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
That's the plain English of it. If a man preaches the gospel, and
preaches it faithfully, he ought to expect results then and there. But
after he has proclaimed the glad tidings, let him have an inquiry
meeting, and, if necessary, a second meeting, and go to the people's
houses and talk and pray with them, and in that way hundreds will be
brought to God. I believe it is the privilege of God's children to
reap the fruit of their labour three hundred and sixty-five days in
the year.
"Well, but," say some, "is there not a sowing time as well as
harvest?" Yes, it is true, there is; but then, you can sow with one
hand, and reap with the other. What would you think of a farmer who
went on sowing all the year round, and never thought of reaping? I
repeat it, we want to sow with one hand, and reap with the other; and
if we look for the fruit of our labours, we shall see it. "If I be
lifted up, I will draw all men unto Me." We must lift Christ up, and
then seek men out, and bring them to Him. Then, again, you must use
the right kind of bait. A good many people don't do this, and then
they wonder they are not successful. You see them getting up all kinds
of entertainments with which to try and catch men. They go the wrong
way to work. I will tell you what this perishing world wants: it wants
CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED.
There's a void in every man's bosom that wants filling up, and if we
only approach them with the right kind of bait we shall catch them.
This poor world needs a Saviour; and if we are going to be successful
in catching men, we must preach Christ crucified--_not His life only,
but His death_. And if we are only faithful in doing this we shall
succeed. And why? Because there is His promise: "If you follow Me, I
will make you fishers of men." And that promise holds just as good to
you and me as it did to His disciples, and is as true now as it was in
their time. "They that are wise shall shine like the sun in the
firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness like the stars for
ever and ever." Think then of the exalted privilege of turning one
soul to Christ. You set a stream in motion that shall go on running
for ages after you are gone. "Blessed are they that die in the Lord;
for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them."
PAUL AND HIS WRITINGS.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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