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
"Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters: and he that
hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat: yea, come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price." If you will come and drink at this
fountain, Christ says you shall never thirst again. He has promised
to quench your thirst. "If any man thirst," He says, "let him come
unto Me and drink."
I thank God for those words: "_If any man_." That does not mean
merely a select few respectable people; it takes in all--every
drunkard, every harlot, every thief, every self-righteous Pharisee.
"If any man _thirst_." How this world is thirsting for something
that will satisfy! What fills the places of amusement--the dance
houses, the music halls, and the theaters, night after night? Men
and women are thirsting for something they have not got. The moment
a man turns his back upon God, he begins to thirst; and that thirst
will never be quenched until he returns to "the fountain of living
waters." As the prophet Jeremiah tells us, we have forsaken the
fountain of living waters, and hewn out for ourselves cisterns,
broken cisterns, that can hold no water. There is a thirst this
world can never quench: the more we drink of its pleasures, the
thirstier we become. We cry out for more and more; and we are all
the while being dragged down lower and lower. But there is "a
fountain opened to the House of David . . . for sin and for
uncleanness." Let us press up to it, and drink and live.
I remember after one of the great battles in the War we were coming
down the Tennessee River with a company of wounded men. It was in
the spring of the year, and the water was not clear. You know that
the cry of a wounded man is: "Water! water!" especially in a hot
country. I remember taking a glass of the muddy water to one of
these men. Although he was very thirsty, he only drank a little of
it. He handed the glass back to me, and as he did so, he said, "Oh
for a draught of water from my father's well!" Are there any thirsty
ones here? Come and drink of the fountain opened in Christ; your
longing will be satisfied, and you will never thirst again. It will
be in you "a well of water springing up into everlasting life."
Water rises to its own level; and as this water has come down from
the throne of God, it will carry us back to the presence of God.
Come, O ye thirsty ones, stoop down and drink, and live! You are all
invited: come along! When Moses took his rod and struck the flinty
rock in the wilderness, out of it there came a pure crystal stream
of water, which flowed or through that dry and barren land. All that
the poor thirsty Israelites had to do was to stoop and drink. It was
free to all. So the grace of God is free to all. God invites you to
come and take it: will you come?
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