Death & Dying

Real Grace for Real Need

Luke 9:11

… But when the villain, having perpetrated a grave and causeless offense, does not for a moment acknowledge that he has done amiss, but continues calmly to perpetrate the …

Our Lord's Triumphant Ascension

Psalm 68:18

… He was obedient to death, even the death of the Cross—and further yet when His dead body was laid in the grave. "Well," says our Apostle, "Now …

Three Decisive Steps

1 Samuel 7:2-5

… Ah, the grass has not yet grown on that newly-formed grave and your heart is aching after something, you scarcely know what! There were days with you …

Fellowship With Christ

1 Corinthians 10:16

… When we view Him on Golgotha and hear His death-shriek startling the darkness—then our heart goes out after Him and we love Him. While He holds …

The Great Teacher and Remembrancer

John 14:26

… It is a grave question if this is not the origin of various divisions which are to be found in the Church of Christ—not so much heresy …

The Heart Of Jesus

Matthew 11:29

… Neither would it be wrong for a person to say, as a physician practically says, "I am wise in medicine," in order to lead a dying person to …

The Faithfulness of Jesus

John 13:1

… The partner of my life is sick at home and near to death." "Alas!" cries another, "my dear child is dying, and I found it hard to tear …

Psalm 38

Psalm 38

… A heat of fear, a chill of horror, a flaming desire, a horrible insensibility—by these successive miseries a convinced sinner is brought to death's door. And …

Woe and Weal

Micah 7:9

… In fact, it is the very opposite of it! Our great Savior did not stand at the grave of Lazarus and say coldly, "It is well," without any …

God's Glory Our Rereward

Isaiah 58:8

… But inasmuch as after death there is another state which is everlasting and unchangeable, there is grave cause for the ungodly to fear Him who, "after He has …

Two Visions

Zechariah 1:8-21

… Still more numerous, ill-mannered and ill-conditioned was the throng who clustered around the grave—pig-headed and bull-necked young fellows, mostly under twenty years of …

To Those Who Feel Unfit for Communion

2 Chronicles 30:17-20

… You cannot go out to your business tomorrow morning but you will meet with that spiritual death which loads with corruption the air of "this present evil world …

God's Care of Elijah

1 Kings 17:4

… You will, none of you, have dying Grace yet, as you have not yet to die. And we do not get Grace for the furnace until we come …

Prepared to Meet God

Amos 4:12

… Hear her voice calling to you from the grave! No, more than that, listen as she speaks to you out of the excellent Glory, saying, "My Beloved Sister …

Comfort for the Fearful

Matthew 8:26

… You would go as low as the grave, but, blessed be God, you would never go any lower and, in due time, even your body will come up …

The Law's Failure and Fulfillment

Romans 8:3

… nailed Christ to the Cross and put Him to death. What the Law could not do, the dying Christ has done! His Sacrifice makes us hate evil. Naming …

Gethsemane

Luke 22:44

… the shadows of death could have covered us from the wrath of God we would have been too glad to sleep in the grave that we might not …

"Lay Hold on Eternal Life!"

1 Timothy 6:12

… It is purely and solely the gift of God by Jesus Christ. "The wages of sin is death; but the gift"—the free gift—"of God is eternal …

The Broken Fence

Proverbs 24:30-32

… This leads to worse—and if they do not bring their fathers' gray hairs with sorrow to the grave, it is no virtue of theirs. I have known …

God's Innumerable Mercies

Psalm 71:15

… You have had deliverances when you knew nothing of your danger, when the Lord— " Watched over your path When, Satan's blind slave, you sported with death." You …

Why Some Sinners Are Not Pardoned

Job 7:21

… At the infinite expense of His heart's love—by the death of His own dear Son—He has provided a way of salvation! And if you reject …

The Sea! the Sea! the Wide and Open Sea!

Psalm 95:5

… It was a "melancholy ocean" to them—a place of constant sorrow and sudden death—they shuddered as they thought of it. But, indeed, to him who is …

Five Divine Declarations

Isaiah 45:24

… His existence was thought to be obnoxious to the human race and, therefore, he was put to death in the most painful form. Yet persecution could not stop …

Christ, the Glory of His People

Luke 2:32

… there only, would he have his aged body laid in the grave—as if in death he would take possession of the heritage which the Lord had promised …

A Blow at Self-Righteousness

Job 9:20

… When men get alone, if in their loneliness the thought of death forces itself upon them, they boast no more of goodness. It is not easy for a …

Christ and His Hearers

Luke 15:1

… that death is changed, no longer to be a penal sentence, but to be merely an entrance into Heaven! The thought that— "Jesus will make a dying bed …

True Worship

Psalm 50:14

… amidst dying groans—and He gets delightful music from His people's triumphant cries. "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him." "O Death, where is …

Sowing in the Wind, Reaping Under Clouds

Ecclesiastes 11:4

… Poor farmers, they have a crop of hay and cannot get it in—they may fret themselves to death if they like—and never earn a penny for …

Delivered On Sunday Morning, December 4, 1864,

2 Corinthians 6:2

… and on the borders of the grave? Do not talk of hurry, Sir—when it is a case of life and death. Let us fly swift as a …

Inward Conflicts

Solomon 6:13

… Observe how in this word death and life are contending together. Death crowds his graves, but Life wins the victory. Death may toll the knell and this is …

The Condescension of Christ

2 Corinthians 8:9

… I would rather be the pauper, dependent upon charity, and have love, than I would be the prince, despised and hated, whose death is looked for as a …

The Saint'S Horror At The Sinner'S Hell

… grave." Accidents are but God's arrangements. Diseases are His decrees—fevers His servants, and plagues His messengers. Our mortality is immortal, till the Eternal wills its death …

The Great Miracle Worker

John 11:47

… They had observed how the onlookers, at Christ's command, unwound the napkin and the grave clothes. And they had not the shadow of a doubt that a …

Joy in Place of Sorrow

John 16:22

… It is wonderful how He could talk thus calmly about His death, knowing that it would be a death of bitter shame and terrible agony. Yet He does …

The Standard Uplifted In The Face Of The Foe

Isaiah 59:19

… The moment of conversion is rather the commencement than the closing of spiritual warfare, and until the Believer's head shall recline upon the pillow of death he …

Strong Consolation

Hebrews 6:17

… we are more than conquerors! O Death, where is your sting? O Grave, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin …

'A Greater Than Solomon'

Matthew 12:42

… The sacrifice of Jonah calmed the sea for the mariners—our Lord's death made peace for us. Our Lord was a while in the heart of the …

Lame Sheep

Hebrews 12:13

… Ah, David thought he had hidden his sin with Bathsheba, did he not? When he had arranged Uriah's death, he seemed to have imagined that nobody would …

Sovereignty and Salvation

Isaiah 45:22

… We might give you instances from modern history; but the death of a king is all-sufficient to teach this one lesson, if men would but learn it …

Good News for the Destitute

Psalm 102:17

… He has come to the very lowest degree of spiritual penury—it is only necessary for death to put an end to his present misery for him to …