Death & Dying

'The Star Out of Jacob'

Numbers 24:17

… Those who have served Him most, have longed to serve Him more! Why, even His poor martyrs in the catacombs of Rome, dying of starvation, or dragged up …

Is Conversion Necessary?

2 Corinthians 5:17

… Take the opposite process of dying—we commonly say that such a man was long in dying. That is a popular description, but strictly speaking, the actual death …

Soul Satisfaction

Psalm 35:3

… with rods, or being stoned! Dying, too, would be gain for him, for he would then be free from all fear of death and, having once died, he …

Jesus, The King of Truth

John 18:37

… What concern have dying men with the thousand trivial questions which are flitting around us? We have Heaven or Hell before us and death within a stone's …

Christ Precious to Believers

1 Peter 2:7

… Even when he dies, the thought of Jesus Christ and the prospect of seeing him shall make him living in the midst of death, strong in the midst …

Harvest Joy

Isaiah 9:3

… The dying thief did not confess Him, did he? He was not baptized." No, but he was a dying thief, remember, and if you are not baptized, I …

Christ's Sympathy With His People

Hebrews 2:18

… higher style of living with Him beyond the river of death, for— "Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on His breast …

The Last Message for the Year

John 6:37

… and being found in fashion as a Man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross." It is to Him that you …

The Church As She Should Be

Solomon 6:4

… After all, there is a Protestantism still worth contending for; there is a Calvinism still worth proclaiming, and a gospel worth dying for. There is a Christianity distinctive …

Supposing Him to Have Been in the Company

Luke 2:44

… Now, if Jesus had not been with Payson, what had become of that woman? I fear that we go in and out among dying men and women and …

All For Jesus!

Colossians 3:24

… Contemplate His holy life and expiatory death. Meditate upon His great love, His dying love, His living love. Follow Him from the tomb to Olivet, and from the …

The Blood Of Abel And The Blood Of Jesus

Genesis 4:10

… We have put Him to death without just reason, but that is the end of it. There will be no voice to that blood." Little did they know …

Constant, Instant, Expectant

Romans 12:12

… Some have a way of flashing a prayer or two, but their piety is only a dying light, it will all be over soon. Continue instant in prayer …

A Man of God Alone With God

Psalm 119:26

… We cry out against it and our better self fights against it, yet the old man within us, "the body of this death," as Paul calls it, fights …

The Serpent's Sentence

Genesis 3:14

… This was accomplished when the Lord Jesus died and by dying honored the Law, put away sin, slew death and defeated Hell. When the great Substitute drank the …

Hope, Yet No Hope—No Hope, Yet Hope

Isaiah 57:10

… Could they get themselves into a state of mind so as to lament his death? Well, the largeness of the fortune and the desirableness of the estate at …

Soul Murder—Who Is Guilty?

Psalm 51:14

… Whereas, of course, his death was a cowardly murder, planned and devised by the very man who ought to have been his protector. It is pleasing to observe …

Three Precious Things

1 Peter 2:7

… A world forever cast into Hell I see if it had not been for a Savior dying on the Cross. As a Savior, O earth, you as yet …

A Present Helper

Acts 18:10

… The Jews, rank and rabble, were hopeful that they would get him condemned to death. In this threatening crisis the Lord Jesus would give him a word of …

The Meek and Lowly One

Matthew 11:28-30

… He had long preached in Jerusalem without effect, and at last he knew that they were ready to put him to death; but what saith he, as, standing …

Chastisement—Now And Afterward

Hebrews 12:11

… Here death—death to my friends and death to myself—there the happy union of immortal spirits in immortality." So he learns to sing not of the seeming …

Good News

Proverbs 25:25

… are in the last article of death. Rowland Hill, when he was very old, said to one aged Christian who was dying, "I hope they have not forgotten …

Priest and Victim

Hebrews 7:27

… Some of us never shall know death as Christ knew it, for, remember, death was death to Him, but for His saints the bitterness of death is past …

Strengthening Medicine For God's Servants

Joshua 1:5

… does not preclude our suffering very greatly, or our dying and, perhaps, dying a very sad and terrible death as men judge. God never left Paul, but I …

The Blood of Sprinkling (Second Sermon.)

Hebrews 12:24

… Because of yonder death on Calvary's cruel tree, God can invite guilty men to come to him, and he can receive them to the bosom of his …

The Heart of The Gospel

… It was infamous cruelty, when men were dying of hunger to command trading vessels to go to and fro, and bring nothing else but sand for gladiatorial shows …

The Lambs And Their Shepherd

Isaiah 40:11

… The extraordinary patience of the sheep is seen in God's people when they joyously endure a weight of affliction and pass through the valley of death with …

Everlasting Love Revealed

Jeremiah 31:3

… Will you take a faith-view of Jesus at this time as dying for sinners and for you as a sinner in particular? Say, "Yes, 1,800 years …

How Is Salvation Received?

Romans 4:16

… dying thief must come by works, how can he be saved? His hands and feet are fastened up and he is in the very grip of Death—what …

Scales Taken From the Eyes

Acts 11:18

… Not they! They become as simple-hearted as others and, like dying kings and dying bishops, they ask to hear a shepherd pray because they find more savor …

Our Sanctuary

Jeremiah 17:12

… Would you see His justice? Read it written in crimson lines upon the dying Person of the Son of God! Would you see His love? Ah, I will …

The Security Of Believers—Or, Sheep Who Shall Never Perish

John 10:27-30

… But now He has given them spiritual capacity and perception and they can hear and they do hear what His dying love would make them know and understand …

A Welcome Discovery

Genesis 21:19

… They actually come to death's door, in their own judgment, and yet there really is, if they understood all things, no cause for their distress. They will …

The Infallibility of Scripture

Isaiah 1:20

… The Truths of God revealed in Scripture are worth living for and dying for. I count myself thrice happy to bear reproach for the sake of the old …

When Can We Find Comforters?

Nahum 3:7

… to be, with his bereavements and with his prospect of soon dying probably a very painful death? You would suppose that he would look very dull, haggard, and …

"Peace in Believing"

Romans 15:13

… But, by believing, there flows into the heart a flood of life which removes our death—a purifying stream which takes away our corruption and we have peace …

The Blood of the Lamb, the Conquering Weapon

Revelation 12:11

… The point is His death and, paradoxically, this death is the vital point of the Gospel. The death of Christ is the death of sin and the defeat …

Done In A Day, But Wondered At Forever

Zechariah 3:9

… So can God take our sinful souls and wipe them right out so that they shall be perfectly clean—and the pot which was filthy and had death …

'The Desire Of All Nations'

Haggai 2:7

… Their very death is precious. He leeps record of their bones and will raise their dust at the Last Day. If the nation did but lnow it, the …

The Shortest of the Seven Cries

John 19:28

… for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. We shall perhaps know it in our measure in our dying hour, but not yet, nor ever …