Love Jesus 13

DL Moody tells a story of preaching before a large crowd on the topic, “What Shall I Do With Jesus Christ?” but rather than close with an altar call, he ended his service urging them to think about it and to come back next Sunday:
“Now, I want you to take the question with you and think it over, and next Sunday I want you to come back and tell me what you are going to do
with Him.”
He never got the chance to see those people again because that day the city would burn down to ashes in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
DL Moody said he wept whenever he thought about the lost opportunity to invite others to accept Christ and from them on gained a reputation for wanting to “press Christ on the people then and there” and urge them to “choose Christ” right then.

Never again would he tell an audience:
“I wish you would take this text home
with you and turn it over in your minds during the week, and next Sunday we will come to Calvary and the cross, and we will decide what we will do with Jesus of Nazareth.”

Luke 12:19-20
“… and I shall say to myself, “Now you have an abundance of goods stored up for many years to come. Relax, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you.”

2 Corinthians 6:6
“Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”

Said Moody, “This hour, this minute, make up your minds that you are going to be from this time forth
on the Lord’s side. Go to your home, to your church, and give a ringing testimony for the Son of God. Go to work, do what you can for Christ, and there will be grand days for this republic and a blessed life for you here and hereafter.”