Death & Dying

The Scales of Judgment

Daniel 5:27

… The arrow of death is fitted to the string, and soon shall it be sent home. Man’s heart is the target. Then, after death, cometh the judgment …

The Judgment Seat Of God

Romans 14:10-12

… If, like George Fox, I can say in dying, "I am clear, I am clear," that were almost all the Heaven I could wish for! Oh to discharge …

Life Eternal

John 10:28

… Man merits nothing but death, and life must be the free gift of God. "The wages of sin is death." That is to say it is earned and …

From Twenty-five to Thirty-five

Matthew 20:3

… I should have expected that they would have been here, at myfuneral and yours, but instead thereof, they have been carried to an early grave. With good hope …

Confidence and Concern

2 Timothy 1:12-14

… He was not likely to be spared by the monster who occupied the Roman throne and already he had the sentence of death in himself. Any morning he …

Christ's Love to His Spouse

Ephesians 5:25

… Read frequently the story of His life and death. Get alone as often as you can and picture Him before your eyes until you find your heart exclaiming …

Salvation Altogether By Grace

… Do you imagine that when it was death to listen to the preacher, that men under the shadows of night, and amid the wings of tempest would then …

Three Homilies From One Text

Matthew 4:23-25

… Instead of striking the first-born dead, He heals the dying, and rescues from the grasp of death some who had even gone down to the grave! This …

What is the Verdict?

1 John 3:21

… Note the 14th verse—"We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loves not his brother abides in death …

Peter's Blunder—a Lesson for Ourselves

Acts 10:14

… Though crucified, it is long in dying and struggles hard. Sin dwells in us so that we painfully discover that, though we are new men, we are yet …

Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Matthew 6:13

… There was no dance in him after that! He limped to the day of his death. Take care, man—if you would not make for yourself a garment …

Depths and Heights

Hebrews 1:2

… There are no acts of pardon passed In the cold grave to which we haste. But darkness, death, and long despair, Reign in eternal silence there." But "things …

Self-Sufficiency Slain

John 15:5

… If it had been so, he would not have cried out—"O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death!" He …

The Word of a King

Ecclesiastes 8:4

… concerning the fear of death when we remember that it is the voice of a King which will recall our bodies from the grave and, "where the word …

Grace For Grace

1 Corinthians 2:12

… Our state is that of death, and death cannot grasp life. God the Holy Spirit must breathe life into us before we can rise from the grave of …

Harvest Time

1 Samuel 12:17

… The first sad harvest is the harvest of death. We are all living, and what for? For the grave. I have sometimes sat down and had a reverie …

The Winnowing Fan

Hebrews 12:14

… Surely He who would not spare Satan, the bright archangel, will not admit polluted man to Heaven! And He who put His Son to death to bring His …

Trial by the Word

Psalm 105:19

… If the dying thief was rendered fit to be in Paradise the same day on which he believed, so might each one of us have been made ready …

Mary Magdalene

Mark 16:9

… She sat in the darkness and saw no light—her dwelling was in the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Among all the women of Magdala there was …

My Prayer

Psalm 119:37

… If we have a brother who is rotting in the grave of his iniquities, let us pray the Master to say, "Lazarus, come forth." If we have a …

Good Cheer For Outcasts

Psalm 147:2

… The wonders of His dying love, To lay aspiring wisdom low, And all our pride reprove." I am thankful when I meet with poor saints and see what …

Faith—What Is It? How Can It Be Obtained?

Ephesians 2:8

… If you are, at last, driven to it, then comes the awful passion of jealousy which is strong as death and cruel as the grave—but till such …

Two Loving Invitations

John 1:39

… you remember the glitter of her eyes in death's dark hour? Do you remember how she bore her dying testimony that all that God had said concerning …

The Master Key—Opening the Gate of Heaven

Genesis 32:12

… Have you a Rabshakeh's letter in the house? Go, like Hezekiah, and spread it before the Lord! Have you a dying child? Then cry to the Lord …

The Doctrines of Grace Do Not Lead to Sin

Romans 6:14

… Out of free favour he has provided, in the death of his dear Son, an atonement by means of which his mercy can be justly bestowed. He accepts …

Vanities and Verities

2 Corinthians 4:18

… Oh, to look beyond death to "the Home over there," beyond the swelling flood where souls that were loved of God from before the foundation of the world …

The Last Sermon for the Year

Luke 16:2

… Yet how much God really does for flowers—flowers that only open their cups in the morning and shut them in death at night! How much of skill …

A Voice From Heaven

Revelation 14:12

… Balaam, with all his moral shortsightedness, could say, "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his." That is the case …

Jesus Appearing To Mary Magdalene

Mark 16:9

… And if so, death were welcome!" Consider how many fears this timid woman must have had. It is not always safe to go abroad early in the morning …

God's Thoughts and Ways Far Above Ours

Isaiah 55:8

… He does not desire the death of the sinner. He is very patient, He suffers long, He bears continually with our provocations. He is desirous that men should …

God Glorified By Children's Mouths

… side, his suffering and his dying side, by which God has shown the enemy that men can love their God even unto death, that virtue can triumph over …

The Shame and Spitting

Isaiah 50:6

… and they shall scourge him and put him to death.” Such a remarkable prophecy of scourging and spitting as this which is now before us must surely refer …

Reasons for Turning to the Lord

Hosea 6:1

… I may be addressing one tonight who feels as though his death warrant had been signed and sealed. He has the sentence of death in himself. But, dear …

A Prayer for the Church Militant

Psalm 28:9

… How can I say, "Save Your people," and yet not try to do something to save a soul from death and hide a multitude of sins? If I …

The Sinful Made Sinless

1 John 3:4

… We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren. He that loves not his brother abides in death. Whoever hates his brother …

Everyday Usefulness

John 1:42

… yearly descend! Surely sin, the grave, and Hell are themes which might create a tingling even in the dull cold ear of Death! O that I could set …

The Ethiopian

Jeremiah 13:23

… You may sit as long as you like in the sepulcher amid the dry bones, but life will never be born of death—life must come from quite …

Feeble Faith Appealing to a Strong Savior

Mark 9:24

… insulting the Father concerning His veracity— bear with me, Sinner, in bringing these grave charges against you—and as God bears with you, you may well bear with …

Certain Singular Subjects

Joshua 24:4

… Ah, had they known it, there was grave cause for mingled emotion in that double birth! We read that 40 years after Esau married, he took unto himself …

Peace—a Fact and a Feeling

Romans 5:1

… We kick against His Providence, we rebel against His commands, we resist His Holy Spirit, we reject His love as manifested in the death of Christ and we …