I speak of rank modernism. There are varying degrees of this heresy. Some so-called modernists, who are in the drift from the truth, but have not landed in the extreme camp of modernism, would deny the following; but if they will keep on drifting in their preaching and teaching they will practically, sooner or later, confirm what is said below:
1. Modernism in the character of Jesus substitutes “divine” for “deity.” This is a Unitarian position. The true Gospel says that Jesus is very God of very God. He who denies the deity of Jesus, and compliments Him with being …
Moody the Evangelist: A Character Sketch with Original Sayings By: Joseph B. Bowles, circa 1926
That great Christian leader, the late Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, D.D., editor of The Missionary Review of the World, said of Mr. Moody that more than any other man who ever lived he had come nearest reaching the world with his voice and with his pen.
Mr. Luther D. Wishard, the first college secretary of the International Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association [YMCA], expressed it thus: “Mr. Moody delivered the gospel message in a larger number of places, to a larger number of …
I have taken a text from the 139th Psalm. There are just two verses that I want to read. Psalm 139:23–24: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”
If you do not get much out of my sermon you will have your soul fed and you will be wonderfully helped if you will read the 139th Psalm over some time today. It has a personal application.
I am not going to attempt anything like an exposition …
You will find the text in the epistle tot he Hebrews. Hebrews 12:6, “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.”
In connection with this passage, I would like to read some verses in the context. “If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much …
You will know if you are at all familiar with your Bible that in the conquest of Canaan, Joshua had to meet and defeat thirty-one different kings. These were rulers over petty kingdoms. The Canaan experience of the children of Israel represents the deepest and best spiritual experience, typically speaking. We may consider these thirty-one kings as representing the different foes which we must meet and triumph over if we are to apprehend that for which we have been apprehended. God has called you and me not simply that He might take us to heaven, but that a certain purpose …
Five times in the New Testament our Lord Jesus Christ is called the only begotten and five times He is called the first-born or the first-begotten. Five times our Lord is called the only begotten—that is what He is in His essential deity. Five times He is called first begotten—that is what He became as a man. All I shall attempt to do is to turn you from one Scripture to another, linking these together with a few comments to bring out the true deity and the true humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
It would appear that almost from the beginning of history man has perpetuated the memory of his heroes and his epoch-making events by piling together stones. We can trace the custom in the Bible as far back as Genesis twenty-eight. You will remember that we find recorded there the story of Jacob’s wonderful vision of God in which God promised divine protection and provision. Jacob took the stones of that place and made a pillar, and anointing it with oil he called the name of it Bethel—the house of God. That was indeed …
