God has put it into my heart to speak about a very sad incident in the life of King David. I mean the time when the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. God permitted Satan to lead David into sin. It is a very solemn way in which God executes judgment. When God’s people do not live up to the full measure of their light and opportunity, they are in danger of getting into darkness. The Lord Jesus said, “Take heed that the light that is in you be not darkness, because if that light become darkness how …
“For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.” —Psalm 138:2
Christians who believe in an inerrant and infallible Bible have sometimes been charged with being worshipers of a book, Bible idolators. Someone has said that as a heathen worships an idol, so we worship the Book. Dr. Marion Burton, president of Michigan University, in his book on our intellectual attitude in an age of criticism, makes this charge that “Protestantism has made a fetich of the Bible.”
Now, if God has magnified His Word above all His name, as He has, why should not we honor it and …
I don’t care what you think about it, the Word of God plainly sets forth the possession of devils and the influence of the devil. If you are reckoning on life without the devil, you do not know yet what life is.
There are men now talking about flying across the sea. They are not leaving out the wind in their reckoning. They take the wind into consideration. They take storms into consideration and they are waiting until the weather clears up. They have sense enough to get a barometer because they know the effects of clouds and fogs and …
“Why do we even need doctrinal statements? Why don’t we just believe what the Bible teaches?” The person who asked me this question was serious: Just do away with “theology” and teach what the Bible teaches!
A wonderful-sounding comment, for sure, but very uninformed and very dangerous. True, we all have the same Bible and claim to worship the same God. But to harmonize the Bible’s teachings about the person of Jesus, the role of the Holy Spirit, and the requirements for personal salvation—these, along with a host of other doctrines, lie at the …
Eighty-nine years ago, on February 5, Dwight Lyman Moody was born at Northfield, Massachusetts. Although he has been “with the Lord” since 1899, Mr. Moody is still living and ministering through the institutions which he founded.
Dr. Stuart Holden, the well-known preacher of England, in a recent address stated that the influence of D.L. Moody in England is greater today than when the evangelist was there in bodily presence. The Christian life of England owes more to Mr. Moody than to any other man. Dr. Holden says, “There are few Christian enterprises in our country which do not directly owe …
Some months ago a scientist friend, employed by a company attempting to harness the power of the atom for peaceful purposes, was moved out of the laboratory to a position of executive responsibility. His job now is to help take care of his temperamental scientist colleagues who are unable to get along together. These men engaged in the job of harnessing limitless power seem to be powerless inside themselves. They are petty, temperamental, quarrelsome, jealous and selfish. So my friend’s assignment is to help these men get along together.
As we discussed this situation, we commented on the irony of …
We come now to another group of psalms that are all intimately linked together and this time, instead of an octave, we have a septenary series. In the oldest Hebrew text, there would be only six, for originally Psalms 9 and 10 were one. We do not know just when they were divided into two, but we know them as 9 and 10 instead of simply as 9. Then, if we add to them 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, we have the series of seven.
In those first two psalms, 9 and 10, we have the people of God …
(Sermon preached in The Moody Church, July 3, 1914. Not corrected by the author).
We have been dealing with the possibilities of faith. We have seen how faith enables us to enter into fellowship with our Lord so that the soul of man becomes conjoined to Christ in the effort to win men for God. We never shall get to the end of that subject, of what it means for a man to stand up and speak to his fellow men knowing he is absolutely incompetent, but realizing all the time he is speaking that his Confederate, his Colleague, his …
“Saith the Lord. . .which is to come.” —Revelation 1:8
In the first chapter of Revelation, we see with John a vision of the Christ Who was and is. It is the Christ that was Who washed us in His own blood. It is the Christ that is Who with His head of wisdom, His searching eyes of flame and His feet of burning brass, walks now among the golden candlesticks, which are the seven churches, and holds in His hand the seven stars, which are the messengers, the pastors of the seven churches.
I want to give you a glimpse of the New Testament church at Jerusalem. There were one hundred and twenty believers, it says, and within twelve months, a brief year, we have a record of growth described in such words as, “multitude,” “multitudes,” “three thousand,” “five thousand,” “multiplied greatly.” I do not know how many people had been led to Christ, but I know that we have here the most remarkable piece of growth and development that the world knows anything about. It is most amazing. All I can hope to do this morning is to call you attention to …
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