The Handwriting Blotted Out – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Handwriting Blotted Out – Dwight Lyman Moody We have now considered the Ten Commandments, and the question for each one of us is — are we keeping them? If God should weigh us by them, would we be found wanting or not wanting? Do we keep the law, the whole law? Are we obeying God with […]
The Dying Child – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Dying Child – Dwight Lyman Moody A lady had a little child that was dying. She thought it was resting sweetly in the arms of Jesus. She went into the room and the child asked her: “What are those clouds and mountains that I see so dark?” “Why, Eddy,” said his mother, “there are […]
Tenth Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody
Tenth Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.” In the twelfth chapter of Luke our Saviour lifted two danger signals. “Beware ye of the leaven […]
Sixth Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody
Sixth Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody “Thou shalt not kill.” I used to say: “What is the use of taking up a law like this in an audience where, probably, there isn’t a man who ever thought of, or ever will commit murder?” But as one gets on in years, he sees many a murder […]
Seventh Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody
Seventh Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” An English army-officer in India who had been living an impure life went around one evening to argue religion with the chaplain. During their talk the officer said: “Religion is all very well, but you must admit that there are difficulties — about the […]
Second Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody
Second Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I […]
Ninth Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody
Ninth Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” Two out of the Ten Commandments deal with sins that find expression by the tongue — the third commandment, which forbids taking God’s name in vain, and this ninth commandment, which forbids false witness against our neighbor. This two-fold prohibition […]
Moody Asks a Few Questions – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody Asks a Few Questions – Dwight Lyman Moody Let me ask you a question. Do you think that those gamblers, thieves, harlots, and drunkards who are trampling the ten commandments under their feet, they who have never given any respect to God’s Word or to His instructions — do you think they will be […]
Fourth Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody
Fourth Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy […]
First Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody
First Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” My friend, are you ready to be weighed against this commandment? Have you fulfilled, or are you willing to fulfil, all the requirements of this law? Put it into one of the scales, and step into the other. Is your heart […]
Fifth Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody
Fifth Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody “Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” We are living in dark days on this question too. It really seems as if the days the apostle Paul wrote about are upon us: “In the […]
An Infidel Who Would not Talk Infidelity Before His Daughter – Dwight Lyman Moody
An Infidel Who Would not Talk Infidelity Before His Daughter – Dwight Lyman Moody Not long ago I went into a man’s house, and when I commenced to talk about religion he turned to his daughter and said: “You had better go out of the room; I want to say a few words to Mr. […]
Affecting Incident At Sea – Dwight Lyman Moody
Affecting Incident At Sea – Dwight Lyman Moody Moody’s Love and Prayer for 700 “Quaking Souls.” “I remember clearly lying in my berth early that Saturday morning (Nov.26th, 1892, on the steamer Spree when she was one thousand miles out from Southampton on her way to New York), congratulating myself that I had gotten passage […]
A Sad and Singular Story – Dwight Lyman Moody
A Sad and Singular Story – Dwight Lyman Moody When I was a young boy — before I was a Christian — I was in a field one day with a man who was hoeing. He was weeping, and he told me a strange story, which I have never forgotten. When he left home his […]
A Little Child Converts an Infidel – Dwight Lyman Moody
A Little Child Converts an Infidel – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember hearing of a Sabbath-school teacher who had led every one of her children to Christ. She was a faithful teacher. Then she tried to get her children to go out and bring other children into the school. One day one of them came […]
It Will Kill Her – Dwight Lyman Moody
It Will Kill Her – Dwight Lyman Moody I was thinking to-day of the difference between those who knew Christ when trouble comes upon them and those who knew Him not. I know several members of families who are just stumbling into their graves over trouble. I know two widows in Chicago who are weeping […]
Free – Dwight Lyman Moody
Free – Dwight Lyman Moody You will remember when we had slavery we used to have men come up from Kentucky, Tennessee, and other slave states in order to escape from slavery. I hope if there are any Southern people here they will not think in this allusion I am trying to wound their feelings. […]
A Day of Decision – Dwight Lyman Moody
A Day of Decision – Dwight Lyman Moody I believe there is a day of decision in our lives — a day upon which the crisis of our lives occurs. There is a day when the Son of Man comes and stands at our heart and knocks and knocks for the last time and leaves […]
The Spirit Quenched – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Spirit Quenched – Dwight Lyman Moody 1 Thessalonians 5:19Quench not the Spirit. A few months ago in New York a physician called upon a young man who was ill. He sat for a little by the bedside examining his patient, and then he honestly told him the sad intelligence that he had but a […]
Unmercenary Motives – Dwight Lyman Moody
Unmercenary Motives – Dwight Lyman Moody 1 Thessalonians 2:3-6For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:… “When I gave up my business sixteen years ago, after three months of the severest struggle of my life, whether I should go for dollars and cents or for souls, from that day to […]
Brought Nigh Through Death – Dwight Lyman Moody
Brought Nigh Through Death – Dwight Lyman Moody Ephesians 2:13But now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made near by the blood of Christ. A mother in New York whose son had got into dissipated and abandoned habits, after repeated remonstrances and threats, was turned out of doors by his father, […]
The Sting of Death Extracted – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Sting of Death Extracted – Dwight Lyman Moody 1 Corinthians 15:55-58O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?… The reason I like the gospel is that it has taken out of my path the worst enemies I ever had. My mind goes back to twenty years ago, before I was […]
Confession of Christ Indispensable – Dwight Lyman Moody
Confession of Christ Indispensable – Dwight Lyman Moody Romans 10:10For with the heart man believes to righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made to salvation. During a series of evangelistic services in Ireland a young man found peace with God, but three nights after I found him again in the inquiry room. “What’s wrong?” […]
The Law the Standard – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Law the Standard – Dwight Lyman Moody Romans 3:19-20Now we know that what things soever the law said, it said to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped… When Chicago was a small town it was incorporated and made a city. There was one clause in the new law […]
While Christ is Near We Must Cry to Him for Pardon – Dwight Lyman Moody
While Christ is Near We Must Cry to Him for Pardon – Dwight Lyman Moody John 7:31-36And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ comes, will he do more miracles than these which this man has done?… A few years ago, when Pennsylvania had a Christian governor, there was a young […]
Unquenchable Enthusiasm – Dwight Lyman Moody
Unquenchable Enthusiasm – Dwight Lyman Moody John 4:1-42When therefore the LORD knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,… When I was going to Europe in 1867, my friend Mr. Stuart, of Philadelphia, said, “Be sure to be at the General Assembly in Edinburgh, in June. I was […]
