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Death, mortality, dying well, and hope beyond the grave
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Days of Heaven Upon the Earth
Deuteronomy 11:21
… She has often prayed for you when you have been cursing and swearing—and has she, sometimes, fears that she will go to her grave and never see …
SERMON • SERMON 3352A World Wide Welcome
Matthew 11:28
… While an agitated mind often brings the body into disease and lowers it into its grave—Jesus can give such a tonic to the entire system by the …
SERMON • SERMON 2416Adorning the Gospel
Titus 2:10
… He was told to bid the aged men to "be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience." Further, he was to instruct "the aged women …
SERMON • SERMON 250War! War! War!
1 Samuel 18:17
… The death of Christ shall be the death of iniquity, the cross of Christ shall be the crucifixion of transgression. Labour with yourselves to drive the Canaanites out …
SERMON • SERMON 871To Those Who Are "Almost Persuaded"
Acts 26:28
… for your death warrants are signed and the Angel of Death has spread his wings to the blast, to bring the fatal summons down! The grave is appointed …
SERMON • SERMON 1684"Feed My Lambs"—a Sunday School Sermon
John 21:15
… fail in this? Jesus spoke but once to Death, and Lazarus came forth. Are we more deaf than the grave and must we be thrice commanded? Let us …
SERMON • SERMON 2895A Blessed Gospel Chain
John 14:23
… One with Himself in His essential Deity, He has loved Him from eternity! But since Jesus has been obedient unto death, "even the death of the Cross," we …
SERMON • SERMON 1655The Blessed Guest Detained
Luke 24:28
… Divine Love, has told us that, "love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave" and, therefore, it is that He will not give His company …
SERMON • SERMON 2052"On His Breast"
John 13:23-26
… But Jesus, I doubt not, had told John that the only earthly care He had, as Man, was that while He was away slumbering in the grave He …
SERMON • SERMON 2122A Straight Talk
Luke 14:20
… A very grave offense would be committed by their not coming to the one supper. My dear Hearers, there is only one time of Divine Grace for you …
SERMON • SERMON 1704All Joy in All Trials
James 1:2-4
… Oh that your faith may abide steadfast and unmovable in all present trials, that so it may be found true in the hour of death and in the …
SERMON • SERMON 1846The Purging of the Conscience
Hebrews 9:13
… The whole stress is laid upon "the blood of Christ," signifying thereby death— death with pain, death as a victim, death with reference to sin. "The blood is …
SERMON • SERMON 2966Resistance to Salvation
Mark 5:7
… He is always either, "the savor of death unto death" or, "the savor of life unto life." He is never a savorless Christ! Virtue is always going out …
SERMON • SERMON 1362Mourning For Christ
Zechariah 12:10
… The ungodly, at times, and especially in the hour of death, feel remorse, but it has nothing to do with God unless it is that they tremble at …
SERMON • SERMON 1254Jesus In Our Midst
John 20:19
… And on the first day after He had risen from the grave we have record of no less than four interviews which He had with His disciples. Remember …
SERMON • SERMON 1255How To Converse With God
Job 13:22
… death as the penalty of sin—behold the Son of God taken down from the Cross because He was surely dead, wrapped in the cerements of the grave …
SERMON • SERMON 2340The Best Christmas Fare
Psalm 119:103
… If we have been at death's door and the Word of God has brought us renewed life, we shall never forget it. 94-96. I am Yours …
SERMON • SERMON 1124God Beseeching Sinners by His Ministers
2 Corinthians 5:18-21
… They are a savor of death unto death wherever they are not a savor of life unto life. But then, blessed be God, in thousands of cases they …
SERMON • SERMON 2666The Sorrowful Man's Question
Job 3:23
… for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; which rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave." The …
SERMON • SERMON 1382The Touch
Mark 5:28
… He had come to the Savior saying that his daughter was lying at the point of death. He beseeched Jesus to come and heal her, but before He …
SERMON • SERMON 2011Abram's Call—or, Half-Way—and All the Way
Genesis 11:31
… death must do his work and remove the cause of disobedience. If Abram fears to weep at parting with a living father, he must weep over his grave …
SERMON • SERMON 2849Remembering God's Works
Psalm 111:4
… near to the gates of the grave—but the Good Physician came and restored us from all our sicknesses just when death stared us in the face. Beloved …
SERMON • SERMON 1406Remember!
