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Title: That Gospel Sermon on the Blessed Hope
Author: Dwight Lyman Moody
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No. 16
THAT GOSPEL SERMON
ON THE BLESSED HOPE.
BY D. L. MOODY.
_A Sermon delivered by_ D. L. MOODY, _the Evangelist, at the Great Chicago
Tabernacle, Jan. 5, 1877. Repeated in the Boston Tabernacle, April
29th._
In 2 Timothy, 3:16, Paul declares: "All scripture is given by
inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness;" but there are some people
who tell us when we take up prophecy that it is all very well to be
believed, but that there is no use in one trying to understand it; these
future events are things that the church does not agree about, and it is
better to let them alone, and deal only with those prophecies which have
already been fulfilled. But Paul does not talk that way; he says: "All
scripture is ... profitable for doctrine." If these people are right, he
ought to have said: "Some scripture is profitable; but you can not
understand the prophecies, so you had better let them alone." If God did
not mean to have us study the prophecies, he would not have put them in
the Bible. Some of them are fulfilled, and he is at work fulfilling the
rest, so that if we do not see them all completed in this life, we shall
in the world to come.
I do not want to teach anything to-day dogmatically, on my own
authority, but to my mind this precious doctrine--for such I must call
it--of the return of the Lord to this earth is taught in the New
Testament as clearly as any other doctrine is; yet I was in the church
fifteen or sixteen years before I ever heard a sermon on it. There is
hardly any church that does not make a great deal of baptism, but the
New Testament only speaks about baptism thirteen times, while it speaks
of the return of our Lord fifty times; and yet the church has had very
little to say about it. Now, I can see a reason for this: the devil does
not want us to see this truth, for nothing would wake up the church so
much. The moment a man takes hold of the truth that Jesus Christ is
coming back again to receive his friends to himself, this world loses
its hold upon him; gas-stocks and water-stocks, and stocks in banks and
horse-railroads, are of very much less consequence to him then. His
heart is free, and he looks for the blessed appearing of his Lord, who
at his coming will take him into his blessed kingdom.
In 2 Peter 1:20, we read: "No prophecy of the scripture is of any
private interpretation." Some people say: "O yes, the prophecies are all
well enough for the priests and doctors, but not for the rank and file
of the church." But Peter says: "The prophecy came not by the will of
man, but holy men spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost," and those
men are the very ones who tell us of the return of our Lord. Look at
Daniel 2:45, where he tells the meaning of that stone which the king saw
in his dream that was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that
broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold.
"The dream is certain and the interpretation thereof sure," says Daniel.
Now we have seen the fulfillment of that prophecy all but the closing
part of it. The kingdoms of Babylon and Medo-Persia and Greece and Rome
have all been broken in pieces, and now it only remains for this stone
cut out of the mountain without hands to smite the image and break it in
pieces till it becomes like the dust of the summer threshing floor, and
for this stone to become a great mountain and fill the whole earth.
BUT HOW IS HE GOING TO COME?
We are told how he is going to come. When those disciples stood looking
up into heaven at the time of his ascension, there appeared two angels,
who said Acts 1:11: "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into
heaven? This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so
come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." How did he go
up? He took his flesh and bones up with him. "Look at me; handle me;
give me something to eat; a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me
have; I am the identical one whom they crucified and laid in the grave.
Now I am risen from the dead and am going up to heaven," Luke 24:39,43.
He is gone, say the angels, but he will come again just as he went. An
angel was sent to announce his birth of the virgin; angels sang of his
advent in Bethlehem; an angel told the women of his resurrection; and
two angels told the disciples of his coming again. It is the same
testimony in all these cases.
I do not know why people should not like to read the Bible, and find out
all about this precious doctrine of our Lord's return. Some have gone
beyond prophecy, and tried to tell the very day he would come. Perhaps
that is one reason why people do not believe this doctrine. He is
coming, we know that; but just when he is coming we do not know; Matt.
