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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: That Gospel Sermon on the Blessed Hope + +Author: Dwight Lyman Moody + +Release Date: November 23, 2008 [EBook #27316] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GOSPEL SERMON ON BLESSED HOPE *** + + + + +Produced by Gerard Arthus, Sarah Gutierrez, and The Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="head"> +<p class="noi right">No. 16</p> +<h1>THAT GOSPEL SERMON<br /> +<small>ON THE BLESSED HOPE.</small></h1> +</div> +<hr class="short1" /> + +<h3>BY D. L. MOODY.</h3> + +<hr class="short2" /> + +<p class="hang mtb"><i>A Sermon delivered by</i> <span class="scaps">D. L. Moody,</span> <i>the Evangelist, +at the Great Chicago Tabernacle, Jan. 5, 1877. +Repeated in the Boston Tabernacle, April 29th.</i></p> +<p> +In 2 Timothy, 3:16, Paul declares: "All scripture +is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable +for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction +in righteousness;" but there are some people who tell +us when we take up prophecy that it is all very well +to be believed, but that there is no use in one trying +to understand it; these future events are things that +the church does not agree about, and it is better to let +them alone, and deal only with those prophecies +which have already been fulfilled. But Paul does not +talk that way; he says: "All scripture is ... +profitable for doctrine." If these people are right, he +ought to have said: "Some scripture is profitable; +but you can not understand the prophecies, so you had +better let them alone." If God did not mean to +have us study the prophecies, he would not have put +them in the Bible. Some of them are fulfilled, and he +is at work fulfilling the rest, so that if we do not +see them all completed in this life, we shall in the +world to come.</p> + + +<p>I do not want to teach anything to-day dogmatically, +on my own authority, but to my mind this precious +doctrine--for such I must call it--of the return of the +Lord to this earth is taught in the New Testament as +clearly as any other doctrine is; yet I was in the +church fifteen or sixteen years before I ever heard a +sermon on it. There is hardly any church that does +not make a great deal of baptism, but the New Testament +only speaks about baptism thirteen times, while +it speaks of the return of our Lord fifty times; +and yet the church has had very little to say about it. +Now, I can see a reason for this: the devil does not +want us to see this truth, for nothing would wake up +the church so much. The moment a man takes hold +of the truth that Jesus Christ is coming back again to +receive his friends to himself, this world loses its hold +upon him; gas-stocks and water-stocks, and stocks in +banks and horse-railroads, are of very much less consequence +to him then. His heart is free, and he looks +for the blessed appearing of his Lord, who at his +coming will take him into his blessed kingdom.</p> + +<p>In 2 Peter 1:20, we read: "No prophecy of the +scripture is of any private interpretation." Some +people say: "O yes, the prophecies are all well enough +for the priests and doctors, but not for the rank and +file of the church." But Peter says: "The prophecy +came not by the will of man, but holy men spake as +they were moved by the Holy Ghost," and those men +are the very ones who tell us of the return of our +Lord. Look at Daniel 2:45, where he tells the meaning +of that stone which the king saw in his dream that +was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that +broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, +and the gold. "The dream is certain and the interpretation +thereof sure," says Daniel. Now we have +seen the fulfillment of that prophecy all but the closing +part of it. The kingdoms of Babylon and Medo-Persia +and Greece and Rome have all been broken in +pieces, and now it only remains for this stone cut out +of the mountain without hands to smite the image and +break it in pieces till it becomes like the dust of the +summer threshing floor, and for this stone to become +a great mountain and fill the whole earth.</p> + +<h3>BUT HOW IS HE GOING TO COME?</h3> + +<p>We are told how he is going to come. When those +disciples stood looking up into heaven at the time of +his ascension, there appeared two angels, who said +Acts 1:11: "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye +gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus which is +taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like +manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." How +did he go up? He took his flesh and bones up with +him. "Look at me; handle me; give me something +to eat; a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me +have; I am the identical one whom they crucified and +laid in the grave. Now I am risen from the dead and +am going up to heaven," Luke 24:39,43. He is +gone, say the angels, but he will come again just as he +went. An angel was sent to announce his birth of the +virgin; angels sang of his advent in Bethlehem; an +angel told the women of his resurrection; and two +angels told the disciples of his coming again. It is +the same testimony in all these cases.