Death & Dying

Evening, December 31

Je 8:20

… Are not the probabilities dead against your ever being saved? Is it not more than likely that you will abide as you are till death forever bars the …

The Fainting Soul Revived

Jonah 2:7

… Ever since our first parent tasted of the forbidden fruit, which brought death into our world, and all its train of woes, his mortal race has been naturally …

Incidents of Home and School Life

… Leeding, whose death occurred only very recently. Mr. Leeding was the classical and mathematical tutor; his teaching was very thorough, and in Charles Spurgeon he possessed a pupil …

Preface to the First Series

… Since that date it has educated and sent forth into the ministry not less than three hundred and fifty men, of whom, after deductions by death and other …

God Justifieth the Ungodly

… How can the Saviour, and His death upon the cross, and the gospel of pardon, be accounted for, unless it be upon the supposition that men are guilty …

Seeing Is Not Believing, But Believing Is Seeing

1 Peter 1:8

… His death is the unsupported pillar of your confidence and the sole foundation of your hope. In Christ you have believed, and you know that your sins are …

Public Meeting Of Our London Baptist Brethren

… unto the party baptized a sign of his fellowship with Christ in His death and resurrection; of his being engrafted into Him, of remission of sin, and of …

Home-Mercies

… It is true that we have become subject to death by sin, yet has not grace revealed an immortality for the sake of which we are glad to …

Psalm 140

Psalm 140

… The cords of love are pleasant, but the cords of hate are cruel as death itself. They have spread a net by the wayside. Where it will be …

Omniscience

Genesis 16:13

… and when these eye-strings break, and when death has sealed these lips, I will enter heaven with a prayer, which thou wilt not hear but which thou …

I Will Give You Rest

… Either the beloved changes, and there is disappointment; or death comes in, and there is bereavement. The more tender the heart, the greater its unrest. Those in whom …

"My Redeemer Liveth"

… The sovereign prerogative of life and death is vested in Him; the Father has put all men under the mediatorial government of the Son, so that He can …

A Sermon to Ministers and Other Tried Believers

1 Peter 5:7

… We are saved by the death of Christ before we are effectually called by His Grace. The great work of our salvation was worked for us on Calvary …

Light at Evening Time

Zechariah 14:7

… Either we shall be taken from this world by death, or else, if God should spare us, ere long we shall get to the evening of life. In …

Psalm 7

Psalm 7

… Verse 13. "He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors." It is said that God hath ordained his arrows …

A Sad Confession

Isaiah 53:3

… sunk in shades of sadness—that soul bowed down, exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death! It may be so. We cannot tell. So let it pass. I have a …

A Miracle of Grace

… Evidently he was afraid at the time to face death. He had probably been indulging a worldly spirit; and besides this, it lay as a heavy burden upon …

How to Become Full of Joy

1 John 1:4

… Jesus warned His disciples of all that was to happen in His death and in His departure. I believe that the Spirit of God often gives inward warnings …

Struggling Against Sin

Psalm 119:145

… Lamb, Their triumph to His death." Never till you see a bleeding Savior will you be able to put your sins to death! They must be crucified on …

A Vivid Contrast

John 7:53

… So intense was His love to His people that He seemed eagerly to anticipate the time when He would suffer even unto death for their sakes. Remember His …

Intelligent Obedience

1 Chronicles 28:8

… After you have believed, then come and declare your death and burial with Christ through Baptism, according to His Word. That will not save you—you have no …

Close

… Why do you wish to enter the way of death when Heaven's gate is open before you? Do not refuse the free pardon, the full salvation which …

"Two Immutable Things"

Ezekiel 16:8

… High Heaven, that heard the solemn vow, That vow renewed shall daily hear, Till in life's latest hour I bow, And bless in death a bond so …

Prompt Obedience

Psalm 18:44

… for I am God, and there is none else." "As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that …

The Comer’s Conflict with Satan

Luke 9:42

… He reads you this passage, “There is a sin unto death; I do not say that ye should pray for it.” “There,” says the devil, “the apostle did …

Things Present

1 Corinthians 3:22

… You shall divide my portion still— Give me on earth what seems You best, Till death and Heaven reveal the rest"? Then you are truly rich! Envy makes …

True Unity Promoted

Ephesians 4:3

… Let a Church be disaffected and divided, the schism in the body is death to all hallowed fellowship. We cannot enjoy communion with each other unless our hearts …

Jesus in Gethsemane

John 18:1

… You can die a martyr's death and clap your hands even in the midst of the fire if you can, with all your soul, really pray as …

The Centurion's Faith and Humility

Luke 7:6-8

… It drags you downward like the hands of demons pulling you from the surface of life's stream down into its black and horrid depths of death and …

The New Year's Guest

Matthew 25:35

… Cross and put "the Holy One and the Just" to a felon's death! Jew and Gentile alike conspired to prove how truly He was a stranger—the …

Confession of Christ

Matthew 10:32

… Bear much, for even in that you shall conquer! If they kill you, you shall be honored in your death. As I have often said, the fight looks …

The Royal Savior

Acts 5:31

… If I do not put my trust in His expiatory Sacrifice, I say, in effect that His death upon Calvary was a superfluity by which He foolishly threw …

God in Nature and in Revelation

Psalm 19:7-9

… He felt the spiritual death that was so natural to him, the heaviness of his heart, the tendency to sink, the attractions of the world. 26. I have …

A Rich Life

… prevailed.” “ He hath said ,” is refreshing food for every grace, and a decisive death-blow for every sin. Here you have nourishment for that which is good, and …

The Pilgrim's Longings

Hebrews 11:15-16

… There is death everywhere else but there. But there is life arising from his death. Oh, fly to him. 'But how?' saith one. Trust him. God gave his …

Two Wilderness Incidents

Numbers 21:1-6

… his children, or until he was stretched upon the bed of sickness and death." There is something in the keen wintry air that braces us and strengthens us …

Good Cheer for Christians

Isaiah 25:6

… Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present or things to come, all are yours. And you are Christ's …

The Queen of Sheba

Matthew 12:42

… Study His death. Meditate upon Him. Let the thought of His laying down His life for His enemies dwell upon your minds. I wish that some of you …

A Comforting Message for the Closing Year

Psalm 37:7

… You are safe in life and in death, in time and through eternity! Since Christ endured your condemnation, it cannot rest on you! God acquits you—therefore no …

Plenary Absolution

Psalm 103:12

… Your death is my life. Your life in Heaven is the guarantee of my immortality." O happy they who can so stand at the foot of the Cross …