PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
Wondrous Love, and other Gospel addresses
Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899 · 52,674 words · 204 reading sections
HAVE FAITH IN GOD,
not in man. I don't care how good a man is, don't you put your faith in him. His breath departs from him, he dies, and where is your help? Our God never dies, our God never will disappoint us if we put our faith in Him. "Have faith in God," says Christ. I saw some time ago some men arranging to go up in a balloon fast…
274 wordsSECTION 182DECEIVERS AND DARK DAYS.
Deceivers are going out into the world who would deceive even the very elect if they could. I believe we are living in dark days. Error is coming in on all sides, and it is a time when we must maintain the faith. "I have kept the faith," says Paul. The good old doctrine of our forefathers, and of the Puritans, is a goo…
336 wordsSECTION 183HOW TO GET FAITH.
Now, just turn to John xx. I can imagine some of you saying, "I would like to have faith in God, but I do not know how to get it; I have been praying a long time for faith." I used to pray, "O God, give me faith," and at the same time I was all the time neglecting the Bible. Here it stands; see how we are to get faith:…
440 wordsSECTION 184LITTLE WILLIE.
I wanted to teach my little boy what faith was some time ago, and so I put him on a table. He was a little fellow two years old. I stood back three or four feet, and said, "Willie, jump." The little fellow said, "Pa, I'se afraid." I said, "Willie, I will catch you; just look right at me, and jump"; and the little fello…
339 wordsSECTION 185UNBELIEF THE GREATEST ENEMY.
I have a great admiration for the old coloured woman who said, if God told her to jump through a stone wall she would jump; getting through the wall was God's work, not hers, and she would do whatever God told her to do. The greatest enemy God and man have got is unbelief. Christ found it on both sides of the cross. It…
230 wordsSECTION 186THE GREATEST INSULT TO GOD.
It is considered you cannot offer a man a greater insult than to tell him he is a liar. Unbelief is telling God He is a liar. Why, suppose a man said, "Mr. Moody, I have no faith in you whatever," don't you think it would grieve me? There is not anything that would wound a man much more than to be told that you do not …
226 wordsSECTION 187GOD'S WORD IS ALWAYS KEPT.
Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken His word? I will defy any infidel to come forward and put his finger on any promise God has ever made to man that He has not kept. I can show you for 6000 years how the devil has lied, and how he has broken every promise he has made. What a l…
189 wordsSECTION 188SETTING THE SEAL.
Look at John iii. 33: "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true." In those days men used to wear a signet ring, with their initials, and instead of signing their names, they used to take the ring and seal the document. That was setting to their seal; that was an endorsement. And now God…
214 wordsSECTION 189NO PEACE WITHOUT TRUST.
A great many people go looking for peace and happiness before they trust. There will be no peace, no happiness, no joy, until you put your trust in God. The joy that flows through the Christian's heart is the result of trusting God. Suppose I meet a man to-night leaping for joy, laughing at the top of his voice. I say,…
357 wordsSECTION 190WHO WILL HAVE IT?
Every man and woman may have it if they will but put their trust in God. Is not God worthy of our confidence? Is not God worthy of our trust? You must have a poor opinion of God if you cannot trust Him. We consider we have a poor opinion of a man if we cannot trust him. If a man should tell me something, and I did not …
272 wordsSECTION 191STORY OF A CONDEMNED MAN.
Away back some years ago it is recorded in history of a man that was condemned to be put to death, that when he came to lay his head on the block the prince asked him if there was any one petition that he could grant him, and all that the condemned man asked for was a glass of water. They went and got him a tumbler of …
194 wordsSECTION 192THE DYING THIEF
Read Luke xxiii. 39-43 I am going to take as my text a man who was the last one saved before Christ went to heaven, or before He died on the cross, and the story of his conversion ought to give hope to every man. We have got an account of the conversion of all classes of people in the Bible. There is not one class lef…
184 wordsSECTION 193NEVER TOO LATE.
Well, this man was not only a thief, but a reviler of God, right upon the threshold of eternity, a most depraved and abandoned wretch. Matthew tells us: "And the two thieves cast the same in His teeth." You would have thought they would have been doing something better than that, coming so near death and the grave; and…
230 wordsSECTION 194CONVICTION OF SIN.
Now, the next thing was, the man was convicted. No man is likely to be converted until he is first convicted of sin. This thief was convicted. And what convicted him? He heard no sermon from Christ. The rulers were then deriding Him. The chief men of His own country had found Him guilty of blasphemy, and had condemned …
185 wordsSECTION 195THE POWER OF LOVE.
What convicted him? I will tell what I think convicted him, though I could not teach it dogmatically but I think it was the Saviour's prayer. When the Lord Jesus cried out from the very depths of His soul, "Father, forgive them," conviction flashed into his heart. He must have said, "Why, this is more than a man; He ha…
399 wordsSECTION 196CONFESSION FOLLOWS CONVICTION.
Well, then, the next point in this man was, he confessed his sin. He says to his brother thief, "We are suffering justly; we deserve it." I never knew a man saved till he took his stand as a sinner. Cain never confessed his sin. Judas never confessed his sin to God, though he went and confessed it to man. Now, I want …
189 wordsSECTION 197FAITH IN CHRIST.
The next thing about this thief was his faith in Christ Jesus. We talk about the faith of Abraham and Moses; why, this thief had the most remarkable faith of any man on record. He took his stand at the very head of the class, passing by many who had wonderful faith. He heard no sermon, saw no sceptre in Christ's hand, …
221 wordsSECTION 198NOT ASHAMED OF CHRIST.
Then the next thing is, he confessed Christ at that dark period. It was the darkest hour of Christ's pilgrimage down here. We will never see another dark hour like that. The sin of the world was on Him; heaven was closed against Him--locked, bolted, and barred. He was now hanging on the tree bearing our sins; and it is…
344 wordsSECTION 199"LORD, REMEMBER ME."
Look at the prayer of the thief. People say, "Oh, pray for salvation, and you will get it!" Yes, but bear in mind you must have faith in Christ before you can pray. He had got faith in Christ, and now he calls Him "Lord." It was the sound of a young convert's voice, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.…
174 wordsSECTION 200THE WORLD'S LAST LOOK AT CHRIST.
Now, when a great man dies, people are very anxious to get his last words and acts. It is sweet to get the last words of the Son of God. The last sight the world had of Christ was on the cross. They have never seen Him since. We have no record that any uncircumcised eye beheld Christ after He rose from the dead. The la…
173 wordsSECTION 201FREE! FREE!
In the days of Wilberforce, when slavery was abolished, and it was said that no slave could live under the Union Jack, because a bill had been passed declaring every man free, the news had got abroad, and when the captain of a ship was going to a distant island in the slave dominions, the negroes were on the watch to g…
386 wordsSECTION 202THE BEST THING TO DO.
Now, young man, do you want Him to save you? Are you ready to confess Him as your Lord and Saviour, and take your stand by the Master, and say from this hour, I will serve the Lord Jesus? If so, it will be the best night in your life up to this time. The best thing you can do is to yield to Christ at once. Every true C…
209 wordsSECTION 203A TIMELY CONVERSION.
A minister in Edinburgh tells a story of the conversion of a young man who was working in one of the mining districts. When the meeting at one of the churches was over on a particular evening, he saw him standing by a pillar in the church, the rest having gone out, all but two or three, and they asked this man if he wa…
429 wordsSECTION 204DYING LOOKING UP.
If you want to die looking up and seeing Christ, seek the kingdom of God. You may never hear the call again. Do not leave this place without making up your mind to settle the solemn question of eternity at once.…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.