Death & Dying

Patient Job and the Baffled Enemy

Job 1:22

… I heard one say of his dying child, whom I was called in to visit, that he could not believe that God would be so unjust as to …

Christ Manifesting Himself to His People

John 14:22

… Then, again, you will see him in his triumph, with one foot upon Satan, and the other upon death. You will be able to behold him, marching up …

The Glorious Right Hand Of The Lord

Numbers 11:23

… They landed on islands that were unknown to man, and ventured among barbarous tribes who knew nothing of civilization! They ventured their lives even to the death—but …

Psalm 93

Psalm 93

… Jehovah, the self existent and omnipotent, cares not for the opposition of dying men, however many or mighty they may be. "Loud the stormy billows spoke, Loud the …

The Spiced Wine of My Pomegranate

… Thou art risen in Him, but without Him thou hadst died the second death. Thou art in Him raised up to the heavenly places, but out of Him …

Angelic Studies

Ephesians 3:10

… Thus in one place "we see Jesus made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death," and in another place we learn, "that the Father …

The Holy Spirit and the One Church

Jude 1:19

… As great a difference as there is between light and darkness between death and life, between heaven and hell, is there between a saint and a sinner; for …

Living Temples for the Living God

Isaiah 66:1

… The most august of types I might consider the veil of the Temple to be, but the dying hands of the Savior grasped that veil and tore it …

False Professors Solemnly Warned

Philippians 3:18-19

… If I must yield the citadel which I am willing to defend even to the death, then let me yield it, and let my foes walk over my …

Faith

Hebrews 11:6

… Oh sinners, who know your sins! “Believe on the Lord Jesus, and ye shall be saved.” Cast yourselves upon his love and blood, his doing and his dying …

A Vision of the Latter-Day Glories

Isaiah 2:2

… The white sails are on the Atlantic, and the ships are ‘dying before the wind, even as the bird flitteth through the sky. What bear they? What is …

Speaking on God's Behalf

Job 36:2

… s behalf till speech shall fail me, till, dying, "I clasp my Savior in my arms, the antidote of death." And oh, how specially bound the Christian is …

Brief, Silent Prayer

Nehemiah 2:4

… As in the case of Jacob when he said, even in dying, "I have waited for Your salvation, O God"— prayers such as Moses offered when we do …

Samuel—an Example of Intercession

1 Samuel 12:23

… The old man had been, from his youth up, an intercessor and he never ceased from the holy exercise till his lips were closed in death. Now, Beloved …

Justice Satisfied

Romans 3:26

… It was by one man, the first man, that sin entered into the world, and death by sin. It was by another man, the second Adam, who is …

Sins of Omission

Jeremiah 11:8

… And if they die in their sins they might well, with their dying breath, upbraid us that, having the light, we have not carried it to them. You …

Araunah's Threshing Floor

1 Chronicles 22:1

… How dreadfully He punishes it in Christ! Listen to the groans that come from His heart! Hear His death-shriek and His awful cry, "Lama Sabacthani?" God is …

Jerusalem the Guilty

Luke 13:33

… Yet there may be a worm in the center of your fair plant after all! Sudden death often surprises those who appear to be in sound health, though …

Christ a Sanctuary

Isaiah 8:14

… and ends with, " Whoever believes on Him." If you believe not, dying as you are, the death of Christ has nothing to do with you except to plunge …

A Serious Reprimand

2 Kings 5:13

… a price upon it, was only to be brought to men through the death of His own dear Son! And do you think that your good works—oh …

Effectual Calling—Illustrated by the Call of Abram

Genesis 12:5

… The God of Glory appeared unto our father Abraham," says Stephen, in his dying address, "when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran." There was made …

Illustrations in Preaching

… risen, the last they see of me shall be this hope of gain dying, as it sails out on steady wing, and disappears amid the everlasting light. “I …

The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant

Hebrews 13:20

… My Father, I covenant and promise that I will be obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. I will magnify thy law, and make it honourable …

Mr. Spurgeon as a Literary Man (Concluded)

… Probably the larger part of the results will happen when my right hand, which is now leaving its impress on the page, will be paralyzed in death. Reader …

The Sound in the Mulberry Trees

2 Samuel 5:24

… The same I might say of any time of general sickness, or any time of plague or cholera, or sudden death. There are times when the cholera is …

The Heart Perfumed

Romans 5:5

… Ah, there is many a bad odor in our hearts! There is the old swamp of natural depravity which is capable of spreading death and destruction every time …

Psalm 48

Psalm 48

… He will be our guide even unto death. Throughout life, and to our dying couch, he will graciously conduct us, and even after death he will lead us …

Daniel Facing the Lions' Den

Daniel 6:10

… afterwards he was burnt to death in bed in his own house. Who has forgotten Francis Spira, that dreadful apostate, whose dying bed was a foretaste of hell …

An Urgent Necessity

Hosea 10:12

… Some have been in imminent peril in accidents—some of us have come into the very jaws of death in serious sickness. We might almost sing, or quite …

The Uses of the Law

Galatians 3:19

… Bethink thee; thou mayest soon be dying—death is even now gnawing at thy cheek. What wilt thou do when thou standest before the bar of God without …

His Name—Wonderful!

Isaiah 9:6

… Perhaps this is the greatest wonder of all, that he who is “Death of death and hell’s destruction” should for awhile endure the bonds of death. But …

Good Cause for Great Zeal

Ezra 4:14

… Grant me on earth what seems You best, Till death and Heaven reveal the rest." Thus we acknowledge the fact with lively interest and devout gratitude—"We have …

The Lord's Eternal Rest

Psalm 132:14

… But it is a very different matter when we can say, with John— "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren …

Two Choice Benedictions

Numbers 6:23-27

… IT seemed to me that as this was the last of the Thursday evenings of the dying year and I should no more meet some of you who …

Our Youth Renewed

Psalm 103:5

… heals all your diseases." Morbid minds will be fretting about death and about what might come after death, but David says, "Who redeems your life from destruction." And …

The New Heart

Ezekiel 36:26

… You may picture to yourselves, if you like, a poor creature dying in a ditch. I trust that such a thing never happens in this land, but such …

God Comforting His People

Isaiah 49:13

… your eyes, "for all things are yours...whether the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours and you are Christ …

God's Fatherly Pity

Psalm 103:13

… without pains or groans or dying strife! I remember one who used to be, all her life, subject to fear of death. She retired as usual to bed …

Conversion and Character

Acts 16:24-34

… I have also heard it said that he was converted through fear of death—a most ridiculous remark, for how could he be afraid to die who was …

A Precious Drop Of Honey

Isaiah 49:16

… While His right hand does embrace me, to keep me safe from death, and Hell—and to preserve me and bring me to His eternal kingdom in Glory …