Whosoever – Dwight Lyman Moody
Whosoever – Dwight Lyman Moody John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish… — Somebody said he would rather read “Whosoever” than see his own name, because he should be afraid it might refer to some other man who might have the […]
How a Young Irishman Opened Moody’s Eyes – Dwight Lyman Moody
How a Young Irishman Opened Moody’s Eyes – Dwight Lyman Moody John 3:1There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:… I want to tell you how I got my eyes open to the truth that God loves the sinner. When I went over to Europe I was preaching in […]
Is the Prayer of Faith Always Answered – Dwight Lyman Moody
Is the Prayer of Faith Always Answered – Dwight Lyman Moody Luke 11:9-10And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.… I haven’t time to answer that question as I should like to do; but faith must have a […]
The Cross and Crown – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Cross and Crown – Dwight Lyman Moody Matthew 8:1When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.… At last He cried, with a loud voice: “It is finished!” Perhaps not many on earth heard it, or cared about it when they did hear it; but I can imagine there were not […]
A Father’s Solicitude for the Erring – Dwight Lyman MoodyA
A Father’s Solicitude for the Erring – Dwight Lyman MoodyA Hosea 11:8-9 How shall I give you up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver you, Israel? how shall I make you as Admah? how shall I set you as Zeboim?… A number of years ago, before any railway came into Chicago, they used to bring in […]
The Edict of Darcius – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Edict of Darcius – Dwight Lyman Moody Daniel 6:9Why king Darius signed the writing and the decree. We find that Darius — who was probably one of the high military commanders engaged in the siege of Babylon — takes the kingdom, while Cyrus is off conquering other parts of the world. As soon as […]
Third Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody
Third Commandment – Dwight Lyman Moody Psalm 111:9He sent redemption to his people: he has commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name. “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.” I was […]
A Campaign for God
A Campaign for God – Dwight Lyman Moody Numbers 13:30And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.… The Israelites sent twelve spies into Paran and Kadesh to reconnoitre. I suppose they wanted to see if God’s word […]
Oil as a Symbol: Service Permeated by the Holy Spirit
Oil as a Symbol: Service Permeated by the Holy Spirit – Dwight Lyman Moody Leviticus 2:1-16And when any will offer a meat offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it… Two women used to come to my meetings, and I could tell from the expression […]
For the Sake of the Substitute
For the Sake of the Substitute – Dwight Lyman Moody Leviticus 1:4And he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. I was led into the church of Dr. Kirk, at Boston, when some special meetings were going on. I […]
Weighed in the Balances
Weighed in the Balances – Dwight Lyman Moody Exodus 20:1And God spoke all these words, saying, In the fifth chapter of Daniel we read the history of King Belshazzar. One chapter tells us all we know about him. One short sight of his career is all we have. He bursts in upon the scene and […]
Conditions of Successful Work for God
Conditions of Successful Work for God – Dwight Lyman Moody Exodus 6:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, Now shall you see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go… 1. Faith in God, and honest conviction that God will do as He says He will. 2. Courage to ,do what […]
God Hears the Cry of His Suffering Children
God Hears the Cry of His Suffering Children – Dwight Lyman Moody Exodus 2:23-25And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage… My little boy has three calls. He opens the study door and calls, “Papa.” I pay […]
The Family in the Ark
The Family in the Ark – Dwight Lyman Moody And the LORD said to Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; for you have I seen righteous before me in this generation.… Genesis 7:1-3 I should like to see every father in this room safe in the ark; and then I […]
Entering into Christ as into an Ark
Entering into Christ as into an Ark – Dwight Lyman Moody And the LORD said to Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; for you have I seen righteous before me in this generation.… GENESIS 7:1-3 When I was in Manchester, I went into the gallery one Sunday night to have a […]
“Strangers have devoured his strength”
“Strangers have devoured his strength” – Dwight Lyman Moody Strangers have devoured his strength from Hosea 7:9 What gives spiritual weakness like allowed sin? It was so with Israel, it will ever be so with us. Yielding to unhallowed association (with) strangers devour our strength. If you ever saw a cake not turned, baked […]
“Pull for the Shore, Sailor,”
“Pull for the Shore, Sailor,” – Dwight Lyman Moody A vessel was wrecked off the shore. Eager eyes were watching and strong arms manned the life-boat. For hours they tried to reach that vessel through the great breakers that raged and foamed on the sand-bank, but it seemed impossible. The boat appeared to be leaving […]
“Let the Lower Lights be Burning”
“Let the Lower Lights be Burning” – Dwight Lyman Moody A few years ago, at the mouth of Cleveland harbor, there were two lights, one at each side of the bay, called the upper and lower lights; and to enter the harbor safely by night, vessels must sight both of the lights. These western lakes […]
“Hold the Fort for I am Coming”
“Hold the Fort for I am Coming” – Dwight Lyman Moody I am told that when General Sherman went through Atlanta toward the sea, through the southern states; he left in the fort, in the Kenesaw mountains, a little handful of men to guard some rations that he brought there. And General Hood got into […]
Worldly Amusements
Worldly Amusements – Dwight Lyman Moody Then, another thing, I think, that grieves the Spirit, is the miserable policy of introducing questionable entertainments. There are lotteries, for instance, that we have in many churches. If a man wants to gamble, he doesnt have to go to some gambling den; he can stay in the church. […]
Witnessing in Power
Witnessing in Power – Dwight Lyman Moody The subject of witness-bearing in the power of the Holy Ghost is not sufficiently understood by the Church. Until we have more intelligence on this point we are laboring under great disadvantage. Now, if you will take your Bible and turn to the 5th chapter of John and […]
Why Some Fail?
Why Some Fail? – Dwight Lyman Moody We read in John 20:22:“And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost.”Then see Luke 24:49:“And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endued […]
What Wins
What Wins – Dwight Lyman Moody A great many parents have inquired of me how to win their children. They say they have talked with them, and sometimes they have scolded them and have lectured them, and signally failed. I think there is no way so sure to win our families and our neighbors, and […]
What Must I Do To Be Saved?
What Must I Do To Be Saved? – Dwight Lyman Moody Suppose you do not want to hear a sermon (on this last night) so much as you want to know how to be saved. I want, if I can, to answer that question, “What must I do to be saved?” There is no question […]
What Man thinks – God says – Dwight Lyman Moody
What Man thinks – God says – Dwight Lyman Moody WHAT MAN THINKS GOD SAYSI am not so bad as others There is no difference, all have sinned. (Rom 3:22)I will do the best I can, then God will make up the rest. Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Eph. 2:9)I will try […]
What It Is Not
What It Is Not – Dwight Lyman Moody I admit there is such a thing as resisting the Spirit of God, and resisting till the Spirit of God has departed; but if the Spirit of God has left any, they will not be troubled about their sins. The very fact that they are troubled, shows […]
What is Testimony?
What is Testimony? – Dwight Lyman Moody If we keep back the Gospel of Christ and do not bring Christ before the people, then the Spirit has not the opportunity to work. But the moment Peter stood up on the day of Pentecost and bore testimony to this one fact, that Christ died for sin, […]
What is Success?
