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Death & Dying
Death, mortality, dying well, and hope beyond the grave
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Gracious Renewal
Psalm 51:10
… The strongest man that ever lived must soon yield to the weakness of death, unless he were reinvigorated by nourishment. Sampson himself must have a cleft opened in …
SERMON • SERMON 451Choice Portions
Deuteronomy 32:9
… Christ lived for us, and for us to live is Christ—we gain all things by His death and for us to die is gain. The Church is …
SERMON • SERMON 1888The Blood of Sprinkling
Hebrews 12:24
… His was not merely a natural death, but a death aggravated by supernatural circumstance, which infinitely intensified its woe. This is what we mean by the blood of …
SERMON • SERMON 2599A Visit From the Lord
Psalm 106:4
… If you know that you are not what you ought to be and that, living and dying as you now are, you will perish everlastingly, then with all …
SERMON • SERMON 1082The Life, Walk and Triumph of Faith
Genesis 17:1
… here, will be All-Sufficient on yonder dying bed! He who has been almighty in life will be almighty in death! Fear not that solemn flight through tracks …
SERMON • SERMON 2910The Harvest and the Vintage
Revelation 14:14-20
… on such the second death has no power." Sometimes, in Scripture, the resurrection of the just and of the unjust is represented as taking place simultaneously and, at …
SERMON • SERMON 2584Place for the Word
John 8:37
… Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keeps My saying, he shall never see death. What glorious Gospel brilliance Christ suddenly flashes upon these men! He …
SERMON • SERMON 2723God's Dealings With Egypt and Israel
Psalm 78:51
… He will be our guide even unto death." Now, can we who are here say that we believe in the invisible God and that we are trying to …
SERMON • SERMON 1991"Sitting By"
Luke 5:17
… It is made to you either a savor of life unto life, or else of death unto death! Remember, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah …
SERMON • SERMON 515The Sinner'S Advocate
1 John 2:1
… But the old Adam, that which made Paul cry out—"O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"—must sin …
SERMON • SERMON 1040What and Whence Are These?
Revelation 7:13-14
… dying Lord'I, too, hoping as he hoped, shall bear up under troubles as he did during his painful illness, and I, too, shall have a joyful death …
SERMON • SERMON 1361The Final Perseverance of the Saints
Job 17:9
… For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life …
SERMON • SERMON 1616Saved In Hope
Romans 8:24
… The body came under the power of death through the Fall and it remains so. And, remaining so, its lot is to die, sooner or later, unless the …
SERMON • SERMON 749The Righteous Holding On His Way
Job 17:9
… Stand at the foot of the Cross and view the sin-atoning blood! Rest there living! Rest there dying! And then when your spirit mounts to Heaven, may …
SERMON • SERMON 1837A Great Gospel for Great Sinners
1 Timothy 1:15-17
… he had them beaten in the synagogues, driven from city to city, and even put to death. This must have remained upon his heart as a dark memory …
SERMON • SERMON 3035Enquiring the Way to Zion
Jeremiah 50:5
… And what I have to say to you is to charge you, as you love your never-dying souls, to escape from Hell and flee to Heaven—to …
SERMON • SERMON 1366The Danger of Unconfessed Sin
Psalm 32:3
… If a man lives a noble life, he may well shrink from dying, because he knows what will become of him, nowadays, when writers of his memoirs unearth …
SERMON • SERMON 489Broad Rivers And Streams
Isaiah 33:20-23
… Nevertheless, the hallowed stream has always been stirred by some who, "faithful to their Master found," were buried with Him in Baptism unto death, and gave in Baptism …
SERMON • SERMON 1911Hideous Discovery
Mark 7:20-23
… A breach of communion between the creature and the Creator is a kind of Hell, a blight, a curse, a death! God cannot comfortably commune with us while …
SERMON • SERMON 1689The General Convocation Around Mount Zion
Hebrews 12:22-24
… Instead of the colors of grim death, we see the joyous congregating of all the clans, the glad union of all the children of God who are scattered …
SERMON • SERMON 2704'Flee From the Wrath to Come'
Matthew 3:7
… This "wrath to come" will, in part, fall upon men at death, but more fully at the Day of Judgment, and it will continue to flow over them …
SERMON • SERMON 3340'Take Away the Frogs'
Exodus 8:8
… He can come and dwell in my heart and in yours, tonight, and yet we shall bear the Presence of Deity to the hour of our death! He …
SERMON • SERMON 2649Girded for the Work
1 Peter 1:13
… There is another alive down to his breast, but his legs and the rest of his body are still under the dominion of death. It is an extraordinary …
SERMON • SERMON 2634"Jesus Only" —a Communion Meditation
Mark 9:8
… Go home and take your wine—and see damnation in its dregs! Go home and walk over your farm and see death in its clods, and damnation in …
SERMON • SERMON 2832Christ's Yoke and Burden
Matthew 11:30
… Watts wrote truly— "Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows." Then there is the blessed co-operation of the Holy Spirit. When He comes …
SERMON • SERMON 2989Near the Kingdom, or in It?
