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as a flood, and God shut the door?” I believe it just as much as I believe that Jesus Christ came into this world. Listen to what the Son of God has to say: “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the eoming of the Son of Man; they were eating and drinking and marrying and giving in marriage, until the flood came and took them all away.” It came suddenly. Jesus Christ believed in the flood. But when once the Master of the house had risen up and shut the door, it was too late. Men say, “I can repent any time.” Do not deceive yourself. There is such a thing as a man sinning away the day of grace. There is such a thing as a man going on rejecting the Spirit of God, until the last hour and the last moment has come, and it is too late. Those antediluvians found it was too late. The door was shut. I don’t know when the storm broke upon them. It may have been in the night. And what a night it was ! Did this world ever witness such a night as that ? I can imagine as the sun went down, lit tle did they think it was the last time they were to look upon it, as it shone upon that ark and the door was closed. The day of grace was ended. The day of mercy was over, and there was no hope. Their doom was sealed. The door that shut Noah and his family in, shut them out. That night, perhaps at midnight, they heard in the distarfce the thunder. The sound grew louder and louder, until the storm broke upon them. Perhaps the scoffers and triflers in those days began to mock and say, “Well, now Noah will say this is his flood. Noah, now in the ark, will begin to rejoice and say this is what he was telling us about.” But by-and-by their mocking was all gone. There could not be a scoffer found! And do you know there is a time 'coming when there cannot be a scoffer found on the face of the earth? There is a time coming when these men that are mocking at the Gospel of Jesus Christ, will bow the knee to the Lord Jesus. They will cry—we have the prayer
to God they had repented then and cried for mercy! But undoubtedly their wise men said, “We don’t exactly understand it, but there is no danger. Our astronomers tell us there is no sign in the heavens; the old sun shines as it did two thousand years ago, and the stars shine at night as bright as ever; the lambs are skipping on the hillsides as usual, the cattle are grazing on a thousand hills; business was never more prosperous. The world never looked more promising. There is no sign of a coming storm. We don’t understand this strange thing; we admit we can’t understand it, but then there is no sign; be quiet.” If some one was alarmed they would say, “He is weak minded.” That is what young men say of their mothers now; that they are weak minded women, deluded, carried away. Religion may be a good thing for women and weak minded people. O, may God forgive the young man that speaks of his mother in that way! It may be the next thing that took place, God shut the door. Noah did not shut it. The Almighty Shut the door. The last- year had come, the last month, the last week, the last day, the last hour, the last minute had come. When God shut the door, the day of grace was over; the day of mercy was ended. When once the Master of the house is risen up and shut the door, there is no hope. You may cry for mercy then, but it is too late. “A man said that when he died, he would go to heaven and he would knock and ask for Mercy, and Mercy would let him in. A man said you need not ask for Mercy there; for Mercy had been at home for eighteen hundred years. Mercy is abroad in the earth. It is too late-to ask for mercy.” This is the day of mercy. This is the day of grace! This is the acceptable time of the Lord. This is the day the door is wide open. God says, “Come in.” God calls you in out of the coming storm and out of the coming judgment. UNQUALIFIED BELIEF I can imagine some of you say, “Moody, you don’t believe there was such a thing
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