Death & Dying

The Song of Songs

Isaiah 44:23

… He hath done it, our divine deliverer has spoiled death and the grave for us. "Sing, O ye heavens: shout, ye lower parts of the earth." The Breaker …

Indwelling Sin

Job 40:3-4

… heart to your dying day, in which grace shall prevail, but not without sighs, and groans, and agonies, and wrestlings, and a daily death. V. Here is the …

Baptism Essential To Obedience

Mark 16:16

… This is what you have to believe, that— "He bore, that you might never bear, His Father's righteous ire." He was laid in the grave and on …

Fresh Grace Confidently Expected

Psalm 92:10

… Some of us, it may be, have been troubled about the future death of some dear one upon whom we depend, or whose life is very precious to …

Making Light of Christ

Matthew 22:5

… give to the hear another sermon! What would yonder dying wretch who is just now nearing the grave, give for another Sabbath! And what will you give, one …

Final Perseverance

Hebrews 6:4-6

… I can use no better illustration than the distinction between fainting and dying. There lies a young creature; she can scarcely breathe; she cannot herself, lift up her …

“In Labours More Abundant”

… This gave great offence to my critics, so five or six of those grave old men gathered round me, and tried to set me right in their peculiar …

God's Own Gospel Call

Isaiah 55:3

… my Hearers, I want you, while hearing the Word, to be praying— "While I see You wounded, bleeding, Dying on the accursed tree, Gladly I'd feel my …

Secret Disciples Encouraged

John 18:25

… of Death calmly rejoicing in Jesus! And you also are one of the disciples of the same Master, the same Master who can— "Make a dying bed Feel …

Mercy for the Meanest of the Flock

Micah 4:6

… On his dying bed he said, "They talk of me, but I am nothing, nothing, nothing." He mourned over his past life—to him it seemed that he …

Public Meeting Of The Various Denominations

… A short time ago he visited that spot—he went to follow his poor mother to the grave. He looked at the house, and could have wept over …

The Only Atoning Priest

Hebrews 10:11-14

… How could the blood of bulls and of goats put away sin? What conceivable connection can there be, except in symbol, between the death pangs of a beast …

Servitude Or Service—Which?

2 Chronicles 12:8

… if it is not true that the wages of sin is death! Then go to the dying Christian, like one of our Brethren who has passed away this …

Consolation Proportionate to Spiritual Sufferings

2 Corinthians 1:5

… I am dying; the chilly cold waters of Jordan have touched my foot, I feel my blood stagnate and freeze. I must die; Christ puts his arms around …

"Herein Is Love"

1 John 4:10

… Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Though death's shadow hovers all around me and dampens my …

The Danger of Carnal Security

Judges 18:7

… The passing bell has a strange tone to their ears, but, for the most part, they put away all thoughts of death. They are young, or they are …

The Simplicity and Sublimity of Salvation

John 1:11-13

… Do you? There is no body of divinity that I know of but Christ, the Son of God in human flesh, living, bleeding, dying, risen, ascended, soon to …

A Solemn Deprival

Ephesians 2:12

… Bursting the bonds of death, you, too, shall rise, but not to newness of life, nor yet to glory, for shame and everlasting contempt shall be your portion …

Frost And Thaw

Psalm 147:16-18

… He can, in an instant, bring you from death to life, from condemnation to justification. "Today shall you be with Me in Paradise," was spoken to a dying …

Frost and Thaw

… bring you from death to life, from condemnation to justification. “To-day shall thou be with me in Paradise,” was spoken to a dying thief, black and defiled …

The Savior You Need

Hebrews 5:9

… When the Law condemns them—when they have the sentence of death ringing with its dolorous knell through their consciences—they nevertheless turn to themselves for help. As …

A Question for a Questioner

Psalm 77:9

… Forget not the dying thief, and how in the extremity of death, filled with all the agonies of crucifixion, he looked to the Lord, and the Lord looked …

Forgiveness

Psalm 130:4

… If we knew that death was a punishment for sin, we should be led to fear that there was no forgiveness to be had from the hand of …

An All-important Question

John 9:35

… each person in this congregation? Do you not know, Man, that life and death, Heaven and Hell and bliss or unutterable woe depend upon your answer to that …

Baptismal Regeneration

Mark 16:15-16

… In one of our courts of legislature but last Tuesday, the Lord Chief Justice showed his superstition, by speaking of “the risk of the calamity of children dying …

The Poor Man's Friend

Psalm 10:14

… By His death He obtained a full discharge of the debts of all those whose Surety He had become. [See Sermons #694, Volume 12—SIN LAID ON JESUS …

Moses—His Faith and Decision

Hebrews 11:24-26

… But there is one pleasure you have forgotten, namely, the pleasure of meditating upon it on a dying bed." She shrugged her shoulders, she could see no pleasure …

Psalm 89

Psalm 89

… that can claim to elude the arrows of death. Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Neither by strength, wisdom, nor virtue can any …

Comfort From the Future

Job 11:16

… And I think that there are few pilgrims from the City of Destruction who get to the Celestial City without passing through the Valley of Death and having …

The Apple Tree in the Woods

Solomon 2:3

… We cannot be certain that a thing is right because it is old, for Satan is old, and sin is old, and death is old, and Hell is …

For The Troubled

Psalm 88:7

… As we shall have to show, by-and-by, there is a very grave difference between the anger of God with His children and the anger of God …

Delay Is Dangerous

Genesis 24:55

… And if you live he will say the same ten years from now, and again when you are on your dying bed! And so with this cunning he …

Psalm 122

Psalm 122

… in the prospect of death and of the future world; peace amidst the storms and tempests of life; peace in death, in the grave, and for ever. Albert …

How the Lambs Feed

Isaiah 5:17

… feed in their pasture," feeding near the very scythe of death and cropping choice morsels at the grave's mouth—for the Lamb, Jesus Christ, being with them …

"Take, Eat"

Matthew 26:26

… WE are all agreed upon this one point, that the Lord's Supper is an emblem of the death of Jesus Christ and of the way by which …

The Dual Nature and the Duel Within

Romans 7:23

… There will be death to fight with, but Christ has died and you shall be victorious over the grave. Expect conflict! Be not astonished when it comes, but …

Guile Forsaken When Guilt Is Forgiven

Psalm 32:2

… a dying bed, you would believe the old Revelation, fast enough, and begin to cry out for mercy in the fear which the approach of death would bring …

Light for Those Who Sit in Darkness

Matthew 4:15-16

… Thou shalt have such faith in dying moments that thou shalt say: “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” “But you do not …

Unbelievers Stumbling—Believers Rejoicing

Romans 9:33

… Have not they snug on their dying beds, with David, "Yes, though I pass through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for …

Spring

Isaiah 61:11

… Generation after generation of holy martyrs and confessors went to prison and to death to bear testimony to the Truth of God as it is in Jesus. It …