding

… One is yonder soldier, who has been wounded on the field of battle, grievously wounded, well nigh unto death; the surgeon is by his side, and the soldier …

The Curse Removed

Galatians 3:13

… It also includes spiritual death—the death of that inner life which Adam had—the life of the spirit which can only be restored by the Holy Spirit …

Sincere Seekers—assured Finders

1 Chronicles 28:9

… That a man should follow it, and may, perhaps, attain the blessing of it towards the end of life, or on a dying bed, though some conceive that …

Natural or Spiritual?

1 Corinthians 2:14

… By their might you can destroy your troubles; you can see your sins swallowed up; you can behold your enemies defeated; you can see death destroyed, the grave …

'The Shadow of a Great Rock'

Isaiah 32:2

… We rightly sing— "Dear dying Lamb, Your precious blood Shall never lose its power Till all the ransomed Church of God Is saved to sin no more"— and …

Christ the Conqueror of Satan

Genesis 3:16

… they shall arise, and this shall be their shout, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” Satan, knowing this, feels already that by …

The Lifting Up of the Bowed Down

Luke 13:10-13

… She walked about as if she were searching for a grave and I do not doubt she often felt that it would have been gladness to have found …

Soul-satisfying Bread

John 6:35

… Yes, like death and the grave they are insatiable. They hunt here and there, but are bitterly disappointed, for earth holds not an object worthy of all the …

Joyful Anticipation of the Second Advent

Luke 21:28-31

… If God is with you, you can stand between the very jaws of death, or in the center of Hell, itself, and feel no fear! With Christ by …

Fellowship With God

1 John 1:3

… would that you had our hopes, that you could look forward to death and the grave with the same delight as we can, expecting to be transformed into …

Traveling Expenses On The Two Great Roads

Jonah 1:3

… and how the man trembles because death is at work next door! How fearful he is when he stands at the grave's brink and looks down upon …

An Antidote to Satan's Devices

Genesis 3:1

… What do you imagine was John Knox's last temptation upon his dying bed? Perhaps there never was a man who more fully understood the great doctrine that …

The Message from the Lord's Mouth

Ezekiel 3:17

… I feel it and I feel that the same is true of each one of us—therefore, since these poor souls are dying as well as we are …

The Lamb In Glory

Revelation 5:6

… At that grave moment the Lamb appeared. Old Master Trapp says, "Christ is good at a dead lift," and it is so. When there is utter failure everywhere …

A Sweet Bow

Micah 7:18

… If you do so, you shall find that there is no Grace for you! Say not that because God is merciful a prayer or two on your dying …

The Exeter-Hall Sermon to Young Men

Psalm 116:16

… Only that is worth my having which I can have forever! Only that is worth my grasping which death cannot tear out of my hands! The supreme reward …

The Believer Catechized

John 11:26

… That which is the essence of death never touches Believers—they "depart out of the world unto the Father." They go "to be with Christ, which is far …

God'S Cure For Man'S Weakness

Hebrews 11:34

… Sense pictures the grave, loss, suffering, defeat, death, forgetfulness—but faith points to the resurrection, the pompous appearance of the Son of Man, the calling of the saints …

Despair Denounced and Grace Glorified

Ezekiel 37:11

… it as a striking picture of the salvation of Israel from that national death which had come upon them. We may, with equal accuracy, see in it, a …

Prayer Answered, Love Nourished

Psalm 116:1

… Hush, hush, my doubts! death is but a narrow stream, and thou shalt soon have forded it. Time, how short—eternity, how long! Death, how brief—immortality, how …

Sounding Out the Word of the Lord

1 Thessalonians 1:8

… The word of man comes from a dying source and it will return to it. But the Word of the Lord endures forever— "Float, float, you winds, His …

Redeeming the Unclean

Exodus 13:13

… And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth …

Samson Conquered

Judges 16:20-21

… himself up to death. Decius the Roman Consul, knowing this, rushed into the thickest of the battle, that his army might overcome by his dying. The prodigies of …

Preaching Christ Crucified

1 Corinthians 1:23

… for he fears that it may prove to be a savor of death unto death to them. But when he meets with those who sorrowfully confess that they …

The Two Talents

Matthew 25:22-23

… and she worked herself to death!—stitch, stitch, stitch, from morning to night! and here she comes. She went prematurely to her grave, but she is coming, like …