Death & Dying

"How Good to Those Who Seek!"

Lamentations 3:25

… swollen and dim—they could only see out of the corners and the death-damp seemed to blind even that little bit of sight which they had—but …

A Lesson and a Fortune for Christian Men of Business

Hebrews 13:5

… If you were to hide in the heart of the earth, the death damp would overpower you. But with all actual trouble, with all possible trouble, with all …

'Even So, Father!'

Matthew 11:25

… To the one we are a savor of life unto life, and to the other a savor of death unto death, but to God, still, a sweet smelling …

Lacking Moisture

Luke 8:6

… There is no understanding of what it is to feel the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should loathe ourselves, as condemned criminals ought to do. I …

Universal Fatherhood—a Lie!

John 8:38

… Oh, for Divine Grace to receive His witness! He that does receive it shall live forever—He that rejects it shall die the death that never dies! Then …

A Call For Revival

Solomon 7:11-13

… Therefore, Church of Christ, by the love you bear to your crucified Master, by His wounds and death for you and by His living love to you, seek …

Wordless Prayers Heard in Heaven

Isaiah 41:17

… a sacrifice unto the Most High! But there must be the sentence of death in yourselves. There must be a breaking, and a grinding, and a tearing, or …

The Lord's Own View of His Church and People

Solomon 4:12

… Far from it—the security of the Spirit is a death-blow to the security of the flesh! I tell you, Sirs, that it is most necessary that …

Reasons For Parting With Sin

Isaiah 1:18

… He will leave the mortal injury, but take away its attendant inconveniences so that I may bleed to death and not know it? I would decline to have …

Helps

1 Corinthians 12:28

… Yes, but you were fools yourselves once, and then you abhorred all manner of meat and your soul seemed to be drawing near to the gates of death …

Rubbish

Nehemiah 4:10

… only wages we could earn would be the wages of sin, which is death. Oh, the old legal tendency! How deep-seated! How prone to revive! It will …

Love Abounding, Love Complaining, Love Abiding

Isaiah 43:1-4

… Lamb and, in our case, He has brought us out of sin and death by the blood of the Only Begotten. The Lord does not regret that He …

Perseverance Without Presumption

John 10:28

… Can death befall the immortal, or change affect the immutable, or decay corrode the imperishable? How can life be eternal if it comes to an end? How can …

Further Afield

Acts 13:46-48

… The number of martyrs has been very great from that day till now but you set aside the testimony borne by their lives and death. You also impute …

A Memorable Visit to Stambourne.–Mr. Knill’s Prophecy

… Would to God that we were all as wise as Richard Knill, and habitually sowed beside all waters! On the day of his death, in his eightieth year …

"A People Prepared for the Lord"

Luke 1:17

… depression—nothing needed in any moment of sickness, or in the article of death, itself—but what it is in Christ and, there for you, if you trust …

The Necessity of Growing Faith

2 Thessalonians 1:3

… when it died, is being repeated among us, faith being literally starved to death! What low diet some men prescribe for their souls! Marrow and fatness they do …

Jacob's Fear and Faith

Genesis 32:11

… It is evident that as soon as he felt that he must fall, he grasped the other "Man" with a kind of death-grip and would not let …

S. S.—or, the Sinner Saved

Romans 9:30-33

… The Lord has many more such chosen ones to call forth from their death in sin. I expect as I stand here that God's infinite power is …

Following Christ

John 21:22

… It is by His death that sin is to be expelled from the earth! Then there is that great and weighty question concerning the relation between Divine Sovereignty …

The Well-beloved's Vineyard

Isaiah 5:1

… Even when sin was laid on Christ, He smote Him to the death! Though He was not guilty of any sin, yet when our sin lay there, God …

The Man Greatly Beloved

Daniel 10:19

… Now, in these days, it needs no great courage to speak the Truth of God because no sudden death awaits the boldest messenger of Christ. We live in …

“Helensburgh House” and Garden (Continued)

… taken ? It is early with you, but it is not too early for Death to be even now pointing his darts at you. — C. H. S., in sermon …

Jubilee Joys

… The Lord hath chastened me sore, BUT He hath not given me over unto death." Concerning this inscription, Mr. Spurgeon wrote: — "The somewhat lengthy quotation from the Psalm …

Christ Crucified

1 Corinthians 2:2

… And You have brought Me into the dust of death. As if His whole body were prepared to go back into its primary elements. He feels in Himself …

Praying In The Holy Spirit

… As far as light is removed from darkness, and life from death, so far does a Believer differ from the ungodly. Let us keep this contrast very vivid …

Joy Born at Bethlehem

Luke 2:10-12

… Because the day is not known, therefore superstition has fixed it; while, since the day of the death of our Saviour might be determined with much certainty, therefore …

Joy Hindering Faith

Luke 24:41-45

… and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and have crucified Him. These were sad things to talk about. They thought …

Solemn Pleadings for Revival

Isaiah 41:1

… Let His death speak to you. Let His Resurrection speak to you. Let His Ascension and His subsequent Glory speak to you. And let the trumpet of His …

Romans, But Not romanists

Romans 16:1-16

… There was a Narcissus in the days of Nero who was put to death by Nero's successor. He was Nero's favorite and when I have said …

Why Men Reject Christ

Luke 9:52

… Do you really refuse to be saved by the merits of that matchless death? Is it so that you will both tempt the justice of God and reject …

Unto You, Young Men

1 John 2:14

… Let conscience seek out such and when they are fully revealed and discovered to themselves, let them deliberately take stock of their position in the light of death …

Experience and Assurance

Psalm 63:7

… There was no fear of death to daunt or dampen his spirit! He knew nothing of such a feeling. "Ah," he said, "Isaiah was right when he described …

A New Order of Priests and Levites

Isaiah 66:21

… Surely it showed the power of divine grace when Paul avowed Christ openly, and vehemently preached—exposing himself to persecution and death—that same gospel which his soul …

How To Meet the Evils of the Age

… Go to death-beds, where men are looking into eternity, and see if the principles of the sceptical school can help the sick to die in triumph. Brothers …

Election-its Defenses and Evidences

1 Thessalonians 1:4-6

… it with both hands—with a clasp that neither time, nor tribulation, nor death shall ever cause me to let go." To a Christian his religion is a …

"Return, Return, O Shulamite; Return, Return!"

Song 6:13

… Go back! It were to renounce heaven and all its glories, it were to choose a terrible death-bed, with a guilty conscience ringing the knell of your …

The Disowned

Matthew 7:21-23

… He may even pass through the portals of death undeceived! The righteous are often troubled when they come to die, but it is with these self-deceived people …

Our Lord before Herod

Luke 23:8

… This Herod Antipas was the son of the old Herod the Great who had put to death the babes at Bethlehem in the hope of destroying the King …

The Dew of Christ's Youth

Psalm 110:3

… Everything lives where He is, for He is Life and in Him there is no death at all. And because He is Life, He is always full of …