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Death & Dying
Death, mortality, dying well, and hope beyond the grave
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Christ's Ambassadors
2 Corinthians 5:20
… If one of our judges should say, "I never can pronounce a sentence of death upon a murderer—my heart is too tender for me to ever order …
SERMON • SERMON 1312Good News for Seekers
Psalm 22:26
… But since our Lord Jesus Christ, in dying, felt confident that seekers would find peace and joy and so would come to praise God, we have double comfort …
SERMON • SERMON 2324The Followers of the Lamb
Revelation 14:4
… I vote to cast in my lot with my Lord in life and in death. What say you? My Master, where You dwell, I will dwell. If men …
SERMON • SERMON 3102The Forerunner
Hebrews 6:20
… As He is there, can we not all trust Him? The dying thief trusted Him when His hands were nailed to the Cross. Can we not trust Him …
SERMON • SERMON 2757Victorious Faith
1 John 5:4
… rest of our life and being conquerors even in death, having vanquished the world even on our dying bed. Part of the overcoming of the world consists in …
SERMON • SERMON 3392Justification by Faith
Romans 5:1
… He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross! And our Savior's life and death make up a complete keeping and honoring …
SERMON • SERMON 3408Not Boasting, But Trusting
Ephesians 2:9
… Why, if thousands in London were dying because they had the notion that they could not be received at the hospital unless they healed themselves, surely it were …
SERMON • SERMON 2207Redemption Through Blood—The Gracious Forgiveness Of Sins
Ephesians 1:7
… We still grieve to think that we have sinned, but that gnawing remorse, that vulture eating up the liver, is smitten with death and the man breathes hopefully …
SERMON • SERMON 2482An Unparalleled Cure
Matthew 9:32
… They did not yet understand His expression—apparently sleep only differs from death in this respect—that the sleeper wakes, again, and returns to consciousness. The Lord Jesus …
SERMON • SERMON 850Soul-winning
Proverbs 11:30
… He whose ministry is much made up of the glorious story of the Cross, the sufferings of the dying Lamb, the mercy of God, the willingness of the …
SERMON • SERMON 185The Great Revival
Isaiah 52:10
… Dear friends, I beseech you remember that men are dying around you by thousands. Will you let your eye follow them into the world of shades? Myriads of …
SERMON • SERMON 1077The Lord Blessing His Saints
Psalm 115:15
… Gethsemane and Calvary speak volumes concerning the reality of the blessings which God has given to His chosen, for there they were loved to the death and redeemed …
SERMON • SERMON 1227Spiritual Appetite
Proverbs 27:7
… As to death, we have learned to swallow it up in victory! Surely its bitterness is past. Where else can you find such delicious dainties? Where else such …
SERMON • SERMON 48Chastisement
Hebrews 12:5
… I do not wish to see your child full of pain and dying; but I am glad to think my Father has not forgotten you.” Three weeks after …
SERMON • SERMON 1144A Mighty Plea
Psalm 27:9
… Guthrie, when near dying, needed "Bairn's hymns.'' Blessed, then, is it, if we have a plea like this of the text, "You have been my help," for …
SERMON • SERMON 3383The Plowman
Isaiah 28:24
… 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 …
COMMENTARYPsalm 104
Psalm 104
… The poem contains a complete cosmos sea and land, cloud and sunlight, plant and animal, light and darkness, life and death, are all proved to be expressive of …
SERMON • SERMON 2548Four Contrasts
Isaiah 43:1-4
… It is an awful thing to see sin by the light of your dying day. More terrible, still, will it be to see it by the light of …
SERMON • SERMON 176The Prodigal's Return
Luke 15:20
… No; the gates of death shall never shut on thee till the gates of grace have opened for thee; till Christ has washed thy sins away thou shalt …
SERMON • SERMON 2170The Blessing of the High Priest
Numbers 6:22-27
… He will bless us when sickness lays us low and when we come to die Jesus will bless us with dying Grace for dying moments—and hand us …
SERMON • SERMON 1222The Overflowing Cup
Psalm 23:5
