Look at it. Here we have our churches on almost every street, and despite the destitution of London, it is not destitute if you compare it with the other nations of the world. Oh, shouldn’t we as ministers of Christ spread out our armies? And shouldn’t our people go everywhere in the habitable world, in ones, and twos, and threes, preaching the gospel? But, one may ask, “Do you want us to leave our wife, and house, and children?” I am not asking that you do that; but if you would, then Christ’s power would be seen, and then the power of the church would again return to it. The men in the early church were men without money or extra clothing, and they went everywhere preaching the word, and God was with them, and the world heard them and was converted. Now we cannot go if we are not sent, and perhaps it is only reasonable that flesh and blood should not ask more. But still if the life of God were in the church, it would never stop in England for very long; it would send forth its troops, rolling along in one tremendous stream; a new crusade would be preached against the heathen nations, and the sword of the Lord would cut down the strongest of our enemy, and Christ would reign, and his glorious kingdom then would come. Oh that the church had power with men, and power with God!
Dear brothers and sisters, look around and see what you can do, every one of you. Do something today. Don’t let this Sunday go by without every one of you trying to be the means of winning a soul to God. Go to your Sunday Schools; go to your Bible Studies; go to your neighborhoods; go to your families, your mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters; go home and do something today. “Fight the battles of the Lord.” You can do nothing by yourselves; but God will be with you. If you have the will to serve him, he will give you the power. Go today, and seek to heal some rift, to end some hostility, to defeat some sin, or to drive out some error; and God being with you, will make this a happier day to your soul, and a holier day to the world than you have seen in your entire life before.
And one last word, a word to the unsaved person.
Sinner! I remember that you are here this morning as well as the saint. Sinner! you are not Christ’s soldier; you are a soldier of Satan; you will receive your pay soon, when you have worn out your sword, and worn out your arm in fighting against Christ, yes, then you will receive your wages. Look at it and tremble. “The wages of sin is death,” and damnation too. Will you receive death and damnation, or will you now renounce Satan and his wickedness, and enlist under the banner of Christ? O that God would give you the deposit of free grace, and enlist you now as a soldier of the cross. Remember, Christ takes the very dregs to be his soldiers. Every man that was in debt, and every man that was discontented, came to David, and he became the captain over them. Now, if you are in debt this morning to God’s law, and cannot pay, if you are discontented with the devil’s service, tired and worn out with pleasure, come to Christ, and he will receive you, make you a soldier of the cross, and a follower of the Lamb. God be with you and bless you, from this day forth, forever and ever! Amen.
“This article originally appeared here at Bible Bulletin Board.”
