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Death & Dying

Death, mortality, dying well, and hope beyond the grave

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SERMON • SERMON 3148

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 1312

Good 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 2324

The 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 3102

The 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 2757

Victorious 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 3392

Justification 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 3408

Not 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 2207

Redemption 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 2482

An 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 850

Soul-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 185

The 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 1077

The 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 1227

Spiritual 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 48

Chastisement

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 1144

A 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 3383

The 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 …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 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 2548

Four 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 176

The 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 2170

The 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 1222

The 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 3184

Maroth—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 2199

Israel'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 2074

Intimate 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 2565

Ruins

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 3112

A 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 21

Christ’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 1155

The 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 2729

Christ'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 3171

A 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 2335

Three 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 184

The 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 2792

A 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 686

Obedience 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 2012

Grace 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 998

More 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 3052

Christ'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 3265

Faith 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 2889

Christ 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 …