PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
Wondrous Love, and other Gospel addresses
Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899 · 52,674 words · 204 reading sections
Part 1
Produced by Keith G. Richardson…
5 wordsSECTION 2THE SEEKING SAVIOUR
By Dr. W. P. Mackay Author of "Grace and Truth"…
10 wordsSECTION 3HOW AND WHEN
Do we Become Children of God? 50 Answers by Well-Known Men…
11 wordsSECTION 4THE GOOD SHEPHERD
By H. Forbes Witherby…
4 wordsSECTION 5ABUNDANT GRACE
By DR. W. P. MACKAY Author of "Grace and Truth"…
10 wordsSECTION 6FORGIVENESS, LIFE AND GLORY
By Sir S. Arthur Blackwood WONDROUS LOVE: Original Addresses By D. L. Moody First issued in 1876 Made and Printed in Great Britain…
23 wordsSECTION 7CONTENTS
Christ's Boundless Compassion The New Birth The Blood (Two Addresses) Christ All in All Naaman the Syrian One Word--"Gospel" The Way of Salvation Eight "I wills" of Christ The Right Kind of Faith The Dying Thief…
37 wordsSECTION 8WONDROUS LOVE
God loved the world of sinners lost And ruined by the fall; Salvation full, at highest cost, He offers free to all. Oh, 'twas love, 'twas wondrous love, The love of God to me; It brought my Saviour from above, To die on Calvary! E'en now by faith I claim Him mine, The risen Son of God; Redemption by His death I find, A…
134 wordsSECTION 9WONDROUS LOVE
_Addresses by_ D. L. Moody…
5 wordsSECTION 10CHRIST'S BOUNDLESS COMPASSION
"And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and He healed their sick."--Matthew xiv. 14. It is often recorded in Scripture that Jesus was moved by compassion; and we are told in this verse that after the disciples of John had come to Him and told Him that their master h…
404 wordsSECTION 11THE BIBLE STORIES REAL,
for that is what they are. Think of that man. Think how much he had suffered. I don't know how many years he had been away from his wife and children and home; but there he was. He had put on a strange and particular garb, so that anybody coming near him might know that he was unclean. And when he saw any one approachi…
242 wordsSECTION 12THE GREAT HEART OF CHRIST
was moved with compassion towards him. Hear the gracious words that fell from His lips--"I will; be thou clean!" and the leprosy fled, and the man was made whole immediately. Look at him now on his way back home to his wife and children and friends! No longer an outcast, no longer a loathsome thing, no longer cursed wi…
237 wordsSECTION 13THE DEAD RAISED.
Well, now we come to the next picture that represents Him as moved with compassion. Look into that little home. There is a poor widow sitting there. Perhaps a few months before she had buried her husband, and now she has an only son. How she dotes upon him! She looks to him to be her stay and her support and friend in …
403 wordsSECTION 14"YOUNG MAN, ARISE!"
and the young man came forth. I can see the multitude startled and astonished; I can see the widowed mother going back rejoicing with the morning rays of the resurrection shining in her heart. Yes, He had indeed compassion on her. And there is not a widow in this hall but Christ's voice will respond to your trouble and…
196 wordsSECTION 15THE MAN WHO WAS ROBBED AND SPOILED.
The next picture which I shall show you to illustrate Christ's compassion is the man that was going down to Jericho and fell among thieves. They had taken away his coat, aye, and if he had a watch they would have taken that as well. However, they took his money, and stripped him, and left him half dead. Look at him wou…
273 wordsSECTION 16THAT WHICH WAS LOST.
Young man, have you come to London, and fallen in with bad companions? Have they taken you to theatres and vicious places, and left you bleeding and wounded? Oh, come to-night to the Son of God, and He will have compassion on you, and take you off from the dunghill, and transform you, and lift you up into His kingdom, …
188 wordsSECTION 17THE PRODIGAL.
But I should like to draw another picture, another scene--that young man going away from his home that we read of in the fifteenth chapter of Luke; an ungrateful man, an ungrateful wretch as ever one saw. He could not wait for his inheritance till his father was dead, he wanted his share at once; and so he said to his …
281 wordsSECTION 18THE BACKSLIDER
is doing; he is in the devil's pay. You are losing your time and testimony. No one has any confidence in a backslider; for even the world despises such a character. This young man lost his testimony. Look at him amongst the swine. At last one in that far country comes along, and, taking stock of him, says, "Look at tha…
124 wordsSECTION 19HE HAD LOST HIS TESTIMONY.
