Death & Dying

'Peace! Perfect Peace!'

Isaiah 26:3

… So that, death is now all on the way to Heaven and immortality! I have heard of an aged Christian Sister at Plymouth who had been for many …

Poverty and Riches

2 Corinthians 8:9

… We may know the first death, the rending of the soul from the body, but the Second Death, the separation of the soul from God—that we shall …

The Double Forget-me-not

1 Corinthians 11:24

… Surely the emblems themselves are most significant and suitable reminders of Christ's death. And the whole ordinance is a most suitable memorial of Christ's death because …

Christ Our Passover

1 Corinthians 5:7

… Suppose it had been possible to put Christ to death in any other way. Sometimes the Romans put criminals to death by decapitation; but by a such death …

The One and the Many

Romans 5:16

… And all his descendants became subject to the weary woes of life and to the sure penalty of death. Think of the mischief that one sin can do …

The Garden Of The Soul

Matthew 26:36

… You know that after He had come forth triumphant in this death struggle He went to the conflict more expressly in His body, undergoing in His physical Nature …

Jan. 18 — CHRIST AND HIS CHILDREN

Isa. 53:10

… His death was sacrificial: He died as our substitute, because death was the penalty of our sins; and because His substitution was accepted of God, He has saved …

Morning, January 29

2Co 4:18

… Hush, hush, my doubts! death is but a narrow stream, and thou shalt soon have forded it. Time, how short—eternity, how long! Death, how brief—immortality, how …

Morning, August 24

Mic 2:13

… Dost thou fear death? He has been the death of Death. Art thou afraid of hell? He has barred it against the advent of any of his children …

Evening, January 16

Da 9:26

… Neither original nor actual sin had defiled him, and therefore death had no claim upon him. No man could have taken his life from him justly, for he …

Evening, February 27

Mic 5:2

… It was “from everlasting” that he signed the compact with his Father, that he would pay blood for blood, suffering for suffering, agony for agony, and death for …

Healing and Pardon

Isaiah 33:24

… Death is no punishment to the Believer—it is the gate of endless joy! It is not death to die, now that Jesus has died, yes, rather, has …

All-Sufficiency Magnified

Philippians 4:13

… Paul, I know, once said, "O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" But Paul did not stay there—his …

Voices from the Excellent Glory

Matthew 3:16

… With such a death before Him, with such circumstances surrounding Him—all tending to make His agony sharper, and His death more terrible than any which had fallen …

Plenteous Redemption

Psalm 103:7

… These eyes which soon shall be glazed in death, shall not be always closed in darkness; death shall be made to give back his prey; he shall restore …

The Blood of Sprinkling and the Children

Exodus 12:21-27

… As the Paschal lamb must be without blemish, so was our Lord, and its killing and roasting with fire were typical of His death and sufferings. Even as …

The New “Helensburgh House,” Nightingale Lane

… What is death? Death is the resolution into its original elements of any compound substance which possessed life.’ Mr. Ruskin said, ‘That is the most extraordinary definition of …

Question 38: What shall be done to the wicked at their death?

Lu 16:22-24; Ps 49:14

… What shall be done to the wicked at their death? A The souls of the wicked shall at their death be cast into the torments of hell, # Lu …

Question 36: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their death?

Heb 12:23; Php 1:23; 2Co 5:8; Lu 23:43; 1Th 4:14; Isa 57:2; Job 19:26

… What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their death? A The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, # Heb 12:23 and do …

Love Stronger Than Death

John 13:1

… It has passed into a proverb that, "The ruling passion is strong in death," and there is great truth in the saying. In the light of the man …

Christ Exalted

Hebrews 10:12-13

… It is well to remember how our Saviour left us—by what road he travelled through the shadows of death; but I think it is quite as well …

Love's Transformations—a Communion Meditation

John 14:28

… I yield everything into His blessed hands." And so your sorrow is occasioned by the fear of death! You go burdened every day about death, do you? That …

Mourning at the Cross

Zechariah 12:10

… But when He was sentenced to be crucified, the act of putting Him to death was left to the Roman soldiers! And it is, to me, very surprising …

June 20 — THE LORD OUR COMPANION

Ps. 23:4

June 20 THE LORD OUR COMPANION "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me …

Oct. 16 — ONE WITH CHRIST JESUS

John 14:19

… His death has put away our transgressions, and loosed the bonds which held us under the death sentence. His resurrection proves our justification: we are absolved, and mercy …

March 3 — NOT LEFT TO PERISH

Ps. 16:10

… We may appear to be at death's door in heart, and soul, and consciousness; but we cannot remain there. Our inward death as to joy and hope …

The Death of Christ for His People

1 John 3:16

… It is not possible for Him to endure anything, much less, then, is it possible for Him to suffer death. Yet we are told, in the verse from …

Idolatry Condemned

1 John 5:21

… He shall ask, and He shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he …

Evening, August 17

Jn 11:4

Evening, August 17 Go To Morning Reading “This sickness is not unto death.” John 11:4 From our Lord’s words we learn that there is a limit …

Christ's Care of His Disciples

John 18:8

… This word of His was a mandate so powerful that none of the disciples were seized, much less put to death. There was Peter, who had drawn his …

Debtors and Debtors

Luke 7:41

… If, through the death of Christ, we are delivered from the death penalty of sin—as we certainly are, for Christ has forever cleared all Believers by bearing …

Morning, February 7

Mic 2:10

… And, after death, what cometh? What wonder-world will open upon our astonished sight? What scene of glory will be unfolded to our view? No traveller has ever …

Great Joy In the City

Acts 8:8

… Worse than that, death itself came into the Church at Jerusalem. Besides others who were put to death, Stephen, the first martyr, fell a victim to the persecutors …

The Precious Blood Of Christ

1 Peter 1:19

… It is expressly written, "You shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer which is guilty of death: but he shall surely be put to death …

"Verily, Verily"

John 5:24

… Look, here is death! Yonder is life and resurrection! Judgment, as it were, stands between the two. We have passed from death to life and so we have …

Morning, June 7

Ps 97:10

… Sin turned thy feet into the way of death, and poured poison into the very fountain of thy being; it tainted thy heart, and made it “deceitful above …

Morning, February 4

Ho 3:1

… Therefore, bethink thee, when thou shalt pass through the valley of the shadow of death, thou needest fear no evil, for he is with thee. When thou shalt …

Morning, January 27

Jn 1:16

… is a fulness of victory in his death, for through death he destroyed him that had the power of death, that is the devil. There is a fulness …

Evening, April 28

Eze 3:7

… I am not affected by the death of Jesus as I ought to be; neither am I moved by the ruin of my fellow men, the wickedness of …

Evening, May 10

Jn 1:14

… In life he is my life, and in death he shall be the death of death; in poverty Christ is my riches; in sickness he makes my bed …