Death & Dying

Psalm 15

Psalm 15

… He shall dwell in the tabernacle of the Most High, and neither death nor judgment shall remove him from his place of privilege and blessedness. Let us betake …

The Truly Blessed Man

Psalm 1:1-3

… of old age, and beauty of wit and learning are assailed by approaching death, still he shall be fair, in the likeness of his Master, as a young …

Repentance Must Go With Forgiveness

… man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Who shall enable me to live above temptation, and to become holy, even as …

The Great Need—Or, The Great Salvation

Isaiah 48:18

… Hear His own words, no, listen as He swears, listen to His own oath—"As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death …

Peter Walking on the Sea

Matthew 14:28-31

… man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" One day you may be on Tabor's summit witnessing your Master's Transfiguration …

The Church of Christ

Ezekiel 34:26

… The very keeping of the wicked in life, and granting of the reprieve, was purchased with the death of Jesus; and through his sufferings and death, the temporal …

The “Down-grade” Controversy, from Mr. Spurgeon’s Standpoint

… Some of them, as they burned to death for Christ's sake, cried aloud, "Christ is all." I am quite willing to take my part with the apostles …

Elijah’s Appeal to the Undecided

1 Kings 18:21

… God may surround you with providences; he may surround you with frequent warnings from the death-bed of your fellows; but providences will never decide you. It is …

A Willing People and an Immutable Leader

Psalm 110:3

… While some hearts leap for very joy, others are bound in the fetters of ignorance, and are sleeping the sleep of death. While God is pouring out his …

“A New Departure”

… continuing to maintain the form of religion after vital godliness has gone, scattering death all around them, and yet maintaining what is called a respectable position. God save …

The Only Road

John 14:6

… understand that God took His Son from His bosom and put Him to death in our place that He might have mercy upon us without the violation of …

Good Talk

1 Chronicles 16:9

… You have fought with lions, or have stood in the Valley of the Shadow of Death—but in it all God's aid has been very wonderful! There …

The Soul's Crisis

Luke 18:37

… you could bear to pass out of this world if the arrow of death should overtake you unawares. A trifling accident may prove fatal! A slight illness may …

The Centurion—Or An Exhortation To The Virtuous

Luke 7:4-9

… But death will not put off! The Judgment Day will not be postponed for you. O may you be brought in now! What a happy Church we should …

The Sealed Hand—a Winter Sermon

Job 37:7

… They spread themselves upon the face of the earth and threatened to devour Judah and Jerusalem—yes to quickly swallow them up—but "the angel of death spread …

Preparing for the Week of Prayer

Revelation 8:3

… Beware lest Christ's coming or the summons through death should find you unprepared and so cause you to remain forever just as you now are. 12. And …

No Illusion

Acts 12:9

… He anticipated as much satisfaction for himself from the applause of the people, for putting so eminent a servant of Christ as James to death, that he could …

Holy Violence

Matthew 11:12

… in the churches is violence, not violence against each other, but violence against death, and hell, against the hardness of other men’s hearts, and against the sleepiness …

The Men that “Sell the Books”

… From the date of its formation until the death of Mr. Boustead, that gentleman was by far the largest contributor to the work, and in his will he …

Christ's Prayer and Plea

Psalm 16:1

… Not only was He suffering the terrible pangs that were inseparable from death by crucifixion, but He had to bear the still greater grief that was His portion …

The Joint Heirs and Their Divine Portion

Romans 8:17

… Adam’s death was not simply his own private loss, for in Adam all died, and Christ’s life and all the consequences of his obedience are not …

Finding and Following Christ

John 1:45

… If I have found the Lord Jesus Christ, I am reconciled to God by the death of His Son, I have been adopted into the family of God …

The Gazelles and the Deer

Song 2:7

… Being reviled, He reviled not again, but in His death agonies He prayed for His enemies. Who, then, could find cause for offense in Him? Do not His …

Recruits for the King

1 Samuel 22:1-2

… How can I dare to die? I have no hope, no trust, no confidence with which to pass the iron gates of death! And then, after death, there …

Fifteen Years After!

Job 1:21

… Spurgeon's death and funeral—Sermons No. 2242, (All Volume 38)—GOD'S WILL ABOUT THE FUTURE; No. 2243, HIS OWN FUNERAL SERMON; No. 2244, MEMBERS OF CHRIST …

Thinking and Turning

Psalm 119:59

… Riding on his horse to Damascus with warrants to put to death all the saints in Damascus, all of a sudden he saw a bright light. He was …

The Personality of the Holy Ghost

John 14:16-17

… This world was once a mass of chaotic matter, there was no order; it was like the valley of darkness and of the shadow of death. God the …

The Eye—a Similitude

Psalm 17:8

… Such guard I crave in life and death! I crave it of You, O my God! My soul is enraptured at the multitude of Your loving kindnesses and …

'Marvelous Loving Kindness'

Psalm 17:7

… They would even recognize it in the arrows of death that smote wife, and child, and brother. They would see it, not only in the table loaded for …

Spiritual Religion

John 6:63

… It is certain that, in the world to come, in that state which now intervenes between the death of the saints and the day of the resurrection, they …

Jesus Only

Matthew 17:8

… May God grant us grace every one of us to take for our motto in life, for our hope in death, and for our joy in eternity, “Jesus …

Memories of my Father (Continued)

… The secrets of the chamber of “the shadow of death” lie deeply hidden in a fondly-loving heart; and, especially, the emotions experienced when, with my dear mother …

Our Position and Our Purpose

2 Corinthians 7:1

… If the death of the body looses us from sin, the mortification of our members which are upon the earth must be our continual aim till we are …

The Scarlet Line in the Window

Joshua 2:21

… If the Bible were but read and prayed over, many errors would die a speedy death and others would be sorely crippled. Had that Inspired Book been read …

A Visit to Bethlehem

Luke 2:15

… Those little hands will one day grasp the scepter of universal empire! Those little arms will one day grapple with the monster, 'Death,' and destroy it! Those little …

Gathering in the Chosen

Jeremiah 31:8

… later—even if you have sold yourself to the devil, "your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with Hell shall not stand." If you are …

Psalm 131

Psalm 131

… As David practised this forbearance by the patient expectation of the kingdom, both before and after the death of Saul, so he here describes it as a characteristic …

Too Little for the Lamb

Exodus 12:3

… pull the mask off some men's eyes until the skeleton hand of death reveals the terrible truth to them! It is an unspeakable mercy that the Lamb …

How to Read the Bible

1 Timothy 4:13

… be a savor of some sort—it therefore becomes a savor of death unto death! Some seem as if they read the Bible in order to know how …

'A Prepared Place for a Prepared People'

John 14:2

… to receive us unto Himself! This does not mean His spiritual coming in death, nor any kind of spiritual coming, as to its first meaning, at any rate …