Death & Dying

Words To Rest On

2 Chronicles 32:8

… themselves upon the Words of Jesus!" These promises are the best pillows for dying heads. There is one that will suit you now, and suit you then—"He …

Pardon and Justification

Psalm 32:1

… I know that soon I must die, but the River of Death is mine! It is mine to wash me, that I may leave the dust of earth …

Guidance To Grace and Glory

Psalm 73:24

… of Somebody better than the angels who will come and receive us! Our dying prayer to our Lord will be, "Into Your hands I commend my spirit," and …

Lovely, But Lacking

Mark 10:21

… I will follow Him to prison and to death, and I will preach His Word though I be put to death for it. I will take up the …

First Forgiveness, Then Healing

Luke 5:20

… heart speaks as He says, "I have loved you, and given Myself to death for you. Your sins I have borne on the tree and put them away …

Particular Redemption

Matthew 20:28

… We measure the design of Christ’s death by the effect of it. If any one asks us, “What did Christ design to do by His death?” we …

Divine Love and Its Gifts

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… Not at the Throne of Sovereignty, but at the Cross of dying Love our spiritual life must date its birth. Look to Jesus first, even our Lord Jesus …

The Root Of The Matter

Job 19:28

… And to make a desperate shipwreck of our everlasting interests, they dash themselves to death on the very rock of salvation." No. We must have the Atonement, and …

Christ the Creator

Colossians 1:16

… He has the keys of Hell and of death—and when the appointed time comes, He will send an angel with the key of the bottomless pit and …

God Alone the Salvation of his People

Psalm 92:2

… What thinkest thou, man? Can thy salvation be of anything except of God! Oh! if I had not that everlasting arm to lean upon, I would cry, “Death …

The Whole Band Against Christ

Matthew 27:27

… Nor were they all needed to execute the death sentence. With a people eager for His death, four soldiers, a single quaternion, sufficed. He carried His own Cross …

The Spirit's Office Towards Disciples

John 16:14

… It was for this that Scotland's sons suffered misery and death. Cast out, they wandered in the morasses and among the mountains. I stood, the other day …

Christ Made a Curse for Us

Galatians 3:13

… There is a place of woe and horror—a land of darkness as darkness itself and of the shadow of death—without any order and where the light …

Cheer for Despondency

Proverbs 27:1

… No, if possible, I am further off! The Word has been a savor of death unto death to me, and not a savor of life unto life." Well …

A Call to the Depressed

Isaiah 52:2

… And all the while, though you felt that you could not live like this, and said— "Dear Lord, and shall I always live, At this poor dying rate …

Repentance after Conversion

Psalm 51:17

… to those who have been restored from spiritual death, to those who are debtors to Free Grace and dying love. It is to them I speak and I …

The Secret of Happiness

Matthew 9:2

… Calvary was the very summit of sorrow for our dear Lord and Savior, yet it is the death of sorrow to His people! And the Cross which caused …

The World On Fire

2 Peter 3:10

… Therefore set loose by all things below the moon and clutch as with the grasp of a dying man the things immortal and eternal which your God has …

None But Jesus—Second Part

John 3:18

… atonement, no more sacrifice. “It is finished!” hear the dying Saviour cry. Your sins have sustained their death-blow, the robe of your righteousness has received its last …

Christ's Prayer for Believers

John 17:20

… in Jesus without the assistance of the Holy Spirit." I have seen many dying men and asked them this question, and never did I meet with such an …

Job Among the Ashes

Job 42:5

… Then You scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions—so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than my life. I loathe it. I would …

A Sermon From a Sick Preacher

1 Peter 2:7

… I have taken a text upon which I think I could preach in my sleep and I believe that if I were dying, and were graciously led into …

Method and Music, Or the Art of Holy and Happy Living

Colossians 3:17

… We love Jesus Christ for dying for us. We forget not the Holy Spirit because He dwells in us. But the common idea of the Father is dishonoring …

The Iniquity of Our Holy Things

Exodus 28:36-38

… There is iniquity in them all! I have heard of a good man who lay dying. He thought he would examine his life and sort out his actions …

Seeking Richly Rewarded

Psalm 34:10

… of men, nor about Christ's Glory—never shedding a tear over a dying sinner nor heaving a sigh over this huge and wicked city, which is like …

What Is the Wedding Garment?

Matthew 22:11-13

… The looms of Free Grace and dying love have never woven him a wedding dress. His robe is not of God's provision. It is from his own …

Under the Apple Tree

Song 2:3

… Condemned it to die, nailed it up to the Cross and kept it in a dying, mortifying posture. 25. If we live in the Spirit let us also …

The Loved Ones Chastened

Revelation 3:19

… the sickness shall yet be unto death. The disease shall break forth with more fearful violence, and the thing which we have made our idol shall be smitten …

A Pastoral Visit

… When Halyburton lay a-dying, he said, among other joyous expressions, "I bless God that I have a father in Heaven! I bless God that I have a …

Faith Working By Love

Galatians 5:6

… Christian bonds of holy union Death itself does not destroy; Yes, to live and love forever, Is our heritage of joy." II. Let me now enlarge upon a …

'Christ Is All'

Colossians 3:11

… The death-sweat comes over you and the big drops stand on your brow—the strong man is bowed down and the mighty one falls—and now the …

Glorying in the Lord

1 Corinthians 1:31

… Only very benighted heathens could worship a god of snow, melting at every glance of the sun! Shall an immortal spirit delight in dying joys? Shall the heirs …

Chiding and Cheering

John 14:9

… A long time to be under the sentence of death. A very long time to be without hope. Ah, but did I speak of hours? Did I speak …

Signs Of The Times

Luke 12:54-57

… And what is the voice of the terrible sleep of Death but this, "O you that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give Him no …

Homage Offered to the Great King

Psalm 72:15

… They have made over themselves to the Lord Jesus, to have and to hold them through life and even till death and forever and ever. They are not …

An Assuredly Good Thing

Psalm 73:28

… Yes, and what calamity could be heavier? But if the death of one shall be the salvation of others and if the child's death is but the …

A Timely Expostulation

Luke 24:5

… And you, Mother, do you think that your child can never be removed? Know, then, that you are in the land of the dying, and who are you …

A New Year's Wish

Philippians 4:19

… You have needs in living and you will have needs in dying—but your last need shall be supplied as surely as your first! "My God shall supply …

'Jesus Our Lord'

Romans 4:24

… with tearful eyes, His agony and death—yet even there she salutes Him as Lord! She did so in the dying thief's prayer, "Lord, remember me when …

God's Mercy Going Before

Psalm 59:10

… Therefore as by one man, sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinnedIn that one …