What is Success? – Dwight Lyman Moody The Gospel has not lost its power; it is just as powerful today as it ever has been. We dont want any new doctrine. It is still the old Gospel with the old power, the Holy Ghost power; and if the churches will but confess their sins and […]
What is Needed – Dwight Lyman Moody
What is Needed – Dwight Lyman Moody Nine-tenths, at least, of the church members never think of speaking for Christ. If they see a man, perhaps a near relative, just going right down to ruin, going rapidly, they never think of speaking to him about his sinful course and of seeking to win him to […]
Unconverted Choirs
Unconverted Choirs – Dwight Lyman Moody Paul tells us not to speak in an unknown tongue, and if we have choirs who are singing in an unknown tongue, why is not that just as great an abomination? I have been in churches where they have had a choir, who would rise and sing, and sing, […]
Tomorrow May Be Too Late
Tomorrow May Be Too Late – Dwight Lyman Moody “Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.” Isa. 55:6. I have learned that when anyone becomes in earnest about his soul’s salvation and he begins to seek God, it does not take long for an anxious […]
To the Afflicted
To the Afflicted If I were to ask this audience what Christ came into this world for, every one of you would say to save sinners, and then you would stop. A great many think that is all Christ came to do – to save sinners. Now, we are told that He came, to be […]
Three Groans – Dwight Lyman Moody
Three Groans – Dwight Lyman Moody Three Groans There are three groans mentioned in Romans 8: The groan of creationThe groan of the believerThe groan of the Holy Spirit
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – September 29
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – September 29 – Dwight Lyman Moody This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. —1 John 5:4 The world conquers me when it succeeds in hindering me from seeing, loving, holding communion with, and serving my Father, God. I conquer it when I lay my hand […]
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – September 28
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – September 28 – Dwight Lyman Moody Wait for the promise of the Father. —Acts 1:4 Tarry at a promise till God meets you there. He always returns by way of His promises. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 9
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 9 – Dwight Lyman Moody Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee. —Psalm 55:22 He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself with an uneasy burden. The fear of what may come, expectation of what will come, desire of what will not […]
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 8
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 8 – Dwight Lyman Moody Thou shalt never wash my feet. —John 13:8 Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that God is willing to bestow upon us is not humility, but the mockery of it. A genuine humility will ever feel the need of the largest measures […]
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 7
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 7 – Dwight Lyman Moody As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. —Galatians 3:27 Not simply the righteousness of our Savior, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put on as a […]
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 6
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 6 – Dwight Lyman Moody Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord…I know that…whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto Him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the […]
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 5
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 5 – Dwight Lyman Moody A certain man…who never had walked…heard Paul speak: who…perceiving that he had faith to be healed, said…Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. —Acts 14:8-10 Where true faith is, it will induce obedience and where it does induce obedience, it […]
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 19
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 19 – Dwight Lyman Moody Endure…as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. —2 Timothy 2:3 Life is not victory, but battle. Be patient a little longer. By and by, each in his turn, we shall hear the sunset gun. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 18
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 18 – Dwight Lyman Moody We have known and believed the love that God hath to us. —1 John 4:16 The secret of walking closely with Christ, and working successfully for Him, is to fully realize that we are His beloved. Let us but feel that He has […]
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 17
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 17 – Dwight Lyman Moody Wait for the promise of the Father. —Acts 1:4 When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place…and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. —Acts 2:1, 4 Obedience to a divine prompting transforms […]
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 16
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 16 I know whom I have believed. —2 Timothy 1:12 Personal acquaintance with Christ is a living thing. Like a tree that uses every hour for growth, it thrives in sunshine, it is refreshed by rain—even the storm drives it to fasten its grip more firmly in the […]
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 15
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 15 – Dwight Lyman Moody I have set thee…that thou shouldst be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. —Acts 13:47 Ye shall be witnesses unto me…unto the uttermost parts of the earth. —Acts 1:8 Men are questioning now, as they never have questioned before, whether Christianity […]
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 14
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 14 – Dwight Lyman Moody I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land. —Genesis 28:15 “With thee,” companionship; “Keep thee,” guardianship; “Bring thee,” guidance.
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 13
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 13 – Dwight Lyman Moody Come out from among them, and be ye separate. —2 Corintians 6:17 With all the world in his choice, God placed His ancient people in a very remarkable situation. On the north they were walled in by the snowy ranges of Lebanon; a […]
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 12
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 12 – Dwight Lyman Moody Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. —2 Timothy 2:15 Have thy tools ready; God will find thee work. —Charles Kingsley
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 11
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 11 – Dwight Lyman Moody Jesus constrained His disciples to get into a ship. —Matthew 14:22 Jesus constrained them to go! One would think that if ever there was the certain promise of success in a mission, it was here. Surely, here, if anywhere, a triumphant issue might […]
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 10 –
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – June 10 – Dwight Lyman Moody Well done, good and faithful servant…Thou wicked and slothful servant. —Matthew 25:21, 26 God holds us responsible not for what we have, but for what we might have; not for what we are, but for what we might be. —Mark Guy Pearse
The Unpardonable Sin – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Unpardonable Sin – Dwight Lyman Moody Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? But when the Pharisees heard it, […]
The Unerring Guide – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Unerring Guide – Dwight Lyman Moody I am told by people who have been over the Alps, that the guide fastens them, if they are going in a dangerous place, right to himself, and he just goes on before: they are fastened to the guide. And so should the Christian be linked to His […]
The Triumphs of Love – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Triumphs of Love – Dwight Lyman Moody In the fifteenth chapter of Romans, thirteenth verse, the Apostle says: “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost.” The next thing then is hope. Did you ever […]
The Ten Commandments – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Ten Commandments – Dwight Lyman Moody The Ten Commandments:Exodus 20:3-171. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. […]
The Sure Guide – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Sure Guide – Dwight Lyman Moody Turn to the sixteenth chapter of John, in the thirteenth verse, and read: “Howbeit, when He, the Spirit of Truth is come, He will guide you into all truth; for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear that shall He speak; and He will […]
The Seven “I Wills” of Christ – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Seven “I Wills” of Christ – Dwight Lyman Moody When a man says, “I will,” it may not mean much. We very often say “I will” when we dont mean to fulfill what we say. But when we come to the “I will” of Christ, He means to fulfill it. Everything He promised to […]
