Sovereign Grace: Its Source, Its Nature and Its EffectsMoody, Dwight Lyman
Religion
Sovereign Grace: Its Source, Its Nature and Its Effects
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Grace (Theology) -- Sermons; Sermons, American -- 19th century
But we need to learn that God alone can do it. If there is a skeptic
now hearing me, I want to say that one personal interview with the
Son of God will scatter all your infidelity and atheism. One night,
in the inquiry-room, I met the wife of an atheist, who had been
brought to God at one of our meetings. She was converted at the same
time. She had brought two of her daughters to the meeting, desiring
that they too should know Christ. I said to the mother: "How is it
with your skepticism now?" "Oh," said she, "it is all gone." When
Christ gets into the heart, atheism must go out; if a man will only
come and take one trustful, loving look at the Saviour, there will
be no desire to leave Him again.
A gentleman was walking down the street in Baltimore, a few years
ago. It was near Christmas-time, and many of the shop-windows were
filled with Christmas presents, toys, etc. As this gentleman passed
along, he saw three little girls standing before a shop window, and
he heard two of them trying to describe to the third the things that
were in the window. It aroused his attention, and he wondered what
it could mean. He went back, and found that the middle one was
blind--she had never been able to see--and her two sisters were
endeavoring to tell her how the things looked. The gentleman stood
beside them for some time, and listened; he said it was most
interesting to hear them trying to describe the different articles
to the blind child--they found it a difficult task. As he told me, I
said to myself, "That is just my position in trying to tell other
men about Christ: I may talk about Him; and yet they see no beauty
in Him that they should desire Him. But if they will only come to
Him, He will open their eyes and reveal Himself to them in all His
loveliness and grace."
Looking at it from the outside, there was not much beauty in the
Tabernacle that Moses erected in the desert. It was covered on the
outside with badgers' skins--and there was not much beauty in them.
If you were to pass into the inside, then you would find out the
beauty of the coverings. So the sinner sees no beauty in Christ till
he comes to Him--then he can see it.
You have looked at the windows of a grand church erected at the cost
of many thousands of dollars. From the outside they did not seem
very beautiful; but get inside, when the rays of the sun are
striking upon the stained glass, and you begin to understand what
others have told you of their magnificence. So it is when you have
come into personal contact with Christ; you find Him to be the very
Friend you need. Therefore we extend to all the sweet Gospel
invitation "Come and see!"
Let me now ring out the third bell--
COME AND DRINK!
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