The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-06
PROOFS THAT THE BIBLE Is THE
WORD or GOD.
8 SERMON By d. T. MOODY

srRNoN By u. T. MOODY.
can imagine some of you may say
10 yourselves. II wonder If Mr. Moody
claims Co understand all the Bible. - |
want to tell you in the very opening Of
this lecture that DO not. and II did
a. would be- pretty good evidence that
IL did not haveany divine origin. am
glad there Is q depth in that Bible
know nothing about. that there is
height there | cannot climb to If |
should live to be as old rs Methusalah;
/ venture 10 saw if l should live for
ages on the earth I would only have
touched ITS surface.
THE SUPERNATURAL.
pity the man who knows all the
Bible. for il IS a pretty good sign he
don't know himself 4 man came to
me with what he thought was very
difficult passage and he said, Mr..
VI ody how do you explain it p
/ said, II don explain 1t.
But how DO you interpret it,
Il don I interpret it.
"Wel. how do you understand it,"
81 don't understand il"
But y hat DO YOU 90 with ~
IL don't DO ANYTHING with it.
you don't believe it,"
Ye.. believe it. There are lots Of
things that believe that do not IN
dersaud. Ia the third chapter of John
CHRIST stys to Nichodemus. If you do
not understand earthly things, how can
YOU understand heavenly things ?
There are = great many things about my
own bldy DO not understand. don t
understand nature: it IS filed with
wonderful things don, comDrehend.
Then Why should ! expect to know
everything spiritua'ly -
But men ask. How can YOU prove
the book inspired ?" answer. because
it inspires me-. That is one Of ths best
proofs. 1t does inspire us.
THE Old TESTAMENT.
want now to call your attention TO
tae Oll Testament. l found out here,
on This eide of the Rocky mountains,
that "a great many people have given ii
uu they say it has gone ont Of date.
Some who profess TO Doe Christians, will
tell you thar they don't believe the Old
Testament. but believe the New. There
is uothiug iu the Old Testament that
men c4yil about. that the Son Of God
dii not set las seal to while be was her,
on earth. believe these statements II
the Old Testament that men question
about as much as 90 the Sermon on
the Mount. one is gwen with as much
authority as the other. You take the
story about Noah and the fiOod-ChTlsi
saws that"" As it was in the days OF
Noah. they were eating and drinking
go shall the coming Of the Son of man
bee. be connected that event with hi
own life on this earth.
Men ray, Why YOU don { believe the
story about Lot aud those five cities OF
the plains being DESTROYED - Certain
Is believe u. just as much as believe
Chris. is gong to come back. Christ
refers TO Lot in connection with his
coming.
But you don't believe that story
about Lots wife 2" Christ believed 1t
lac said. Remember Lots wife. -
But yoI don't believe that three
millions Of people were fed with man
IA In tue descrt;" l believe that, lie
cause Jesus has connected that with hi
own broken body for the life of hi
people Our fathers did eat manni
in the desert. as it is written, he gav'
them bread from Heaven to eat.
Suit what about that brazen serpen
in the wilderness upon which the PEG
pie are sand to have looked and wer'
healed. DO YOU think that is true?
Certainly What does Christ say! "A
Moses lifted up the serp' Mt in the vii
derncss. even 30 must ths Son of mai
be lifted up. that whosoever believed
IN him should not perish, but have eter
nal life
Ind you believe that story abou
Ehih aud the widow. whose handful
of meal and little oil IN a cruise he'll
ont 30 long, Christ believed it; b
said there were many widows in lsrat
10 the days Of Elisha. but he was onl
sent 10 ihis one. He also says Their
were many lepers at that time, ou
none were cleansed but Naamaf
who vas commanded 70 dip ssve
times ia the Jordan. Aud 30 IN
very things that men object
the Son of God set his divine seal L
We'll" they ray. MIR. Moody. yo
don't believe IN Jonah and the whale
Every bod, has given up that old stor
long ago" | believe it as much as
Believe stand before you. Christ col
nected that with The most precior
thing Of his whole life. The doctrir
Of the resurrection grows more an
more precious TO me; want a religio
that can 20 TO the grave and cali BAG
NY loved ones. Christ sad that an ev
generation seeketh after u sIgu. Ill
there shall no Sign bs given TO
. but the sign Of the proph'
Jonas, for US Jonas was thru