… voracious and lust, like a horseleech, cries, "Give, give." Like the jaws of death and the mouth of the sepulcher, the depraved heart can never be satisfied. At …
SERMON • SERMON 3184Maroth—or, the Disappointed
Micah 1:12
… And, Beloved, expect much from the work of the Holy Spirit If the Spirit of God has quickened you from your death in sin, what is there that …
SERMON • SERMON 2199Israel's Hope—Or, The Center of the Target
Psalm 130:7
… upon Him, crowned Him with thorns and condemned Him to a felon's death. He died, not for any iniquity of His own, but for the transgression of …
SERMON • SERMON 2074Intimate Knowledge of the Holy Spirit
John 14:17
… dying? Then I should like to keep on dying forever." He felt so much comfort—such a flood of joy which the Holy Spirit creates—that death itself …
SERMON • SERMON 2565Ruins
2 Chronicles 28:23
… And this king went to such a length that he gave his own children to death in that cruel fashion in the place commonly called by the Jews …
SERMON • SERMON 3112A Sermon and a Reminiscence
1 Peter 2:7
… If one were dying, this would be the text. If one were distracted with a thousand cares, this would be the text because its teaching is experimental—its …
SERMON • SERMON 21Christ’s People—Imitators of Him
Acts 4:13
… If the entire life of some of you were known, it would be no life at all; it would be a death. Yea, even of some true Christians …
SERMON • SERMON 1155The Chariots Of Amminadib
Solomon 6:12
… If his soul is awakened from the torpor of death, and his sensibilities quickened into the vigor of life, he will feel that unless in the song he …
SERMON • SERMON 2729Christ's Transfigured Face
Matthew 17:2
… We must never forget His death—all our immortal hopes are centered in the death of our great Substitute! "After six days"— 1, 2. Jesus took Peter, James …
SERMON • SERMON 3171A Voice With Four Messages
1 Kings 19:11-13
… And one result of it was that Jezebel sent to threaten him with death. I think that possibly Elijah desired that God would inflict upon the people some …
SERMON • SERMON 2335Three Texts, But One Subject— Faith
Psalm 57:1
… I say to God, Deal not with me—deal with my dying Savior! My God, I interpose between Your wrath and my guilty head, the Sacrifice which He …
SERMON • SERMON 184The Glorious Gospel
1 Timothy 1:15
… dying with agony too exquisite to be imagined, much less to be described! Behold him in the silent tomb! See him at last bursting the bonds of death …
SERMON • SERMON 2792A Psalmist's Question and Answer
Psalm 130:3
… Yes, I venture to say that the dying thief, when he had given one penitent glance at Christ, was as truly delivered from sin as those blessed spirits …
SERMON • SERMON 686Obedience Better Than Sacrifice
1 Samuel 15:2
… Though a sinner is dying, though he may be on the cross like the dying thief, yet, as the way of salvation is but a looking at Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 2012Grace Abounding Over Abounding Sin
Romans 5:20
… Look at the multitudinous generations of our race which have gone down to death. Who slew all these? Sin is the wolf which has devoured the flocks of …
SERMON • SERMON 998More and More
Psalm 71:14
… Some years ago thou wast in thy sin, and death, and ruin; he called thee by his grace. Thou wast under the burden and curse of sin; he …
SERMON • SERMON 2133"My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?"
Matthew 27:46
… walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for You are with me." Dying saints have clear visions of the living God …
SERMON • SERMON 3052Christ's Loneliness and Ours
John 16:31
… Perhaps the boldest there was that dying thief who called Him, Lord, and expostulated with his brother-malefactor, saying, "This Man has done nothing amiss." [See Sermon #1881 …
SERMON • SERMON 3265Faith Tried and Triumphing
Job 13:15
… you ever put yourself in the posture of a dying man and think whether you could look Death in the face? You have said, "I hope when I …
SERMON • SERMON 2889Christ Receiving Sinners
Matthew 9:10
… But there is a thief dying on a cross hard by the suffering Son of God, for Jesus was numbered with the transgressors and died in the company …