The Reward of the Faithful – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Reward of the Faithful – Dwight Lyman Moody I can speak from experience – I have been in the Lord’s service for twenty one years, and I want to testify that He is a good paymaster – that He pays promptly. Oh, I think I see faces before me light up at these words. […]
The Qualifications for Soul Winning – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Qualifications for Soul Winning – Dwight Lyman Moody 1. Shake off the vipers that are in the Church, formalism, pride, and self-importance, etc. 2. It is the only happy life to live for the salvation of souls. 3. We must be willing to do little things for Christ. 4. Must be of good courage. […]
The Ministry of Sympathy – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Ministry of Sympathy – Dwight Lyman Moody Mark 10:49 “And Jesus stood still.” Do we not need, in reading the life of the great Exemplar, to note how His ministry was without haste. In these busy lives of ours, we are so apt to miss this part of sympathy in ministering to others, which […]
The Lord’s Work – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Lord’s Work – Dwight Lyman Moody What men want in doing the Lord’s work is (1) Courage, (2) Enthusiasm, (3) Perseverance, (4) Sympathy.1. Courage. – The man who is afraid, who holds down his head like a bulrush, is not the worker whom God will bless; but God gives courage to him whom He […]
The Greatest Weapon – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Greatest Weapon – Dwight Lyman Moody The sword of the Spirit is the Word of God, and what we need specially is to be filled with the Spirit, so we shall know how to use the Word. There was a Christian man talking to a skeptic, who was using the Word, and the skeptic […]
The Fear of the Lord – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Fear of the Lord – Dwight Lyman Moody The Fear of the Lord “The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.” He who does not trust in God, knows nothing yet as he ought to know. His knowledge is partial and distorted. Whatever acquisitions in science he may attain, if his heart […]
The Faithful Friend – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Faithful Friend – Dwight Lyman Moody The Holy Spirit tells a man of his faults in order to lead him to a better life. In John 16:8 we read: “He is to reprove the world of sin.” Now, there are a class of people who dont like this part of the Spirits work. Do […]
The Demoniac – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Demoniac – Dwight Lyman Moody When this man found himself delivered, he wanted to go with the Savior. That was gratitude. Christ had saved him and redeemed him. He had redeemed him from the hand of the enemy. And this man cried, “Let me follow you around the world; where You go I will […]
The Cross – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Cross – Dwight Lyman Moody While down at a convention in Illinois an old man got past seventy years; and said he remembered but one thing about his father, and that one thing followed him all through life. He could not remember his death, he had no recollection of his funeral, but he recollected […]
The Collier and his Children – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Collier and his Children – Dwight Lyman Moody When I was holding meetings a little time ago, at Wharnecliff, in England, a coal district, a great burly collier [coal miner] came up to me, and said in his Yorkshire dialect, “Dost know wha was at meetin’ t’night?” “No,” I answered. “Why,” said he, “So-and-so” […]
The Climax Sin – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Climax Sin – Dwight Lyman Moody That is the sin of the world. Why, a great many people think that unbelief is a sort of misfortune, but do not know, if you will allow me the expression, it is the damning sin of the world today; that is what unbelief is, the mother of […]
The Church Grieves the Spirit – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Church Grieves the Spirit – Dwight Lyman Moody I think that if we search, we will find something in the Church grieving the Spirit of God; it may be a mere schism in the church; it may be some unsound doctrine; it may be some division in the Church. There is one thing I […]
The Child Angel – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Child Angel – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember a number of years ago I went out of Chicago to try to preach. I went down to a little town where was being held a Sunday-school convention. I was a perfect stranger in the place, and when I arrived a man stepped up to me […]
The Child and the Infidel – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Child and the Infidel – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember hearing of a Sabbath-school teacher who had led every one of her children to Christ. She was a faithful teacher. Then she tried to get her children to go out and bring other children into the school. One day one of them came and […]
The Child and the Book – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Child and the Book – Dwight Lyman Moody I like to think of Christ as a burden-bearer. A minister was one day moving his library upstairs. As the minister was going upstairs with his load of books his little boy came in, and was very anxious to help his father. So his father just […]
The Child and President Lincoln – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Child and President Lincoln – Dwight Lyman Moody During the war I remember a young man not twenty, who was court-martialed down in the front and sentenced to be shot. The story was this: The young fellow had enlisted. He was not obliged to, but he went off with another young man. They were […]
The Boy that Went West – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Boy that Went West – Dwight Lyman Moody A number of years ago, before any railway came into Chicago, they used to bring in the grain from the western prairies in wagons for hundreds of miles, so as to have it shipped off by the lakes. There was a father who had a large […]
The Boon of Victory – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Boon of Victory – Dwight Lyman Moody The next thing the Spirit of God does is to give us liberty. He first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty, and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present day. And I […]
The Blind Child – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Blind Child – Dwight Lyman Moody I was in an infirmary not long since, and a mother brought a little child in. She said, “Doctor, my little child’s eyes have not been opened for several days, and I would just like you to do something for them.” The doctor got some ointment and put […]
The Bible – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Bible – Dwight Lyman Moody People say this Bible was good enough for ancient days, but we have men of culture, of science, of literature now, and its value has decreased to the people of our day. Now, give me a better book, and I will throw it away. Has the world ever offered […]
The Ark – Dwight Lyman Moody
The Ark – Dwight Lyman Moody Notes from D.L. Moody’s London 1882 Bible: The Ark (Genesis 6,7,8) The Hebrew word for the Ark of Noah is (teebah), the Ark of the testimony in the holiest is called (Aron), both signifying a chest. The Ark of Noah was of Gopher Wood, the Ark of the covenant […]
Sympathy – Dwight Lyman Moody
Sympathy – Dwight Lyman Moody I want to tell you a lesson taught me in Chicago a few years ago. In the months of July and August, a great many deaths occurred among children, you all know. I remember I attended a great many funerals; sometimes I would go to two or three funerals a […]
Sweet Words – Dwight Lyman Moody
Sweet Words – Dwight Lyman Moody In the 6th chapter of Numbers and 22d verse we read: “And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them, The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make […]
Spiritual Irrigation – Dwight Lyman Moody
Spiritual Irrigation – Dwight Lyman Moody It is possible a man may just barely have life and be satisfied; and I think that a great many are in that condition. In the 3rd chapter of John we find that Nicodemus came to Christ and that he received life. At first this life was feeble. You […]
Spirits that Peep and Mutter – Dwight Lyman Moody
Spirits that Peep and Mutter – Dwight Lyman Moody There is another passage which reads, “And when they shall say unto you, seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep and mutter: Should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?” What is but table-rapping, and […]
Son, Remember – Dwight Lyman Moody
Son, Remember – Dwight Lyman Moody I have been twice in the jaws of death. Once I was drowning, and the third time I was about to sink I was rescued. In the twinkling of an eye everything I had said, done, or thought of, flashed across my mind. I do not understand how everything […]
Shipwrecks – Dwight Lyman Moody
Shipwrecks – Dwight Lyman Moody Alas! how many young converts have made shipwreck against such churches. Instead of being a harbor of delight to them, they have proved false lights, alluring them to destruction. Isnt it time for us to get down on our faces before God and cry mightily to Him to forgive us […]
Shall We Meet Our Loved Ones Again? – Dwight Lyman Moody
