The Overcoming Life, and Other SermonsMoody, Dwight Lyman
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The Overcoming Life, and Other Sermons
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Evangelistic sermons; Evangelistic work; Sermons, American
And now, the last I like best of all: "_He that overcometh shall
inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My son_."
My dear friends, isn't that a high calling? I used to have my
Sabbath-school children sing--"I want to be an angel": but I have not
done so for years. We shall be above angels: we shall be sons of God.
Just see what a kingdom we shall come into: we shall inherit all
things! Do you ask me how much I am worth? I don't know. The
Rothschilds cannot compute their wealth. They don't know how many
millions they own. That is my condition--I haven't the slightest idea
how much I am worth. God has no poor children. If we overcome we shall
inherit all things.
Oh, my dear friends, what an inheritance! Let us then get the victory,
through Jesus Christ our Lord and Master.
RESULTS OF TRUE REPENTANCE.
I want to call your attention to what true repentance leads to. I am
not addressing the unconverted only, because I am one of those who
believe that there is a good deal of repentance to be done by the
Church before much good will be accomplished in the world. I firmly
believe that the low standard of Christian living is keeping a good
many in the world and in their sins. When the ungodly see that
Christian people do not repent, you cannot expect them to repent and
turn away from their sins. I have repented ten thousand times more
since I knew Christ than ever before; and I think most Christians have
some things to repent of.
So now I want to preach to Christians as well as to the unconverted;
to myself as well as to one who has never accepted Christ as his
Savior.
There are five things that flow out of true repentance:
1. Conviction.
2. Contrition.
3. Confession of sin.
4. Conversion.
5. Confession of Jesus Christ before the world.
1. Conviction.
When a man is not deeply convicted of sin, it is a pretty sure sign
that he has not truly repented. Experience has taught me that men who
have very slight conviction of sin, sooner or later lapse back into
their old life. For the last few years I have been a good deal more
anxious for a deep and true work in professing converts than I have
for great numbers. If a man professes to be converted without
realizing the heinousness of his sins, he is likely to be one of those
stony ground hearers who don't amount to anything. The first breath of
opposition, the first wave of persecution or ridicule, will suck them
back into the world again.
I believe we are making a woeful mistake in taking so many people into
the Church who have never been truly convicted of sin. Sin is just as
black in a man's heart to-day as it ever was. I sometimes think it is
blacker. For the more light a man has, the greater his responsibility,
and therefore the greater need of deep conviction.
William Dawson once told this story to illustrate how humble the soul
must be before it can find peace.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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