Posted on 01/04/2015 10:57:43 AM PST by metmom
Kind of a long read but very good.
BFL
Wonderful...I knew about D.L. Moody being a great teacher, but this is the first time I ever read one of his complete sermons.
Thank You For Posting.
Can you imagine what God could do with us if we were as fully surrendered to Him as the 120 in the upper room were?
Look what they did to the world.
I think that God is still wanting to do the same today. There are still people dying and going to hell by the thousands every day.
Amen.
“It was several years before this that God first told him to leave Ur of the Chaldees. Then he came to Haran, which is about half-way between the valley of the Euphrates and the valley of the Jordan. God had called him into the land of the Canaanite, and “
Ummmmmmmmmm....It was Terah the father of Abraham that took his family out of Ur and moved to Haran(obstensibly to go to Canaan but Terah stalled in Haran).(though Abraham was married to Sarai at the time, he wasn’t separated from his family’s clan. Abraham was not yet called of God at the time of the move...though I remember discussions in Sunday night classes over the motivation for Terah’s move....the Bible doesn’t say! Perhaps Terah was the “halfway man” and not Abraham.
Genesis 11:31-32.
That’s right.
It’s interesting how much we sometimes depend on others and the urban myths that Christianity adheres to, just like Eve eating an (supposedly) apple or the idea that there were three Magi.
Thanks for pointing that out. It’s always good to get stuff like that cleared up.
An excellent study!! Thanks for posting.
That is so interesting.
We call those “urban myths” FOLK THEOLOGY.
Folk Theology can be relatively harmless (Like the three Wise men) or eternally deadly (If I’m good I’ll go to heaven).
It is important to be Biblically Literate so that we will ALWAYS know the difference! :-)
Thank you for posting.
*folk theology*
That’s a good term for it.
There’s also “Tabloid theology”.
I’ll bet you can guess what THAT is! LOL!
Not always.
We should make a full surrender to God simply because of who He-perfect joy, love, kindness, etc. We know, like Abraham, that this is not our homeland and God has something better in store for us.
I suppose that depends on whether one is thinking in material terms or not.
I can see where it sounds like Osteen theology, but Abraham did not live to see the physical fulfillment of God’s promises to their fulness.
However, he was given something better than we ever knew before.
Intimacy with God.
Worth more than all the riches of this world.
Self ping for later
.....or bumper sticker theology......
Indeed.
Or T-Shirt Philosophy.
Unfortunately, one can’t fit a D.L. MOODY Sermon on a bumper sticker! LOL!
Somehow I see obedience to the Lord rather than surrender. He was willing to sacrifice his son in obedience to God’s message.
A difference between obedience and surrender.
When you obey a Commandment, do you say that you surrender to it? Not a very good comparison I know.
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