Sovereign Grace: Its Source, Its Nature and Its EffectsMoody, Dwight Lyman
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Sovereign Grace: Its Source, Its Nature and Its Effects
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Grace (Theology) -- Sermons; Sermons, American -- 19th century
Mr. R.--Well, I hope not. All I can say is that if we do, we shall
smart for it. I have done many a thing since the Lord revealed
Himself to my soul that I should not have done--I have gone backward
and downward; but I have always found that it does not pay when I do
anything that grieves my Heavenly Father. I think He sometimes
allows us to taste the bitterness of what it is to depart from Him.
And this is one of the many ways by which He keeps us from falling.
Mr. M.--What do you consider to be the great sin of sins?
Mr. R.--The Word of God tells us that there is only one sin of which
God alone can convince us. If I cut a man's throat or if I steal, it
does not need God to convince me that that is a sin. But it takes
the power of the Holy Ghost to convince me that not to receive
Christ, not to love Christ, not to believe in Christ, is the sin of
sins, the root of sins. Christ says, "When the Spirit is come, He
will convince the world of sin, _because they believe not on Me_."
Mr. M.--What do you mean by the Word of God?
Mr. R.--The Son of God is the Word of God incarnate: the Bible is
the Word of God written. The one is the Word of God in my nature:
the other is the Word of God in my language.
Mr. M.--If a man receives the word of God into his heart, what
benefit is it to him, right here to-night?
Mr. R.--The Father and the Son will make their abode with him; and
he will be the temple of the Holy Ghost. Where He goes the whole
Trinity goes; and all the promises are his. "Man doth not live by
bread alone; but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of
God."
Mr. M.--Who is it that judges a man to be unworthy of eternal life?
Mr. R.--_Himself!!_ There is a verse in Acts xiii that is worth
remembering: "Seeing ye put it [the Word of God] from you, and judge
_yourselves_ unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the
Gentiles." God does not judge us unworthy. He has given His Son for
our salvation. When a man puts away the Word of God from him and
refuses to receive Christ into his heart, he judges _himself_
unworthy of salvation.
Mr. M.--I understand, then, that if a man rejects Christ to-night,
he passes judgment on himself as unworthy of eternal life?
Mr. R.--He is judging himself unworthy, while God does not so
consider him. God says you are welcome to eternal life.
Mr. M.--If any one here wants to please God to-night, how can he do
it?
Mr. R.--God delights in mercy. Come to God and claim His mercy in
Christ; and you will delight His heart.
Mr. M.--Suppose a man say he is not "elected?"
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