No one believes a backslider. Let him talk about his enjoyment with God, nobody believes it. Oh, poor backslider, I pity you! You had better come home again. Well, at last the poor prodigal comes to himself, and he says, "I will arise and go to my father," and now he starts. Look at him as he goes along, pale and hungr…
464 wordsSECTION 20CHRIST WEEPS OVER JERUSALEM.
But look again. He comes to mount Olivet. He is under the shadow of the cross. The city bursts upon Him. Yonder is the Temple; He sees it in all its grandeur and glory. The people are shouting, Hosanna to the Son of David! They are breaking off the palm branches, and taking off their garments, and spreading them before…
251 wordsSECTION 21LOOK AT POOR PETER,
See what he does. He denied the Lord, and swore he never knew Him. If ever He needed sympathy, if ever He needed His disciples round Him, it was that night, when they were bringing false witnesses against Him, that He might be condemned to death; and there was Peter, one of His foremost disciples, swearing he never kne…
203 wordsSECTION 22THE PERSECUTING SAUL.
Again, look at that bold blasphemer and persecutor who was going to stamp out the early Church, and was breathing out threatenings and slaughter, when Christ met him on his way to Damascus. It is the same Jesus still. Listen, and hear what He says--"Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" Why, He could have smitten him t…
306 wordsSECTION 23"WHY DON'T YOU LOVE JESUS?"
And the young child wanted to know what an infidel was, and the teacher went on to explain to her. And one day, when she was on her way to school, this infidel was coming out of the post office with his letters in his hand, when the child ran up to him, and said, "Why don't you love Jesus?" He thought at first to push …
502 wordsSECTION 24COME TO HIM AS A PERSONAL FRIEND.
For twenty years I have made this a rule. Christ is just as habitually near, as personally present to me as any other person living; and when I have any troubles, trials, and afflictions, I go to Him with them. When I want counsel I go to Him, just as if I could talk face to face with Him. Twenty years ago God met me o…
223 wordsSECTION 25ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
and in an audience like this in America you would see the tears trickle down many a cheek at his name: he is very dear to us Americans. Do you want to know the reason why? I will tell you. He was a man of compassion; he was very gentle, and was noted for his heart of sympathy for the down-trodden and the poor. No one w…
208 wordsSECTION 26THE SLEEPING SENTINEL.
A few weeks after this, news came that a young soldier had been sleeping at his post. He was court-martialed, and condemned to be shot. The boy wrote to his mother, "I do not want you to think I do not love my country, but it came about in this way: My comrade was sick, and I went out on picket for him; and the next ni…
405 wordsSECTION 27THE TOUCH OF COMPASSION.
Let me ask the poor backslider, Did you ever feel the touch of the hand of Jesus? If so, you will know it again, for there is love in it. There is a story told in connection with our war of a mother who received a despatch that her boy was mortally wounded. She went down to the front, as she knew that those soldiers to…
390 wordsSECTION 28THE NEW BIRTH
"Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."--John iii. 3 Much less inherit it. He can't even get a glimpse of the kingdom of God except he be born again. I believe this is the most important subject that will ever come before us in this world. I don't believe there is any truth in the whole Bible s…
208 wordsSECTION 29BORN A CHRISTIAN.
Only this afternoon, as I was in the inquiry-room, a person came in, and I said, "Are you a Christian?" "Why," she says, "of course I am." "Well," I said, "how long have you been one?" "Oh, sir, I was born one!" "Oh! indeed, then I am very glad to take you by the hand; I congratulate you; you are the first woman I ever…
471 wordsSECTION 30A CHRISTIAN BECAUSE BAPTIZED.
Another class say, "Oh, yes, I am a Christian, because I was baptized." Now, I want to say here that baptism is one thing, and being born again is another. Because a person is baptized, you cannot say that that is the new birth. Would you call that being born from above? You cannot baptize a man into the kingdom of God…
246 wordsSECTION 31JOINING THE CHURCH.
There is another class that say, "Oh, yes, I became a Christian when I joined the church." That is not being born again. What has that to do with the new birth, being united with the church on earth? There are a great many united with the church who are on their way to death and ruin. A great many have no hope of etern…
275 wordsSECTION 32THE NEW BIRTH INSTANTANEOUS.
