Wondrous Love, and other Gospel addressesMoody, Dwight Lyman
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Wondrous Love, and other Gospel addresses
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Sermons, American -- 19th century
Every man and woman may have it if they will but put their trust in
God. Is not God worthy of our confidence? Is not God worthy of our
trust? You must have a poor opinion of God if you cannot trust Him. We
consider we have a poor opinion of a man if we cannot trust him. If a
man should tell me something, and I did not believe a word he said, I
would have a very poor opinion of the man. Faith is putting confidence
in God's word. Take hold of His word to-night. He will save all that
will come--not only that, but He will save you when you do come. Away
with everything but Christ, and take Him now. Who will take God at His
word to-night? Some one has said, "Faith is saying yes to God." Who
will say yes to-night, and take it? Now, is it too much to ask or to
expect that every person in this hall should put their faith in God?
If God does not save us, who will? Men cannot, the church cannot,
creeds and doctrines cannot; the sacraments cannot save; baptism
cannot save. You must have a living personal Christ, and God presents
Him to the world. Who will take Him? Who will have Christ--who will
trust Him? Faith says, I will. Is it not the very best thing you can
do? Can you do a better thing than trust to God for salvation? "What
must I do to be saved?" Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, or trust the
Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, and trust Him now.
STORY OF A CONDEMNED MAN.
Away back some years ago it is recorded in history of a man that was
condemned to be put to death, that when he came to lay his head on the
block the prince asked him if there was any one petition that he could
grant him, and all that the condemned man asked for was a glass of
water. They went and got him a tumbler of water, and when he got it
his hand trembled so that he could not get it to his mouth. The prince
said to him, "Your life is safe until you drink that water." He took
the prince at his word, and dashed the water to the ground. They could
not gather it up, and so he saved his life. My friends, you can be
saved to-night by taking God at His word. The water of life is offered
to "whosoever will." Take it now, and live. Faith cometh by hearing,
and hearing by the Word of God (Rom. x. 17).
Faith is not what we see or feel,
It is a simple trust;
In what a God of love has said
Of Jesus as the Just.
THE DYING THIEF
Read Luke xxiii. 39-43
I am going to take as my text a man who was the last one saved before
Christ went to heaven, or before He died on the cross, and the story
of his conversion ought to give hope to every man. We have got an
account of the conversion of all classes of people in the Bible. There
is not one class left out. There is the richest and the poorest; the
greatest and the smallest; all classes of men, and all classes of
women.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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