Death & Dying

'Good Judgment'

Psalm 119:65

… of God's children— "'Tis well when on the mount They feast on dying love, And 'tis as well in God's account, When they the furnace prove …

Thought-Reading Extraordinary

Psalm 10:17

… Well did the Apostle say, "Who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver: in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us." On looking …

Christ the Cause of Division

John 7:43

… And it is better that there should be those differences than that there should be the apathy, the indifference, the smell of death! And yet, my Brothers and …

Laus Deo

Romans 11:36

… He appointed the degree of strength with which He would endow each creature, settled its months of life, its hour of death, its coming and its going. Divine …

Prosperity Under Persecution

Exodus 1:10-12

… The early persecutions in Judea promoted the spread of the gospel; hence, when after the death of Stephen the disciples were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of …

A Day to Be Remembered

Luke 19:9

… Oh, what bliss it is to be assured by the Holy Spirit, Himself, that you have passed from death unto life, and that salvation has indeed come to …

David's First Victory

1 Samuel 17:50

… He, "through death, destroyed him that had the power of death, that is, the devil." "He death by dying slew"—cut off the giant's head with his …

The Betrayal

Luke 22:47

… Shall he flee before his foes until he can hide no longer? It is not meet that a sacrifice should be hunted to death. Shall he offer himself …

A Fatal Deficiency

Romans 8:9

… He derives his pleasure from springs above and drinks in draughts of life, not from this poor dying world, but from the ever-living and Eternal God. Blessed …

The Suffering Savior's Sympathy

Hebrews 2:18

… He cried, "Eloi, Eloi, lama Sabachthani." There was condensed into that dying cry an infinity of anguish such as we cannot conceive! Some of us know what the …

The Saints' Love to God

Psalm 31:23

… And the nobleman said to him, "Where do you live?" and the boy led him into a dreary place where his mother lay stretched upon the bed, dying …

A Question for Communicants

Exodus 12:26

… In fact, bloodshed usually means dying by a violent death, and so did Jesus die. They pierced His hands and His feet. A soldier thrust his lance into …

A Warrant for Your Apprehension

Zephaniah 2:5

… If you remain the same and that Word is against you, it will be against you in life and against you in death—against you at the Day …

Watching For Christ's Coming

Luke 12:37

… as though it meant the Believer dying. You may, if you like, consider that Christ comes to His saints in death. In a certain sense, He does, but …

God's Will and Man's Will

Romans 9:16

… he says, "drink now, drink now." What would you do? If you were dying of thirst, you would just put your lips down and drink. Soul, do that …

The Great Physician And His Patients

Matthew 9:12

… Sin, when it is ripened, brings forth death and damnation. Oh, you do not know what those words, "to be damned," mean! You can play with them sometimes …

Pride the Destroyer

Habakkuk 2:4

… Do not distress yourself in that way, my dear Friends! Perhaps you are not called to die just yet and you have, therefore, not yet had Dying Grace …

Faith's Dawn and Its Clouds

Mark 9:24

… Think of him,'God in the glory of his person, tabernacling among men, working out a perfect righteousness, dying a felon's death upon the cross in the …

Carte Blanche

Matthew 15:28

… earthly life! Unless the Lord descends quickly, we, too, shall come to our dying bed and then we shall hear our Savior say, "Be it unto you even …

Order Is Heaven's First Law

Joel 2:8

… They drew their swords, they slew each other and, as they fell dying, they each looked up and the one who said the shield was made of bronze …

Sown Light

Psalm 97:11

… But the actual sowing took place when He came on earth and sowed Himself in death's dark sepulcher for us. Well did He Himself say, "Except a …

Profitable Mixture

Hebrews 4:2

… That blood, sprinkled on the lintel and on the two side posts, preserved their houses when the destroying angel passed through the land of Egypt with his death …

Mary's Magnificat

Luke 1:46

… Are you very poor? Then sing from your heart to the Lord and your music shall be better than silver and gold unto God! Even death, itself, need …

Invitation to a Conference

Isaiah 1:18

… Possibly they have been repeated again and again, yet they have all come to nothing and now you are in danger of death at any moment. If you …

Converts, and Their Confession of Faith

Isaiah 44:5

… your people shall be my people and your God my God." I remember speaking with a Christian woman who lay dying. She was under some form of doubt …

Life and Pardon

Colossians 2:13

… What is natural death? It is the separation of the body from the soul, which is its life. What is spiritual death? It is the separation of the …

Jesus Interceding For Transgressors

Isaiah 53:12

… He urges the grand argument derived from His life and death and so obtains innumerable blessings for the rebellious sons of men. I. I have to direct your …

A Caution to the Presumptuous

… like the cold death-sleep on the mountain-top, from which, if he is not awakened, as God will see that he shall be, death will be the …

The Crown of Thorns

Matthew 27:29

… He has emancipated the slave and uplifted the downtrodden! His Gospel is the charter of liberty, the scourge of tyrants and the death of priests! Spread it and …

Christ's Perfection and Precedence

Solomon 5:10

… He suffered death that those who trust Him might not die—the Lamb of God was slain in their place that He might render satisfaction to the injured …

Christ the End of the Law

Romans 10:4

… We may not have very many Sabbaths together, death may soon part us; but while we are able to meet as a Christian assembly, let us never forget …

Who Is This?

Isaiah 62:11

… Then He did battle with the hosts of sin and death and Hell—and so vanquished them that in His Resurrection He returned with the keys of death …

The Greatest Wonder of Grace

Ezekiel 9:8

… For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any …

'Until He Finds It'

Luke 15:4

… In like manner, a sinner without a Savior is always in danger—as I have already shown you—in danger of still worse sin, in danger of death …

Earnest Expostulation

Romans 2:4

… They trembled on the brink of death, yet he permitted them to recover strength; and now, despite their vows of amendment, here they are, callous and careless, unmindful …

Satanic Hindrances

1 Thessalonians 2:18

… And they claim to have power to forgive sins, saying to sick and dying persons, "By authority committed unto me I absolve you from all your sins." This …

Hold Fast Your Shield

Hebrews 10:35

… Very frequently they were not put to death as other condemned persons were, but their execution was attended with circumstances of cruelty and scorn which made it still …

Comfort and Constancy

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… for you have "the dread of something after death." Oh, that you were reconciled to God through the death of Jesus Christ! That being done, He would comfort …

Christ's Joy and Ours

John 15:11

… I see You, Lord Jesus, with Your foot upon the dragon's neck! I see You with death and Hell beneath Your feet! I see the Glory that …

Forts Demolished and Prisoners Taken

2 Corinthians 10:5

… Men nowadays pass by the Cross as if a dying Savior were nothing to them. Graceless zealots, as they call them, may fight about their creeds—as for …