</p> + +<p>I do not know why people should not like to +read the Bible, and find out all about this precious +doctrine of our Lord's return. Some have gone beyond +prophecy, and tried to tell the very day he +would come. Perhaps that is one reason why people +do not believe this doctrine. He is coming, we know +that; but just when he is coming we do not know; +Matt. 24:36, settles that. The angels do not know; +and Christ says that even he does not know, but that +is something the Father keeps to himself. If Christ +had said: "I will not come back for 2,000 years," none +of his disciples would have begun to watch for him, +but it is the proper attitude of a Christian to be always +looking for his Lord's return. So God does not tell +us just when he is to come, but Christ tells us to +watch. In this same chapter we find that he is to +come unexpectedly and suddenly. In the twenty-seventh +verse we have these words: "For as the +lightning cometh out of the east and shineth unto the +west, even so shall also the coming of the Son of Man +be." And again in the forty-fourth verse: "Therefore +be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think +not the Son of Man cometh."</p> + +<p>Some people say that means death: but the Word +of God does not say it means death. Death is our +enemy, but our Lord hath the keys of death; he has +conquered death, hell, and the grave, and at any +moment he may come to set us free from death, and +destroy our last enemy for us; so the proper state for +a believer in Christ is waiting and watching for our +Lord's return.</p> + +<p>In the last chapter of John there is a text that +seems to settle this matter. Peter asks the question +about John: "Lord what shall this man do? Jesus +said unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what +is that to thee? Follow thou me. Then went this +saying abroad among the brethren that that disciple +should not die." They did not think that the coming +of the Lord meant death; there was a great difference +between these two things in their minds.</p> + +<h3>CHRIST IS THE PRINCE OF LIFE.</h3> + +<p>There is no death where he is; death flees at his +coming; dead bodies sprang to life when he touched +them or spoke to them. His coming is not death; he +is the resurrection and the life, when he sets up his +kingdom there is to be no death, but life forevermore.</p> + +<p>There is another mistake, as you will find if you +read your Bible carefully. Some people think that at +the coming of Christ everything is to be done up in a +few minutes; but I do not so understand it. The +first thing he is to do is to take his Church out of the +world. He calls the Church his bride, and he says he +is going to prepare a place for her. We may judge, +says one, what a glorious place it will be from the +length of time he is in preparing it, and when the +place is ready he will come and take the church to +himself.</p> + +<p>In the closing verses of the fourth chapter of 1 +Thessalonians, Paul says: "If we believe that Jesus +died and rose again, even so also them which sleep in +Jesus will God bring with him.... We which +are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall +not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord +himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with +the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, +and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which +are alive and remain shall be caught up together with +them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so +shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore, comfort +one another with these words." That is the comfort +of the church. There was a time when I used to +mourn that I should not be alive in the millennium; +but now I expect to be in the millennium. Dean +Alford says--and almost everybody bows to him in the +matter of interpretation--that he must insist that this +coming of Christ to take his church to himself in the +clouds is not the same event us that to judge the world +at the last day. The deliverance of the church is one +thing, judgment is another. Now, I cannot find any +place in the Bible where it tells me to wait for signs +of the coming of the millennium, as the return of the +Jews, and such like; but it tells me to look for the +coming of the Lord; to watch for it; to be ready at +midnight to meet him, like those five wise virgins. +The trump of God may be sounded, for anything we +know, before I finish this sermon--at any rate we are +told that he will come as a thief in the night, and at +an hour when many look not for him.</p> + +<p>Some of you may shake your heads and say, "Oh, +well, that is too deep for the most of us; such things +ought not to be said before these young converts; only +the very wisest characters, such as ministers and professors +in the theological seminaries, can understand +them." But my friends, you find that Paul wrote +about these things to those young converts among the +Thessalonians, and he tells them to comfort one another +with these words. Here in the first chapter of +1 Thessalonians Paul says, "Ye turned to God from +idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for +his Son from heaven whom he raised from the dead, +even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to +come," To wait for his Son; that is the true attitude +of every child of God. If he is doing that he is ready +for the duties of life, ready for God's work; aye, that +makes him feel that he is just ready to begin to work +for God.</p> + +<p>Then in 1 Thessalonians, 2:19, he says: "For what is +our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even +ye, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, at his +coming?" And again, in the third chapter, at the +thirteenth verse, "To the end that he may establish +your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even +our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ +with all his saints." Still again, in the fifth chapter, +"For ye yourselves know perfectly that the day of the +Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. But ye, +brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should over +take you as a thief." He has something to say +about this same thing in every chapter, indeed I have +thought this Epistle to the Thessalonians might be +called the gospel of Christ's coming again.