-- There was never a sermon which you have listened to but in it Christ
was seeking for you. I contend that a man cannot but find in every
page of this book that Jesus Christ is seeking him through His
blessed Word. This is what the Bible is for--to seek out the lost.
-- No man in the world should be so happy as a man of God. It is one
continual source of gladness. He can look up and say, "God is my
Father, Christ is my Saviour, and the Church is my mother."
-- There is no other way to the Kingdom of God but by the way of the
cross, and it will be easier for you to take it now than it will be
afterward.
-- Everything has to be tried by the sinner before he will come to
Christ. He has to feel that there is nothing that can save him but
Christ, then he will come.
-- Have not some of you heard a sermon in which you were offered as a
sinner to the Lord Jesus Christ, and your conscience was troubled?
You went away, but you came back again, and the Spirit of God came
upon you again and again, and you were troubled. Haven't you passed
through that experience? Don't you remember something like that
happening to you? That was the Son of God seeking for your soul.
-- The Son of God has come into the world to bless us. Look at that
Sermon on the Mount. It is filled with the word blessed, blessed,
blessed. I think it occurs nine times. His heart was full of
blessings for the people. He had to get it out before He gave His
sermon.
-- A rule I have had for years is to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a
personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere empty doctrine, but it is
He himself we have. The moment we have received Christ we should
receive Him as a friend. When I go away from home I bid my wife and
children good-by, I bid my friends and acquaintances good-by, but I
never heard of a poor backslider going down on his knees and saying:
"I have been near You for ten years; Your service has become tedious
and monotonous; I have come to bid You farewell; good-by, Lord Jesus
Christ." I never heard of one doing this. I will tell you how they go
away; they just run away.