Shall We Meet Our Loved Ones Again? – Dwight Lyman Moody This is one of the grandest chapters in the writings of Paul. It is especially grand to those who have lost friends. No sooner do loved ones pass away than the question arises, Shall we meet them again? Paul answers this question and gives […]
Secret of Joy – Dwight Lyman Moody
Secret of Joy – Dwight Lyman Moody Remember, then, that love is power, and peace is power; but now I will call attention to another fruit of the Spirit, and this too is power – the grace of joy. It is the privilege, I believe, of every Christian to walk in the light, as God […]
Secret of Efficiency – Dwight Lyman Moody
Secret of Efficiency – Dwight Lyman Moody I can not help but believe there are many Christians who want to be more efficient in the Lord’s service, and the object of this book is to take up this subject of the Holy Spirit, that they may see from whom to expect this power. In the […]
Saved in Weakness – Dwight Lyman Moody
Saved in Weakness – Dwight Lyman Moody Doctor Andrew Bonar told me how, in the highlands of Scotland, often sheep would wander off into the rocks and get into places that they couldn’t get out of. The grass on these mountains is very sweet, and the sheep like it, and they will jump down ten […]
Sammy and his Mother – Dwight Lyman Moody
Sammy and his Mother – Dwight Lyman Moody At one time my sister had trouble with her little boy, and the father said, “Why, Sammy, you must go now and ask your mother’s forgiveness.” The little fellow said he wouldn’t. The father says, “You must. If you don’t go and ask your mother’s forgiveness, I […]
Rover – Dwight Lyman Moody
Rover – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember when Dr. Arnold, who has gone to God, was delivering a sermon, he used this illustration. The sermon and text have all gone, but that illustration is fresh upon my mind to-night and brings home the truth. He said, “You have been sometimes out at dinner with a […]
Right Overflow – Dwight Lyman Moody
Right Overflow – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember the morning I came out of my room after I had first trusted Christ, and I thought the old sun shone a good deal brighter than it ever had before; I thought that the sun was just smiling upon me, and I walked out upon Boston Common, […]
Revivals – Dwight Lyman Moody
Revivals – Dwight Lyman Moody Address delivered on Wednesday morning, August 2, 1899, at East Northfield, Mass.THERE is nothing I am more concerned about just now than that GOD should revive His churchin America. I believe it is the only hope for our republic, for I don’t believe that a republicanform of government can last […]
Revelation comments – Dwight Lyman Moody
Revelation comments – Dwight Lyman Moody Chapter 1:10 No day will help thee if thou art not in the spirit of the day. No outward thing however beautiful would give you of itself the sense of beauty. There might be spread before thee the most gorgeous scene on which the eye ever gazed, and there […]
Resisting the Holy Ghost is Not Grieving Him – Dwight Lyman Moody
Resisting the Holy Ghost is Not Grieving Him – Dwight Lyman Moody Let us now consider the sin of “Grieving the Spirit.” Resisting the Holy Ghost is one thing, grieving Him is another. Stephen charged the unbelieving Jews in the 7th chapter of Acts, “Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost as your fathers did, […]
Reservoir of Love – Dwight Lyman Moody
Reservoir of Love – Dwight Lyman Moody We read that the fruit of the Spirit is love. God is love, Christ is love, and we should not be surprised to read about the love of the Spirit. What a blessed attribute is this. May I call it the dome of the temple of the graces. […]
Repentance – Dwight Lyman Moody
Repentance – Dwight Lyman Moody You will find my text tonight in the seventeenth chapter of Acts, part of the thirtieth verse: “And now commandeth all men everywhere to repent.” I have heard a number of complaints about the preaching here in the Tabernacle, that repentance has not been touched upon. The fact is that […]
Rappings in the Dark – Dwight Lyman Moody
Rappings in the Dark – Dwight Lyman Moody I want to say right here, that I think in this day a great many children of God are turning aside and committing a grievous sin. I dont know as they think it is a sin, but if we examine the Scriptures, I am sure we will […]
Quench Not – Dwight Lyman Moody
Quench Not – Dwight Lyman Moody In 1st Thessalonians, 5th chapter, we are told not to Quench the Spirit. Now, I am confident the cares of the world are coming in and quenching the Spirit with a great many. They say: “I dont care for the world;” perhaps not the pleasures of the world so […]
Psalm 23 comments – Dwight Lyman Moody
Psalm 23 comments – Dwight Lyman Moody Psalm 23 comments from D. L. Moody’s Bibles: Psalm 23:1 “The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want” a lean scraggy sheep with torn limbs & tattered fleece, would be small credit to the shepherd’s care; but unless we will wander from Him, and will not […]
Proverbs comments – Dwight Lyman Moody
Proverbs comments – Dwight Lyman Moody “My son, hear the instruction of Thy Father” 1:8“My son, don’t be enticed by sinners” 1:10“My son, walk not in the way of sinners” 1:15“My son, receive My Words” 2:1“My son, forget not my law” 3:1“My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord” 3:11 See also 3:21, 4:10, […]
Prayer Answered – Dwight Lyman Moody
Prayer Answered – Dwight Lyman Moody Only a few years ago, in the city of Philadelphia, there was a mother who had two sons. They were just going as fast as they could to ruin. They were breaking her heart, and she went into a little prayer-meeting and got up and presented them for prayer. […]
Praising God with One Heart – Dwight Lyman Moody
Praising God with One Heart – Dwight Lyman Moody We find, the very moment that Solomon completed the Temple, when all was finished, they were just praising God with one heart – the choristers and the singers and the ministers were all one; there was not any discord; they were all praising God, and the […]
Power of Love – Dwight Lyman Moody
Power of Love – Dwight Lyman Moody Love is the badge that Christ gave His disciples. Some put on one sort of badge and some another. Some put on a strange kind of dress, that they may be known as Christians, and some put on a crucifix, or something else, that they may be known […]
Power in Operation – Dwight Lyman Moody
Power in Operation – Dwight Lyman Moody The power we have been considering is the Presence of The Holy Spirit. He is omnipotent. Power in operation is the actions of the Spirit or the fruit of the Spirit. This we shall now consider. Paul writes in Galatians 5:16 etc. “This I say then, walk in […]
Power In and Upon – Dwight Lyman Moody
Power In and Upon – Dwight Lyman Moody The Holy Spirit dwelling in us, is one thing; I think this is clearly brought out in Scripture; and the Holy Spirit upon us for service, is another thing. Now there are only three places we find in Scripture that are dwelling places for the Holy Ghost. […]
Power Hindered – Dwight Lyman Moody
Power Hindered – Dwight Lyman Moody Israel, we are told, limited the Holy One of Israel. They vexed and grieved the Holy Spirit, and rebelled against His authority, but there is a special sin against Him, which we may profitably consider. The first description of it is in Matthew 12:22.
Picking up the Bible – Dwight Lyman Moody
Picking up the Bible – Dwight Lyman Moody The hardest thing, I will admit, ever a man had to do is to become a Christian, and yet it is the easiest. This seems to many to be a paradox, but I will repeat it; it is the most difficult thing to become a Christian, and […]
Peace Declared – Dwight Lyman Moody
Peace Declared – Dwight Lyman Moody When France and England were at war, a French vessel had gone off on a long voyage, a whaling voyage; and when they came back, the crew were short of water, and being now near and English port, they wanted to get water; but they were afraid that they […]
Peace – Dwight Lyman Moody
Peace – Dwight Lyman Moody My little boy had some trouble with his sister one Saturday, and he did not want to forgive her. And at night he was going to say his prayers, and I wanted to see how he would say his prayers, and he knelt down by his mother and said his […]
Parting Words – Dwight Lyman Moody
Parting Words – Dwight Lyman Moody But I have another story to tell. It was Ralph Wallace who told me of this one. A certain gentleman was a member of the Presbyterian church. His little boy was sick. When he went home his wife was weeping, and she said, “Our boy is dying; he has […]
Over the River – Dwight Lyman Moody
Over the River – Dwight Lyman Moody A minister who had lost his child asked another minister to come and preach for him. He came and he told how he lived on one side of a river, and felt very little interest in the people on the other side, until his daughter was married and […]
Over the Mountains – Dwight Lyman Moody
Over the Mountains – Dwight Lyman Moody A lady had a little child that was dying. She thought it was resting sweetly in the arms of Jesus. She went into the room, and the child asked her, “What are those clouds and mountains that I see so dark?” “Why, Eddy,” said his mother, “there are […]
Outflowing Streams – Dwight Lyman Moody
