Death & Dying

Christ's Work No Failure

Isaiah 42:4

… He determined to go, for our sakes, to death and the grave—and to bear the shame of our sin and the curse of our guilt—and even …

The Golden Key Of Prayer

Jeremiah 33:3

… You who have gone to the grave these seven times, till you have feared that your last earthly friend would be borne away by unpitying Death. You have …

Five Links in a Golden Chain

Titus 1:4

… That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. Among the heathen, old men often gave themselves up to drunkenness and gluttony …

The Righteous Father Known and Loved

John 17:25

… What? Must He die? Incarnate Deity be put to death? A felon's death? Can this be? It has been! It is finished! Such was the love of …

"Lo, I Come"—Application

Psalm 40:7

… You were to enjoy life and lo, you are plunged in death! It may be there are in this house persons who bear in their bodies the marks …

The Best House-visitation

Mark 1:29-33

… Do not wait till your son becomes a prodigal, pray at once! Do not delay till your child is at death's door, pray now! But sometimes a …

Refusing to Be Comforted

Psalm 77:2

… of Hell?" cries the sorrowful man. "In danger every moment of death and certain that if death came, I should be lost, can I enjoy mirth? It cannot …

Wholehearted Religion

Jeremiah 32:39

… It takes much to make us cry with David, "My soul is even as a weaned child." Disease and death are summoned to shoot their fatal arrows at …

Christ Our Life—Soon To Appear

Colossians 3:4

… I have traversed the valley of the shadow of death, but I will not repeat the howling of Apollyon. This day of rest is appointed for a far …

Mercy's Master Motive

Isaiah 48:9-11

… Should sudden vengeance seize my breath, I must pronounce thee just in death; And, if my soul were sent to hell, Thy righteous law approves it well.' In …

Who Is This?

Jeremiah 30:21

… He was condemned because we were condemned and He was put to death because such was the sentence upon us! He descended into our depths to engineer a …

Jonah's Object-lessons

Jonah 4:6-8

… And even to the Lord, Himself, he says that he does well to be angry, even unto death. The trial was not sanctified to him while he was …

Intercessory Prayer

Psalm 141:5

… In all this we are wrong, since we have no right to sign a soul's death warrant, or to say to the Grace of God, "to here …

Once A Curse But Now A Blessing

Zechariah 8:13

… His life may be over, but the moral death caused by his life still continues. As the tree that has borne evil fruit sends to the winds its …

Eternal Life!

John 17:3

… It was the great end of the life, death and work of Christ to give this eternal life to all Believers. He came into the world on purpose …

The Personal Pentecost and the Glorious Hope

Romans 5:5

… Sore was the tribulation which came upon them as they thought upon His death and His burial in Joseph's sepulcher. But after a little patience and experience …

By The Fountain

Genesis 49:22

… Keep to Christ and Him crucified and live on the Doctrines of Grace when your present leader lies asleep in his grave. Keep to the great Lord of …

Christopathy

Isaiah 53:5

… And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth …

The Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ

2 Corinthians 4:6

… What volumes upon volumes might be written to show God as revealed in every act of Christ from His birth to His death! I see Him as a …

An Exhortation By Rev. C.H. Spurgeon

2 Samuel 11:1

… Alas, for this body of sin and death, it is hard for a man to serve the Lord aright while imprisoned in it. Brethren, you will find that …

Sabbath-work

John 5:9

… Certainly, this day, on which Christ rose from the grave, has been the time of the resurrection of ten thousands times ten thousands—and when we have met …

Seeing And Not Seeing—Or, Men As Trees Walking

Mark 8:22-25

… Remember there are many grave distinctions in Scripture which will save you a world of trouble if you will know and remember them. Try to understand the difference …

Mistrust of God Deplored and Denounced

Numbers 14:11

… Mistrust towards God is not a mere weakness—it is a wickedness of the most grave order. II. We will now proceed, in the second place, to further …

Our Lord's Prayer for His People's Sanctification

John 17:17

… He poured out his soul in life before he poured it out unto death. In this wonderful prayer, our Lord, as our great High Priest, appears to enter …

The Truth Of God's Salvation

Psalm 69:13

… Remember that life is real, sin is real, death is real, judgment will be real and the final sentence will carry with it a real punishment! You need …

What We Would Be*

… Many are great in domestic sorrows, and death-bed spectacles, and semi-dramatic picturings. Very telling, very sensational; and, under gracious direction, useful in its own measure; but …

Saints Guarded From Stumbling

… It comes creeping in and fills the air with death before you perceive its approach. But, "He shall deliver you from the noisome pestilence." There is a pestilence …

"Speak, Lord!"

1 Samuel 3:10

… God has spoken to many a mother by the dear babe she has had to lay in the grave. And many a man has, for the first time …

Job's Regret and Our Own

Job 29:2

… See you not, dear brethren, what a body of death we carry with us, and what a terrible power it possesses? When you see the mischief that corruption …

Marah; or, The Bitter Waters Sweetened

Exodus 15:23-25

… The death of Christ robs death of its terrors. The prospect of the resurrection and the certainty of immortality make us say, “Surely the bitterness of death is …

Good News for the Aged

Matthew 20:6

… Do any of my friends conceive that the time of his death is a long way off? No, Beloved, there is such a thing as death in the …

The Axe at the Root—A Testimony Against Puseyite Idolatry

John 4:23-24

… You who have no spiritual worship may even clog the devotions of those who have; an invisible savor of death unto death may be stealing from you, helping …

Christians, and Their Communion With God

Isaiah 26:8

… To accomplish this to the fullest, we would face grim Death in his den! Yes, sometimes we could almost use the extravagant language of Rutherford, when he declared …

The Sword of the Spirit

Ephesians 6:17

… pieces! If you do not wield a true Jerusalem blade, you are in grave peril—your weapon will break off at the hilt—and where will you be …

Watching to See

Habakkuk 2:1-4

… Yes also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither keeps at home, who enlarges his desire as Hell, and is as death, and cannot …

The Magnanimity of God

Job 36:5

… He takes no pleasure in the sinner's death. Judgment is His strange work. Punishment is never inflicted as a matter of arbitrary sovereignty, but always because demanded …

The Anchor

Hebrews 6:17-20

… know of a certainty that Jesus of Nazareth, after His death and burial, rose from the grave and that 40 days afterwards, in the presence of His disciples …

The Minister'S Stock-Taking

Acts 28:24

… Are you full of assurance and confidence? Then Paul preaches to you from this text—"I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor …

Secret Sins Driven Out By Stinging Hornets

Deuteronomy 7:20

… God, the Word, was made flesh and dwelt among us, and in due time stooped, in His obedience, even to death, the death of the Cross! All your …

The Mustard Seed: A Sermon for the Sabbath-School Teacher

Luke 13:18-19

… Never service more important; to overlook it would be a grave fault. We rejoice to encourage our friends in their labor of love. In this parable light is …