Death & Dying

Sermon for New Year's-Day

Revelation 21:5

… We died in Adam as to spiritual life, and our death revealed itself in an inward tendency to evil which reigned in our members. We were like Ezekiel …

The Master’s Profession—The Disciple’s Pursuit

Psalm 40:9

… How awful to remember that every hour there are hundreds of men and women who are dying without Christ. Turn to the bills of mortality of this one …

A New Leaf for the New Year

Genesis 42:21

… Oh, that I had wept more over you dying men! Oh, that I had pleaded with you more passionately! Oh, that I had more fervently persuaded you, as …

Why They Leave Us

John 17:24

… Dying is but going home; indeed, there is no dying for the saints. Charles Stanford is gone! Thus was his death told to me—"He drew up his …

Enduring the Cross

… to live is Christ; to die is gain.” Living, I will be His; dying, I will be His. I will live to His honor, and serve Him wholly …

Faith—life

Habakkuk 2:4

… The minister said to the Negro, "Sam, is your master dying?" "Yes, Sir," he said, "he be dying." "And how is he dying, Sam?" "Sir," said the Negro …

Cries From the Cross

Psalm 22:1

… His prayer must not be heard! As the sinner's Surety, He could say, "Now that I am here, dying in the sinner's place, You seal Your …

The Objective of Christ's Death

Galatians 1:4

… sins." That is the wonder of Christ's death! Our sins could not be put away except by His dying in our place. There was no expiation of …

The Marvelous Magnet

John 12:32

… This He said, signifying what death He should die." John 12:32 , 33 . On an evening when the regular hearers left their seats to be occupied by strangers …

Obeying Christ's Orders

John 2:5

… He is our Master and Lord! When we were baptized into His death, it was no mere matter of form—but we were dead to the world and …

Comfort To Seekers From What The Lord Has Not Said

Isaiah 45:19

… Ryland, a good Christian woman, who, when she lay dying, was very, very sad, and her husband said to her, "You are dying, my Dear?" "Yes," she said …

A Sermon to Open Neglecters and Nominal Followers of Religion

Matthew 21:28-32

… death, by the solemnities of eternity, I do implore and beseech you accept the only remedy for sin which even God himself will ever offer to the dying …

The Warrant of Faith

1 John 3:23

… whether such an incomprehensible gospel would do for a dying man? There he lies in the agonies of death. He tells me that he has no good thought …

Life In Earnest

2 Chronicles 31:21

… You will find dying to be very earnest work. It will be no amusement to be smitten by the hand of death, to go to your deathbed with …

The Soul Winner

… you would raise that dead child, you must feel the chill and horror of that child's death yourself. A dying man is needed to raise dying men …

Morning, December 31

Jn 7:37

… The bleeding, dying, rising Saviour, is the only star of hope to a sinner. Oh for grace to come now and drink, ere the sun sets upon the …

A Full Heart

… If you goest with thy Master to the hill of Olivet, with Him to weep over Jerusalem, then will thy heart be full of love for never-dying …

The Fullness Of Christ—Received!

John 1:16

… In their dungeons and damp dying places—ask the tenants of ten thousand graves, "From where came your triumph?" And they reply at once, "We have overcome through …

A Free Salvation

Isaiah 55:1

… The pardon of a sinner is not a thing done when he is dying, it is done when he is living—done now. And there be some here …

The Memorable Hymn

… glooms of death are gathering around you? Here, at the table, I am your Singing-master, and set you lessons in music, in which My dying voice shall …

Religion–a Present Enjoyment

… did you ever hear of any one on his death-bed looking back on a life of holiness with sorrow? Never, never did we know a Christian who …

In the Sunny South (Continued)

… deal more at getting into a chariot of fire than I should at dying. I am not fond of being behind fiery horses, I would rather be excused …

Psalm 137

Psalm 137

… Songs may be heard from the prison cell of Philippi; songs maybe heard from the calm death bed, or by the open grave; but songs cannot be drawn …

The Young Soul-Winner at Waterbeach

… But, alas! the body which was saved from death to-day, may die to-morrow. not so the soul that is saved from death: it is saved everlastingly …

Psalm 24

Psalm 24

… death, and the devil which is the founder of death, and sin which is the sting of death, and the grave which is the prison of death, and …

Pleading With the Indifferent

Lamentations 1:12

… But as it was sin that pierced and nailed Him, I had a share in His death. But then I know another thing—that by that death I …

The Remembrance of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:24

… It appears almost impossible that those who have been redeemed by the blood of the dying Lamb should ever forget their Ransomer; that those who have been loved …

The Heavan of Heavan

Revelation 22:4

… Whether dying young or old, whether departing after long service of Christ, or dying immediately after conversion as the thief—of all the saints shall it be said …

Believing With The Heart

Romans 10:10

… spectacle—God made flesh—bleeding, dying. The Son of God wasted with pangs, rent with agonies and throes unutterable—obedient, even unto death. She watches Him with the …

Now, and Then

1 Corinthians 13:12

… death for what it does not deserve; it is life that lingers on in pain: death is the end of it. The man that is afraid of dying …

First Literary Friends

… personification and dramatic presentation, from the scene which he paints between the dying Christian and Death, or between Jesus and Justice and the justified sinner ; his refined skill …

Their Desired Haven

Psalm 107:30

… He will not need even to fear death, for to him death is but the gate of life! He need have no fears of temporal trouble, for he …

Justification, Propitiation, Declaration

Romans 3:24-26

… And Paul very properly divides the effect of Christ's death into two parts. First, he says that that death declared God's righteousness as to the sins …

The Faithful Olive Tree

Judges 9:8

… Suppose that lying on a dying bed, you, as a child of God, should have to say, "I was very happy and very useful during the first part …

Prayer 23 — The Look of Faith

… We have not a shadow of a shade of a hope anywhere but in Thyself, Thy life, Thy death, Thy resurrection, Thine ascension, Thy glory, Thy reign, Thy …

The Cry Of The Heathen

Acts 16:9

… They would say, “While men are damning, what is my money? While men are dying, what is my gold? There it goes! As much as I need, I …

Praise for the Gift of Gifts

2 Corinthians 9:15

… He deserves to die—he may be rescued by Another dying for him—but he certainly cannot claim that the eternal God should take from His bosom His …

The Vital Force

Hebrews 10:38

… All other kinds of living are to him spiritual death. Some, I know, try to live by experience. What they have felt today, what they felt yesterday—these …

Christ Loosens From Infirmities

Luke 13:11-13

… Seeing that the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is a sin which is unto death—and that when a man has committed it, his spirit dies—and repentance …

The Memorable Hymn

Matthew 26:30

… glooms of death are gathering around you. Here, at the table, I am your Singing-master and set you lessons in music, in which My dying voice shall …