"Billy" Sunday, the Man and His Message: With his own words which have won thousands for ChristEllis, William T. (William Thomas)
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"Billy" Sunday, the Man and His Message: With his own words which have won thousands for Christ
Ellis, William T. (William Thomas)
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography; Evangelists -- United States -- Biography; Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935
One man says: "I do not believe in the Bible because of its
inconsistencies." I say the greatest inconsistency is in your life--not
in the Bible! I bring up before you the memory of some evil deed, and
you immediately begin to find fault with the Bible! Go to a man and
talk business or politics and he talks sense. Go to a woman and talk
society, clubs or dress, and she talks sense. Talk religion to them,
and they will talk nonsense!
I want to say that I believe that the Bible is the Word of God from
cover to cover. Not because I understand its philosophy, speculation,
or theory. I cannot; wouldn't attempt it; and I would be a fool if I
tried. I believe it because it is from the mouth of God; the mouth of
God has spoken it.
There is only one way to have the doubts destroyed. Read the Bible
and obey it. You say you can't understand it. There's an A, B, C in
religion, just as in everything else. When you go to school you learn
the A, B, C's and pretty soon can understand something you thought you
never could when you started out. So in religion. Begin with the simple
things and go on and you'll understand. That's what it was written for,
that you might read and believe and be saved. I'm willing to stand here
and take the hand of any man or woman if you are willing to come and
begin with the knowledge you have.
In South Africa there are diamond mines and the fact has been heralded
to every corner of the world. But only those that dig for them get
the diamonds. So it is with the Bible. Dig and you'll find gold and
salvation. You have to dig out the truths.
Years ago in Sing Sing prison there was a convict by the name of Jerry
McCauley and one day an old pal of his came back to the prison and told
him how he had been saved, and quoted a verse of Scripture. McCauley
didn't know where to find the verse in the Bible, so he started in at
the first and read through until he came to it. It was away over in
the ninth chapter of Hebrews. But he found Jesus Christ while he was
reading it. He lived a godly life until the day he died.
Supposing a man should come to you and say, "The title to your property
is no good and if some one contests it you will lose?" Would you laugh
and go on about your business? No, sir! You would go to the court
house and if you could find it in only one book there, the book in the
recorder's office, you'd search and find it, and if the recorder said
the deed was all right you could laugh at whatever any one else said.
There is only one book in the world that tells me about my soul. It
says if you believe you're saved, if you don't you are damned. God said
it and it's all true. Every man who believes in the Bible shall live
forever. The Bible says heaven or hell, so why do you resist?
No words are put in the Bible for effect. The Bible talks to us so we
can understand. God could use language that no one could understand.
But we can not understand all by simply hearing and reading. When we
see we will know.
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