Mark 12:34
… believe in Jesus Christ this very night, so that I may pass from death unto life?" Do you not think that the message of the Gospel should very …
SERMON • SERMON 1743A Loving Entreaty
Isaiah 43:26
… He takes an oath, "As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his …
SERMON • SERMON 1931One More Cast of the Great Net
Joel 2:32
… How can it be that a sincere trust in God's own promise can ever be rejected by the Lord? Sitting by the bedside of a dying man …
SERMON • SERMON 801The Woman Which Was a Sinner
Luke 7:37-38
… This woman, apart from Grace, had remained black and defiled, still, to her dying day—but the Grace of God worked a wondrous transformation, removing the impudence of …
SERMON • SERMON 1585Truthfulness
Jeremiah 5:3
… He is the man to honor God in life and death. He is the man to fear nothing and win everything. He is the man whom the Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 2325The Far-off, Near—the Near, Far Off
Matthew 2:1-4
… His Gospel is either, "a savor of life unto life," or else, "a savor of death unto death." I want you, first, to notice the note of exclamation …
SERMON • SERMON 3017Seeing God's Goodness Here
Psalm 27:13
… to me! If I were even starving to death, God would still have a good word out of my dying mouth. Even if He should let me die …
SERMON • SERMON 2867The Life-look
Isaiah 45:22
… the garden in an agony, pouring out My soul unto death. I am on the tree, dying for sinners— look unto Me! Look unto Me!' "That is all …
SERMON • SERMON 2428The Marriage Supper of the Lamb
Revelation 19:9
… His life, and in His death, He was no lion, no beast of prey—He was the gentle, suffering, sacrificial Victim, dying that we may not die, presenting …
SERMON • SERMON 2031David Dancing Before the Ark Because of His Election
2 Samuel 6:20-22
… If you serve God aright, you will be forever remembering the Cross and the substitutionary death there accomplished for our redemption. You will only hope to be accepted …
SERMON • SERMON 2105Preparation for the Coming of the Lord
1 John 2:28
… Ever since you trusted in Christ as dying for you, you have felt that if He died for you, then you died in Him—that from now on …
SERMON • SERMON 993The Northern Iron and the Steel
Jeremiah 15:12
… See there God in human flesh—bleeding, suffering, dying. Those wounds are fountains of mercy. Look to them, and you shall live. Wrath is appeased by the death …
SERMON • SERMON 1949A Sermon for the Worst Man on Earth
Luke 18:13
… With such throes and pangs of death as never can be fully described, the Lord Jesus poured out His soul in unknown sufferings that He might provide a …
SERMON • SERMON 1985The Child Of Light Walking In Darkness
Isaiah 50:10
… They are out of work, or business is gradually dying out and their means of support will soon disappear. This is a new trial for those who have …
SERMON • SERMON 1357A Business-Like Account
Philippians 3:7-9
… When we are raised from the death of our sin and feel that we are so, then is our knowledge of the risen Christ excellent, indeed. When we …