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diff --git a/27316.txt b/27316.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8312f81 --- /dev/null +++ b/27316.txt @@ -0,0 +1,896 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of That Gospel Sermon on the Blessed Hope, by +Dwight Lyman Moody + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: ASCII + +*** 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 + + + + + + * * * * * + + + +No. 16 + +THAT GOSPEL SERMON + +ON THE BLESSED HOPE. + +BY D. L. MOODY. + + + +_A Sermon delivered by_ D. L. MOODY, _the Evangelist, at the Great Chicago +Tabernacle, Jan. 5, 1877. Repeated in the Boston Tabernacle, April +29th._ + + +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. + +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. + +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. + + +BUT HOW IS HE GOING TO COME? + +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. + +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." + +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. + +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. + + +CHRIST IS THE PRINCE OF LIFE. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + + +THE CHURCH IS THE LAMB'S WIFE. + +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. + +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. + +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 _till he come_." 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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + + +CHRIST WILL SAVE HIS CHURCH. + +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!" + +"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." + +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. + +Now, I want to give you some texts to study. + + When we eat the Lord's supper we show forth his death, until he + come. 1 Cor. xi. 26. + + We are using our talents, until he come. Luke xix. 13. + + We are fighting the good fight of faith, until he come. 1 Tim + vi. 12-14. + + We are enduring tribulation, until he come. 2 Thes. i. 7. + + We are to be patient, until he come. James v. 8. + + We wait for the crown of righteousness, until he come. 2 Tim. + iv. 8. + + We wait for the crown of glory, until he come. 1 Pet. v. 4. + + We wait for re-union with departed friends, until he come. 1 + Thes. iv. 13-18. + + We wait for Satan to be bound, until he come. Rev. xx. 3. + + And so let us watch and wait till he comes. + + + + + 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. + + 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. + + 2. That these kingdoms are and were Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece + and Rome. + + 3. That these have had their day of earthly supremacy and the + last has nearly passed away. + + 4. 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