Deuteronomy 15:15
… just your case and mine, beloved Friends—we, too, were willing slaves of death and sin. If we are free this morning it was not because when left …
SERMON • SERMON 525Am I Sought Out?
Isaiah 62:12
… were sought out in a Divine fashion— "Love strong as death, no, stronger, Love mightier than the grave. Broad as earth and longer Than ocean's widest wave …
SERMON • SERMON 2049Driving Out the Canaanites and Their Iron Chariots
Joshua 17:18
… The death of sin is guaranteed by the death of Christ. Let us pray tonight fervently— "Let the water and the blood, From Your riven side which flowed …
SERMON • SERMON 2053Concerning Prayer
Psalm 86:6
… us—have we not prayed him twice back from the gates of the grave? He lives as an instance of answered prayer. There is not a stone or …
SERMON • SERMON 1256The Old Man's Sermon
Psalm 71:17
… To balance accounts, let us give this morning's service to our grave and reverend seniors. David has here spoken as an aged man and what he has …
SERMON • SERMON 3191The True Aim of Preaching
Acts 13:38
… You have been near death and yet here you are, kept alive, with death so near! Is not this a privilege that unto you is preached the forgiveness …
SERMON • SERMON 2094Foundation Work
1 Kings 5:17
… When this out-digging was completed, the ditch was so deep that, when I went down into it, it seemed like my grave. Such a grief it was …
SERMON • SERMON 1265The Eternal Truth of God
Psalm 100:5
… As on Christ's side, the Covenant was kept by His death, so on the Father's side, the Covenant has been kept by the salvation of those …
SERMON • SERMON 2600A Strange Yet Gracious Choice
Psalm 135:4
… These things, which I have only mentioned in passing, made very grave distinctions between the people of Jehovah and all other nations who looked upon them as a …
SERMON • SERMON 2928Sham Conversion
2 Kings 17:25
… Such men have no desire after God, nothing of the kind! The thing that drives them is just that awful lion—the dread of death is upon them …
COMMENTARYPsalm 14
Psalm 14
… Ainsworth, in his "Annotations," tells us that the word here used is Nabal, which has the signification of fading, dying, or falling away, as a withered leaf or …
SERMON • SERMON 2838God's Glory in Hiding Sin
Proverbs 25:2
… way of sin, and no corruption sullied Him in death when He slept for a while in the grave! Wood is a thing that grows out of the …
SERMON • SERMON 1839Delight in the Almighty
Job 22:26
… trial—who have not often had to stand by the grave and weep because the arrows of death have struck their dearest ones, who have never known what …
SERMON • SERMON 2130The Deceitfulness of Sin
Hebrews 3:13
… The effect of the Gospel is always present in some degree—it is a savor of life unto life—or a savor of death unto death—to all …
SERMON • SERMON 605Good Works In Good Company
Solomon 7:11-13
… of life and, like Yourself, waiting for the day of manifestation when sin, death and Hell shall be trod under foot and You shall be All in All …
SERMON • SERMON 2260Christ's Hospital
Psalm 147:3
… If the brokenhearted are not cheered by His glorious life and the blessings that flow out of His death, then He will have come to earth for nothing …
SERMON • SERMON 1854The Foundation and Its Seal—a Sermon for the Times
2Timothy 2:19
… I am sure that there is grave reason for regret at this moment. Though we look with the greatest gratitude upon all the things that are good, we …
SERMON • SERMON 574The Superlative Excellence Of The Holy Spirit
John 16:7
… But if he speaks a word against the Holy Spirit, it shall never be forgiven him." This is the sin which is unto death, of which even the …