Death & Dying

Girding on the Harness

1 Kings 20:11

… between him and death in the course of nature. Now, how do you find Christians of that kind when you have attended their dying beds, if you have …

The Hand of God in the History of a Man

Job 7:1

… feel, from this moment on, that we are dying men, whose every breath brings us nearer to the grave! We are and are not. We walk in a …

How To Keep the Heart

Philippians 4:7

… And ye have said, “How is this? Is not death a black and grim thing? Are not the terrors of the grave things which make the strong man …

A Last Look-Out

2 Timothy 4:6

… the process as at the result of his dying. He does not even say, “The hour of my death is at hand,” but he adopts a beautiful expression …

Memorable Services away from Waterbeach

… The same venerable brother preached a sermon equally singular, but far more original and useful ; those who heard it will remember it to their dying day. It was …

“Alas For Us, If Thou Wert All, and Nought Beyond, O Earth”

1 Corinthians 15:19

… I go so often to the grave, and with those I least expected to take there, that it seems to be rather a world of dying than of …

Sorrow at the Cross Turned into Joy

John 16:20-22

… held by the bands of death! He has smitten His enemies, but, as for Himself, He has come up from the grave; He has risen as from the …

Gratitude for Deliverance from the Grave

Psalm 118:17

… in death—"There are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm." All goes quietly with them—"Like sheep they are laid in the grave." But …

Departed Saints Yet Living

Luke 20:37

… We who believe in Jesus should rise into an atmosphere more clear and warm than that of the sepulcher, for the Lord Jesus has "abolished death and brought …

Saints In Heaven And Earth One Family

Ephesians 3:15

… Death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory? Cheered by the prospect of an everlasting reunion, we defy you to sadden us! Encouraged by the Glory …

Altogether Lovely

Solomon 5:16

… We see unspeakable beauty in Jesus in the grave, all fair with the pallor of death. Jesus bruised as to his heel by the old serpent is yet …

The High Priest Standing Between the Dead and the Living

Numbers 16:47-48

… Aaron the anointed one stands here; on that side is death, on this side life; the boundary between life and death is that one man. Where his incense …

Rest

Hebrews 4:3

… Do not the groans and dying strife, the breaking up of the bodily system and the pains and anguish which generally precede death—do not these break the …

Resurgam

1 Corinthians 15:35-38

… May the like impressions now return, accompanied with more joyous ones, when we shall look beyond the grave, through the valley of the shadow of death, to that …

Deliverance From the Pit

Job 33:24

… Blessed be God, we have a sure and certain hope that though he has gone down into the grave—he could go no lower, for his soul was …

The Dumb Become Singers

Isaiah 35:6

… You are afraid of dying, you say, because of the pains of death. No, they are the pains of life—of life struggling to continue! Death has no …

Death and Life—the Wage and the Gift

Romans 6:23

… and does that which causes death. The Lord warned Adam thus—"In the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die." Dying does not mean ceasing to …

David's Sublime Consolation

2 Samuel 23:5

… the last extremity of death. You can see how true, how deep, how thorough his faith in God must have been, for his dying bed was by no …

For Whom Is The Gospel Meant?

Mark 2:17

… heavy is that load that He bows His head to the grave and even unto death beneath it. That stupendous load which lay on Christ was the heap …

The Single-handed Conquest

Isaiah 63:3

… trampled beneath the mighty Conqueror's feet! He said, "O Death, I will be your plagues; O Grave, I will be your destruction." And so He was and …

The Savior Resting in His Love

Zephaniah 3:17

… in Him—they were still in the grave of distress and doubt, though their Master had left the grave of death. 13-15. And, behold, two of them …

The Stone Rolled Away

Matthew 28:2

… The massive door, you will observe, was taken away from the grave—not merely opened—but unhinged, flung aside, rolled away! And now Death's ancient prison is …

An Exciting Enquiry

Matthew 21:10

… the grave, I think they hung their harps awhile in silence. This we know, that when, on the third day, He burst the bands of death, one of …

Christ’s Prayer for His People

John 17:15

… To die with Jesus makes death a perfect treasure, to be a follower in the grave with him makes death a pleasure. Moreover, you and I might be …

The Comforter

John 14:26

… It behoved him to slumber in the dust awhile, that he might perfume the chamber of the grave to make it— “No more a charnel house to fence …

Questions and Answers Concerning Zion

Isaiah 14:32

… The stone of the Truth of God will reveal the giant's brow and lay him headlong in death. 6, 7. He who emote the people in wrath …

The New Wine of the Kingdom

Matthew 26:29

… rose high at our Lord's death, but there shall be no such tumult about ours. The curse gathered around His dying head—a blessing shall make a …

The Christian's Glorious Inventory

1 Corinthians 3:21-23

… It is one of the "things to come." Then, after death, the lying in the grave for a time is yours. The resurrection, when you shall arise from …

Defiled and Defiling

Haggai 2:13

… to be present at his death, without being defiled! You could not have watched over your consumptive child, or have nursed your dying mother without becoming defiled, if …

Lost Through One-Saved Through One

Romans 5:16

… It is under that aspect that Christ is to be regarded as dying for the ungodly, dying for sinners. Ungodly Man, guilty Sinner, is there not hope for …

Psalm 30

Psalm 30

… My sins had brought me near the grave, The grave of black despair; I looked, but there was none to save, Till I looked up in prayer. In …

Lions Lacking—But the Children Satisfied

Psalm 34:10

… perpetual beating, I will still seek him, that dying, I may clasp him in my arms, the antidote of death.” You will readily confess that this description of …

Jesus—"All Blessing and All Blessed"

Psalm 72:17

… One, when he was dying, said, "Is this dying? Why, it is worthwhile going through all the troubles of life, even for death's own sake, if it …

Shame Leading to Salvation

Psalm 83:16

… Godin human flesh, bleeding, dying, bearing the penalty of human sin and then presenting Himself freely as our Sacrifice and saying that whoever believes in Him shall not …

"After Two Days Is the Passover"

Matthew 26:2

… my Lord, truly Your love for us is strong as death, Your jealousy overcomes even the grave itself! Admire Him, then, dear Friends! Let your inmost heart adore …

The Burden of the Word of the Lord

Malachi 1:1

… sad, sad thing for a dying preacher! He died and was buried and there was a goodly company of people at the grave, for he was highly respected …

Rare Fruit

Isaiah 57:19

… Death shall be no death to you! I will take your soul away and you shall never know it till you see Me face to face! As for …

Forty Years

Deuteronomy 2:7

… Wisdom dictates, in old age, if never before, that a grave consideration of eternal earth should be more under foot and Heaven should be more in the heart …

A Voice from the Hartley Colliery

Job 14:14

… Oh! my poor dying hearers, by the corpses in the dark smothering gas of Hartley Pit, I pray you be awakened, for your death-hour is hastening on …

New Uses for Old Trophies

2 Kings 11:10

… bodies shall be there as well as our souls! “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”—when not only souls, but bodies shall …