</p> + +<p>There are three great facts foretold in the word of +God: First, that Christ should come; that has been +fulfilled. Second, that the Holy Ghost should come; +that was fulfilled at Pentecost, and the church is able +to testify to it by its experience of his saving grace. +Third, the return of our Lord again from heaven--for +this we are told to watch and wait "till he come." +Look at that account of the last hours of Christ with +his disciples. What does Christ say to them? If I go +away I will send death after you to bring you to me? +I will send an angel after you? Not at all. He says: +"I will come again and receive you unto myself." If +my wife were in a foreign country, and I had a beautiful +mansion all ready for her, she would a good deal +rather I should come and bring her unto it than to +have me send some one else to bring her.</p> + +<h3>THE CHURCH IS THE LAMB'S WIFE.</h3> + +<p>He has prepared a mansion for his bride, and he +promises for our joy and comfort that he will come +himself and bring us to the place he has been all this +while preparing.</p> + +<p>My friends it is perfectly safe to take the word of +God as we find it. If he tells us to watch, then watch! +If he tells us to pray, then pray! If he tells us he will +come again, wait for him! Let the church bow to the +word of God, rather than trying to find out how such +things can be. "Behold, I come quickly," said Christ. +"Even so, come, Lord Jesus," should be the prayer of +the church.</p> + +<p>Take the account of the words of Christ at the communion +table. It seems to me the devil has covered +up the most precious thing about it. "For as often as +ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye do show forth the +Lord's death <i>till he come</i>." But most people seem to +think that the Lord's table is the place for self-examination +and repentance, and making good resolutions. +Not at all; you spoil it that way; it is to show forth the +Lord's death, and we are to keep it up till he comes.</p> + +<p>Some people say, "I believe Christ will come +on the other side of the millennium." Where do you get +it? I cannot find it. The word of God nowhere tells +me to watch and wait for the coming of the millennium, +but for the coming of the Lord. I do not find any place +where God says the world is to grow better and better, +and that Christ is to have a spiritual reign on +earth of a thousand years. I find that the world is to +grow worse and worse, and at length there is to be a +separation. "Two women grinding at a mill, one taken +and the other left; two men in one bed, one taken +and the other left," Luke 17:34,36. The church is +to be translated out of the world, we have two examples +already, two representatives, as we might say, of +Christ's kingdom, of what is to be done for all his true +believers. Enoch is the representative of the first dispensation, +Elijah of the second, and, as a representative +of the third dispensation, we have the Saviour +himself, who is entered into the heavens for us, and +become the first fruits of them that slept. We are not +to wait for the great white throne judgement, but the +glorified church is set on the throne with Christ, and +to help to judge the world.</p> + +<p>Now, some of you think this is a new and strange +doctrine, and that they who preach it are speckled +birds. But let me tell you that most of the spiritual +men in the pulpits of Great Britain are firm in this +faith. Spurgeon preaches it. I have heard Newman +Hall say that he knew no reason why Christ might +not come before he got through with his sermon. But +in certain wealthy and fashionable churches, where +they have the form of godliness, but deny the power +thereof,—just the state of things which Paul declares +shall be in the last days,—this doctrine is not preached +or believed. They do not want sinners to cry out in +their meeting, "What must I do to be saved?" They +want intellectual preachers who will cultivate their +taste, brilliant preachers who will rouse their imagination, +but they do not want the preaching that has in +it the power of the Holy Ghost. We live in the day +of shams in religion. The church is cold and formal; +may God wake us up! And I know of no better way +to do it than to get the church to looking for the +return of our Lord.</p> + +<p>Some people say, "Oh, you will discourage the +young converts if you preach that doctrine." Well, +my friends, that has not been my experience. I have +felt like working three times as hard ever since I came +to understand that my Lord was coming back again. +I look on this world as a wrecked vessel. God has +given me a life-boat, and said to me, "Moody, save all +you can." God will come in judgment and burn up +this world, but the children of God do not belong to +this world; they are in it, but not of it, like a ship in +the water. This world is getting darker and darker; +its ruin is coming nearer and nearer; if you have any +friends on this wreck unsaved, you had better lose no +time in getting them off.</p> + +<p>But some will say: "Do you then make the grace +of God a failure?" No, grace is not a failure but man +is. The antediluvian world was a failure; the Jewish +work was a failure; man has been a failure everywhere, +when he has had his own way and been left to himself.</p> + +<h3>CHRIST WILL SAVE HIS CHURCH.