Now, I believe this new birth is instantaneous. I have met a great many people who cannot tell the day or the hour of their conversion; but there must have been a time when they passed from death unto life--when they were born of the Spirit. There must have been a time when their names were written in the Book of Life.…
124 wordsSECTION 33THE FLESH CANNOT SERVE GOD.
As I said before, when I was born of my parents I received their nature, I received the nature of the flesh; and I cannot serve God in the flesh. "God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." And before a man can worship God he must be born of God; he must be born of the Spirit. …
575 wordsSECTION 34THE MORAL NEED THE NEW BIRTH.
Now let us go back to the man to whom Christ said these words. I often rejoice He didn't say this to the woman at the well, nor to Mary Magdalene. If He had said it to them, people would have said, "Oh, that poor woman needs to be converted; but I am a moralist; I don't need to be converted. Regeneration will do for ha…
345 wordsSECTION 35REASON CANNOT UNDERSTAND THIS NEW BIRTH.
I heard some time ago of some commercial travellers who went to hear a man preach. They came back to the hotel, and were sitting in the smoking-room talking, and they said the minister did not appeal to their reason, and they would not believe anything they could not reason out. There was an old man sitting there liste…
196 wordsSECTION 36CHRIST'S ILLUSTRATION.
Now, the illustration which Christ used to Nicodemus was the wind. "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth." Now, you cannot see the Spirit of God work in this audience; but I hope and pray He may be working now in the hearts of m…
316 wordsSECTION 37GOD CAN CHANGE THE DRUNKARD.
It may be that I am talking now to some poor drunkard here. When he comes into his house his children listen, and hear by the footfall that their father is coming home drunk, and the little things run away and hide from him as if he was some horrid demon. His wife begins to tremble. Many a time has that great, strong a…
331 wordsSECTION 38THE WORTH OF GOOD RESOLVES.
Then some of you may have been saying, "I wish Mr. Moody would tell us how we are to become Christians, for he says that we cannot be Christians by trying to do good and by making new resolutions." Many a time you have been at a meeting like this, and have resolved to turn over a new leaf, and you may now form another …
231 wordsSECTION 39THE BEGGAR AND THE PRINCE.
I imagine some of you will say, "Haven't I anything to do?" Well, you haven't. Salvation has been worked out for you by another. Many go all round the world in search of honour or possessions. Salvation is worth thousands of times more than any thing earth can produce; but you don't get it that way. God has but one pri…
261 wordsSECTION 40THE DYING SOLDIER.
Then you say, "If it is not by working in earnest, how am I to be saved?" I will tell you; Scripture will tell you--that is better. Take the illustration Christ used to Nicodemus; you could not have a better. He took him to the remedy: "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be li…
707 wordsSECTION 41THE BLOOD
"And almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without the shedding of blood is no remission."--Heb. ix. 22. No man can give a satisfactory reason for the hope that is in him if he is a stranger to the "Blood." At the very commencement of the Bible we find reference made to the subject in Genesis iii. 21…
417 wordsSECTION 42CAIN CAME IN HIS OWN WAY,
while Abel came in the way God commanded. Cain said to himself, "I am not going to bring a bleeding lamb. Here is the grain and the beautiful fruit that I have raised by my industry; and I'm sure it looks better than blood, and I'm not going to bring blood." Now it was not that there was any difference between these tw…
127 wordsSECTION 43THE BLOOD OF ATONEMENT.
But any religion that makes light of the Blood is the work of the devil, even if an angel from heaven came down to preach salvation through any other means. Undoubtedly on the morning of creation God marked out the way a man might come to Him; and Abel walked in God's way, and Cain in his own. Perhaps Cain could not b…
82 wordsSECTION 44THERE ARE MANY CAINITES IN THE CHURCH
even now; and some have got into the pulpit, and they preach against the doctrine of the Blood, and that we can get to heaven without the Blood. From the time Adam went out of Eden there have been Abelites and Cainites. The Abelites come by the way of the Blood--the way God had marked out for them. The Cainites come by…
209 wordsSECTION 45ABRAHAM OFFERING UP ISAAC.
Again, in Genesis xxii. 13, it is written: "And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son." The ram was typical, and was offered up in the place of Abraham's son…
356 wordsSECTION 46THE PASSOVER.
