Death & Dying

Family Reformation—or, Jacob's Second Visit to Bethel

Genesis 35:1

… But what else happened? Why, now there came a death and a funeral. Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died. Her name means a bee. And we have had old …

Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth

2 Timothy 2:15

… What fitter time than before the dying year is gone—NOW, NOW, NOW? In that very paper I read a story concerning Messrs. Moody and Sankey on the …

All Fulness in Christ

Colossians 1:19

… In these words, “all fullness,” we hear the echo of his death-cry, “It is finished.” We are to bring nothing, but to find all in him, yea …

The Education of Sons of God

Hebrews 5:8

… Angels could not be "obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross," so that our Lord Jesus could not see in them such an obedience as He …

Intercession and Supplication

Jeremiah 14:22

… The poor beasts were dying of thirst. Men and women were pale and pinched with hunger and there was no one who could deliver them out of their …

The Safeguards of Forgiveness

2 Samuel 12:13

… The sentence of death must be passed upon all men because all have sinned—we have the sentence of death in ourselves, that we may learn not to …

The Preservation of Christians in the World

John 17:15

… From far-away China they must come to Christ! The result of His death is not left to chance. Some say that His death did something or other …

The Queen Of The South, Or The Earnest Enquirer

Matthew 12:42

… And through the iron gate of death it departs alone. Every man should search in solitary earnestness, apart from all the rest of the world, to know what …

Glory!

1 Peter 5:10

… Our risen bodies shall not be capable of decay, much less of death. There are no graves in Heaven! Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord …

Mary'S Song

Luke 1:46

… You have been buried with Him in Baptism unto death. You have yielded yourselves a sacrifice to Him and you have taken Him to be a sacrifice for …

Feeding on the Bread of Life

John 6:47

… immersion, by its symbolic representation of death, burial and rising again out of the water, sets forth how we live by dying to all but Christ, and rise …

A TRAITOR SUSPECTED AND CONVICTED

Romans 8:7

… If men refuse such service, what can their motive be? The wages of sin is death—eternal death! Infinite misery follows upon the course of this world if …

My God

Psalm 91:2

… He was alone in the grasp of Death, unsupported and unsustained, forsaken of earth and Heaven, and left a prey to the powers of darkness, but this—this …

A Gracious Dismissal

Luke 7:50

… It has whispered to them within the curtains of their dying bed—it has murmured consolation amid Jordan's swelling waves. That first word of joy and peace …

The Incomparable Bridegroom and His Bride

Solomon 5:9

… opinion as that celebrated Scotch Divine, old David Dickson, who was asked, when dying, what was the principal subject on which his thoughts were engaged. He answered, "I …

Our Watchword

Psalm 70:4

… Oh, marvel of marvels, miracle of miracles! The immortal Lord stoops to death; the Prince of glory bows to be spit upon. Shame and dishonor could not make …

Burden-bearing

Galatians 6:2

… Their favorite hymn is not in "Our Own Hymn Book"— "A change to keep I have, A God to glorify— A never-dying soul to save, And fit …

A Traveller’s Letters Home (Continued)

… Yet it was a sight to be remembered to one’s dying day. We descended through the foul and loathsome village street, where cholera may well rage in …

"I Thought"

2 Kings 5:11

… Crossed all the fair designs I schemed, Blasted my gourds and laid me low. 'Lord, why is this?'I trembling cried. 'Will You pursue Your worm to death …

The Certainty And Freeness Of Divine Grace

John 6:37

… You may put from you the kingdom of Heaven and count yourselves unworthy of it—if it is a "savor of death unto death" to you—yet it …

The King in Pilate's Hall

John 18:37

… As you see Christ dying on the accursed tree, say, "Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us." He wills not the death of any …

The Seed Upon a Rock

Matthew 13:5

… See how intense He was—always thinking of His approaching death, that cruel, bitter death—yet He hastened towards it, longed for that baptism to be accomplished, for …

Jehovah's Valuation of His People

Isaiah 43:3

… If you are not believers in Him, what can I preach to you that can comfort you? The unbelieving, living and dying such, have no portion in the …

Psalm 13

Psalm 13

… The mercy-seat is the life of hope and the death of despair. The gloomy thought of God's having forsaken him is still upon the psalmist's …

Eternal Life Within Present Grasp

1 Timothy 6:12

… To be divided from Christ is as surely death to us as it would be death to the body to be separated from the head. Make Jesus the …

The Friends Of Jesus

John 15:14

… for his friend and yet he would have died anyway, so that in dying for his friend he does but pay, somewhat beforehand, a debt which must inevitably …

Carried by Four

Luke 5:16-26

… Some have thought that this man may have been stricken with what is called the universal paralysis, which very speedily brings on death, which may account for the …

A Pressed Man Yielding to Christ

John 9:35-38

… The Highest alone can accomplish it—has He not said of Himself, "I kill and I make alive"? The power of life and death must rest with God …

Great Pardon for Great Sin

Psalm 25:11

… And if he should strike the commander-in-chief, it would become so great a crime that I know not what penalty short of death might be awarded …

The Silken Fetter

Hosea 3:5

… And above all, in our bleeding Redeemer making expiation for innumerable sins by the giving up of Himself to death. Here are heights of goodness which the deer …

"The Offense of the Cross"

Galatians 5:11

… might the dying patient be offended with the cup of medicine which is put to his lips and which, alone, can save his body from death! As well …

Thought Condemned, Yet Commanded

Matthew 6:31-33

… And when, afterwards, Peter began to rebuke Him for talking about dying, He seemed to think that He was in the same position as when He was with …

Prayerful Importunity

Luke 18:7

… For if he should do so, I think the lips of Jesus might rebuke him, for we know what Jesus said when He was dying—He did not …

Life In Christ

John 14:19

… I know it does, and it is called “the body of this death;” and this it is which rages within, between the power of the death in the …

The Choice Of A Leader

Luke 6:39

… Was ever such a life as His? Was ever such a death? Was ever such an altogether lovely Person as His? Was ever such perfection as His? In …

Who Loves Christ More?

Luke 7:41-43

… He loved us even to the death and, after death, He has continued to love us still! He loves us so that He cannot be content even in …

First Healing and then Service

Matthew 8:14

… He is dried up and feels as weak as if he were brought into the dust of death and utterly dissolved. His experience is not so much pain …

A Caution for Sin-sick Souls

Hosea 5:13

… He did not know that it had pierced to the heart, that it was, in fact, a death-blow—that the whole head was sick, that the whole …

The Church Awakened

Ephesians 5:14

… though they were come into a cold and dead state? It is comparative death that the Apostle here means. We may use the words employed here as we …

"Do You Love Me?"

John 21:16

… Bear it only as spoken by Jesus, by that same Jesus who has redeemed you from death and Hell by His most precious blood! He addresses it to …