Outflowing Streams – Dwight Lyman Moody I would like to see some one just full of living water; so full that they couldnt contain it; that they would have to go out and publish the Gospel of the grace of God. When a man gets so full that he cant hold any more, then he […]
Other items in the Bibles – Dwight Lyman Moody
Open the Door – Dwight Lyman Moody
Open the Door – Dwight Lyman Moody I heard of a little child some time ago who was burned. The mother had gone out and left the three children at home. The eldest left the room, and the remaining two began to play with fire, and set the place in a blaze. When the youngest […]
Off for America – Dwight Lyman Moody
Off for America – Dwight Lyman Moody Previous to my coming across to this great country of ours, I was holding meetings in London. I took my ticket from there to Manchester to bid some friends good-by. When I got to the railway carriage I saw little groups of boys around two little fellows. Their […]
Obedience Explained – Dwight Lyman Moody
Obedience Explained – Dwight Lyman Moody Suppose I say to my boy, “Willie, I want you to go out and bring me a glass of water.” He says he doesn’t want to go. “I didn’t ask you whether you wanted to go or not, Willie; I told you to go.” “But I don’t want to […]
Not Easily Offended – Dwight Lyman Moody
Not Easily Offended – Dwight Lyman Moody In the 119th Psalm and the 165th verse, we find “Great peace have they who love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.” The study of Gods Word will secure peace. You take Christians who are rooted and grounded in the Word of God, and you find they […]
Not a Failure – Dwight Lyman Moody
Not a Failure – Dwight Lyman Moody “He must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:30). Sometimes it looks as if God’s servants fail. When Herod beheaded John the Baptist, it looked as if John’s mission was a failure. But was it? The voice that rang through the valley of the Jordan rings through the […]
None of Self – Dwight Lyman Moody
None of Self – Dwight Lyman Moody Then you will find all through the Scriptures, when men were filled with the Holy Spirit, they preached Christ and not themselves. They preached Christ and Him crucified. It says in the first chapter of Luke, 67th Verse, speaking of Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist:“And his […]
No Real Death – Dwight Lyman Moody
No Real Death – Dwight Lyman Moody “With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation” (Ps. 91:16). Jesus Christ came into the world to destroy death, and we can say with Paul, if we will, “Oh, death, where is thy sting?” And we can hear a voice rolling down from heaven […]
My God shall supply all your need – Dwight Lyman Moody
My God shall supply all your need – Dwight Lyman Moody Precious Jesus! I have found Thee,All my utmost need required:In Thyself, dear Lord, Thou’st found me,All Thy loving heart desired.I would praise Thee,From my soul, by love inspired! All my sins were laid upon Thee,All my guilt was on Thee laid;For the blood of […]
Moody’s Mother and her Prodigal Son – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody’s Mother and her Prodigal Son – Dwight Lyman Moody I can give you a little experience of my own family. Before I was fourteen years old the first thing I remember was the death of my father. He had been unfortunate in business, and failed. Soon after his death the creditors came in and […]
Moody in the Far West – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody in the Far West – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember when I went to California just to try and get a few souls saved on the Pacific coast, I went into a school there, and asked, “Have you got some one who can write a plain hand?” “Yes.” Well, we got up the blackboard, […]
Moody Chasing his Shadow – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody Chasing his Shadow – Dwight Lyman Moody When I was a little boy, I remember I tried to catch my shadow. I don’t know if you were ever so foolish; but I remember running after it, and trying to get ahead of it. I could not see why the shadow always kept ahead of […]
Moody and the Children – Dwight Lyman Moody
Moody and the Children – Dwight Lyman Moody The first two or three years that I attempted to talk in the meetings, I saw that the older people did not like it. I had sense enough to know that I was a bore to them. “Well, I went out upon the street and I got […]
Master and Servant – Dwight Lyman Moody
Master and Servant – Dwight Lyman Moody There is a very sweet story of Elijah and Elisha, and I love to dwell upon it. The time had come for Elijah to be taken up, and he said to Elisha, “You stay here at Gilgal, and I will go up to Bethel.” There was a theological […]
March 18, 1805 George Washington Bethune Came on Stage – Dwight Lyman Moody
March 18, 1805 George Washington Bethune Came on Stage – Dwight Lyman Moody When France suppressed its Protestant Huguenots, they scattered around the world. Many wound up in the young United States. Several presidents, the first chief justice of the United States (John Jay) and many other famous men boasted Huguenot blood. George Washington […]
Love’s Wonderful Effects – Dwight Lyman Moody
Love’s Wonderful Effects – Dwight Lyman Moody “Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil.” Thats the work of love. It is not easily provoked. Now if a man has […]
Love, Peace and Joy – Dwight Lyman Moody
Love, Peace and Joy – Dwight Lyman Moody When a man who has been living in sin turns from his sins, and turns to God with all his heart, he is met on the threshold of the divine life by these sister graces. The love of God is shed abroad in his heart by the […]
Love in a Sunday-School – Dwight Lyman Moody
Love in a Sunday-School – Dwight Lyman Moody John Wanamaker, superintendent of probably one of the largest Sunday-schools in the world, had a theory that he would never put a boy out of his school for bad conduct. He argued, if a boy misbehaved himself, it was through bad training at home, and that if […]
Love – Dwight Lyman Moody
Love – Dwight Lyman Moody In Chicago a few years ago there was a little boy who went to one of the mission Sunday-schools. His father moved to another part of the city about five miles away, and every Sunday that boy came past thirty or forty Sunday-schools to the one he attended. And one […]
Lost on the Deep – Dwight Lyman Moody
Lost on the Deep – Dwight Lyman Moody I read some time ago of a vessel that had been off on a whaling voyage, and had been gone about three years. I saw the account in print somewhere lately, but it happened a long time ago. The father of one of those sailors had charge […]
Lost and Found – Dwight Lyman Moody
Lost and Found – Dwight Lyman Moody A great many people tell you, “I will become a Christian when Christ comes and seeks me.” I was talking to a gray-haired man in my native town not long ago who, when I spoke to him about his soul, suggested that he would become a Christian when […]
Looking down from Heaven – Dwight Lyman Moody
Looking down from Heaven – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember in the exposition building in Dublin, while I was speaking about heaven, I said something to the effect that, “perhaps at this moment a mother is looking down from heaven upon her daughter here to-night,” and I pointed down to a young lady in the […]
Long-Sighted – Dwight Lyman Moody
Long-Sighted – Dwight Lyman Moody “But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off”(2 Peter 1:9). I heard a man, some time ago, speaking about Abraham. He said “Abraham was not tempted by the well-watered plains of Sodom, for Abraham was what you might call a long-sighted man; he had his […]
Long and Short Sight – Dwight Lyman Moody
Long and Short Sight – Dwight Lyman Moody He brings to our mind what God has in store for us. I heard a man, some time ago, speaking about Abraham. He said “Abraham was not tempted by the well-watered plains of Sodom, for Abraham was what you might call a long-sighted man; he had his […]
Little Jimmy – Dwight Lyman Moody
Little Jimmy – Dwight Lyman Moody A friend of mine in Chicago took his Sabbath-school out on the cars [train] once. A little boy was allowed to sit on the platform of the car, when by some mischance he fell, and the whole train passed over him. They had to go on half a mile […]
Little Great Men – Dwight Lyman Moody
Little Great Men – Dwight Lyman Moody One afternoon I noticed a lady at the services whom I knew to be a Sunday-school teacher. After the service I asked her where her class was. “O,” said she, “I went to the school and found only a little boy, and so I came away.” “Only a […]
Joy is Unselfish – Dwight Lyman Moody
Joy is Unselfish – Dwight Lyman Moody Now, there are three kinds of joy; there is the joy of ones own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward, there was something more […]
Joy in Persecution – Dwight Lyman Moody
Joy in Persecution – Dwight Lyman Moody Then it says in Luke 6:22: “Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of mans sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for […]
Johnny, Cling Close to the Rock – Dwight Lyman Moody
Johnny, Cling Close to the Rock – Dwight Lyman Moody Little Johnny and his sister were one day going through a long, narrow tunnel. The railroad company had built small clefts here and there through the tunnel, so that if any one got caught in the tunnel when the train was passing, they could save […]
It’s Source – Dwight Lyman Moody
