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Death & Dying
Death, mortality, dying well, and hope beyond the grave
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The Drawings of Love
Jeremiah 31:3
… Jesus proves it to you! He took your sins, your sorrows, your death, your grave, that you might be pardoned, accepted and received into Divine favor—and so …
SERMON • SERMON 3256Beggars Becoming Princes
1 Samuel 2:8
… If we ever become reconciled to God by the death of His Son, it must be by an act of charity which we can do nothing to deserve …
SERMON • SERMON 1102Royal Homage
Revelation 4:10
… He suffered on earth for her, bled on the Cross for her, went into the grave for her and now He will make her partaker of all He …
SERMON • SERMON 3349'The Garment of Praise'
Isaiah 61:3
… Very much that God does for us we bury alive in the grave of oblivion. We receive His mercies as if they were common trash. They are no …
SERMON • SERMON 3127A Promise and Precedent
John 16:14
… Life, and health, and peace possessing From the sinner's dying Friend. Here I'll sit forever viewing Mercy's streams, in streams of blood. Precious drops! My …
SERMON • SERMON 84Salvation to the Uttermost
Hebrews 7:25
… Not long ago you heard a powerful sermon; the minister spoke as though he were a man just started from his grave, with as much earnestness as if …
SERMON • SERMON 86Unimpeachable Justice
Psalm 51:4
… How many of you, when you thought you were dying, made a confession upon your death-beds to you God! And mark you, there will be many of …
COMMENTARYPsalm 68
Psalm 68
… he puts death to death, entombs the grave, and leads captivity captive. Thou hast received gifts for men, or, received gifts among men: they have paid thee tribute …
SERMON • SERMON 3440Attention!
Matthew 17:5
… Do you find in the Gospels a minute account of the Lord Jesus—the Epistles will tell you that His death was a propitiation for our sins. Do …
SERMON • SERMON 3258Stumbling at the Word
1 Peter 2:8
… Men who are dying do not generally object to the physician who is seeking to save their lives. A man who is condemned to death does not quarrel …
SERMON • SERMON 497The Procession of Sorrow
John 19:16
… Methinks Death thought it a splendid triumph when he saw the Master impaled and bleeding in the dominions of destruction; little did he know that the grave was …
SERMON • SERMON 3045Believers A Blessing
Zechariah 8:13
… to help them— "Rescue the perishing, care for the dying— Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave." In such a city as this, with hundreds of …
SERMON • SERMON 300Spiritual Peace
John 14:27
… It is set as a seal upon our arm; it is strong as death and invincible as the grave. Thy stream, O Jordan, cannot drown it, black and …
SERMON • SERMON 3435Sanctified Sorrow
Isaiah 54:11
… Have you learned, Beloved, to fly to the Rock for shelter? Have you come to hide behind the dying Savior? Do you know the tune of David's …
SERMON • SERMON 2234The Best Donation
2 Corinthians 8:5
… I trust in the death of Christ as my only hope of eternal life and I give myself up to Him, believing that He will save me. There …
SERMON • SERMON 3219'He Blessed Him There'
Genesis 32:29
… While he got the blessing, he got lameness, too, and he might be well content to carry that lameness to his grave! I have often found that the …
SERMON • SERMON 1927Our Sympathizing High Priest
Hebrews 5:7-10
… to save Him from death." This passage may be read in two ways. It may mean that He would be saved from actually dying if it could be …
SERMON • SERMON 3469Martha and Mary
Luke 10:41-42
… Though he seeks with eager grasp to retain it, Death will tear it away from his expiring grip. He will take away from the dying one all dear …
SERMON • SERMON 1098Wonders
Joel 2:26
… Are you lying at death's door? Do you cry like Heman, "My soul is full of troubles and my life draws near unto the grave"? Perhaps you …
SERMON • SERMON 235The Fainting Warrior
Romans 7:24
… nature “the body of this death.” Why does he call it “the body of this death?” Some suppose he means these dying bodies; but I do not think …
