"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
We have cut loose from the Bible, and any man who is living contrary
to the Bible is a sinner, whether he feels like a sinner or not. Every
man who is living contrary to the laws is a criminal, whether he feels
like it or not. A man who breaks the law of God is a sinner, and is on
the road to hell, whether he feels like it or like a saint. Jesus came
into the world to reveal God to man, and man reveals him to man. The
only revelation we have of Jesus is through the Bible. You have got to
know Jesus to know God; that's how I get through there. There is no
revelation for God to make of himself greater than he has made through
Jesus Christ. It is not possible for the human intellect to have a
greater conception of God. Every man needs Christ. Jesus is the Saviour
that he needs and he has got to know the Bible to show what it is that
makes Jesus the Saviour. He needs a Saviour and now is the time to
accept the Saviour and be saved. That's what the Bible says. Whatever
the Bible says, write "finish" after it and stop.
Feeding the Spiritual Life
Then you need the Holy Spirit. Without him you cannot do anything.
The spirit of God works through clean hands. There are too many dirty
hands, too many dirty people trying to preach a clean gospel. I have
known men that have preached the truth and God has honored the truth,
although their lives were not as they should be. But God honored the
truth and not the people who preached the truth. But if they had been
Christians themselves then God would have honored them more, because he
would have honored them and the truth.
Prayer. Three-fourths of the church members have no family prayer. They
let spiritual life starve. That is the reason the pews are full of
driftwood; that is the reason that religion is but a mirage to many.
Pray God to give you power. Pray God to give you power to carry on his
work after you have become converted. I don't preach a sermon that I
don't pray God for help, and I never finish a sermon that I don't thank
God that I have preached it. Then I say: "Lord, you take care of the
seed I have sown in that sermon." I think the Church needs a baptism of
good, pure "horse sense."
Pure hearts. If I have any iniquity in my heart the Lord will not
come in. We need a wise head. We need horse sense in preaching. We
need horse sense in what we do. I think God is constantly looking for
a company of men and women that are constantly alive. There are too
many dead ones. He needs men and women that are always at it, not only
during the revival; we need to be full of faith; dead in earnest, never
give up, a bulldog tenacity and stick-to-it-iveness for the cause of
God Almighty.
The Dignity of Personal Work
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