Death & Dying

The Beginning of Months

Exodus 12:1

… as dying in my place! I beheld the first sight that was worth beholding, let all the rest be darkness and as the shadow of death! Then did …

The Gospel'S Healing Power

Luke 5:17

… But strive to bring dying sinners where Christ is working spiritual miracles. If you read further on in the chapter you will learn how to bring some persons …

The Blessing of Full Assurance

1 John 5:13

… If I love the babes, I love the Father; and I know that I have passed from death unto life. Brethren, take this evidence home in all its …

A Sermon for a Winter's Evening

John 18:18

… Our Savior did not sit still, but, as the hour approached for His betrayal and death, "He went out with His disciples." The passing over the black Brook …

The Treasure of Grace

Ephesians 1:7

… He is waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, for if death should intervene before that glorious advent, he knows that to him sudden death is …

Why May I Rejoice?

Luke 10:20

… strain of trial, trouble, temptation and especially of death. Take the last—will any man, when he lies dying, be able to console himself with the reflection, "I …

Prayer 6 — The Wonders of Calvary

… Never can we sufficiently adore free grace and dying love. The wonders of Calvary never cease to be wonders. They are growingly marvellous in our esteem as we …

Unwillingness to Come to Christ

John 5:40

… You remember her holy living and you cannot forget her triumphant dying! The life which makes men holy, happy, safe and blessed is, "Christ in you, the hope …

Self-righteousness—a Smoldering Heap of Rubbish

Isaiah 65:5

… Perhaps it was for this boldness that he suffered a cruel death by the hands of Manasseh. The application of the passage to Israel is just thus. Year …

The Proof of Our Ministry

2 Corinthians 13:3

… You taught me doctrines which are not substantial enough for the dying hour." No, I feel even now their death grips, as they have clasped my hand and …

Waking to See Christ's Glory

Luke 9:32

… give yourself up to unconsciousness, and the image of death is upon you, be practicing the art of dying, so that when, for the last time, you must …

A Sincere Summary—and a Searching Scrutiny

Psalm 119:168

… Draw me nearer and yet nearer to Yourself. 'Seek Your servant.'" Perhaps you are ill, or even dying—well, living or dying, this prayer may still suit you …

Counting the Cost

Luke 14:28-30

… And again, what recompense comes for all cost in the consolation afforded by true godliness in the article of death? To lie a-dying—why it will give …

The Peace of God

Philippians 4:7

… Does there lie before him the prospect of speedy death? The hope of resurrection gives peace to his dying pillow! He knows that his Redeemer lives and he …

Choice Comfort for a Young Believer

Psalm 138:8

… And then the enduring mercy of God shall be your abounding consolation! A large part of our fears about death are idle. One man of God always feared …

The New Song On Earth

Psalm 40:3

… But, as to singing them, myself, I felt that could never be the case." Yes, Beloved, there are some who are now singing of Free Grace and dying …

Means for Restoring the Banished

2Samuel 14:14

… A Christian minister was one day sent for to visit a dying man, and when he reached the bedside he was gratified by hearing the dying man say …

Witnessing Better Than Knowing the Future

Acts 1:6-8

… are dying— High Heaven, that heard the solemn vow, That vow renewed shall daily hear— Till in life's latest hour I bow, And bless in death a …

Understandest Thou What Thou Readest?

Acts 8:30-33

… The writer of an evil book is a deliberate poisoner, secretly pouring death into the wells from which men drink. The printers and publishers of such works are …

Peter's Fall and Restoration

Luke 22:61

… Peter is the backslider restored—the dying thief is the sinner saved at the 11th hour. He was on the very brink of Hell, yet the Master stretched …

The Open Fountain

Zechariah 13:1

… In order to put that sin away he must die, for death was the penalty for guilt; up to the cross he went through agonies unspeakable, and at …

A Wafer of Honey

2 Corinthians 12:9

… When pangs shows through our body and ghastly death appears in view, people see the patience of the dying Christian. Our infirmities become the black velvet on which …

Pardon for the Greatest Guilt

2 Chronicles 33:2

… I may be speaking to some who have made a covenant with death and an agreement with Hell. "Thus says the Lord, your covenant with death shall be …

The Sweet and the Sweetener

Psalm 104:34

… and dying strife of which some talk so much—but the sweetness of "my meditation of Him" shall make me forget even the bitterness of death, itself! I …

The Whole Machinery of Salvation

Romans 10:14

… Up, then, you Christian men, and seek as God shall help you, by every means in your power, to make Christ known to the dying all around you …

Harvest Past, Summer Ended and Men Unsaved

Jeremiah 8:20

… fear of dying of starvation! Water seen as a picturesque object by a traveler is one thing, but a living draught swallowed by one dying of thirst is …

Why Some Seekers Are Not Saved

Isaiah 59:1

… As I shall meet you, my Hearers, at the bar of God—and as a dying man who may never speak to you again, I thought that I …

Flesh And Spirit—A Riddle

Psalm 73:22-25

… How, you say, how was this? When I looked within and marked depravity and death everywhere, my soul was troubled almost unto death. But when I looked to …

The True Gospel Is No Hidden Gospel

2 Corinthians 4:3

… hanging in agonies of death, bearing the desertion of His Father and all the thick clouds of darkness that came of it—dying—the "Just for the unjust …

Christ's Universal Kingdom and How It Comes

Psalms 2:8

… Because He lives and was dead He has the keys of Hell and of death. By virtue of His humiliation He reigns. For the suffering of death He …

Prayer 24 — "Deliver Us from Evil"

… Bless the sick and be very near the dying. The Lord comfort them. Bless our country, let every mercy rest upon the Sovereign. Send peace to disquieted districts …

Never! Never! Never! Never! Never!

Hebrews 13:5

… Life is death; death is damnation—damnation in its lowest deeps. Let him look to men, and they are broken reeds; let him turn to angels, and they …

A Call To Prayer and Testimony

Isaiah 62:6

… How can we be weary of prayer? It is essential to life! When a man grows weary of breathing, surely he is near to dying! When a man …

Others To Be Gathered In

Isaiah 56:8

… The power and Grace of God are continually drawing men from all nations and kindred and tongues to the common hope, even the Atonement made by the death …

Early And Late

Matthew 20:1

… death. Some, I say, but how many or how few is not for me to know. There is one instance we know in Scripture, it was the dying …

Salvation By Works, A Criminal Doctrine

Galatians 2:21

… With all the obstinacy of their rebellion, they can never reach to this! They have never had the sweet notes of Free Grace and dying love ringing in …

Confession With The Mouth

Romans 10:10

… You might have been pretty clear that those who worshipped thus, when death was the penalty, were true disciples of the Lord. Again, in the days of the …

The King and His Court

Psalm 101:6

… Two or three of us had been to see a sick and dying man who always welcomed visitors. We prayed with him and told him the Gospel, but …

Psalm 77

Psalm 77

… The soul finds them cruel as death, and strong as the grave. It is bound in the chains of them, and cannot be comforted, Ps 38:3-6 …

Work

John 9:4

… You know Baxter's words— "I preach as tho'I ne'er might preach again, And as a dying man to dying men." Let us do the same …