. The life and work of Dwight L. Moody, presented to the Christian world as a tribute to the memory of the greatest apostle of the age. It was on thatmemorable night that He uttered those blessed words, and on thatvery night that He told them how much God loved them. Itseems as if that particular night, when He was about to be desertedby all, His heart was bursting with love for His flock. Just let us look at the i6th chapter and the 27th verse and seewhat He says: For the Father Himself loveth you because yehave loved me and have believed that I came from God. I dontknow but what Christ felt
. The life and work of Dwight L. Moody, presented to the Christian world as a tribute to the memory of the greatest apostle of the age. It was on thatmemorable night that He uttered those blessed words, and on thatvery night that He told them how much God loved them. Itseems as if that particular night, when He was about to be desertedby all, His heart was bursting with love for His flock. Just let us look at the i6th chapter and the 27th verse and seewhat He says: For the Father Himself loveth you because yehave loved me and have believed that I came from God. I dontknow but what Christ felt that there miorht be some of His dis-ciples that would not love the Father as they loved Him. Iremember for the first few years after I was converted I had agood deal more love for Christ than for God the Father, whom Ilooked upon as the stern Judge, while I regarded Christ as theMediator who had come between me and that stern Judge, andhad appeased His wrath, but when I got a little better acquaintedwith my Bible those views all fled. After I became a father, andwoke up to the realization of what it cost God to have His Son die,. ^S 5?5!?: THREE CHARACTERISTIC SERMONS 313 I began to see that God was to be loved just as much as His Sonwas. Why, it took more love for God to give His Son to die thanit would to die Himself. You would a thousand times sooner dieyourself in your sons place than have him taken away. If theexecutioner was about to take your son to the gallows, you wouldsay, Let me die in his stead , let my son be spared. Oh, thinkof the love God must have had for this world that He eave Hisonly begotten Son to die for it, and that is what I want you tounderstand. The Father Himself loveth you because you haveloved Me. If a man has loved Christ, God will set His love uponhim. Then in the 17th chapter, 23d verse, in that wonderfulprayer He made that night, I in them, and Thou in Me, thatthey may be made perfect in one, and that the world may knowThou hast sent Me and ha
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