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Death, mortality, dying well, and hope beyond the grave
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Needless Fears
Isaiah 51:12
… Another fear (and I will mention but this one), is the fear of death Some even among God's people hardly dare think of dying. It is a …
DEVOTIONALEvening, May 13
Ps 119:57
… In him every want is met, whether in life or in death. With God for thy portion thou art rich indeed, for he will supply thy need, comfort …
DEVOTIONALEvening, March 28
Eze 20:41
… These two things are sweet before the Most High; and for the sake of his doing and his dying, his substitutionary sufferings and his vicarious obedience, the Lord …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 13
2Co 7:10
… Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent. Every other sorrow yields to time, but this dear sorrow grows with our growth, and it …
SERMON • SERMON 1213Faith, And The Witness Upon Which It Is Founded
1 John 5:9
… I have heard dying children speak like doctors of divinity about the things of God! I have heard dying women who were quite uneducated, speak of the world …
DEVOTIONALEvening, August 6
Ps 72:19
… But how far-reaching was the psalmist’s dying intercession! How comprehensive! How sublime! “Let the whole earth be filled with his glory.” It doth not exempt a …
DEVOTIONALEvening, November 16
Is 33:17
… Many saints in dying have looked up from amidst the stormy waters, and have seen Jesus walking on the waves of the sea, and heard him say, “It …
DEVOTIONALEvening, March 30
La 3:40
… Let us labour to feel what an evil thing this is —little love to our own dying Saviour, little joy in our precious Jesus, little fellowship with the …
DEVOTIONALEvening, June 12
2Ti 1:9
… Salvation is not a blessing to be enjoyed upon the dying bed, and to be sung of in a future state above, but a matter to be obtained …
DEVOTIONALEvening, November 18
Ps 93:2
… your conquering Captain has not grown feeble—the living Saviour shall cheer the dying saint. When you enter heaven you shall find him there bearing the dew of …
DEVOTIONALMorning, February 23
Heb 13:5
… you can need in time or in eternity, there is nothing living, nothing dying, there is nothing in this world, nothing in the next world, there is nothing …
DEVOTIONALEvening, February 17
Eze 35:10
… the Lord be with us through life, we need not fear for our dying confidence; for when we come to die , we shall find that “the Lord is …
DEVOTIONALEvening, December 22
De 32:5
… your health, if you will, or the title deeds of your estate; but about your soul, your never-dying soul and its eternal destinies, I beseech you to …
SERMON • SERMON 3088The Storm and the Shower
Zechariah 13:7
… And He had it, but He had to pass through the iron gates of death to get it and to win the victory over death by His own …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 31
Ps 51:10
… Continue in all those blessed ordinances which will foster and nourish your dying graces; and, knowing that all the power must proceed from him, cease not to cry …
DEVOTIONALEvening, June 29
2Ch 32:31
… at the very last, we should deny thee! Keep us living, keep us dying, keep us labouring, keep us suffering, keep us fighting, keep us resting, keep us …
DEVOTIONALMorning, January 7
Php 1:21
… He began to do so when God the Holy Spirit convinced him of sin, and when by grace he was brought to see the dying Saviour making a …
DEVOTIONALMorning, January 10
2Ti 4:8
… I love the quaint saying of a dying man, who exclaimed, “I have no fear of going home; I have sent all before me; God’s finger is …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 25
2Jn 2
… What a thousand mercies are wrapped up in the assurance that the truth will be with us forever; will be our living support, our dying comfort, our rising …
DEVOTIONALMorning, August 17
Ps 52:8
… thee living to be the light and life of thy countenance; and with thee dying to be the joy of thy soul when earthly comfort is ebbing fast.
DEVOTIONALEvening, December 30
2Sa 2:26
… Did you send for my minister?” “Yes, he is coming.” The minister comes. “Sir, I fear that I am dying!” “Have you any hope?” “I cannot say that …
DEVOTIONALEvening, April 17
Jn 12:21
… not offer me these; you offer me the empty pitcher, while I am dying of thirst; give me water, or I die. Jesus is my soul’s desire …
SERMON • SERMON 1648Pilate and Ourselves Guilty of the Savior's Death
Matthew 27:24
… A man dying for his friend is a noble sight. But a Man dying for those who put him to death is the most extraordinary sight that angels …
SERMON • SERMON 444The Portion Of The Ungodly
Isaiah 47:14
… In Scripture this wrath to come is sometimes spoken of as the second death. Imagine a man dying, dying in pangs and then rising again to die again …
DEVOTIONALEvening, November 6
Heb 9:20
… Is this solemnity occasioned by the fact that the blood is the life, and the pouring of it forth the token of death? We think so. When we …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 21
2Co 5:14
… Give not a mere wordy offering to a dying Redeemer. How will you feel when your Master comes, if you have to confess that you did nothing for …
SERMON • SERMON 2443The Determination of Christ to Suffer for His People
Mark 15:23
… Poor man, even though he is dying a felon's death, he must be in the swim with the multitude! He must keep in with the fashion so …
SERMON • SERMON 829The Perfuming of the Heart
Romans 5:5
… And when I lay very sick—I thought I was dying—and my heart was ready to break at leaving my poor fatherless little ones—there was nothing …
SERMON • SERMON 264How Saints May Help the Devil
Ezekiel 16:54
… Some years after, when the minister had grown old, he was sent for to the bedside of a dying man. He hastened thither with a heart desirous to …
SERMON • SERMON 1194"I and the Children"
Isaiah 8:18
… That dying charge of hers will ring in his memory forever! That dying look of joyful triumph from those eyes which had no tear in them except for …
SERMON • SERMON 2960'Where Are the Nine?' Where?
Luke 17:17
… are dying, time is flying, eternity is hastening, come, I pray you, come forth, you that are of the nine! One feels, sometimes, in prospect of death, like …
SERMON • SERMON 2459"Better Than Wine"
Solomon 1:2
… Do you not, sometimes, tremble at the thought of dying? Oh, you shall have—and you ought to think of it now—you shall have special revelations of …
SERMON • SERMON 2418"All of One"
Hebrews 2:11-13
… Why are You so far from helping Me, and from the words of My roaring? The prayer had come to be almost inarticulate, like the dying moan of …
SERMON • SERMON 289The Minister's Farewell
Acts 20:26-27
… Oh, my hearers, some of you in a little time will be on your dying-beds. When your pulse is feeble, when the terrors of grim death are …
SERMON • SERMON 1085Dwell Deep, O Dedan!
Jeremiah 49:8
… But there is a still more terrible test than dying, for some sleep quietly through death, but, oh, the judgment! I see two ponderous scales huge as hemispheres …
SERMON • SERMON 2022"The Wedding Was Furnished with Guests"
Matthew 22:10
… The Son has deserved well at the Father's hands, for He has been "obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross." It is the Father's …
SERMON • SERMON 876The Unwearied Runner
Isaiah 40:31
… O Sirs, if anything could make a man run, it should be the fact that men are dying—dying without Christ, dying in their sins—to die eternally …
SERMON • SERMON 3135A Golden Sentence
John 4:34
… Turn away from the wounds which the old serpent has given you and look to the bronze serpent! Look away from your own death to the death of …
SERMON • SERMON 2381"I Would, But You Would Not"
Matthew 23:37
… When you come to see men dying, if you talk seriously with them, they will sometimes tell you that they are unprepared, but that they have often trembled …
SERMON • SERMON 2178Zedekiah—or, the Man Who Cannot Say, "No"
Jeremiah 38:5
… If you have no manliness, how can you have any godliness? And oh, what will it be in the hour of death to lie dying, racked with pain …