Death & Dying

The Watchword For Today—"Stand Fast"

Philippians 3:20

… He reminds me of the death of that British hero, Wolfe, who, on the heights of Quebec, received a mortal wound. It was just at the moment when …

Citizenship In Heaven

Philippians 3:20

… Wide as the poles asunder are life and death, light and darkness, health and disease, purity and sin, spiritual and carnal, Divine and sensual. If we were what …

Divine Surprises

Isaiah 64:3

… Perhaps you remember that a fortnight ago, on Sunday morning, I preached of Paul's deep experience [#1536—Sentence of Death, the Death of Self-Trust] and I …

Marvelous Light

1 Peter 2:9

… As to death—well, at the moment of death, you will leave your body behind and you will leave with it all tendency to sin! The root of …

God'S Strange Choice

1 Corinthians 1:26-29

… The bears hugged them to death. The lions tore them to pieces—wild bulls tossed them upon their horns—and yet Christianity spread! All the swords of the …

The Threshing Floor of Ornan

1 Chronicles 21:28

… Seventy thousand people had already died of the black death through his sin and still the pestilence raged—this brought the matter home to David's heart. Every …

The Turning Point

Luke 15:20

… Every earnest sermon, every death in your family, every funeral knell for a neighbor, every pricking of conscience, every touch of sickness, sets you a resolving to amend …

The Very Bold Prophecy

Isaiah 65:1

… which is the second death." This text has the clear ring of Free Grace about it and, for this reason, it may be called bold. He had need …

God—All in All

Job 34:29

… He shall let that Gospel become a "savor of death unto death" to you, till you loathe it yourself as you become a Sabbath-breaker, or give yourself …

One Antidote for Many Ills

Psalm 80:10

… May God give thee grace to forsake thy wicked ways, turn unto him and live, for he “hath no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, but …

'Hiding in You!'

Psalm 143:9

… at least to wound the pilgrim! Or the Valley of the Shadow of Death, a little further on, with its miry bog and its hobgoblins and all manner …

The First Note of My Song

Psalm 103:3

… This is very apparent in the text, which is in the present tense—"Who forgives all your iniquities." Not, "who will, perhaps, forgive you on your death bed …

Fat Things, Full of Marrow

Isaiah 54:7-10

… And then the flood began to rise and rage and He said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death." There was a sight in the garden that …

An Objection and an Answer

Galatians 5:6

… God tells you that you have transgressed against Him, but that He wills not your death—that He has, therefore, sent His Son into the world to suffer …

The Oft-Repeated Invitation

Revelation 22:17

… It is worse than vain, for if it is not a savor of life unto life to you, it shall be a savor of death unto death! Therefore …

The Rule of Grace

Luke 4:27

… I wonder that I was not condemned to death, for had they proceeded to extremities, they might have proved me guilty of murder. So I look upon my …

The Knowledge of Christ’s Love

… Without exception, all those who have passed from death unto life, whatever they may not know, have learned this. And without exception, all those who are not saved …

The Seed by the Wayside

Luke 8:5

… May all of you be among those who have, to whom more shall be given! But the Gospel is also "a savor of death unto death" to some …

Israel in Egypt

Revelation 15:3

… Sometimes after great battles, monuments are raised to the memory of the fight; and of what are they composed? They are composed of weapons of death and of …

Sheep Among Wolves

Matthew 10:16

… because they love! You cannot understand the Savior's death throes, the bloody sweat, the heaviness even unto death and the broken heart until you go, like a …

Hopeful, Yet Doubtful

Matthew 8:19

… You must go with Him to Vanity Fair, to be hunted unto the death! You must expect to be called mad! You must reckon upon being even charged …

Comforted and Comforting

2 Corinthians 1:3

… But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead: who delivered us from so …

Characteristics of Christ's Disciples

Luke 14:26

… Well, dear Friends, though your faith may never be subjected to that supreme test, a matter of life or death, yet you may have to be tested to …

A Sermon For Gleaners

Ruth 2:15

… You have not passed from death unto life." Oh, let us not do this, dear Brother Reapers. Let us sooner cut ourselves with our own sickle than cut …

Why Am I Thus?

Romans 7:22

… The child of God has written bitter things against himself and signed his own death warrant. Thank God, even if we sign our own death warrant it does …

Joshua's Vision

Joshua 6:10-27

… You have still only to plead the power of the precious blood and the meritorious death of Christ to see wonders in this year of Divine Grace which …

How To Meet the Doctrine of Election

Matthew 15:24

… That must have made the sentence fall like a death-knell on her ears! If the servants tell us such a thing as that, we can forget it …

The Reason Why Many Cannot Find Peace

James 4:7-10

… Be serious! Begin to think of death, judgment, the wrath to come. These are not trifles, Friends, nor things to make sport about. Neither is true religion a …

The Real Presence, the Great Want of the Church

Solomon 3:4-5

… Pray ye for Laodicea in her lukewarmness, and Sardis in her spiritual death; but you will only prevail in proportion as your inmost soul loves the Redeemer and …

"My Garden"—"His Garden"

Solomon 4:16

… Give us but a few such in our midst and there shall be no broken spiritual unity! There shall be no coldness and spiritual death, but all shall …

The Rose and the Lily

Solomon 2:1

… I see in this one the death of a child, or the loss of a beloved relative. But I perceive in the other scale the great love of …

Believers—Lights In The World

Philippians 2:14-16

… He shall be a wretched time server all his life and a detestable hypocrite even to his death. Such a man, to use a rustic simile, is like …

A Sermon From A Rush

Job 8:11-13

… man that I am— who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" these gentlemen say, "What bad people these Christians must be, to talk in that …

Godly Fear and Its Goodly Consequence

Proverbs 14:26

… This fear will come out gloriously in confidence in the hour of death. If we fear God we shall, like Stephen, fall asleep, even if it is amid …

Barabbas Preferred To Jesus

John 18:40

… Watts has put it strongly, but, I think, none too strongly— "His honor and His breath Were taken both away, Joined with the wicked in His death, And …

The Voice from the Cloud and the Voice of the Beloved

Matthew 17:5

… He has touched us in depression of spirit, for He cried, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful even unto death." He is touched with a feeling of our infirmities …

The Lessons of the Foot-washing

John 13:3-5

… Though He was just about to take the last terrible journey of death, yet He forgot them not, but graciously made them see that He would remember them …

The Shrill Trumpet of Admonition

Jeremiah 48:11

… You may better envy the man who has fallen into insensibility, or the wretch whose limbs are mortified—how can he feel when death has marked him for …

Brought Out to Be Brought In

Deuteronomy 6:23

… We were in the land of darkness and in the valley of the shadow of death. We were fond of sin—we were slaves to it and we …

Pleading For Prayer

Romans 15:30-33

… His confinement under guard would not permit his preaching himself to death, or wearing himself out with watching—the soldier who kept him would make him reasonable and …