SERMON • SERMON 2451"Blessed in Him"
Psalm 72:17
… He will bring us safely to our journey's end and we shall go through the cold death stream without a fear! We shall rise triumphant on the …
SERMON • SERMON 856The Importunate Widow
Luke 18:1-8
… his death he might be able to say a word that should move their hearts. He gathered them to his bedside, but his unhappiness in dying was extreme …
SERMON • SERMON 3110Faintness and Refreshing
1 Kings 19:8
… Only think of a soul dwelling in darkness like a body that has been long dead and shut up in the grave. 4. Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed …
SERMON • SERMON 20The Carnal Mind Enmity Against God
Romans 8:7
… When I wish such a man dead and rotting in his grave; when I desire that he were non est , I must hate that man; otherwise I should …
SERMON • SERMON 2406An Appeal to Children of Godly Parents
Proverbs 6:20-23
… are worth dying for! They are worth more than all the world besides—the immortal principles of the Divine Life which comes from the death of Christ! "Bind …
SERMON • SERMON 2759The Pleasures of Piety
Psalm 104:34
… There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death …
SERMON • SERMON 148Five Fears
Ecclesiastes 8:12
… Strong love will usually promote jealousy. “Love is as strong as death;” then comes the next, “Jealousy is cruel as the grave.” We cannot love strongly without feeling …
SERMON • SERMON 2908The Saint's Heritage and Watchword
Isaiah 54:17
… James II had attempted to revive the dying cause of Popery—and the hopes of Satan were great. But sturdy Protestants would not easily lose their dearly-bought …
SERMON • SERMON 2992God's Writing Upon Man's Heart
Jeremiah 31:33
… as the Believer talks with his God upon his dying bed. The flesh has been committed to the grave, but the handwriting is not gone, for the heart …
SERMON • SERMON 3443Seeing Jesus
John 14:19
… You who have passed from death unto life—when the world sees Christ no more, you shall see Him in His Glory! And even now, while a blind …
SERMON • SERMON 2664Things Unknown
Jeremiah 33:3
… breast and be carried to an untimely grave, than that he should send her gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. God, therefore, makes this very kind reservation …
SERMON • SERMON 2698The First and the Second
Hebrews 10:9
… you to a fainting fit, He brings you to death's door, He brings you to the very grave of your own personal confidence and strength—and then …
SERMON • SERMON 840Do Not Sin Against the Child
Genesis 42:22
… Experience adds its voice to Nature, "Do not sin against the child." Hundreds of parents have been brought with sorrow to the grave through the natural result of …
SERMON • SERMON 3233God's Firebrands
Zechariah 3:2
… They are delivered from the body of sin and death! Still, the force of the passage seems to lie in the words "plucked out off" You may sit …
SERMON • SERMON 1116Medicine For The Distracted
Psalm 94:19
… shall live also"? Can we be burdened by fears of death? Jesus Himself has died, perfumed the grave in which we shall sleep and then removed its door …
SERMON • SERMON 2102Pricked in Their Heart
Acts 2:36-37
… once they put him to a felon's death, they laid him in the grave, and sealed the stone; but he rose again, for God was on his …
SERMON • SERMON 2225A Clarion Call to Saints and Sinners
Micah 2:10
… You have heard, this last week, perhaps, of the deaths of several people who were younger than you, but you do not reckon upon dying. Far from it …
SERMON • SERMON 3455A Message From God
Judges 3:20
… He may compel you to listen! Another dark messenger has come to you. Death has bereaved you of friends and comrades. Those with whom you were most familiar …
SERMON • SERMON 1107A Call To Worship
Zechariah 8:21
… stalking through the land, evil influences are abroad everywhere! Men are dying, Hell is filling, the grave is gorged and yet is insatiable—and the man of destruction …
SERMON • SERMON 3394'Who Is This?'
Matthew 21:10
… They shall be compelled to examine it and if it is not a savor of life unto life to them, still it shall be a savor of death …