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Death & Dying
Death, mortality, dying well, and hope beyond the grave
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A Threefold Slogan
Luke 10:44
… We may do without earthly goods, for thousands have been happy in life and triumphant in death without any of the luxury which riches can purchase. The heart …
SERMON • SERMON 3170The Novelties of Divine Mercy
Lamentations 3:22
… If the Lord has taken away one of your friends by death, there are many other friends still left to cheer and comfort you. You have had heavy …
SERMON • SERMON 818The Pleiades and Orion
Job 38:31
… Watts— "Dear Lord, and shall we always live At this poor dying rate?" Well, all of a sudden you have such a visitation—you have not had such …
SERMON • SERMON 3323The Believer's Glad Prospects
Song 2:17
… They are now in the shade and that shade will grow darker and darker with them till, in the hour of death, their sun will go down forever …
SERMON • SERMON 3278The Wordless Book
Psalm 51:7
… The fact of His dying in the place of His people—the one great Sacrifice for the whole of His redeemed—makes His death altogether unique, so that …
SERMON • SERMON 3267Under His Shadow
Psalm 91:1
… terror and ghostly ill, from the arrows of war and of pestilence, from death and from destruction. Guarded by Omnipotence, the chosen of the Lord are always safe …
SERMON • SERMON 3237Our Lord's Preaching
Isaiah 61:1
… He whose own heart was broken knows how to cure broken hearts! I have heard of people dying of a broken heart, but I always bless God when …
SERMON • SERMON 3206'The Church of the First-born'
Hebrews 12:23
… Pass from death unto life and all the glories of the Paradise of God become yours by a promise which death and the devil, himself, cannot break! Have …
SERMON • SERMON 211The Voice of the Blood of Christ
Hebrews 12:24
… the death of the murderer. “Blood for blood!” The murderer must die the death. But what saith Christ’s blood in heaven? Does it speak for only one …
SERMON • SERMON 3546Assurance Sought
Psalm 35:3
… may be solved in a few minutes in a fearful emergency upon a dying bed? Ah, it is not so! Wisdom should urge us, or peril should drive …
SERMON • SERMON 3325Solace for Sad Hearts
Isaiah 61:3
… ask, "Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice?" They despise death, judgment, eternity and set themselves in battle array against the Almighty! Those who mourn …
SERMON • SERMON 3439Man Transient—god's Word Eternal
Isaiah 40:8
… The fondest object of your affections must certainly, before long, succumb beneath the arrows of death. Insatiable Archer! You carry many arrows and you spare no human hearts …
SERMON • SERMON 1070Wrecked, But Not reckless
Acts 27:20
… James Smith telling a story of a good woman whom he visited upon her dying bed? He said to her, "Well, my Sister, how are you? Are your …
SERMON • SERMON 370Evangelical Congratulations
Philippians 1:18
… But it comes and takes what is in itself inherently amiable and moral, and with that it tries to do the work of death! It takes our legitimate …
SERMON • SERMON 532Thanksgiving And Prayer
Psalm 65:11
… It began in the howling tempests of Christ's poverty, want, shame, suffering, and death. It seemed to have no spring and no summer, but yet it was …
SERMON • SERMON 875"Things To Come"
1 Corinthians 3:22
… Can you hope that the arrows of death will forever turn aside from your family? Are you of an immortal race and your children and your sires and …
SERMON • SERMON 751More Than Conquerors
Romans 8:37
… How they have sung on the way to death, though death was attended with the most cruel torments. And you know how they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy …
SERMON • SERMON 3384Growth in Faith
Luke 17:5
… Whoever has this is saved—whatever else he has not, he is saved! And neither death nor Hell shall ever destroy a man who in simple, honest confidence …
SERMON • SERMON 3283The Voices of Our Days
Job 32:7
… For instance, the mere fact of our beginning another day teaches us to adore the mercy which kept us alive when the image of death was on our …
SERMON • SERMON 3427The Blessed Christ
Matthew 21:9
… It has been used by many besides Hezekiah, who have not forgotten that these are the words of Wickliffe, used when monks came round his dying bed with …
