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
Then there is another _I will_ in John, sixth chapter, verse forty; it
occurs four times in the chapter: "_I will raise him up at the last
day_."
I rejoice to think that I have a Savior who has power over death. My
blessed Master holds the keys him, and I got more comfort out of that
promise "I will raise him up at the last day," than anything else in
the Bible. How it cheered me! How it lighted up my path! And as I went
into the room and looked upon the lovely face of that brother, how
that passage ran through my soul: "Thy brother shall rise again." I
said, "Thank God for that promise." It was worth more than the world
to me.
When we laid him in the grave, it seemed as if I could hear the voice
of Jesus Christ saying, "Thy brother shall rise again." Blessed
promise of the resurrection! Blessed "I will!" "I will raise him up at
the last day."
7. The "I Will" of Glory.
Now the next _I will_ is in John, seventeenth chapter, twenty-fourth
verse: "_Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be
with Me where I am_."
This was in His last prayer in the guest-chamber, on the last night
before He was crucified and died that terrible death on Calvary. Many
a believer's countenance begins to light up at the thought that he
shall see the King in His beauty by and by. Yes; there is a glorious
day before us in the future. Some think that on the first day we are
converted we have got everything. To be sure, we get salvation for the
past and peace for the present; but then there is the glory for the
future in store. That's what kept Paul rejoicing. He said, "These
light afflictions, these few stripes, these few brickbats and stones
that they throw at me--why, the glory that is beyond excels them so
much that I count them as nothing, nothing at all, so that I may win
Christ." And so, when things go against us, let us cheer up; let us
remember that the night will soon pass away, and the morning dawn upon
us. Death never comes there. It is banished from that heavenly land.
Sickness, and pain, and sorrow, come not there to mar that grand and
glorious home where we shall be by and by with the Master. God's
family will be all together there. Glorious future, my friends! Yes,
glorious day! and it may be a great deal nearer than many of us think.
During these few days we are here let us stand steadfast and firm, and
by and by we shall be in the unbroken circle in yon world of light,
and have the King in our midst.
THE RED LIBRARY
16MO, CLOTH, EACH NET. 30 CTS.
Weighed and Wanting.
Men of the Bible.
Bible Characters.
Select Sermons.
Moody's Anecdotes.
The Overcoming Life.
The Way to God.
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour.
Moody's Latest Sermons
Short Talks by D. L. Moody.
Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study.
Sowing and Reaping.
Heaven.
Moody's Stories.
To the Work!
Sovereign Grace.
Prevailing Prayer.
Secret Power.
_The above eighteen volumes are all by D. L. Moody, and are published
as "The Moody Library," in boxed set, net, $5.40_.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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