St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-30
What is Christ to Us ?
MIR. MOODY AT THE TABERNACLE
MARCH lS.

Mn MOODl Al lADEhNiNLL,
MARCH lS.
If | could speak to the Christians to-
day as l ought, | don't believe that
there is a person in this house but that
would he saying at the close of this
service, "Hallelujah, what Saviour"
Instead of taking text, want to call
your attention to just this one thought {:
''What Christ is to u.s." And when
have got through, if any of you say that
He is not what / have tried to make
him out to you, it will be your fault,
not mine, because he is thousand
times more to us than | can tell. If
could use my tongue, and talk to you
for forty-eight hours, ] could not begin
to tell You. | remember speaking in
the North of England one night on
what Christ was to me, and going home
with Scotchman | was telling how
disappointed | was because | had only
got part through with my subject when
that man turned to me and said, aye
dinna expect to tell a. ABBOTT Christ in
one hour, d. yeP Why, 'twOuld tax a.
eternity to do it, mon" OF course, |
didn't finish the subject in an hour. If
| talked all the afternoon | would not
begin to touch this wonderful subject
You would be wonderfully blessed if
you would take up the Bible and 90 to
work and see what friend he is to us,
what he wants to he to every man and
woman on the face of the earth. First,
he is our Saviour. "For unto you is
born this day in the city of David a
Saviour, which is Christ our Lord.n
That is what Christ must be to us first /;
we must know him first as a Saviour.
WE MUST MEET HIM FIRST
at Calvary. "His name shall be called
Jesus, for he shall save his people from
their SINS" Now is it true that Christ
does save us from sin Is it true that
a man stepped in sin can be saved by
calling upon the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ Is it true that a man can
be saved by taking Christ into his
heart? Is it true that old things have
passed away and behold all things have
become new and that man who is
converted becomes a different man, and
woman a different woman, by receiv-
ing Christ | don't think it needs any
one to stand up here and try to prove
this truth. You can witness it all
around you. Some of you have had
friends in whom you have noticed the
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you have loving companion that is IL
new man in Christ Jesus. Some of you
know men who were once slaves to
drink, that have got victory through
Christ. And all tell one story. Some
had tried this physician or that, this or
that remedy, but they all failed. But
when they let Christ fill their heart and
received him, they were saved from
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gave them the victory over their pas
sions, their appetites and lusts, and
saved them from sin. Men may talk as
much as they like, there is no other
name can save. People tell us that
Christ was like Abraham, Jacob, Isaac
or some of the other old patriarchs, or
like one of the apostles, and say why
not call upon one of the prophets or
apostles and see if they won't save us !;
to cry nightly to Daniel, Elijah or
some other one to save, and see if there
won't be an answer their prayers. But
let them call upon the Lord Jesus Christ
and see how quick salvation comes.
have yet to find the first man that went
to him honestly and cried for salvation
but what he got il. Then he is more
than a Saviour. A good many stop
right there; they forget that he is more
than that. | might see man drown
ing and
JUMP OVERHEARD AND SAVE HIM.
| would be a saviour but if | should
leave him on the banks he would still
be in sorry plight. Christ is not only
a Saviour but is also deliverer. He
delivers us from sin. Now, when the
children of Israel we're put behind the
blood in Goshen that was their saliva
ton, but it didn't deliver them from the
King of Egypt, from their hard task
master and from the crack of the slave
drivers whip. But when God brought
them to the Red Sea and PharaOh's
band was driving them, then he de-
llvered them from the hand of the
enemy and brought them out of bon
dage. Christ don't come down here
and pardon our sins and leave us in
prison, in the land of Egypt, in the
house OF bondage, in servitude. He
brings us through the Red Sea of diff
fculties and up into the promised land.
What we want is to know Christ as our
deliverer. 1t says in the forty-ninth
chapter OF Isaiah, twenty verse.
'Shall the prey be taken from the
mighty, or the lawful captive deliv-
cred " ''But, saith the Lord, even the
captives of the mighty shall be taken
away, and the prey of the terrible shall
be delivered; for l will contend with
him that cOntendeth with thee, and |
will save thy children" | will do it,
he says. Then in Job it says, ..He is
gracious unto him, he delivered him
from going down into the pitt He
was his ransom and delivered him. So
he is not only Saviour but deliverer.
But when Gods children were there at
the Red Sea and he delivered them from
the hand of the King of Egypt by divid-
ing the waters of the Red Sea that thew
might cross, he was something else to
them; he was their way. A good many
people say that they would like to be-
come Christians but they don't know
the way. Christ don't leave us in dark
ness: 81 am the way Myself" In the
fourteenth of John it says, ~ am the
way, the truth and the light.n If a
man wants to be in the right way let
him follow Christ. He will lead him