SERMON • SERMON 945Ripe Fruit
Micah 7:1
… When you shall see death written on the creature, and see all your life in Christ. When you shall perceive even your holy things to have iniquity in …
SERMON • SERMON 867Tearful Sowing and Joyful Reaping
Psalm 126:6
… Men are dying and perishing! Hell is filling! Christ is dishonored! Souls are not converted to Christ! The Holy Spirit is grieved! The kingdom does not come to …
SERMON • SERMON 1The Immutability of God
Malachi 3:6
… If every promise stands fast, and every oath of the covenant is fulfilled, hark thee, sinner!—mark the word—hear the death-knell of thy carnal hopes; see …
SERMON • SERMON 2075Our Lord's Entrance Within the Veil
Hebrews 9:12
… The penalty of sin is death. And Jesus died. All through the old Law there is no atonement except by the death of a victim. Indeed, this is …
SERMON • SERMON 2700Growth in Grace
2 Peter 3:18
… Christ has hold of the dragon and he cannot inflict deeper wounds than Christ wills." We shall not be afraid of the messenger of death, for we shall …
SERMON • SERMON 897The First Cry from the Cross
Luke 23:34
… They certainly never asked him to pray for them—it was the last thought in their minds to say, “Intercede for us, thou dying King! Offer petitions on …
SERMON • SERMON 804Apostolic Exhortation
Acts 3:19
… For, might it not have been said, “Talk not of Jesus; they have just now haled him to the death: the people are mad against him; preach the …
SERMON • SERMON 2734Out of Nothing Comes Nothing
Job 14:4
… who shall deliver me from the present thralldom of the body of this death? Who shall perfectly emancipate me from its control, that I may live wholly unto …
SERMON • SERMON 3350'Stewards'
1 Corinthians 4:1
… The Gospel lives by dying! Brothers, at any rate, in this contest, if we are not victorious, we will at least be faithful! A steward's business is …
SERMON • SERMON 3196Noah's Eminence
Genesis 7:1
… It is the prerogative of the king to have the power of life and death, and it is the sole prerogative of the King of kings that— "He …
SERMON • SERMON 3305A Clear Understanding
Matthew 13:51
… We understand this, also, that upon His Advent into this world, upon His holy life, His blessed death, His Resurrection, His Ascension and the power which He now …
SERMON • SERMON 3355Life's Inevitable Burden
Galatians 6:6
… But if ever you are quickened by Divine Grace, you will soon find that "the body of this death," as Paul calls indwelling sin, is a very heavy …
SERMON • SERMON 912The Glorious Hereafter and Ourselves
2 Corinthians 5:5
… Heaven are so forcible that they despise death itself. When faith is weak, then the pains and the groans of dying make a black cloud of forebodings which …
SERMON • SERMON 2850The New Song and the Old Story
Psalm 96:1-3
… wounded body rolls A precious stream of vital blood Pardon and life for dying souls." And, then, sing you to the Holy Spirit! Let us never fail in …
SERMON • SERMON 3292The Almighty Warrior
Psalm 45:3-5
… How gloriously He went forth with His first disciples in the brave days of old! They rode forth to battle and to death under His leadership, but it …
SERMON • SERMON 177God, the All-Seeing One
Proverbs 15:11
… First, then, the word here translated “hell,” might just as well be translated “death,” or the state of departed spirits. Now, death, with all its solemn consequences, is …
SERMON • SERMON 3492God's Word Not to Be Refused
Hebrews 12:25
… If you drank poison and did not know it, I could pity you—if you made all your veins to swell with agony and caused your death—but …
SERMON • SERMON 898A Word with those who Wait for Signs and Wonders
Luke 11:29
… You are a witness to what Divine Grace has done for them—what more evidence can you require? Remember the dying bed of your sainted mother! Remember the …
SERMON • SERMON 2244Members Of Christ
Ephesians 5:30
… And Christ without His people would be incomplete! A dying Christ redeeming nobody! A living Christ with no one to live by His life, would be a grim …
SERMON • SERMON 183The Solar Eclipse
Isaiah 45:7
… My fellow-sinner, hast thou to-day any hope that when death shall come thou shalt be found in Christ? If thou hast none, beware and tremble; if …