"Why should I get a new remedy for sin when I have found one that has never failed?" he said. "The Gospel stood the test for eighteen centuries. I know what it will do for sin-sick souls. I have tried its power for forty years. It is a singular fact that few men, otherwise well educated, are acquainted with the English Bible. I can secure a hundred men who can teach Greek and Latin well where I can find only one that can teach the Bible well.
"Take the Bible; study it; leave criticism to the theologians; feed on the Word; then go out to work. Combine the two--study and work--if you would be a full-orbed Christian. The Bible is assailed as never before. Infidels cast it overboard, but it will always swim to the shore. The doctrines, the promises, the messages of love are as fresh to-day as when first spoken. Pass on the message; be obedient to commands; waste no time in discussion; let speculation and theorizing pass into the hands of those who like that kind of study. Be willing to do little things for the Master."
D.L. Moody
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Moody on the WORD of GOD...
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Moody on BELIEVING...
"A man came to me with a difficult passage in the Bible and said:
"'Mr. Moody, what do you do with that?'
"'I do not do anything with it'
"'How do you understand it?'
"'I do not understand it.'
"'How do you explain it?'
"'I do not explain it?'
"'What do you do with it?'
"'I do not do anything with it.'
"'You do not believe it, do you?'
"'Oh, yes, I believe it.'
"'Well, you don't accept anything you can't understand, do you?'
"'Yes, I certainly do. There are lots of things I do not understand, but I believe them. I do not know anything about higher mathematics, but I believe in them. I do not understand astronomy, but I believe in astronomy. Can you tell me why the same kind of food turns flesh, fish, hair, feathers, or hoofs, according as it is eaten by one animal or another? A man told me a while ago he would not believe a thing he had never seen, and I asked him if he had ever seen his own brain?'"
The Life of Dwight L. Moody by His Son, Sword of the Lord Publishers, Murfreesboro, TN
To be like Moody
"Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody, of East Northfield , is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now, I shall have gone up higher, that is all; out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal--a body that death cannot touch; that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body.
I was born of the flesh in 1837. I was born of the Spirit in 1856. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit will live forever."
