The Way to God and How to Find ItMoody, Dwight Lyman
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The Way to God and How to Find It
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Evangelistic sermons; Sermons, American
Our Christ lives. Many people have not found out that Christ has
risen from the grave. They worship a dead Saviour, like Mary, who
said, "They have taken away my Lord; and I know not where they have
laid Him." (John xx. 13.) That is the trouble with those who doubt
the divinity of our Lord.
Then look at Matthew xviii. 20. "Where two or three are gathered
together in My name, there am I in the midst of them." "There am I."
Well now, if He is a mere man, how can He be there? All these are
strong passages.
Again in Matthew xxviii. 18. "And Jesus came and spake unto them,
saying, All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth." Could He
be a mere man and talk in that way? "All power is given unto Me in
heaven and in earth!"
Then again in Matthew xxviii. 20. "Teaching them to observe all
things whatsoever I have commanded you; and, lo, I am with you alway,
even unto the end of the world." If He were mere man, how could He be
with us? Yet He says, "I am with you alway, even unto the end of the
world!"
Then again in Mark ii. 7. "Why doth this Man thus speak blasphemies?
who can forgive sins but God only? And immediately when Jesus
perceived in His Spirit that they reasoned within themselves, He said
unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts? Whether is it
easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee, or
to say, Arise and take up thy bed and walk?"
Some men will meet you and say, "Did not Elisha also raise the dead?"
Notice that in the rare instances in which men have raised the dead,
they did it by the power of God. They called on God to do it. But
when Christ was on earth He did not call upon the Father to bring the
dead to life. When He went to the house of Jairus He said, "Damsel, I
say unto thee, Arise." (Mark v. 41.)
He had power to impart life. When they were carrying the young man
out of Nain He had compassion on the widowed mother and came and
touched the bier and said, "Young man, I say unto thee, Arise." (Luke
vii. 14.)
He spake; and the dead arose.
And when He raised Lazarus He called with a loud voice, "Lazarus,
come forth!" (John xi. 43.) And Lazarus heard, and came forth.
Some one has said, It was a good thing that Lazarus was mentioned by
name, or all the dead within the sound of Christ's voice would
immediately have risen.
In John v. 25, Jesus says: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour
is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son
of God; and they that hear shall live." What blasphemy would this
have been, had He not been divine! The proof is overwhelming, if you
will but examine the Word of God.
And then another thing--no good man except Jesus Christ has ever
allowed anybody to worship him. When this was done He never rebuked
the worshiper. In John ix. 38, we read that when the blind man was
found by Christ he said, "Lord, I believe. And he worshiped Him." The
Lord did not rebuke him.
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