Death & Dying

The Known and the Unknown

Ecclesiastes 6:12

… It is true that they have not our sins, but they can never know "Free Grace and dying love" as we have known them! It is true that …

The Blood Shed For Many

Matthew 26:28

… Blood represents suffering, but it goes further and suggests suffering unto death. "The blood is the life thereof" and when blood is too copiously shed, death is suggested …

The Key-Note of a Choice Sonnet

Luke 1:46

… Nay, even should death for a moment suspend it, let them so praise God that it shall be no new work for them to begin again and praise …

The Fruit of the Spirit—Joy

Galatians 5:22

… He that is an heir of Heaven may cry, "O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" And yet, before …

The Sight of Iniquity

Habakkuk 1:3

… Whitefield said, in one of his sermons "O my God, when I think how this wicked city is perishing, and how many are dying for lack of knowledge …

The Rent Veil

Matthew 27:50-51

… The gulf is completely filled by the fact that Jesus has gone through with us even to the bitter end, to death, even to the death of the …

Humility, the Friend of Prayer

Genesis 32:10

… He that is brought to penury; he that is distressed in spirit; he that lies at death's door is not a man to show the peacock's …

A Bundle of Myrrh

Solomon 1:13

… Here perfect bliss can ne’er be found, The honey’s mix’d with gall; ’Midst changing scenes and dying friends, Be thou my All in All.” We …

Shining Christians

Isaiah 60:1

… You are no longer in the darkness of sin, the darkness of spiritual ignorance, the darkness of spiritual death. Neither are you any longer in that darkness of …

The Double Drawing Near

James 4:8

… world! If you dwell near to God, you will not be afraid of dying— you will rather dread to remain here than to be taken away! Remember, this …

Faith's Sure Foundation

1 Peter 2:6

… We believe that because He was God, He was able to undertake the stupendous labor of our redemption and that His holy life and suffering death are, because …

Filling the Empty Vessels

Philippians 4:19

… VERY beautiful, to my mind, is the sight of "Paul the aged" confined in his prison at Rome, likely, by-and-by, to be put to death, but …

Where Go You?

Job 23:10

… And His knowledge is of more importance than the opinions of dying men. If you are not afraid to put your character and profession before the eyes of …

Sarah and Her Daughters

Isaiah 51:2

… She is dying with dropsy and, being unable to lie down in bed, is obliged to always sit up—a posture which allows little or no rest. When …

Brave Waiting

Psalm 27:14

… should tremble, yes, though death itself should remove this feeble body, yet there is no cause for fear! We may exclaim with dying Jacob, "I have waited for …

The Paraclete

John 14:16

… If the doctrines I preach to you are not true, I am a lost man—my life becomes an agonizing disappointment and my death a horrible calamity. I …

Shaved and Shorn, But Not Beyond Hope

Judges 16:22

… He has a strong desire to hear, again, the message of Free Grace and dying love. He longs to listen once more to the ringing of those silver …

Overcome Evil With Good

Romans 12:21

… What can I do to serve you? I could have fought you to the death before, but now I am dead, myself, and born-again! And having commenced …

Nominal Christians—Real Infidels

John 8:46

… This "pestilence which walks in darkness," broods frightfully over our congregations, and smothers beneath its death-bearing wings not a few of you, whose souls I would win …

Confession Of Sin Illustrated by the Cases of Dr. Pritchard and Constance Kent

Psalm 32:5

… At this present moment, unhappily, two persons are lying under sentence of death, for murders of the most atrocious character. Without wishing to say a single word with …

"The Tender Mercy of Our God"

Luke 1:77-79

… The heart is the seat and center of life, and mercy is to God as his own life. "I have no pleasure in the death of him that …

The History of Little-Faith

Matthew 14:31

… There was a step and scarcely a step, between me and death. That which bore me up appeared to give way and the waters came in even unto …

"A Man Under Authority"

Matthew 8:8

… The scoffers say, "Ah, the old Truth is dying out! Where can they find men of mind to preach it?" But our eyes, enlightened by faith, can see …

The One Thing Needful

Luke 10:42

… It is absolutely necessary that we have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, in his power as God and man, in his death as being expiatory, in his …

Receiving the Holy Spirit

Acts 19:2

… The work of the Holy Spirit, by which men are quickened from their death in sin, is not inferior to the power which made men speak with tongues …

A Honeycomb

Hebrews 12:3

… I am afraid of death, and I am afraid of judgment, and I am afraid of Hell." Afraid of death? Well, but if you will but trust the …

On Laying Foundations

Luke 6:46-49

… And when death, that most terrible of storms, beats upon them, they feel its full fury, but they cannot find a hiding place. They neglect the housing of …

God's People Melted and Tried

Jeremiah 9:7

… For death is come up into our windows. It did not wait to come in by the door. In time of war or pestilence, death comes how it …

Christ's Pastoral Prayer for His People

John 17:9

… Have you ever measured the depth of Christ's agony in Gethsemane and of His death on Calvary? If you have tried to do so, you will be …

The Cleansing of the Leper

Leviticus 13:12-13

… It is the death of Christ that saves, not your realizing the death. If there be a life boat, and some poor man be ready to drown, and …

The Unconquerable King

Daniel 4:34

… Dynasties have passed away, dying out for lack of heirs, but God the Ever-Living asks none to succeed Him and to perpetuate His name. Internal corruptions have …

The Two Builders And Their Houses

Matthew 7:24-27

… hope! He rests on what Christ has Done—death cannot affect that. He believes in a faithful God. And dying cannot affect that. He believes in the Covenant …

The Sunday School and the Scriptures

2 Timothy 3:15

… Guthrie ask for a "bairn's hymn" when he was dying is but an instinct of our nature which leads us to complete the circle by folding together …

The Common Salvation

… It is not a matter of the future, alone, a blessing to be sought for on a dying bed and reached in Heaven. But it is a blessing …

Our Heavenly Father's Pity

Psalm 103:13

… This last request may remind us of the prayer of the dying thief, "Lord, remember me." And it may serve for us as a repenting prayer. "According to …

Believers Free from the Dominion of Sin

Romans 6:14

… But Believers are regarded as having died in Christ and, by that death, they have escaped from under the Law—they are clean delivered from the Law by …

A Private Enquiry

1 Samuel 3:17

… was a man of God and, notwithstanding his great chastisement and his mournful death, I doubt not that he died in the Lord. But he brought dishonor on …

Faith in Christ

Acts 16:31

… dying beds, but I have never heard a Christian say, "I trusted in Christ, but He has failed me." I have seen them with the clammy death sweat …

Unprofitable Servants

Matthew 25:30

… Were we not baptized into His name and into His death? Whatever we may do is only what He has a right to claim at our hands from …

The Abiding of the Spirit the Glory of the Church

Haggai 2:4-5

… For Him that poured out His soul unto death on our behalf the most splendid service, the most heroic self-denial, are all too little; and we feel …