It’s Source – Dwight Lyman Moody “Without the soul, divinely quickened and inspired, the observances of the grandest ritualism are as worthless as the motions of a galvanized corpse.” -Anon. I quote this sentence, as it leads me at once to the subject under consideration. What is this quickening and inspiration? What is this power […]
In Jail – Dwight Lyman Moody
In Jail – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember a mother who heard that her boy was impressed at one of our meetings. She said her son was a good enough boy, and he didn’t need to be converted. I pleaded with that mother, but all my pleading was of no account. I tried my influence […]
Immigrants – Dwight Lyman Moody
Immigrants – Dwight Lyman Moody IMMIGRANTS Immigrants in Immanuel’s land should lose no time in having their places secured as only one vessel shall ever leave our shores for that country.Vessel’s name Gospel ship (Rom. 1:16)Port – which it leaves City of Destruction(2 Pet. 3:10)Bound for Immanuel’s Land(Heb. 11:16)Time of sailing Today (Heb. 3:7-8)Price of […]
Identity and Personality – Dwight Lyman Moody
Identity and Personality – Dwight Lyman Moody In 1st John 5:7, we read: “There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.” By the Father is meant the first Person, Christ, the Word is the second, and the Holy Spirit, perfectly fulfilling His […]
Humility – Dwight Lyman Moody
Humility – Dwight Lyman Moody I suppose Isaiah thought he was as good as most men in his day, and perhaps he was a good deal better than most men, but when he saw the Lord, he cried, “Woe is me, for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips.” When he […]
How Little Moody took the Whippings – Dwight Lyman Moody
How Little Moody took the Whippings – Dwight Lyman Moody When I was a boy my mother used to send me outdoors to get a birch stick to whip me with; and at first I used to stand off from the rod as far as I could. But I soon found that the whipping hurt […]
Hold Up Your Light – Dwight Lyman Moody
Hold Up Your Light – Dwight Lyman Moody Out west, a friend of mine was walking along one of the streets one dark night, and saw approaching him a man with a lantern. As he came up close to him he noticed by the bright light that the man seemed as if he had no […]
Higher and Higher – Dwight Lyman Moody
Higher and Higher – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember a few years ago, a little child died, and just before his soul went home he asked his father to lift him up, and the father put his hand under the head of the child and raised it up. But the child only said, “That is […]
Hell – Dwight Lyman Moody
Hell – Dwight Lyman Moody A man came to me the other day and said: “I like your preaching. You don’t preach hell, and I suppose you don’t believe in one.” Now I don’t want any one to rise up in the Judgment and say that I was not a faithful preacher of the Word […]
Heaven: Its Hope – Dwight Lyman Moody
Heaven: Its Hope – Dwight Lyman Moody Like all the other wonderful works of God, this Book bears the sure stamp of its author. It is like Him. Though man plants the seeds, God makes the flowers, and they are perfect and beautiful like Himself. Men wrote what is in the Bible, but the work […]
Heaven Inhabitants – Dwight Lyman Moody
Heaven Inhabitants – Dwight Lyman Moody If there is anything that ought to make heaven near to Christians, it is knowing that God and all their loved ones will be there. What is it that makes home so attractive? Is it because we have a beautiful home? Is it because we have beautiful lawns? Is […]
He Careth For You – Dwight Lyman Moody
He Careth For You – Dwight Lyman Moody 1 Peter 5:7 “All thy griefs by Him are ordered,Needful is each one for thee,All thy tears by Him are counted,One too much there cannot be. And if, while they fall so quickly,Thou canst own His way is right,Then each bitter tear of anguish,Precious is in Jesus’ […]
Green Fields – Dwight Lyman Moody
Green Fields – Dwight Lyman Moody When I was out in California, the first time I went down from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and dropped into the Valley of the Sacramento, I was surprised to find on one farm that everything about it was green – all the trees and flowers, everything was blooming, and […]
Greater Work – Dwight Lyman Moody
Greater Work – Dwight Lyman Moody The witness of the Spirit is the witness of power. Jesus said, “The works that I do shall ye do also, and greater works than these shall ye do because I go to the Father.” I used to stumble over that. I didnt understand it. I thought, what greater […]
Fresh Supplies – Dwight Lyman Moody
Fresh Supplies – Dwight Lyman Moody Turn to Acts 4:31, and you will find He came a second time, and at a place where they were, so that the earth was shaken, and they were filled with this power. That is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all […]
Found in the Sand – Dwight Lyman Moody
Found in the Sand – Dwight Lyman Moody While I was attending a meeting in a certain city some time ago, a lady came to me and said, “I want you to go home with me; I have something to say to you.” When we reached her home, there were some friends there. After they […]
For Charley’s Sake – Dwight Lyman Moody
For Charley’s Sake – Dwight Lyman Moody In Detroit, at an international convention of the Young Men’s Christian Association, Judge Olds was present as a delegate from Columbus. One evening he was telling about the mighty power Christians summon to their aid in the petition “for Christ’s sake,” “in Jesus’ name,” and he told a […]
Finding Your Picture – Dwight Lyman Moody
Finding Your Picture – Dwight Lyman Moody You know I have an idea that the Bible is like an album. I go into a man’s house, and while waiting for him, I take up an album and open it. I look at a picture. “Why, that looks like a man I know.” I turn over […]
Faith – Dwight Lyman Moody
Faith – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember a child that lived with her parents in a small village. One day the news came that her father had joined the army (it was at the beginning of our [Civil] war), and a few days after the landlord came to demand the rent. The mother told him […]
Failure Without Christ – Dwight Lyman Moody
Failure Without Christ – Dwight Lyman Moody “Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith”(1 John 5:4). Notice that everything human in this world fails. Every man the moment he takes his eye off God, has failed. Every man has been a failure […]
Enduement for Service – Dwight Lyman Moody
Enduement for Service – Dwight Lyman Moody Mr. Moody on the Special Gift of the Holy Spirit – Experience of the Apostles – Repeated Anointing – Why we Lack Power – The Great Need of Modern Christians – Are we “Filled with the Spirit,” and Ready to Go Anywhere? I SUPPOSE if I could put […]
Emma’s New Muff – Dwight Lyman Moody
Emma’s New Muff – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember one time my little girl was teasing her mother to get her a muff, and so one day her mother brought a muff home, and, although it was storming, she very naturally wanted to go out in order to try her new muff. So she tried […]
Emma’s Kiss – Dwight Lyman Moody
Emma’s Kiss – Dwight Lyman Moody A gentleman one day came to my office for the purpose of getting me interested in a young man who had just got out of the penitentiary. “He says,” said the gentleman, “he don’t want to go to the office, but I want your permission to bring him in […]
Emblems of the Spirit – Dwight Lyman Moody
Emblems of the Spirit – Dwight Lyman Moody But I would further call attention to the emblems of the Holy Spirit. An emblem is something that represents an object; the same as a balance is an emblem of justice, and a crown and emblem of royalty, and a scepter is an emblem of power; so […]
Dr. Chalmers’ Story – Dwight Lyman Moody
Dr. Chalmers’ Story – Dwight Lyman Moody There is a story of Dr. Chalmers. A lady came to him, and said, “Doctor, I cannot bring my child to Christ. I’ve talked, and talked, but it’s of no use.” The doctor thought she had not much skill, and said, “Now, you be quiet, and I will […]
Dr. Booth’s Story – Dwight Lyman Moody
Dr. Booth’s Story – Dwight Lyman Moody Dr. Booth of New York, who has lost all his childrenI say lost, but they are not lost; they are all in heavenwas telling me about being in an eastern country some time ago, and he saw a shepherd going down to a stream, and he wanted to […]
Does God Answer Prayer? – Dwight Lyman Moody
Does God Answer Prayer? – Dwight Lyman Moody I suppose there has been no word on Christians’ lips so frequently at this time as the word “prayer,” and there is not one in this hall who has not thought often, during the last forty-eight hours, of the importance of prayer. During this week of prayer, […]
Dinna ye Hear Them Comin’? – Dwight Lyman Moody
Dinna ye Hear Them Comin’? – Dwight Lyman Moody There is a story told of an incident that occurred during the last Indian mutiny. The English were besieged in the city of Lucknow, and were in momentary expectation of perishing at the hands of the fiends that surrounded them. There was a little Scotch lassie […]
Delivered From Sin – Dwight Lyman Moody
Delivered From Sin – Dwight Lyman Moody “And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people…and I am come down to deliver them…” (Exod. 3:7-8). We all have some weak point in our character. When we would go forward, it drags us back, and when we would rise up into higher […]