24:36, settles that. The angels do not know; and Christ says that even
he does not know, but that is something the Father keeps to himself. If
Christ had said: "I will not come back for 2,000 years," none of his
disciples would have begun to watch for him, but it is the proper
attitude of a Christian to be always looking for his Lord's return. So
God does not tell us just when he is to come, but Christ tells us to
watch. In this same chapter we find that he is to come unexpectedly and
suddenly. In the twenty-seventh verse we have these words: "For as the
lightning cometh out of the east and shineth unto the west, even so
shall also the coming of the Son of Man be." And again in the
forty-fourth verse: "Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour as
ye think not the Son of Man cometh."
Some people say that means death: but the Word of God does not say it
means death. Death is our enemy, but our Lord hath the keys of death; he
has conquered death, hell, and the grave, and at any moment he may come
to set us free from death, and destroy our last enemy for us; so the
proper state for a believer in Christ is waiting and watching for our
Lord's return.
In the last chapter of John there is a text that seems to settle this
matter. Peter asks the question about John: "Lord what shall this man
do? Jesus said unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is
that to thee? Follow thou me. Then went this saying abroad among the
brethren that that disciple should not die." They did not think that the
coming of the Lord meant death; there was a great difference between
these two things in their minds.
CHRIST IS THE PRINCE OF LIFE.
There is no death where he is; death flees at his coming; dead bodies
sprang to life when he touched them or spoke to them. His coming is not
death; he is the resurrection and the life, when he sets up his kingdom
there is to be no death, but life forevermore.
There is another mistake, as you will find if you read your Bible
carefully. Some people think that at the coming of Christ everything is
to be done up in a few minutes; but I do not so understand it. The first
thing he is to do is to take his Church out of the world. He calls the
Church his bride, and he says he is going to prepare a place for her. We
may judge, says one, what a glorious place it will be from the length of
time he is in preparing it, and when the place is ready he will come and
take the church to himself.
In the closing verses of the fourth chapter of 1 Thessalonians, Paul
says: "If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so also them
which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.... We which are alive and
remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are
asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead
in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air,
and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore, comfort one another
with these words." That is the comfort of the church. There was a time
when I used to mourn that I should not be alive in the millennium; but
now I expect to be in the millennium. Dean Alford says--and almost
everybody bows to him in the matter of interpretation--that he must
insist that this coming of Christ to take his church to himself in the
clouds is not the same event us that to judge the world at the last day.
The deliverance of the church is one thing, judgment is another. Now, I
cannot find any place in the Bible where it tells me to wait for signs
of the coming of the millennium, as the return of the Jews, and such
like; but it tells me to look for the coming of the Lord; to watch for
it; to be ready at midnight to meet him, like those five wise virgins.
The trump of God may be sounded, for anything we know, before I finish
this sermon--at any rate we are told that he will come as a thief in the
night, and at an hour when many look not for him.
Some of you may shake your heads and say, "Oh, well, that is too deep
for the most of us; such things ought not to be said before these young
converts; only the very wisest characters, such as ministers and
professors in the theological seminaries, can understand them." But my
friends, you find that Paul wrote about these things to those young
converts among the Thessalonians, and he tells them to comfort one
another with these words. Here in the first chapter of 1 Thessalonians
Paul says, "Ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true
God, and to wait for his Son from heaven whom he raised from the dead,
even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come," To wait for his
Son; that is the true attitude of every child of God. If he is doing
that he is ready for the duties of life, ready for God's work; aye, that
makes him feel that he is just ready to begin to work for God.
Then in 1 Thessalonians, 2:19, he says: "For what is our hope, or joy,
or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye, in the presence of our Lord
Jesus Christ, at his coming?" And again, in the third chapter, at the
thirteenth verse, "To the end that he may establish your hearts
unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints." Still again, in the fifth
chapter, "For ye yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so
cometh as a thief in the night. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness,
that that day should over take you as a thief." He has something to say
about this same thing in every chapter, indeed I have thought this
Epistle to the Thessalonians might be called the gospel of Christ's
coming again.
There are three great facts foretold in the word of God: First, that
Christ should come; that has been fulfilled. Second, that the Holy Ghost
should come; that was fulfilled at Pentecost, and the church is able to
testify to it by its experience of his saving grace. Third, the return
of our Lord again from heaven--for this we are told to watch and wait
"till he come." Look at that account of the last hours of Christ with
his disciples. What does Christ say to them? If I go away I will send
death after you to bring you to me? I will send an angel after you? Not
at all. He says: "I will come again and receive you unto myself." If my
wife were in a foreign country, and I had a beautiful mansion all ready
for her, she would a good deal rather I should come and bring her unto
it than to have me send some one else to bring her.
