Death & Dying

Perfect Cleansing

Joel 3:21

… I defy you to be afraid of dying after that! The two things could not stand together! Sin is the sting of death, and the strength of sin …

None But Jesus

John 3:18

… But take care that thy faith mainly fixes itself upon Christ as dying and as dead. View the Lamb of God as dumb before his shearers; view him …

The Christian’s Heaviness and Rejoicing

1 Peter 1:6

… or dying, there is an inheritance incorruptible, reserved in heaven for him, may indeed make him greatly rejoice. He is drawing near the gates of death, and his …

Prayer 12 — On Holy Ground

… Be gracious to any that are dying. May the life of God swallow up the death of the body. Prepare us all for Thy glorious advent. Keep us …

Future Punishment A Fearful Thing

Hebrews 10:31

… Since, then, the great God evidently permits much pain, and even death to happen to His creatures, He is evidently not merely father, but something more! To ungodly …

The Use of the Bow

2 Samuel 1:17

… When the rich man called him an impostor, the boy besought him to come home with him and see his father and mother who were dying of starvation …

The Way

John 14:6

… But when you hear that Atonement has been made, that Christ suffered instead of you, that His death has glorified the Justice of God more than your lying …

Four Choice Sentences

Genesis 28:15

… I am sure he did not know who his successor was to be, for I was born about the time when he was dying! But, doubtless, I inherited …

Smoking Flax

Isaiah 42:3

… No one delights in the smell of a candle that is dying out. Smoking flax does not yield a sweet savor, neither does a Christian when he is …

Prayer 20 — The Great Sacrifice

… We would gaze into the body of the Son of God, pierced with nails, parched with thirst, bleeding, dying, because "It pleased the Father to bruise Him; He …

The Covenant Pleaded

Psalm 74:20

… dying day had been their wedding day! Death is too solemn a matter for a man to play a masquerade. But what did your wife say in death …

'Let Us Pray'

Psalm 73:23

… for then we preach as though— “We ne’er might preach again, As dying men to dying men.” And, oh, may each of you labor after the latter …

How Repentance Is Given

… Assuredly the contemplation of the death of Christ is one of the surest and speediest methods of gaining repentance. Do not sit down and try to pump up …

Difficulty in the Way of Believing

… Read over the story of his sufferings and death with devout attention, and before long the Lord will cause faith secretly to enter your soul. The Cross of …

Our Glorious Transforming

Ephesians 2:13

… There was a day when we passed from death unto life. All of us who are children of God have undergone a great and mysterious change; we have …

Early Wedded Life (Continued)

… She would defend his name with her dying breath ; safe enough is he where she can speak for him. The domestic circle is her kingdom ; that she may …

Faith, What Is It?

… Commit yourself to the merciful God; rest your hope on the gracious gospel; trust your soul on the dying and living Saviour; wash away your sins in the …

The Preacher’s Power, and the Conditions of Obtaining It

… Yet this is only one of the many death-bearing agencies. How great is the leakage in our churches! The most faithful minister has to complain of the …

The Way of Salvation

Acts 4:12

… death of infants? Do not infants die without actual sin? Are they saved? and if so, how?” I answer, saved they are beyond a doubt; all children dying …

A Double Silver Wedding

… You have clapped your hands for very joy when redeeming grace and dying love have been the theme, and infinite, sovereign, changeless mercy has been the subject of …

Coming to Christ

1 Peter 2:4

… Look to him as God—he can save you; as the bleeding, dying Son of Man—he is willing to save you, and flat before his cross, with …

The Ploughman

… When we were boys at school the reading of a chapter in the Word of God, or the death of a playmate, or an address at a Bible …

Experiences after Conversion

… And then I also fancied that the corruption of my nature had received its death-blow. I read what Cowper said, — “Since the dear hour that brought me …

Psalm 10

Psalm 10

… In an instant the waves froth, the winds murmur, the heavens kindle, a thousand gulfs open, a frightful light inflames the air, and every wave threatens sudden death …

Comfort Proclaimed

Isaiah 40:1

… Thou who art in the valley of the shadow of death, sing, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no …

Rahab's Faith

Hebrews 11:31

… Ah! and there you are young man! Your mother is dying, and one thing which makes her death-bed bitter is, that you scoff God and hate Christ …

Psalm 21

Psalm 21

… Before he died saints were saved by the anticipated merit of his death, before he came believers saw his day and were glad, and he himself had his …

Just and the Justifier

… Who would or could have thought of the just Ruler dying for the unjust rebel? This is no teaching of human mythology, or dream of poetical imagination. This …

The Feast of the Lord

John 2:9-10

… Oh, beloved, will it not be true of them, when death shall give them their discharge, when they shall leave this world, which has been to them, with …

The Gospel'S Power In A Christian'S Life

Philippians 1:27

… Let your heart be like that of the lion, fearless! Say of yourself— "Careless, myself a dying man, Of dying men's esteem," I must live as in …

The Sympathy of the Two Worlds

… They are but kindred worlds; two ships moored close to one another, and one short plank of death will enable you to step from one into the other …

Vile Ingratitude!

Ezekiel 16:1-2

… Yet there we were, dying, nay dead, rotten, corrupted, so abominable that it might well be said, “Bury this dead one out, of my sight,” when Jehovah passed …

Mr. Evil-Questioning Tried and Executed

2 Kings 5:12

… is flying, and men are dying, and hell is filling—to be questioning when there is but a step between you and death—to be trying to unriddle …

Confession of Sin—A Sermon With Seven Texts

Exodus 9:27

… I shall behold him, but not nigh.” And then he winds up his oration by saying—“Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last …

Christ in the Covenant

Isaiah 49:8

… the God yet the man, the dying yet the living; the perfect, and yet bearing about with him a body of death? Hast thou ever beheld that Lord …

Joseph Attacked by the Archers

Genesis 49:23

… Like good wine, which runs clear to the very bottom, unalloyed by dregs, so did Jacob till his dying hour continue to sing of love, of mercy, and …

Are You Mocked?

Psalm 14:6

… I never saw—and I have seen many ungodly people did never saw one die of whom I could say, "Let me die the death of this sinner …

Notable Lectures and Addresses, 1857-1878

… Now, it so happens, that men who are traitors one day become heroes by-and-by; and some men, who were execrated, and put to death for attempts …

Our Magnificent Savior

Isaiah 53:11

… He was condemned to die a malefactor's death and on the Roman records there stood the name of Jesus of Nazareth, condemned to die because He had …

Noah's Flood

Matthew 24:39

… There were no rafts of costly cedar, or towers of expensive masonry which could stand above the devouring deluge—death laughed at miser and merchant, millionaire and monarch …