Death & Dying

Anxiety, Ambition, Indecision

Luke 12:29

… I draw a very grave distinction between doubting the Truth of God's promise and questioning whether that promise is made to me— they are two very different …

The Glory in the Rear

Exodus 14:19-20

… It is a savor of death unto death to you. I am afraid you will go on quarrelling with it until God ends the quarrel in your destruction …

How Can I Obtain Faith?

Romans 10:17

… There are no acts of pardon passed, In that cold grave to which we haste; But darkness, death, and long despair, Reign in eternal silence there.' Ah! then …

Concentration and Diffusion

John 12:3

… Who else deserves a part of your service? If you have been redeemed from death and Hell, who else can claim a portion of your heart? Look at …

Revelation and Conversion

Psalm 19:7

… says that he is converted, leaves off loving his father, I have very grave doubts about his conversion! I think it must be a conversion worked by the …

Conversions Encouraged

Deuteronomy 4:29-31

… If you have been a grief to your sister's heart and have brought your mother's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave, yet now, even in …

Cheering Words

John 15:9

… I know that there are seasons when even the very best of God's servants do not find death the sweetest possible subject for contemplation, but I do …

A Special Benediction

… But that day you were called! Just as Lazarus came forth out of the grave because he was called by Christ, so was it with you. You had …

The Question of Questions

John 9:35

… I hope I speak to many this morning who are enjoying assurance and know that they have passed from death unto life. It is with some a matter …

The New Fashion

Mark 2:12

… But they do not belong to you and can render to you no service, whatever, un- til you are a saved man! Salvation from death in sin has …

Mocked of the Soldiers

Matthew 27:29

… You know that when Christ stood by the grave of Lazarus and wept, the Jews said, "Behold how He loved him!" Ah, but look at Him there among …

The Great Sin Of Doing Nothing

Numbers 32:23

… Hear them say, "Thank God we are safe! We have passed from death unto life. We have named the name of Christ. We are washed in His precious …

Fast-Day Service

DANIEL 9:1-19

… They were sinners; there is no doubt about it; but the falling of the wall was not occasioned by their sin, nor was their premature death the consequence …

Psalm 144

Psalm 144

… reigns around, Nor sire, nor infant son, black death shall crave, Till ripe with age they drop into the grave; Nor fell suspicion, nor relentless care, Nor peace …

Jubilee Joy—or, Believers Joyful In Their King

Psalm 149:2

… Thus He made an end of sin, broke the head of the old dragon and put Death, itself, to death and led our captivity captive! Behold He comes …

Blessing on the Printed Sermons

… the blue Atlantic, the echo of my words has called men from the grave of sin to life in Christ, you, though you love to listen to me …

The Recorders

1 Chronicles 16:4

… When you stand over the grave of one you love, you are apt, in the loss, to forget he was a loan from God. When a dear one …

The Best Thing in the Best Place

Psalm 37:31

… Neither sickness, nor death, nor the devil, himself, can ever take from us what is in our hearts. We have known people in sore sickness suffer from loss …

Earth's Vanities and Heaven's Verities

Psalm 39:6-8

… I am sure that there is many a man who would turn in his grave if he knew what was being done with his hard-earned wealth! To …

Very Singular

2 Samuel 17:23

… You were very watchful over them in their childhood, you were afraid that those infant sicknesses would take them to the grave. How glad you were, dear mother …

Warning and Encouragement

Solomon 5:2

… Men cannot easily sleep when the funeral knell is tolling in their ears and when they are following dear departed ones to the grave. Nor do I think …

Shutting, Sealing and Covering—or, Messiah's Glorious Work

Daniel 9:24

… here in My wounds and death shall your proud waves be stopped." Sin virtually committed suicide when it slew the Savior, for His death became its death! The …

Self Low, But Christ High

Matthew 8:8

… But secondly, that a sense of unworthiness can be very wrongly used and can even be made the occasion of grave sin. Then, thirdly, I shall add that …

Christians Kept In Time And Glorified In Eternity

… And as men go to the "Lacus Asphaltites," or the Dead Sea, they see to this day where death has reigned. There are masses of asphalt still floating …

The Dying Thief in a New Light

Luke 23:40-42

… A GREAT many persons, whenever they hear of the conversion of the dying thief, remember that he was saved in the very article of death and they dwell …

Glorious Predestination

Romans 8:29

… Satan was eager that the new-born child of grace should be put to death, and, therefore, sent forth fierce temptations to slay us; but the Lord found …

'The Ministry of Reconciliation'

2 Corinthians 5:18

… In a short time you will be on a sick bed and you will be on the brink of the grave. We pray you, before the death-sweat …

"In the Garden With Him"

John 18:26

… We have been baptized into His death and thus we have solemnly declared that we are dead with Him and have also risen with Him. Even more solemn …

The Leading of the Spirit, The Secret Token of the Sons of God

Romans 8:14

… Perhaps you are looking a long way ahead and you are afraid of difficulties in your old age, or at the death of a relative. Now, God has …

A Delusion Dispelled

Ezekiel 14:20

… beggary, to disgrace, to disease, to death. It is a sad fact, but it is so. There may have been, perhaps, grave fault at home. That I cannot …

God's Advocates Breaking Silence

Job 36:2

… s behalf." The same is true if you have been conscious of a grave fault and have received forgiveness. Then, too, you have yet to speak on God …

The Swift Camels

1 Kings 4:20-28

… deal with Him, for while His love is strong as death, His jealousy is cruel as the grave! And if our hearts and motives and aims in His …

The Sitting of the Refiner

Malachi 3:3

… Jealousy is cruel as the grave and a holy jealousy does stern work in our hearts with sin! It hangs up the darling sin before the face of …

Pictures of Life

James 4:14

… This is a glorious hope! This is a hope that finds its all in God! This hope will outlast death and the grave! This hope will be our …

Paul Cheered in Prison by His Lord

Acts 23:10-13

… They had been foiled in their previous attempt to assassinate the Apostle but their malice led them to try again to put him to death in that dastardly …

The Tenderness of Jesus

Hebrews 4:15

… You, my venerable Brother, and you, my younger Sister—you who have come here from a fresh grave and you that will return to a bed shortly to …

The Fourfold Treasure

1 Corinthians 1:30

… even thus if you and I could be separated from Christ, our vital head, death—spiritual death—must be the inevitable result. Our life hinges upon union to …

The Meat and Drink of the New Nature

John 6:55

… Notice that He puts it, "My flesh is meat, indeed, and My blood is drink indeed"—when the flesh and the blood are mentioned separately, death is implied …

The Hexapla Of Mystery

1 Timothy 3:16

… Not in manhood deified and made superhuman, but in actual flesh— "Oh joy! There sits in our death, Upon a throne of light, One of a human mother …

The Great Arbitration Case

Job 9:33

… No, He went farther—He was tempted as you have been—and farther still, He suffered the pangs of death as you, poor mortal man, will one day …