Pleasure & Profit in Bible StudyMoody, Dwight Lyman
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Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Bible -- Study and teaching
And the next day Peter turned to Paul again and asked him if he wouldn't
like to take another walk. And Paul said he would. Again they passed
down the streets of Jerusalem, over the brook Cedron, over Mount Olivet,
up to Bethphage, and over on to the slope near Bethany. All at once
Peter stopped and said, "Here, Paul, this is the last place where I ever
saw Him. I never heard Him speak so sweetly as He did that day. It was
right here He delivered His last message to us, and all at once I
noticed that His feet didn't touch the ground. He arose and went up. All
at once there came a cloud and received Him out of sight. I stood right
here gazing up into the heavens, in hopes I might see Him again and hear
Him speak. And two men dressed in white dropped down by our sides and
stood there and said, 'Ye men of Galilee, why stand Ye gazing into
heaven? This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so
come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven.'"
My friends, I want to ask you this question: Do you believe that picture
is overdrawn? Do you believe Peter had Paul as his guest and didn't take
him to Gethsemane, didn't take him to Calvary and to Mount Olivet? I
myself spent eight days in Jerusalem, and every morning I wanted to
steal down into the garden where my Lord sweat great drops of blood.
Every day I climbed Mount Olivet and looked up into the blue sky where
He went to His Father. I have no doubt, Peter took Paul out on those
three walks. If there had been a man that could have taken me to the
very spot where thy Master sweat those great drops of blood, do you
think I wouldn't have asked him to take me there? If he could have told
me where I could find the spot where my Master's feet last touched this
sin-cursed earth and was taken up, do you think I wouldn't have had him
show it to me?
ORATORICAL PREACHING.
I know there is a class of people who say that kind of preaching won't
do in this country. "People want something oratorical." Well, there is
no doubt but that there are some who want to hear oratorical sermons,
but they forget them inside of twenty-four hours.
It a good thing for a minister to have the reputation of feeding his
people. A man once made an artificial bee, which was so like a real bee
that he challenged another man to tell the difference. It made just such
a buzzing as the live bee, and looked the same. The other said, "You put
an artificial bee and a real bee down there, and I will tell you the
difference pretty quickly." He then put a drop of honey on the ground
and the live bee went for the honey. It is just so with us. There are a
lot of people who profess to be Christians, but they are artificial, and
they don't know when you give them honey. The real bees go for honey
every time. People can get along without your theories and opinions,
"Thus saith the Lord"--that is what we want.
CHAPTER VII.
Reading and Studying--At Family Prayers--A Word in Season--Helpful
Questions.
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