THE CHURCH IS THE LAMB'S WIFE.
He has prepared a mansion for his bride, and he promises for our joy and
comfort that he will come himself and bring us to the place he has been
all this while preparing.
My friends it is perfectly safe to take the word of God as we find it.
If he tells us to watch, then watch! If he tells us to pray, then pray!
If he tells us he will come again, wait for him! Let the church bow to
the word of God, rather than trying to find out how such things can be.
"Behold, I come quickly," said Christ. "Even so, come, Lord Jesus,"
should be the prayer of the church.
Take the account of the words of Christ at the communion table. It seems
to me the devil has covered up the most precious thing about it. "For as
often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye do show forth the
Lord's death _till he come_." But most people seem to think that the
Lord's table is the place for self-examination and repentance, and
making good resolutions. Not at all; you spoil it that way; it is to
show forth the Lord's death, and we are to keep it up till he comes.
Some people say, "I believe Christ will come on the other side of the
millennium." Where do you get it? I cannot find it. The word of God
nowhere tells me to watch and wait for the coming of the millennium, but
for the coming of the Lord. I do not find any place where God says the
world is to grow better and better, and that Christ is to have a
spiritual reign on earth of a thousand years. I find that the world is
to grow worse and worse, and at length there is to be a separation. "Two
women grinding at a mill, one taken and the other left; two men in one
bed, one taken and the other left," Luke 17:34,36. The church is to be
translated out of the world, we have two examples already, two
representatives, as we might say, of Christ's kingdom, of what is to be
done for all his true believers. Enoch is the representative of the
first dispensation, Elijah of the second, and, as a representative of
the third dispensation, we have the Saviour himself, who is entered into
the heavens for us, and become the first fruits of them that slept. We
are not to wait for the great white throne judgement, but the glorified
church is set on the throne with Christ, and to help to judge the world.
Now, some of you think this is a new and strange doctrine, and that they
who preach it are speckled birds. But let me tell you that most of the
spiritual men in the pulpits of Great Britain are firm in this faith.
Spurgeon preaches it. I have heard Newman Hall say that he knew no
reason why Christ might not come before he got through with his sermon.
But in certain wealthy and fashionable churches, where they have the
form of godliness, but deny the power thereof,--just the state of things
which Paul declares shall be in the last days,--this doctrine is not
preached or believed. They do not want sinners to cry out in their
meeting, "What must I do to be saved?" They want intellectual preachers
who will cultivate their taste, brilliant preachers who will rouse their
imagination, but they do not want the preaching that has in it the power
of the Holy Ghost. We live in the day of shams in religion. The church
is cold and formal; may God wake us up! And I know of no better way to
do it than to get the church to looking for the return of our Lord.
Some people say, "Oh, you will discourage the young converts if you
preach that doctrine." Well, my friends, that has not been my
experience. I have felt like working three times as hard ever since I
came to understand that my Lord was coming back again. I look on this
world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a life-boat, and said to me,
"Moody, save all you can." God will come in judgment and burn up this
world, but the children of God do not belong to this world; they are in
it, but not of it, like a ship in the water. This world is getting
darker and darker; its ruin is coming nearer and nearer; if you have any
friends on this wreck unsaved, you had better lose no time in getting
them off.
But some will say: "Do you then make the grace of God a failure?" No,
grace is not a failure but man is. The antediluvian world was a failure;
the Jewish work was a failure; man has been a failure everywhere, when
he has had his own way and been left to himself.
CHRIST WILL SAVE HIS CHURCH.
But he will save them finally by taking them out of the world. Now, do
not take my word for it; look this doctrine up in your Bible, and if you
find it there, bow down to it and receive it as the word of God. Take
Matthew 24:48,50: "But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart,
my Lord delayeth his coming ... the Lord of that servant shall come in a
day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
and shall cut him asunder and appoint him his portion with the
hypocrites; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." Take 2 Peter
3:4,5: "There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their
own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming? for since the
fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning
of the creation." Go out on the streets of Chicago and ask men about the
return of our Lord, and that is just what they would say: "Ah, yes, the
Lord delayeth his coming!"
