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
"There is a fountain filled with blood,
Drawn from Immanuel's veins;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains."
He has become a child of God, an heir of heaven. His children are
climbing up his knee, and he has his arms round their necks. That dark
home is now changed into a little Bethel on earth. God dwells there
now. Yes; God has done all that, and that is regeneration.
THE WORTH OF GOOD RESOLVES.
Then some of you may have been saying, "I wish Mr. Moody would tell us
how we are to become Christians, for he says that we cannot be
Christians by trying to do good and by making new resolutions." Many a
time you have been at a meeting like this, and have resolved to turn
over a new leaf, and you may now form another good resolution. If you
do, you will break it. What are you going to do? If it is a new birth
you are to have, you cannot create life. Can you bring life to the
dead? All the wise men in London cannot do it. God alone is the author
of life; and if you have the new birth, it must be God's work. When
the Jubilee Singers were in the North of England my family went to see
them, and my little boy asked why they didn't wash the black off their
faces. I told him it was because they were born black. The Ethiopian
cannot change his skin, nor the leopard his spots. You cannot save
yourself. There is a man dying--can you put new life into him? Or can
you raise up a dead body by saying, "Young man, arise"? That is the
work of God. Your souls are dead in trespasses and sins, and only the
Lord Jesus Christ can speak life.
THE BEGGAR AND THE PRINCE.
I imagine some of you will say, "Haven't I anything to do?" Well, you
haven't. Salvation has been worked out for you by another. Many go all
round the world in search of honour or possessions. Salvation is worth
thousands of times more than any thing earth can produce; but you
don't get it that way. God has but one price for salvation. Do you
want to know what it is? It is without money and without price.
Rowland Hill said that most auctioneers found they had hard work to
get people up to their price, but that he had hard work to get people
down to his. "The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is
eternal life." Who will have it now? I say to you, young man, will you
have this gift? Suppose I was going over London Bridge, and saw a poor
miserable beggar, bare-footed, coatless, hatless, with no rags hardly
to cover his nakedness, and right behind him, only a few yards, there
was the Prince of Wales with a bag of gold, and the poor beggar was
running away from him as if he was running away from a demon, and the
Prince of Wales was hallooing after him, "Oh, beggar, here is a bag of
gold!" Why, we should say the beggar had gone mad to be running away
from the Prince of Wales with the bag of gold. Sinner, that is your
condition. The Prince of Heaven wants to give you eternal life, and
you are running away from Him.
THE DYING SOLDIER.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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