D.L. Moody Quotes – Dwight Lyman Moody
D.L. Moody Quotes – Dwight Lyman Moody Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy. “He who kneels the most, stands the best.” “If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.” “The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it […]
Critics Beware – Dwight Lyman Moody
Critics Beware – Dwight Lyman Moody Love will rebuke evil, but will not rejoice in it. Love will be impatient of sin, but patient with the sinner. To form the habit of finding fault constantly, is very damaging to spiritual life; it is about the lowest and meanest position that a man can take. I […]
Contrast between Genesis and Revelation – Dwight Lyman Moody
Contrast between Genesis and Revelation – Dwight Lyman Moody Contrast between Genesis and Revelation:GENESIS REVELATIONGen. 1:1 Earth created New heavens & new earthRev. 21:1,2Gen. 1:5 Night created No night Rev. 22:5Gen. 1:10 Seas created No more sea Rev. 21:1Gen. 1:16-17 Sun & Moon created No need of the sun Rev. 20:3Gen. 2:5-23 Garden home for […]
Communion – Dwight Lyman Moody
Communion – Dwight Lyman Moody COMMUNION Do not shrink from the thought of living in full communion with God. Be decided to let God draw nearer and nearer and put His holy finger on every detail of your daily life, on every detail of your daily work, on every detail of your daily habits, of […]
Christian Love – Dwight Lyman Moody
Christian Love – Dwight Lyman Moody IT speaks in Galatians about love, the fruit of the Spirit being love, joy, peace, gentleness, long suffering, meekness and temperance. The way this writer has put it — and I think it is very beautiful — is that joy is love exultant, peace is love in repose, and […]
Christ All in All – Dwight Lyman Moody
Christ All in All – Dwight Lyman Moody Colossians 3:11- “Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. CHRIST is all in all to every one who has truly found Him. He is our Savior, Redeemer, Deliverer, Shepherd, Teacher, and also […]
Child Friendship, how Durable – Dwight Lyman Moody
Child Friendship, how Durable – Dwight Lyman Moody I heard some time ago of a little book upon a passage of Scripture, I didn’t know there was such a passage; which occurred in the story of David and Mephibosheth. You know, one day Jonathan and David were together, and Jonathan said, “David, I want you […]
Cherries – Dwight Lyman Moody
Cherries – Dwight Lyman Moody The prodigal son got down very low, but he did not get down low enough to beg; he went to work. I’ve lived nearly forty years, and I’ve learned one thing if I’ve learned nothing else; that no man or woman who treats disrespectfully father or mother ever prospers. The […]
Cast Your Cares – Dwight Lyman Moody
Cast Your Cares – Dwight Lyman Moody “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you”(1 Peter 5:7).A great many people seem to embalm their troubles. I always feel like running away when I see them coming. They bring out their old mummy, and tell you in a sad voice: “You don’t know […]
Breaking the Tumblers – Dwight Lyman Moody
Breaking the Tumblers – Dwight Lyman Moody A lady once told me she was in her pantry on one occasion, and she was surprised by the ringing of a bell. As she whirled around to see what it was, she broke a tumbler. Her little child was standing there, and she thought her mother was […]
Blind Bartimeus – Dwight Lyman Moody
Blind Bartimeus – Dwight Lyman Moody The apostle was going into Jericho for the last time. By the wayside he finds a poor, blind beggar who asks for a farthing, and he says, “Silver and gold have I none, but I can tell you of a great physician in Israel who can cure you.” “Can […]
Believe – Dwight Lyman Moody
Believe – Dwight Lyman Moody Have faith in God! Take Him at His word! Believe what He says! Believe the record God has given of His Son! I can imagine some of you saying, “I want to, but I have not got the right kind of faith.” What kind of faith do you want? Now, […]
Anecdotes & Illustrations – Dwight Lyman Moody
Anecdotes & Illustrations – Dwight Lyman Moody -Christ never preached any funeral sermons.-His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.-Take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the judgment come: the victory is Christ’s and yours through Him.-The only man who ever suffered before Christ was that servant who […]
An Aid to Memory – Dwight Lyman Moody
An Aid to Memory – Dwight Lyman Moody It is a great comfort to us to remember that another office of the Spirit is to bring the teaching of Jesus to our remembrance. This was our Lords promise, “He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance.” – John 16:26 How […]
Agent and Instrument – Dwight Lyman Moody
Agent and Instrument – Dwight Lyman Moody The Holy Spirit is closely identified with the words of the Lord Jesus. “It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing, the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.” The Gospel proclamation can not be divorced from the Holy Spirit. […]
After Love, What? – Dwight Lyman Moody
After Love, What? – Dwight Lyman Moody After love comes peace. I have before remarked, a great many people are trying to make peace. But that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all that we have to do is to enter into it. It is a condition, and […]
A Voice from the Tomb – Dwight Lyman Moody
A Voice from the Tomb – Dwight Lyman Moody The other day I read of a mother who died, leaving her child alone and very poor. She used to pray earnestly for her boy, and left an impression upon his mind that she cared more for his soul than she cared for anything else in […]
A Singular Story – Dwight Lyman Moody
A Singular Story – Dwight Lyman Moody When I was a young boybefore I was a Christian I was in a field one day with a man who was hoeing. He was weeping, and he told me a strange story, which I have never forgotten. When he left home his mother gave him this text, […]
A Sad Story – Dwight Lyman Moody
A Sad Story – Dwight Lyman Moody There was an Englishman who had an only son; and only sons are often petted, and humored and ruined. This boy became very headstrong, and very often he and his father had trouble. One day they had a quarrel, and the father was very angry, and so was […]
A Mother Dies that her Boy may Live – Dwight Lyman Moody
A Mother Dies that her Boy may Live – Dwight Lyman Moody When the California gold fever broke out, a man went there, leaving his wife in New England with his boy. As soon as he got on and was successful he was to send for them. It was a long time before he succeeded, […]
A Little Child shall lead them – Dwight Lyman Moody
A Little Child shall lead them – Dwight Lyman Moody A little child at one of the meetings was seen talking so earnestly to a companion that a lady sat by her to hear what she was saying, and found that the dear child was telling how much Jesus loved her, and how she loved […]
A Higher Source – Dwight Lyman Moody
A Higher Source – Dwight Lyman Moody “I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honour him” (Ps. 91:15). First, “I will deliver.” When God called Moses to go down into Egypt to deliver the children of Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, in all the world there […]
A Good Mother – D.L. Moody
A Good Mother – D.L. Moody A young man went home from one of our meetings some time ago. He had been converted. He had previously been a dissipated young man. His mother had made it a rule, she told me, that she “would not retire till he came home.” That was her rule, she […]
A Child’s Request for Prayer – D.L. Moody
A Child’s Request for Prayer – D.L. Moody At the close of one of the afternoon meetings we had in the Berkeley street church a few weeks ago, a little child brought me a note. I put it in my pocket, and read it when I got home. It was this, “Won’t you pray that […]
A Child Legend – D.L. Moody
A Child Legend – D.L. Moody There is a beautiful legend told about a little girl who was the first-born of a family in Egypt, when the destroying angel swept through that land, and consequently who would have been a victim on that night if the protecting blood were not sprinkled on the doorposts of […]
A Boy’s Victory – D.L. Moody
A Boy’s Victory – D.L. Moody I remember when out in Kansas, while holding a meeting, I saw a little boy who came up to the window crying. I went to him and said, “My little boy, what is your trouble?” “Why, Mr. Moody, my mother’s dead, and my father drinks, and they don’t love […]
A Boy’s Story – D.L. Moody
A Boy’s Story – D.L. Moody Some years ago, as I was about to close a prayer meeting, a young man got up and urged all those men present that had not yet accepted of Christ, to do so that night. And in closing up his little speech, he said, “I once had a father […]
A Bad Boy – D.L. Moody
A Bad Boy – D.L. Moody I once heard of a father who had a prodigal boy, and the boy had sent his mother down to the grave with a broken heart. One evening the boy started out as usual to spend the night in drinking and gambling, and his old father, as he was […]
“Where Art Thou?” – D.L. Moody
“Where Art Thou?” – D.L. Moody THE very first thing that happened after the news reached heaven of the fall of man, was that God came straight down to seek out the lost one. As He walks through the garden in the cool of the day, you can hear Him calling Adam! Adam! Where art […]