Death & Dying

Nevertheless, Hereafter

Matthew 26:64

… His sufferings, His shame, His death, even, did not render it any the less certain that He would climb to His Throne. Nor did the caviling of His …

Unparalleled Suffering

1 Peter 3:18

… The wounds, the cruel fever, the direful thirst, the mockery, the scorn, the desertion of His Father when He must, at last, yield Himself up to death itself …

A Witness and a Partaker

1 Peter 5:1

… Feed My sheep.' Therefore, O my Brethren, by His agony and bloody sweat, by His Cross and passion, by His precious death and burial, by His glorious resurrection …

An Ancient Question Modernized

Ezekiel 24:19

… And never count redemption a trifle when to Him it was a pouring out of His soul unto death! But do you see the lanterns twinkling through the …

The Lord's Supper—a Remembrance Of Jesus

Luke 22:19

… Your love, Your life, Your death, Your resurrection, Your power at the right hand of God—these must be the pillars of my hope, if hope I have …

New Tokens of Ancient Love

Jeremiah 31:3

… The death sweat is on our brow, the death rattle is in our throat, yet David's words are fulfilled in our experience—"Yes, though I walk through …

Christ the Overcomer of the World

John 16:33

… WHEN these words were spoken, our Savior was about to leave His disciples to go to His death for their sakes. His great anxiety was that they might …

Psalm 44

Psalm 44

… And covered us with the shadow of death. The language is very strong. The nation is described as completely enveloped in the dense darkness of despair and death …

The Greatest Trial on Record

Psalm 2:2

… Why, he dies a hundred deaths, my brethren, it is not one—it is death on death the Savior bears, as he is dragged from tribunal to tribunal …

God's Non-Remembrance of Sin

Isaiah 43:25

… The convinced sinner is able to believe that mercy may be shown to others, but as for himself, he signs his own death warrant and labors under the …

An Unalterable Law

Hebrews 9:22

… A lament for the death of the righteous—many of them put to death by persecution. Verses 1, 2. The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to …

An Earnest Invitation

Psalm 2:12

… What wonder that— “Mad from life’s history, Glad to death’s mystery, Swift to be hurled— Anywhere, anywhere, Out of the world,” she ends her life because …

Christ the Seeker and Savior of the Lost

Luke 19:10

… Had it not been for the salvation of men, I know not that we had ever known our Lord as the Destroyer of Death or the Overcomer of …

Immanuel—The Light of Life

Isaiah 9:1

… As the death of death and Hell's destruction, our Immanuel cries to the legions of the Pit, "Gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces. Gird …

Alone, Yet Not Alone

John 16:31

… They meant it! They did, each one, verily believe that he could go to prison and to death, and that he would do so rather than deny his …

Consecration to God—Illustrated by Abraham’s Circumcision

Genesis 17:1-2

… Baptism teaches us that by death we pass into the new life. As Noah’s ark, passing through the death of the old world, emerged into a new …

Fencing the Table

1 Corinthians 11:28

… Baptism, the immersion of the Believer in water, is the token of his death, burial and resurrection with Christ. It sets forth the fellowship which he has with …

The Charge of the Angel

Acts 5:19

… The preaching of the Word of Life is the best antidote to the doctrine of death. Clearly enough, if they had known it and had been capable of …

Good Cheer From Christ's Victory Over the World

John 16:33

… He had human guilt laid upon Him to bear and, because of that, He was bowed down till He was exceedingly sorrowful even unto death. Some seem to …

God's Desire for Us, and His Work in Us

Psalm 51:6

… For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Oh, what a death it is to us if ever the flesh …

Christ in Gethsemane

Mark 14:32

… Yet He is no sooner in Gethsemane than He says to the three especially favored disciples, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death: tarry you here and …

A Command and a Promise

James 4:8

… You will be reconciled to Him by the death of His Son and your heart will be filled with love to Christ through the gracious influences of the …

Creation’s Groans and the Saints’ Sighs

Romans 8:22-23

… there is sorrow on the sea, and there is misery on the land; and into the highest palaces as well as the poorest cottages, death, the insatiable, is …

Question 26: Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?

Lu 2:7; Ga 4:4; Isa 53:3; Mt 27:46; Php 2:8; Mt 12:40

… 27:46 and the cursed death of the cross; # Php 2:8 in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time. # Mt 12:40 …

What Had Become of Peter?

Acts 12:18

… They had heard by many of this man— how he had put the saints to death—surely he could not have become a disciple of Christ! There was …

The Mediator—Judge And Savior

Acts 10:42

… A sacred irregularity would be far better in our public services than the prim monotony of death. For all these reasons I think I have a claim upon …

The Chief Of Sinners

1 Timothy 1:15

… My Hearers, here is life and death. If you despise Christ, there is death for you. If you turn aside from the love and mercy which streams from …

Causes and Cure of Fainting

Isaiah 40:29

… Yet, when they have looked at their condition aright, they have asked themselves what use death would be to them? It would be as when a man escaped …

Christ's Testimony Received

John 3:33

… It has pleased the Father to put all things under the Man Christ Jesus— "Life, death, and Hell, And worlds unknown Hung on His sacred will." Jesus is …

Jesus Declining the Legions

Matthew 26:53

… As soon as His beseeching prayer had reached the Father's ear, immediately, like flames of fire, angels would flash death upon His adversaries! Our Lord's resort …

A Tempted Savior—Our Best Succor

Hebrews 2:18

… Bereavement, too—what a trial is this to the tender heart! You arrows of death, you kill but you wound with wounds worse than death. "Jesus wept," because …

Retreat Impossible

Judges 11:35

… Then the enemies of the Lord have sworn, "We will burn you to the death." The saints have accepted that challenge, also, and they have burned and triumphed …

Psalm 76

Psalm 76

… Every weapon, offensive and defensive, the Lord dashed in pieces; death bearing bolts and life preserving armour were alike of no avail when the Breaker sent forth his …

A Word for the Persecuted

1 Samuel 20:10

… Many a man has had life and death set before him, the life has been shaded with the cross, and the death has been gilded over with transient …

The Sin-Offering for the Common People

Leviticus 4:27-31

… There was given, in the death of our Lord, as full a recompense to justice as if all the redeemed had been sent into Hell. No, the truth …

The Great Pot and the Twenty Loaves

2 Kings 4:38

… And, lo, when they began to pour it out, it was acrid to the taste, gave them a terrible colic, and made them cry out, "There is death …

Prayer 17 — To Be Like Christ

… The Spirit, the life of God, in Jesus Christ, hath made us free from the law of sin and death. O, deliver others. Bring them up out of …

The Saints' Riches

Romans 8:32

… I think that the Father, in giving up that Son who had always given Him such intense joy, must have suffered in His Son's death. Well then …

Man Humbled, God Exalted

Isaiah 2:17

… Now, is not this humbling to the high looks of men? What? Must it be so—that I must see, "Death," written upon all my hopes, upon all …

Dec. 13 — EVENING BRIGHTENS INTO DAY

Zech. 14:7

… In the worst times let us trust in the Lord who turneth the darkness of the shadow of death into the morning. When the tale of bricks is …