(An address given at the Second World Conference on Christian Fundamentals at The Moody Church Tabernacle, May 20, 1920. Not revised by author).
“Jehovah thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken.
“And Jehovah said unto me, They have well said that which they have spoken.
“I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” —Matthew 4:4
Have you ever thought there was any strength in the words that proceeded out of the mouth of God? I thank God there came a day in my life when I began to see that I could live on the promises, that God’s Word was all that was necessary. In my little room, I began to ask, “Where did this world come from anyhow?” I knew science, but I found this little phrase in the Bible, “In whom all …
“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 …
Address at the Second World Conference on Christian Fundamentals, Chicago, May 20, 1920.
“And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” —Revelation 16:13–14
“But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye …
“Behold I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” —Revelation 3:20
Christ outside! Such is the sad picture presented to us in our text—Christ outside, waiting at the door, pleading for entrance, pleading to unheeding ears.
The doors have been closed to our Lord Jesus Christ ever since the day the inn at Bethlehem had no room for Him. “He is despised and rejected of men,” it was said of Him long ago, even before He came …
“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.” —John 1:6
This man came to make the most important announcement ever made to Earth: the announcement of the fact that God is coming down to the earth, that the kingdom of heaven is to be established among men—it is to be an actual kingdom with a real king, this king to be the Messiah, King of the Jews, King of every nation,—God himself made manifest among men.
We could not direct our attention to any man who could give us more light on our calling as members of …
I have just read a book entitled, “A Guide to the Study of the Christian Religion,” sent out from Chicago University. I wish someone would write a companion volume and entitle it “A Color-Blind Guide to the Study of the Christian Religion.” For these eminent gentlemen are blind to three things. They are blind to the purple—they see no royalty in Jesus Christ. To them He is an evolution from things before Him, and did not come down from heaven as He said He did, but came up from the mud with the rest.
God’s plan was to get his people into the land of Canaan. He never wanted them to die in the wilderness and have to come through the Jordan again, which was typical of another water crossing. So many people think that crossing the Jordan is typical of coming into the fulness of the Holy Spirit and forget that there are two types, because the parents came through the Red Sea and the children there in the wilderness had never been through the Red Sea. God had to take them through Jordan.
The experience of the fulness of the Holy Spirit …
“And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens; and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
“And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
“And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
This crisis involves the whole Christian program. You may take any declaration of faith you please, put forth by a modern evangelical body, and follow its articles from the first to the last, and you will not find a one of them left intact. Modernists who are professors in our evangelical denominational schools, and later graduates who go from their feet to occupy evangelical pulpits, have not left undisputed a single declaration of our holy faith. They deny that “the Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired;” they scorn the thought that “It is a perfect treasure of heavenly …
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