</h3> + +<p>But he will save them finally by taking them out of +the world. Now, do not take my word for it; look +this doctrine up in your Bible, and if you find it +there, bow down to it and receive it as the word of +God. Take Matthew 24:48,50: "But and if that +evil servant shall say in his heart, my Lord delayeth +his coming ... the Lord of that servant shall +come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour +that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder +and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites; there +shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." Take 2 +Peter 3:4,5: "There shall come in the last days +scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, +where is the promise of his coming? for since the +fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were +from the beginning of the creation." Go out on the +streets of Chicago and ask men about the return of +our Lord, and that is just what they would say: "Ah, +yes, the Lord delayeth his coming!"</p> + +<p>"Behold, I come quickly," said Christ to John, and +the last prayer in the Bible is, "Even so, come Lord +Jesus, come quickly." Were the early Christians disappointed +then? No; no man is disappointed who +obeys the voice of God. The world waited for the +first coming of the Lord; waited for 4,000 years, and +then he came. He was here only thirty-three years +and then he went away; but he left us a promise that +he would come again; and as the world watched and +waited for his first coming and did not watch in vain, +so now to them who wait for his appearing shall he +appear a second time unto salvation. Now let the +question go round, "Am I ready to meet the Lord if +he comes to-night?" "Be ye also ready, for in such +an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh."</p> + +<p>There is another thought I want to call your attention +to, and that is this: Christ will bring all our +friends, with him when he comes. All who have died +in the Lord are to be with him when he comes in the +clouds of heaven. "Blessed and holy is he that hath +part in the first resurrection: on such the second death +has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of +Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years," +Rev. 20:6. "But the rest of the dead lived not +again until the thousand years were past; this is the +first resurrection" (verse 5). That looks as if the +church were to have a thousand years with Christ before +the final judgment, when Satan shall be cast out, +and there shall be new heavens and new earth wherein +dwelleth righteousness.</p> + +<p>Now, I want to give you some texts to study.</p> + +<div class="block"> +<p>When we eat the Lord's supper we show forth his death, +until he come. 1 Cor. xi. 26.</p> +<p>We are using our talents, until he come. Luke xix. 13.</p> +<p>We are fighting the good fight of faith, until he come. 1 +Tim vi. 12-14.</p> +<p>We are enduring tribulation, until he come. 2 Thes. i. 7.</p> +<p>We are to be patient, until he come. James v. 8.</p> +<p>We wait for the crown of righteousness, until he come. 2 +Tim. iv. 8.</p> +<p>We wait for the crown of glory, until he come. 1 Pet. v. 4.</p> +<p>We wait for re-union with departed friends, until he come. +1 Thes. iv. 13-18.</p> +<p>We wait for Satan to be bound, until he come. Rev. xx. 3.</p> +<p>And so let us watch and wait till he comes.</p> +</div> + +<hr /> + +<div class="block"> +<p>D. L. Moody, who is perhaps the most popular and efficient +preacher of the gospel of Christ in the world, to-day, is evidently +fully committed to a belief in the speedy coming of +our Lord Jesus Christ, to judge the world and establish his +eternal kingdom. Looking over the published reports of his +sermons in Great Britain and in this country, since the beginning +of 1874, I give extracts which go to show in a plain light +the man's inner love and hope as relates to the last things, +and his warm, bold, consistent manner of expressing the +same. Thousands pray, God bless D. L. Moody.</p> +</div> + +<p>1. Mr. Moody proclaims that the grand symbols of +Daniel's, second and seventh chapters, announce four +dominant world empires, and but four, to cover all centuries +of human probation.</p> + +<p>2. That these kingdoms are and were Babylon, Medo-Persia, +Greece and Rome.</p> + +<p>3. That these have had their day of earthly supremacy +and the last has nearly passed away.</p> + +<p>4. That the fifth kingdom of Daniel is God's, to +come in its order as the fifth, to overthrow all previous +kingdoms, to be a visible and eternal kingdom, and to +be established by Christ in person at his second coming.</p> + +<p>5. That the stone cut from the mountain denotes +"Christ himself," "at his appearing and kingdom," +whose advent "is not far distant," and for whose advent +"the whole creation groans." Rom. 8:19-22.</p> + +<p>6. That the last days, described by our Saviour +in Matt. 24:37-39 as resembling the days of Lot and +Noah, are already here; observing, "I do not think the +day is far distant when our Lord will return." And +again, "just as judgment overtook Belshazzar carousing +at his feast, so will judgment come suddenly and +swiftly upon the world revelling in its sins."</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>The foregoing he preached in the City Hall, Glasgow, +March 15th, 1874, before three thousand people. On +the same day he preached on "Christ's Second Coming" +in the Free church (Pres.), telling the churches that +every thirtieth verse in the New Testament bears on +that glorious coming; and says the <i>London Christian</i>, +"With his usual power he showed what a mighty motive +this doctrine is to all who are winning souls. He +himself had found it rousing him to ten-fold more effort +to save all that could be rescued from the coming +wreck."</p> + +<p>In Philadelphia, in a discourse on Daniel's second +chapter, he said: "This dream has been nearly fulfilled +as Daniel interpreted it. 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