In Exodus xii. 13 we read: "And the blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you." God did not say, When I see your good deeds; when I see how you have prayed, and wept, and cried. No; but "When I see th…
169 wordsSECTION 47THE BLOOD TRAMPLED UPON,
but that is what the world at the present day is doing. Some preachers speak not of the death of Christ, but His life, because it is more pleasing to the natural ear; but the life of Christ may be preached for ever and it will not save any man, if His death is left out. A live lamb could not have kept death out of the…
276 wordsSECTION 48THE BLOOD THAT SAVES
the weakest and the strongest. When death came that night with his sword, he entered the palace of the prince, and went into the houses of the great and mighty, and they all had to pay tribute to death; for the first-born in Egypt was smitten down that night. The only thing that kept death out was death itself. The onl…
227 wordsSECTION 49NO DEATH WHERE THE BLOOD WAS.
The Egyptians looked at the Israelites killing a lamb and sprinkling the blood on the door-posts no doubt as a very foolish proceeding, but not one house in the city, upon the doorposts and lintels of which the blood was not sprinkled, escaped; no matter who were the inhabitants, rich or poor, that night there was no d…
314 wordsSECTION 50THEIR SPIRITUAL FOOD?
We should no more think of laying in spiritual food to last for ten years than we should bodily food. A good many people are living on stale manna. A man in Ireland said to his boy, "I want you to eat two breakfasts. Do you know why?" The boy said he understood one was for his body and the other for his soul. All Chris…
283 wordsSECTION 51SHELTERED BY THE BLOOD,
and then we become pilgrims for heaven. Each man was to take a lamb for his house. "And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb." The lamb was not too li…
389 wordsSECTION 52WORK FOR GOD.
You cannot work for God until you are sheltered behind the blood; and until you are sheltered it all stands for naught. You may build churches, endow colleges, pay ministers and missionaries; but it all goes for naught until you are sheltered behind the blood. Don't let any one deceive you on this point. Don't let Sata…
513 wordsSECTION 53MAN'S LIFE WAS FORFEITED,
and he had to die, or pay the wages of death. He could not pay the penalty and live; so he wanted a substitute. Every man had sinned, and could not be a substitute for his fellow; but Christ was sinless, and could become the substitute for man; and He has become that substitute, because He has died in the room and stea…
282 wordsSECTION 54GOD IS JUST.
God is merciful, but He will not take an unredeemed sinner into heaven. If He did, the redeemed would plant the banner of indignant remonstrance round the throne, and there would be a revolt in heaven. God said to Adam, On the day thou sinnest thou shalt surely die. Sin entered, and brought death into the world. God's …
189 wordsSECTION 55GOD DEMANDS BLOOD.
He demands life. Man has sinned; therefore life must be forfeited, and I must die, or find somebody to die for me. My friends, I have only just touched this subject. If you read your Bibles carefully you will find the scarlet thread running through the Bible. It commenced in Eden and flows on to Revelation. I cannot fi…
67 wordsSECTION 56BUT BY THE BLOOD.
This book (holding up the Bible) wouldn't be worth carrying home if you take the scarlet thread out of it; and it doesn't teach anything else; for the blood commences in Genesis, and goes on to Revelation. That is what this book is written for. It tells its own story; and if a man should come and preach another gospel,…
103 wordsSECTION 57A MOTHER'S LOVE.
In the time of the Californian gold fever a man went to the diggings, and left his wife to follow him some time afterwards. While on her voyage with her little boy, the vessel caught fire; and as there was a powder-magazine on board, the captain knew when the flames reached it the ship would be blown up. The fire could…
372 wordsSECTION 58REDEMPTION.
A friend of mine was in Ireland, and saw a little Irish boy who had caught a sparrow, and the poor little bird was trembling and panting in his hand, from which it wanted to get away. It was evidently very much affrighted. The gentleman told the boy to let it go, as the bird could not do him any good; but the boy said …
454 wordsSECTION 59PEACE.
In Colossians i. 20 it is written, "Having made peace through the blood of the cross, by Him to reconcile all things to Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven." That is what the blood of the cross does, it brings peace. In Romans v. it is written, "Therefore being justified by fait…
290 wordsSECTION 60THE TRUE SOVEREIGN,
and He will ere long cast out the prince of darkness, and sway His sceptre from end to end of this earth. A little longer, and He will personally return and set up His millennial kingdom and reign over this earth. He has redeemed the earth by His blood, and He will have all He has redeemed.…
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