Death & Dying

Moab Is My Washpot

Psalm 60:8

… Remember, O believer, that there is no wretch upon earth so bad, but what thou wast once his equal in alienation from God and death in sin. In …

Israel And Britain. A Note of Warning

John 12:37-41

… name Immanuel," and ending with "he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death." Isaiah spake of John the Baptist as the "voice …

Creation—An Argument For Faith

Jeremiah 32:17

… In the grave He has vanquished death. In His resurrection He has rent forever the bonds of the grave. In His ascension He has opened Heaven to all …

Love at Leisure

Luke 10:39

… If you worry yourself into your grave what can you accomplish? God did well enough before you were born and He will do well enough when you are …

A Lesson from the Life of King Asa

2 Chronicles 16:9

… Now, we shall turn to notice the GRAVE ERROR INTO WHICH ASA FELL—the foolishness for which the Prophet rebuked him. He was threatened by Baasha, the king …

Peter's Restoration

Luke 22:60-62

… He had given Peter His hand before and saved him from a watery grave when he was beginning to sink. But this time He gives him neither His …

Sinners Bound with the Cords of Sin

Proverbs 5:22

… Gild the pill as you may, iniquity is death. Sweet is an unholy morsel in the mouth, but it will be wormwood in the bowels. Let but man …

A Testimony To Free and Sovereign Grace

Psalm 37:39

… The joy of salvation to us is that we are delivered from this present evil world, delivered from the lusts of the flesh, delivered from the old death …

Faith and Life

2 Peter 1:1-4

… There you lay in the grave of your sin, rotten, corrupt. The voice of the minister called to you, but you did not hear. You were often bidden …

A Song Among the Lilies

Solomon 2:16

… hold, for better for worse, for life and for death, by a bond of marriage union which neither death nor hell, time nor eternity, can break. Jesus is …

Saying Versus Doing

Matthew 21:28-30

… While the preacher has been setting before them life and death, eternal joy and everlasting misery and has been entreating the Holy Spirit to decide them for Christ …

A Great Sermon by the Greatest Preacher

Matthew 3:17

… Ah, then, Beloved, it will be a blessed thing to be well pleased with Jesus, for He will be with us in death, and with us throughout eternity …

Faith Seeing God's Glory

John 11:40

… Yes, the truest love may demand that the sickness should turn to death, for out of the death He may bring the greater Glory. The Lord acts not …

The Sweet Harp of Consolation

Isaiah 41:10

… When we have to visit the grave again and again, and each time leave a part of ourselves behind us. When our garments are the ensigns of our …

Ruth's Reward—or, Cheer for Converts

Ruth 2:12

… The Lord do so to me and more, also, if anything but death parts you and me." The young convert is an emigrant from the world and has …

The Teaching of the Holy Ghost

John 14:26

… He takes the fool and makes him know the wonders of the dying love of Christ, to bring aspiring wisdom low and make the pride of man humble …

God's Memorial Of His People

Isaiah 49:16

… are marked for death, He does not forget you! He will cheer those days of growing weakness, and as you get nearer to the grave, you will also …

'His Great Love'

Ephesians 2:4

… And you could lie at the foot of the Cross and yet not be melted by the death-cries of Immanuel, although the earth did quake and the …

Spots in Our Feats of Charity

… She should put away wicked members and endeavor to preserve her purity! But for all that there will never be a perfect Church this side of the grave …

Paul in the Tempest

Acts 27:18-25

… God save us from such cowardice! Infidelity brawls in every street—shall faith be dumb? If you believe, there is at this time a grave necessity that you …

'Life for a Look'

Isaiah 45:22

… This kind of experience has often been witnessed in ungodly men at the approach of death. When, at last, the chill drops stand on their brow—when they …

Certain Curious Calculations About Loaves and Fishes

Mark 8:19-21

… Whenever there is a holy deed to be done, our mathematical-minded unbelievers are prompt with their estimates of cost and their prudent forecasts of grave deficiencies! We …

The Man of One Subject

1 Corinthians 2:2

… He knows that the Gospel must be a "savor of death unto death" to some as well as, of "life unto life" unto others and, therefore, whichever may …

A Wonder Explained By Greater Wonders

Lamentations 3:57

… If death consorts with you, Death is to me as life So forcible within my heart I feel The bond of Nature draw me to my own My …

"God With Us"

Matthew 1:23

… Remember that in the Person of Christ, Manhood was not merely a quickening spirit, but also suffering, hungering, dying flesh and blood. There was taken to Himself by …

Pride Catechized and Condemned

1 Corinthians 4:7

… my brethren, did that life spring out of the ribs of death? Did the worm of our corruption beget the living seed of regeneration? It were absurd to …

Perfect Restoration

Zechariah 10:6

… And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain …

God's Pupil, God's Preacher—an Autobiography

Psalm 71:17

… Sometimes even a grave fault may save you from 10 grave faults, if it is well observed and avoided in the future—and God teaches you thereby. You …

The Trial of Your Faith

1 Peter 1:7

… They are none of His and so He lets them have a happy life and perhaps an easy death—"there are no bands in their death, but their …

Unbelievers Upbraided

Mark 16:14

… out of the grave—its voice must be the voice of faith. 5. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found …

Charity and Purity

James 1:27

… and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. That is the pedigree of sin—it is born of lust, and it brings forth dust. Any sin, whatever …

An Earnest Warning Against Unbelief

Hebrews 8:18

… And in times of sickness, God hears you and keeps you from death. You have been preserved in accidents and here you are, kept alive with death so …

The Deep-Seated Character of Sin

Jeremiah 17:1

… You may have seen two fencers practicing their art and noticed how they seem to be seeking each other's death—how they strike and thrust as though …

My Solace in My Affliction

… He lives! He reigns! This God is our God and He shall be our Guide even unto death. Yes, it is a simple fact that God is, but …

The Word a Sword

Hebrews 4:12

… Yes, if you leave out of it Christ as a Substitute, Christ in His death, Christ in His garments dyed in blood, you have left out of it …

The Barley Field on Fire

2 Samuel 14:29-31

… God has been pleased to take away my wife with a stroke; she now lies in the cold grave.” Another cries, “O sir, my wife is sore sick …

Deadness and Quickning

Psalm 119:37

… He that will see death and become familiar with the grave will learn to turn his eyes away from vanity. He that will see Heaven and think of …

The Christian's Service and Honor

John 12:26

… Grant me on earth what seems to You best, Till death and Heaven reveal the rest" The patient bearing of poverty is a service to God. The calm …

Christ's Crowning Glory

Psalm 21:5

… How can we remember His death without sorrowing over the sin which made that death necessary? How can we remember "that the Lord Jesus, the same night in …

The Man Christ Jesus

Hebrews 7:4

… In death he destroys death; in the grave he bursts the sepulcher. "Consider how great this man was": the field of his life is ample; do not be …