TAKING GOD AT HIS WORD By D. L. MOODY Talk to Inquirers at his Great Meetings in the Hippodrome, New York in 1876, in the eleventh week of his meetings
the same kind of faith in Him that they have in' one another. It is not any miracu lous faith or belief we want. It is to put our trust in God, and say with Job, “Though He slay me yet will I trust in Him.” “I will cast myself on the mercy of God.” I never knew anyone in my life who did not get salvation who did that; and the very moment you do it you get salvation. Paul says, in the fourth chapter of Romans, fifth verse, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth.” The very thing that keeps hun dreds of people away from Christ is that they are trying to work their way to salva tion. The moment you try to work for a gift it ceases to be a gift. If you pay even a farthing for it, it ceases to be a gift. Some man says he is not worthy of it, that his life has been so bad. What does grace mean? It means undeserved favor. It is because we do not deserve it and cannot deserve it that God gives it to us. If a man is not going to be saved until he is worthy, he will never be saved. A man prayed in a prayer-meeting in Philadelphia the other day a prayer that made the cold chills run all over me. He prayed to be blessed as far as he was worthy. We ask not because we are worthy; we live in rebellion against God day after day; we have been in rebellion for years. If you will let rebellion cease and be willing to let the Lord save you He will do it. A young convert told us a week ago how he was saved. It was one of the sweetest conversions I ever heard of. I noticed him a number of times in the in quiry room and talked with him some, but I never had thought he was very deeply awakened. He said he was walking down Broadway one day, and just right in the
t p HERE are times in meetings when I *■ feel like bowing my head and praying. It seems as if we had preaching enough— for ten weeks, day after day, night after night. I am sure I don’t know how to pre sent Christ in any other light than I have. I’ve tried to tell you of His wonderful grace, and how full of love He is; and now, after I have read a few verses of Scrip ture, I shall call on some of our friends to tell you the way of life, in hopes that you may get it from other lips if not from mine. Every soul here tonight may be saved if he will only take God at His word. Let me read from the 13th chapter of Acts, 39th verse. I do not know of any verse in the whole Bible that puts the way of life in clearer light than that 39th verse: “By Him all that believe are justified from all things from which he could not be justified by the law of Moses.” So it is just simply to believe. You say, what am I to be lieve? You are to believe God’s Word; you are to take God at His word and trust Him for salvation. If you trust Him to keep you, He will keep you. He will save you the moment you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Instead of trying to trust Him, instead of trying to save ourselves, just drop the word “try” and put the word “trust” in. He will justify us from all things by just simply believing on Him. I do not know any word that the inquirers stumble over more than they do over that word “believe.” It is not any miraculous kind of belief. IT S SIMPLE BELIEF. Some people are waiting for some belief to come down out of heaven. In their hearts they d* not believe they can have
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