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(An address given at the Second World Conference on Christian Fundamentals, May 20, 1920. Not revised by author).
“God said.” —Genesis 1:3
“Yea, hath God said?” —Genesis 3:1
“In the midst of the throne…stood a Lamb as it had been slain.” —Revelation 5:6
The first verse of Genesis reads like a perfect order, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” There is no nebulosity about that. The heaven and the earth were clearly understood, and God made both of them perfect. The earth became without form and void.
Dr. Anstey, in his fascinating book, “The Romance of …
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This parable is part of an address given by Christ in answer to three questions, which His disciples asked Him, which you will find in the first part of the 24th chapter of Matthew. The questions are these:
First: When shall these things be?
Second: What shall be the sign of Thy coming?
Third: What shall be the sign of the end of the age?
A Test Of Christian Profession
Now our Saviour answered these three questions in the 24th chapter. Then He gave three illustrations; the first a test of Christian profession, the second a test of Christian service, …
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Sermon delivered at The Moody Church by Herbert MacKenzie, D.D. President, Erieside Bible Conference.
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him, and he with me.”—Revelation 3:20
Do not think these words suggest to us that the Lord Jesus is standing outside one of the doors of this great Church and knocking, trying to get into this building, waiting for some person to go to the door and open it to let Him in. Don’t imagine for one …
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Notes of a message given in The Moody Church on January 1, 1956, based on Revelation chapters two and three.
In a previous study in this book we looked at the full-length portrait of Christ in chapter 1—the appointed Judge by whom one day God will judge the world in righteousness.
As we are thinking especially in these studies of the judgments of God, we are reminded of the words of Peter (1 Peter 4:17), “Judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not …
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“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: …
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(Helpful to Sunday School Lesson of March 14, 1920, Revelation 1)
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ,”—not Revelations, but the REVELATION of that which God told the devil in the garden of Eden, “The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent’s head.” This is the record of the “bruising,” the record of the ascendancy of Jesus Christ and His Body, called “the church,” over all the works of the devil and over all the kingdoms of the earth.
There are many things out of place, and the Revelation of Jesus Christ shows how these things are to get back …
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Imagine you are having a regular day at home or at the office, and then without warning, you are in the presence of Christ with a new body and in an entirely different realm of existence. Incredibly, Jesus is beside you, friends who have died are there, and you find yourself mingling with an innumerable host of people, all suspended in midair. You are reunited with your mother, father and friends long since forgotten on Earth. But the focus is on your leader and Savior, King Jesus, who has returned as He promised: “And if I go and prepare a …
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Part 1 The Moody Church News, September 1948
“For even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.”—Mark 10:45
A great fact is here stated concerning the Son of Man. The speaker is our Lord Himself, who in this, as in all matters, left us an example that we should follow in His steps.
The incident that gave rise to His words is a sad one. Two of His disciples, James and John, wanted to be ministered unto by being granted the chief places in His …
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Message by Paul Rader during the annual missionary rally, Thursday evening, May 31, 1917.
Surely Paul must have felt strange to be forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the Word any longer in Asia; and then when he essayed to go on to Bithynia, to have the Spirit suffer him not to remain there. He must have been baffled as he came down to Troas. Can you imagine him in this strait betwixt two, taking himself alone with the Lord to inquire of the Lord what He would have him do?
There were no open doors around him, and …
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The Appointed Judge (Revelation Chapter One)
In commencing a series of messages based on the book of Revelation, it is important to make one or two preliminary observations. We must be careful that we don’t miss seeing the wood for the trees, and lose the great message of the book in grappling with points of interpretation.
I. Setting Of The Book.
It is the one prophetic book of the New Testament. The Bible, which began with the story of creation, soon records the fact of the Fall, and then there follows the long story of human sin into which is …
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