Death & Dying

The Beginning of Miracles Which Jesus Did

John 2:11

… what have I to do with you?" is a sentence which rings the death knell of any idea of our Lord's being moved by relationships according to …

The Stronghold

Nahum 1:7

… there must have been from those martyrs who lay in prison rotting to death, or who were brought out to the stake and who, as they burnt, when …

A Distinction with a Difference

Luke 1:18

… you and it might be a trifle to him, but it would be death to you, his father or mother. You would feel it keenly and so you …

A Generous Proposal

Numbers 10:29

… Objects which may suit men who have no outlook beyond death would not be suitable to them. That which rejoices the heart of the mere worldling gives them …

"And We Are"—a Jewel from the Revised Version

1 John 3:1

… the Fountainhead! Jesus says, "the Father Himself loves you." It is not the death of Jesus which moved the heart of the Father to love us, as some …

The Friend of God

Isaiah 41:8

… If you and I can do this, then we can enter into friendship with God, but in no other way, for distrust is the death of friendship! If …

God Rejoicing in the New Creation

Isaiah 65:17-19

… His own soft hands shall wipe the tears From every weeping eye, And pains, and groans, and griefs, and fears, And death itself shall die." As an instance …

Young Man! A Prayer For You

2 Kings 6:17

… He holds forth to them the sparkling cup—but in its beaded bubbles death is lurking! He talks of "pleasure," but in the lusts of the flesh the …

Jesus and the Children

Mark 10:13-16

… Item—a young man decoyed from the Bible class, familiarized with blasphemous notions and then led into outward sin and speedy death. Write that down in blood! Note …

Jesus Joyfully Received

Luke 19:6

… Receiving Christ, sin gets its death warrant. Every buyer and seller in the temple of your nature will have to go! Everything received by false accusation will have …

The Beatitudes

Matthew 5:1-12

… His was not the transient tear of Xerxes when he thought on the death of his armed myriads, but it was practical sympathy with the hosts of mankind …

The Fifth Beatitude

Matthew 5:7

… from the error of his ways and so may save a soul from death and hide a multitude of sins! I have many more things to say about …

Friendship's Guide

John 15:14

… My Friend, O Jesus, You are, for You have redeemed my soul from death and Hell—but that I should be Your friend—nothing but Your loving, condescending …

The Unbroken Line Of True Nobles

Psalm 45:16

… in another quarter and comes in to compensate for the separations caused by death. As the fathers die, one after another, those of like years feel that they …

A Catechism for the Proud

1 Corinthians 4:7

… are, the more reason to receive cleansing! The more sick and near to death, the more room to receive healing! Will you have the blessing which God in …

Love's Birth and Parentage

1 John 4:19

… Doubting is the death of love. Only by the hand of faith can love be fed with the Bread of Heaven. Your tears will not fill it. You …

Holiness Demanded

Hebrews 12:14

… Sinner, pharisaic Sinner, hear the death-knell of your hopes tolled out by this verse! "Without holiness"—and that is a thing you know nothing of—"no man …

Jesus and the Lambs

Isaiah 40:11

… The world of old hounded them to death—made them pine in the damps of the catacombs of Rome, or perish among the snows of the Alps—but …

True Learning

Ephesians 4:20

… the seed of the serpent! There can never be a time in which death and life will be exactly alike, nor a season in which darkness will be …

Grace Reviving Israel

Hosea 14:5-7

… They say it is equal whether God ordains man's life or man's death. They would sit still to hear men damned, and I do believe they …

Startling!

2 Kings 8:12

… whose house is the way to Hell, going down to the chambers of death, without apprehension of harm. But you are so prone to evil, so susceptible of …

Enlivening and Invigorating

Psalm 119:25

… O You who wills not the death of any, give me more life. O You that loves as a father loves, give me more life! O You who …

Enquiring of God

2 Samuel 2:1

… one day avenge the blood of those whom they have cruelly put to death that they might increase their ill-gotten gains! I pray you, members of this …

His Name—The Counsellor

Isaiah 9:6

… against her Maker, and did it not as the effect of sin, bring death into this world with all its train of woe? Ah! beloved, it was meet …

Pleading Prayer

Psalm 119:49

… will You throw me on one side? When I lie gasping upon my death bed, will You say, "I have had his best days, but I will leave …

The Faculty of Impromptu Speech

… have put away childish things now that the sober prose of life and death, and heaven and hell, and perishing sinners, demands all our thought.1 Many lawyers …

Blessed Discipline

Psalm 94:12-15

… live and that they may turn to God, for He wills not the death of any, but that they may turn to Him and live. Judgment has gone …

More and More

James 4:6

… See how he hammers this nail as if he will drive it fast! How he rings this bell that it may toll the death-knell of every doubt …

The Model Soul-winner

John 4:7

… Him—this is the recompense for all His wounds and even for His death—when sinful souls come and trust Him. I remember hearing of one who, while …

The Cedars Of Lebanon

Psalm 104:16

… Now he is dead, now it will come to an end and cannot keep on." After his death somebody else was going to die, and that somebody died …

Sychar's Sinner Saved

John 4:10

… this world, lived a suffering and obedient life, died an ignominious and painful death! And now He has risen from the dead and He is sitting at the …

Lessons on Divine Grace

1 Corinthians 15:10

… You had lost all spiritual appetite and you felt as if you were drawing near to the gates of death. You remember, too, how you then sought the …

The Indwelling and Outflowing of the Holy Spirit

John 7:38

… Therefore I give you the Holy Spirit"? If you would know what a harvest is to come of the sowing of the bloody sweat and of the death …

The Shank-bone Sermon—Or, True Believers and Their Helpers

Acts 18:27

… tell me all about it." And when they further informed him of the death, the resurrection and the ascension of the Lord Jesus—and of the coming of …

In the Hay Field

Psalm 104:14

… Some of the grass is not left to come to ripeness at all, but the mower's scythe suddenly removes it, even as swift-footed Death overtakes the …

A Gospel Sermon To Outsiders

Mark 10:49

… Whoever, I say, trusts his soul with the Lord Jesus Christ, relying on that Sacrifice which He offered, and that death which He endured, is saved! Let him …

A Little Sanctuary

Ezekiel 11:16

… We feel our way through the tremendous pass of the Shadow of Death, and hasten through Vanity Fair, and walk warily across the Enchanted Ground. Not much of …

The Problem of the Age

Mark 8:4

… Though the earth were removed and the mountains cast into the midst of the sea, we would still hold to God and to His Christ in a death …

Obadiah; or, Early Piety Eminent Piety

1 Kings 18:12

… It is not burning quick to the death in martyrdom that is the hard work; roasting before a slow fire is a far more terrible test of firmness …

Forgetting God

Hosea 13:6

… and to wrap ourselves about with the robe of self-complacency, then is death very near to us! "When Ephraim spoke trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but …