Death & Dying

Redemption and Its Claims

1 Corinthians 6:20

… For all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours …

The Old Gospel for the New Century

Matthew 11:28

… whose brain has almost failed him in the hour of death—a Gospel that suited the thief dying upon the cross—a Gospel so simple that if there …

Decided Ungodliness

Jeremiah 5:3

… That through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil That, through dying, He might overthrow Satan's power for all …

Between the Two Appearings

Hebrews 9:26-28

… Man, you have taken away from the death of the Lord all its virtue if you would dream of His dying yet again! As to that invention of …

The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death

Psalm 23:4

… It is the valley of the shadow—the shadow of death. Death is terrible and the very shadow of it is cold and chill and freezes to the …

The Dream of Pilate's Wife

Matthew 27:19

… He knew that Jesus was without a single fault and yet, since the Jews clamored for His death, he felt that he must yield to their demands, or …

The Lamentations of Jesus

Luke 19:41

… He saw the sorrow of the sisters and He meditated upon the fruit of sin in the death and corruption of the body and He groaned in spirit …

Longing To Find God

Job 23:3

… Watch Him till you hear Him cry, "It is finished!" Then see the soldier set His heart abroach, for, even after death, His heart poured its tribute for …

In Christ No Condemnation

Romans 8:1

… By one transgression, Adam introduced death into the race, "and so death passed upon all men, for that all had sinned." But Jesus came to bring life by …

The Sin Offering

Leviticus 4:3

… It was a bull, the most valuable of the sacrifices—an animal laborious in life and costly in death. It was a young bull in the fullness of …

Comfort From Christ's Omniscience

John 21:17

… I have heard of a very excellent man—one of the holiest and best of men—who, when he lay dying, said, "Lord, when I estimate my works …

In Whom Are You Trusting?

Isaiah 36:5

… lease of your life? Are you certain that death is so far off? Have not you walked with dying men? I have. I have talked with them one …

All the Promises

2 Corinthians 1:20

… No doubt Paul did preach all the better and with the greater confidence in God because he preached, like Richard Baxter, "as a dying man to dying men …

Testimony And Experience

John 4:39-42

… have seen death beds which I have thought would have been enough to have convinced the most hardened, for there has been about the dying saint evidence conclusive …

The Story of a Runaway Slave

… Onesimus was just the very man that would have been likely to be hurried to death and to eternal destruction. He had put his head, as it were …

"There Is No Difference"

Romans 3:22

… I have heard of a king of Sweden who, when he lay dying, had a bishop to pray with him. And when the bishop had finished his prayer …

God, the Children's Teacher

Psalm 71:17

… And when he was sick and near to death, he was lying in a hut upon a hard couch—and what do you think was the last thing …

Only Trust Him! Only Trust Him!

Luke 17:12-14

… Poor soul! My Master is not a half Savior, but a whole one! And if you are lying at the gates of death, hard by the doors of …

Saving Knowledge

John 4:10

… His holy life and His suffering death were the gifts of God to us, for "He spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all …

The Hospital of Waiters Visited with the Gospel

John 5:8

… Possibly, they even think, upon a dying bed. It is a great mistake! They have heard the Gospel and they believe it to be free though they have …

Eternal Faithfulness Unaffected By Human Unbelief

2 Timothy 2:13

… Worse still, Judas sells his Master—do not follow Judas, for Judas will die a wretched death and his destruction shall be a warning to others to cling …

The Children and Their Hosannas

Matthew 21:15

… a dying child have been worth a dictionary for the weight of meaning that has been concentrated therein! If their heavenly Father can bless them in dying, He …

The Hearing of Faith

Galatians 3:2

… into life! I hardly like to use the word, death in such a connection, for it is not dying at all, but "departing out of this world unto …

A Program Never Carried Out

Luke 15:20

… very hour! I would rather be the means of saving a soul from death than be the greatest orator on earth! I would rather bring the poorest woman …

Crowding to Touch the Savior

Mark 3:10

… After death what a speck will earth appear! Time's fleeting concerns will have vanished from our thoughts except as they linger in our regrets, and add fiercer …

Unpurchasable Love

Solomon 8:7

… hand in the old superstition, heals even the disease of death, itself, and makes it no longer death to die! There is nothing, then, by way of treasure …

The Turning Of Job's Captivity

Job 42:10

… But praying for your enemies, you are like the dying Jesus, Himself. "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do," has more of Heaven in it …

The Alter

Matthew 23:19

… Blood on every side! Death, fire, smoke and ashes mingled with the bellowing of dying beasts—and the active exertions of men whose white garments were all crimson …

The Sluggard's Reproof

Proverbs 20:4

… It is one that will not satisfy you when you are lying on your dying bed and, above all, it is one that will vanish in the Day …

Divine Forgiveness Admired and Imitated

Colossians 3:13

… You have sinned yourself into misery and into death—and as the proof that I do freely forgive you—I will take all this suffering and this death …

Your Personal Salvation

1 Peter 1:9-12

… I then tried to show that God is always the same and that the God of the Old Testament, unto whom belongs the issues, or escapes from death …

"Herein Is Love"

1 John 4:10

… coast and dying for Christ. And when I read the Book of Martyrs and see confessors standing on the firewood, burning quick to the death, still bearing witness …

The Word of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18

… The dreadful voice of Justice, in its certainty and severity, rings through the world in the sighs and cries and death-groans of the Son of the Highest …

The Divine Call for Missionaries

Isaiah 6:8

… One said, "If it is death to go and save them, I will go, death or no death," and then others came forward and said they would go …

The Church Encouraged and Exhorted

Isaiah 43:6

… babe may look! A person with little education may look! One who is dying may look! A half-blind man may look! So, look unto Christ and be …

Who Found It Out?

2 Kings 7:3-7

… Everybody who went to bed that night felt that he was still in that horrible den where grim death seemed actually present in the skeleton forms of the …

Strange Ways of Love

Hosea 2:14

… I hope that it is so, that your birth-night has come and that you are passing from death unto life! We have prayed about you. We met …

Sonship Questioned

Matthew 4:3

… So, temptations vanquished may be of service to us even on our dying bed and, as our Master triumphed on the Cross over a temptation which He had …

'The Zeal of the Lord'

Isaiah 9:7

… Can you behold Jesus, smarting, suffering, bleeding, dying—and can you imagine God looking on, a regular spectator? Oh, no! If we may suppose Him to be capable …

Jesus Admired In Them That Believe

2 Thessalonians 1:10

… They saw His death of grief and they witnessed that "God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself." They saw Him risen from the dead and they …