The following day—Sunday – Dwight Lyman Moody

there was an immense crowd flocking into the hall, and he said, “Let us turn to the third chapter of John, sixteenth verse: ‘For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life;'” and he preached the fourth sermon from this verse. He just seemed to take the whole text and throw it at them, to prove that God loved the sinner, and that for six thousand years he had been trying to convince the world of this. I thought I had never heard a better sermon in my life. It seemed to be a new revelation to all. Ah, I notice there are some of you here who remember those times; remember those nights. I got a new idea of the blessed Bible. On Monday night I went down and the young man said, “Turn to the third chapter of John, sixteenth verse,” and he seemed to preach better than ever. Proof after proof was quoted from Scripture to show how God loved us. I thought sure he had exhausted that text, but on Tuesday he took his Bible in his hand and said: “Turn to the third chapter of John, sixteenth verse,” and he preached the sixth sermon from that verse. He just seemed to climb over his subject, while he proved that there was nothing on earth like the love of Christ, and he said “If I can only convince men of His love, if I can but bring them to believe this text, the whole world will be saved.” On Thursday he selected the same text, John iii., 16, and at the conclusion of the sermon he said: “I have been trying to tell you for seven nights now, how Christ loves you, but I cannot do it. If I could borrow Jacob’s ladder and climb up to heaven, and could see Gabriel there and ask him to tell me how much God loves me, he would only say, “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” How a man can go out of this tabernacle after hearing this text, saying, “God does not love me,” is a mystery to me.