Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations: Related in his Revival Work by the Great EvangelistMoody, Dwight Lyman
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Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations: Related in his Revival Work by the Great Evangelist
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Christian life -- Fiction; Homiletical illustrations
-- Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the
moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor.
-- A man does not get grace till he comes down to the ground, till he
sees he needs grace. When a man stoops to the dust and acknowledges
that he needs mercy, then it is that the Lord will give him grace.
-- If you are ready to partake of grace you have not to atone for your
sins--you have merely to accept of the atonement. All that you want
to do is to cry, "God have mercy upon me," and you will receive the
blessing.
-- "The grace of God hath power to bring salvation to all men," and if a
man is unsaved it is because he wants to work it out; he wants to
receive salvation in some other way than God's way; but we are told
that "he that climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a
robber."
-- When we get full of this grace we want to see everyone blessed--we
want to see all the churches blessed, not only all the churches here,
but in the whole country. That was the trouble with Christ's
disciples. He had hard work to make them understand that His gospel
was for everyone, that it was a stream to flow out to all nations of
the earth. They wanted to confine it to the Jews, and He had to
convince them that it was for every living being.
HEAVEN.
Moody in a California Sunday School.
I remember when I went to California just to try and get a few souls
saved on the Pacific coast, I went into a school there and asked, "Have
you got some one who can write a plain hand?" "Yes." Well, we got up the
blackboard, and the lesson upon it proved to be the very text we have
to-night. "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven." And I said,
"Suppose we write upon that board some of the earthly treasures? And we
will begin with 'gold.'" The teacher readily put down gold, and they
all comprehended it, for all had run to that country in the hope of
finding it. "Well, we will put down 'houses' next, and then 'land.' Next
we will put down 'fast horses.'" They all understood what fast horses
were--they knew a good deal more about fast horses than they knew about
the kingdom of God. Some of them, I think, actually made fast horses
serve as Gods. "Next we will put down 'tobacco.'" The teacher seemed to
shrink at this. "Put it down," said I, "many a man thinks more of
tobacco than he does of God. Well, then, we will put down 'rum.'" He
objected to this--didn't like to put it down at all. "Down with it. Many
a man will sell his reputation, will sell his home, his wife, his
children, everything he has, for rum. It is the God of some men. Many
here in Chicago will sell their present and then eternal welfare for it.
Put it down," and down it went. "Now," said I, "suppose we put down some
of the heavenly treasures. Put down 'Jesus' to head the list, then
'heaven,' then 'River of Life,' then 'Crown of Glory,' and went on till
the column was filled, and then just drew a line and showed the heavenly
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