Death & Dying

"Straightway"

Matthew 4:20

… You are, yourself, a dying man, and if you do not accomplish your life-work "straightway," when will you perform it? Others are dying all around you! If …

Jesus, The Substitute For His People

Romans 8:34

… because He who bowed His head to death was none other than the Christ, who is Immortality and Life, His dying had efficacy in it to take away …

Miracles Of Love

Isaiah 38:17

… Nature shudders at the grave, but whenever your nature starts back from dying, think of your faithful God and be assured that He will love you through death …

Jesus The Shepherd

Isaiah 40:11

… Therefore, "though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we will fear no evil, for He is with us: His rod and His staff, they …

Ingratitude of Man

John 1:11

… mercy, for death shuts the golden gate of love. Justice takes the place of mercy as soon as the impenitent man has closed his dying eyes. An excellent …

Sharing Christ's Life

John 14:19

… Do you know what death really is? Does it take long to die? I have heard of men who have been said to be weeks in dying. Not …

The Priceless Prize

Philippians 3:8

… in the grave, and by this time you are foul and noxious, for you have been dead these 30 or 40 years and that death has festered into …

A Divine Challenge!

Exodus 8:1

… God has said to sin, to Satan, to death, to Hell, to doubts, to fears, to evil habits and even to the grave itself— "Let My people go …

The Soul's Awakening

John 5:25

… This is the first and, indeed, a very wonderful prerogative of live-giving for Christ to exercise to be able to raise Lazarus from the grave or to …

The Strait Gate

Luke 13:24

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

The Test of Taste

1 Peter 2:3

… Remember His coming to the grave's mouth when we lay wrapped in the grave clothes of trespasses and sins and were, like Lazarus, even beginning to stink …

The Red Heifer

Numbers 19:2

… Having believed in Christ Jesus, having received Him as the Father's Sent One and being reconciled unto God by His death, we look back to the ceremonies …

Jesus Affirmed To Be Alive

Acts 25:18

… Believed in as dying the death of the Cross, that we might live through Him. That only is Gospel preaching which has this for its subject and spirit …

Psalm 141

Psalm 141

… Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth. That is to say, I and my company are in a dying condition, free among the dead; yea, if …

The Good Man’s Life and Death

Philippians 1:21

… Life is but death’s vestibule, and our pilgrimage on earth is but a journey to the grave. The pulse that preserves our being beats our death march …

The Coming Resurrection

John 5:28

… From which we must gather the next Truth of God that death makes no change in man's character and that after death we must not expect improvements …

Psalm 16

Psalm 16

… Verse 10. "Thine Holy One." Holiness preserves the soul from dereliction, in the state of death, and the body of the saint from corruption in the grave. If …

The Welcome Visitor

John 11:28-32

… You dread death. You shall have dying Grace in dying moments! Do not be questioning yourself as to whether you have dying Grace now. You do not need …

The Memory Of Christ's Love

Solomon 1:4

… once, for our sakes, He sank down into the very depths of death and the grave. Bless His dear name! Be glad and rejoice in Him! Now, I …

The Wailing of Risca

Jeremiah 4:20

… to be, SUDDEN DEATH, AS WE VIEW IT MORE PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO OURSELVES. The miners of Risca had no more idea of dying that Saturday morning than …

The Last Year at Waterbeach and Cambridge

… Nor would I urge a royal claim; For monarchs bow to death. I would not beg for sinful sweets; Such pleasures end in pain. Nor should I ask …

The Believer in the Body and Out of the Body

2 Corinthians 5:5-10

… Nature, when it acts apart from Grace, shrinks from the thought of dying. But death can have no terrors for the man whom it lands in a condition …

Could He Not? Ah! But He Would Not

John 11:37

… through the gates of the grave—no absolute need for it! Christ could, if He had chosen, have prevented that man from dying and, what is more, if …

A Wonderful Transformation

John 16:20

… death of Christ was the death of death! And out of His very tomb we hear that pealing trumpet note, "O death, where is your sting? O grave …

Scriptural Salvation

Romans 10:11

… In His death He is the Propitiation for sin. In His Resurrection He is the justification of His people. And in His intercession He is the eternal guarantee …

Love's Crowning Deed

John 15:13

… We speak too flippantly of death, but dying is no child's-play to any man—and dying as the Savior died—in awful agonies of body and …

Laying the Hand on the Sacrifice

Leviticus 4:29

… And He made His grave with the wicked." Dying between two thieves, as though He had been the greatest criminal of the three—"He made His grave with …

Psalm 116

Psalm 116

… He means by the pains of hell those pangs which belong to death, those terrors which are connected with the grave; these were so closely upon him that …

A Dirge for the Down-grade and a Song For Faith

Isaiah 66:10

… Many a pulpit, where Christ was once lifted high in all the glory of His atoning death, is now profaned by those who laugh at Justification by Faith …

The Eternal Name

Psalm 72:17

… Come on, death. I will mention Christ’s name there. O grave! this shall be my glory, the name of Jesus! Hell-dog! this shall be thy death …

The Restoration And Conversion Of The Jews

Ezekiel 37:1-10

… Let us speak— "As though we never might speak again, As dying men to dying men," taking hold upon God's arm and beseeching Him to work by …

Tender Words Of Terrible Apprehension!

Psalm 9:17

… Many a man has hurried himself to a premature grave, has sought to end his misery by the knife or by the halter, not because he was enduring …

The Believer's Challenge

Romans 8:34

… On the cross I see Jesus dying for my sins as an expiating sacrifice; but in the resurrection I see God acknowledging the death of Christ, and accepting …

Looking Unto Jesus

Psalm 34:5

… grave, and there he slept three days and nights. And on the first day of the week, he, who could not be holden by the bands of death …

The Two Pillars Of Salvation

Romans 4:24

… The Father's love is from everlasting and the death of Jesus is one of the streams that flow from that eternal Fountain. The Father is to be …

Unbinding Lazarus

John 11:43

… Every now and then the smell of the sepulcher meets your nostrils—the mold of the grave has stained his grave clothes—his was true death and no …

The Mighty Power Which Creates And Sustains Faith

Ephesians 1:19-23

… He was numbered among the victims of death's dart. "He made His grave with the wicked and with the rich in His death." Such were some of …

Following the Risen Christ

Colossians 3:1

… More or less, according to the length of time in which we abode in that death and according to the circumstances with which we were surrounded, death worked …

The Prince of Life

Acts 3:15

… You that have been made to feel your death and are at this time, as it were, wrapped in your grave clothes, I pray that you may know …

The Blood of the Covenant

Hebrews 9:20

… Perhaps you have not thought enough, of late, of the dying love of your Lord. His death has a living power about it to breed and nourish holiness …