Death & Dying

Precious Deaths

Psalm 116:15

… To the saints the sting of death is gone, and the victory of the grave is removed; it is no more a penalty but a privilege to die …

Christ Our Peace

Ephesians 2:14

… to the grave. Many have asked why Christ groaned. Why, Brothers and Sisters, it is the way in which He gives life—by His own death! We sometimes …

From Death To Life

1 Samuel 2:6

… And this verse, with its vivid opposition between life and death, restoration and the grave, bears in it diamonds of the finest quality. Like the ewes in the …

A Visit to the Tomb

Matthew 28:6

… sure for your friend and sure for yourself! And fear not death! What is it? The grave is but a bath wherein our body, like Esther, buries itself …

'Ready, Yes, Ready!'

Isaiah 27:13

… the article of death—and that may be before another Sabbath's sun shall rise—how might this note ring like music in your dying ears, "Ready to …

The Shulamite'S Choice Prayer

Solomon 8:6

… for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: its flames are flames of fire, a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench Your love …

The Wicked Man’s Life, Funeral, and Epitaph

Ecclesiastes 8:10

… He is taken quietly to his tomb with as little pomp as possible, and he is with all decency and solemnity interred in the grave. And now listen …

Infant Salvation

2 Kings 4:26

… As for modern Calvinists, I know of no exception, but we all hope and believe that all persons dying in infancy are elect. Dr. Gill, who has been …

Under Constraint

2 Corinthians 5:14

… Every little child that is carried to the grave bears witness that death passes upon all men, for that all have sinned in Adam, even though they have …

Christ's Motive and Ours

2 Corinthians 8:9

… Over that carefully-kept grave, he had the words inscribed, "He died for me!" There is something melting in the thought of another dying for you—how much …

"Much More"

Romans 5:10

… He has put an end to death in making an end of sin by His own death." The main thought concerning Christ, to those of us who really …

His Own Funeral Sermon*

Acts 13:36

… In that climate there was, while Christ lay in the grave, plenty of time for His body to become corrupt. The spices with which they perfumed the precious …

A Blast of the Trumpet Against False Peace

Jeremiah 6:14

… at the prospect of dying. They laugh at death as though it were but a scene in a comedy, and joke at the grave as if they could …

The Last Words of Christ on the Cross

Luke 23:46

… It was because He said that God was His Father that they put Him to death, yet He still stood to it even in His dying hour and …

Our Glorious Leader

Luke 19:28

… He went ahead of us in the path of death. "Ah, but I cannot bear to think of the pain of dying," says one. You will never have …

Morning, June 29

1Th 4:14

… The winter of the grave gives way to the spring of redemption and the summer of glory. Blessed is death, since it, through the divine power, disrobes us …

Job's Sure Knowledge

Job 19:25

… from the power of the grave and that He will enable me to say, 'O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?'" Dwell on …

A Sad Interior and a Cheery Messenger

Mark 16:10

… sleep of death for us! When He woke, He unwound the napkin and the grave clothes, and laid the napkin in one place and the grave clothes in …

Evening, March 8

Ge 35:18

… When death itself appears, faith points to the light of resurrection beyond the grave, thus making our dying Ben-oni to be our living Benjamin.

Baptism’A Burial

Romans 6:3-4

… The Lord by his power has called you out of your grave, and now you are alive in the midst of death. There can be no fellowship here …

Morning, April 20

Heb 2:14

… Then cease to fear dying. Ask grace from God the Holy Ghost, that by an intimate knowledge and a firm belief of thy Redeemer’s death, thou mayst …

The Lord's Supper—simple But Sublime!

1 Corinthians 11:25

… His death, what? Why, a feast! Not a funeral, not a meeting together to sing dirges over His mangled body, or to go to a grave to weep …

Psalm 146

Psalm 146

… of dying, and that dying brings a necessity of returning to the earth: in which respect it is observable, that the threat, "thou shalt die the death" (Ge …

Our Champion

Judges 16:3

… He bears upon His shoulders the uplifted gates of the grave—the tokens of His victory over death and Hell! Doors and posts and bar and all, He …

Preparation for Heaven

2 Corinthians 5:5

… Your everlasting state is fixed then— "There are no acts of pardon passed In the cold grave to which we hasten, But darkness, death, and long despair Reign …

Divine Interpositions

Psalm 18:16

… providence death as well as life, and draw no inference as to the character of the person. What if a man has found a watery grave in the …

Precepts and Promises

John 12:26

… of the death of the Cross. He died and was buried in the heart of the earth but He sprang up again from the grave and, ever since …

The Three Whats

Ephesians 1:18-20

… It will lie in the grave and disintegrate into dust unless our Lord Jesus should come before our death—of this we make small account—having no very …

Psalm 31

Psalm 31

… the advanced believer, the dying saint. Verse 17. The shame and silence of the wicked in eternity. The silence of the grave, its grave eloquence. Verse 19. See …

The Cholera Year in London

… sick and the dying. I felt that it was my duty to be on the spot in such a time of disease and death and sorrow. One Monday …

The Bellows Burned

Jeremiah 6:29

… Remember, this life is not all and the grave is not the goal of being. You are not dumb driven cattle—going to the shambles of death, there …

The Soul's Food and Drink

John 6:55

… And when He was taken away and put to death, we were crucified in Him. And when He was laid in the grave, we were buried with Him …

Dead, Yet Alive

Romans 6:11

… Christ died and was laid in the grave because He was our Surety and Substitute. Our great debt of sin was laid to His account, but His death …

What Is Your Life?

James 4:14

… It is a dying life—and equally true is it that it is a living death. We are always dying. Every beating pulse we count leaves the number …

The Spur

Ecclesiastes 9:10

… fact of the certain approach of death—"for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you go." Unless the Lord shall …

The Census of Israel

Numbers 16:66

… And these, dying away rapidly, the people scarcely maintained their number. It is of God to multiply a nation, or a Church. We may not expect any advance …

The Unchanging God Cheering Jacob in His Change of Dwelling Place

Genesis 46:1-4

… Then death has lost its sting." Did you ever think of dying in that light? Let me read it to you with a word changed and another name …

A Painful and Puzzling Question

Mark 4:40

… an unchangeable love, a love that is stronger than death, a love which led Me down into the grave for you—do you not believe Me? If others …

Justification by Grace

… show his sovereignty, even when he was dying. There were no righteous men to suffer; no disciples shared his death; Peter was not dragged there to be beheaded …

Our Life, Our Work, Our Change

Job 14:14

… hide me in the grave!" Everything that could make life bearable had been taken from him and every evil which could make death desirable came upon him. Yet …