"Behold, I come quickly," said Christ to John, and the last prayer in
the Bible is, "Even so, come Lord Jesus, come quickly." Were the early
Christians disappointed then? No; no man is disappointed who obeys the
voice of God. The world waited for the first coming of the Lord; waited
for 4,000 years, and then he came. He was here only thirty-three years
and then he went away; but he left us a promise that he would come
again; and as the world watched and waited for his first coming and did
not watch in vain, so now to them who wait for his appearing shall he
appear a second time unto salvation. Now let the question go round, "Am
I ready to meet the Lord if he comes to-night?" "Be ye also ready, for
in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh."
There is another thought I want to call your attention to, and that is
this: Christ will bring all our friends, with him when he comes. All who
have died in the Lord are to be with him when he comes in the clouds of
heaven. "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first
resurrection: on such the second death has no power, but they shall be
priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand
years," Rev. 20:6. "But the rest of the dead lived not again until the
thousand years were past; this is the first resurrection" (verse 5). That
looks as if the church were to have a thousand years with Christ before
the final judgment, when Satan shall be cast out, and there shall be new
heavens and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Now, I want to give you some texts to study.
When we eat the Lord's supper we show forth his death, until he
come. 1 Cor. xi. 26.
We are using our talents, until he come. Luke xix. 13.
We are fighting the good fight of faith, until he come. 1 Tim
vi. 12-14.
We are enduring tribulation, until he come. 2 Thes. i. 7.
We are to be patient, until he come. James v. 8.
We wait for the crown of righteousness, until he come. 2 Tim.
iv. 8.
We wait for the crown of glory, until he come. 1 Pet. v. 4.
We wait for re-union with departed friends, until he come. 1
Thes. iv. 13-18.
We wait for Satan to be bound, until he come. Rev. xx. 3.
And so let us watch and wait till he comes.
D. L. Moody, who is perhaps the most popular and efficient
preacher of the gospel of Christ in the world, to-day, is
evidently fully committed to a belief in the speedy coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ, to judge the world and establish his
eternal kingdom. Looking over the published reports of his
sermons in Great Britain and in this country, since the
beginning of 1874, I give extracts which go to show in a plain
light the man's inner love and hope as relates to the last
things, and his warm, bold, consistent manner of expressing the
same. Thousands pray, God bless D. L. Moody.
1. Mr. Moody proclaims that the grand symbols of Daniel's,
second and seventh chapters, announce four dominant world
empires, and but four, to cover all centuries of human
probation.
2. That these kingdoms are and were Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece
and Rome.
3. That these have had their day of earthly supremacy and the
last has nearly passed away.
4. That the fifth kingdom of Daniel is God's, to come in its
order as the fifth, to overthrow all previous kingdoms, to be a
visible and eternal kingdom, and to be established by Christ in
person at his second coming.
5. That the stone cut from the mountain denotes "Christ
himself," "at his appearing and kingdom," whose advent "is not
far distant," and for whose advent "the whole creation groans."
Rom. 8:19-22.
6. That the last days, described by our Saviour in Matt.
24:37-39 as resembling the days of Lot and Noah, are already
here; observing, "I do not think the day is far distant when our
Lord will return." And again, "just as judgment overtook
Belshazzar carousing at his feast, so will judgment come
suddenly and swiftly upon the world revelling in its sins."
* * * * *
The foregoing he preached in the City Hall, Glasgow, March 15th,
1874, before three thousand people. On the same day he preached
on "Christ's Second Coming" in the Free church (Pres.), telling
the churches that every thirtieth verse in the New Testament
bears on that glorious coming; and says the _London Christian_,
"With his usual power he showed what a mighty motive this
doctrine is to all who are winning souls. He himself had found
it rousing him to ten-fold more effort to save all that could be
rescued from the coming wreck."
In Philadelphia, in a discourse on Daniel's second chapter, he
said: "This dream has been nearly fulfilled as Daniel
interpreted it. In the present age the prophecy is nearly
completed, and the hour of the Lord's second coming is close at
hand." D. T. T.
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