In this sermon, the speaker shares various stories and experiences related to the power of God's grace and the work of the Holy Spirit in bringing people to salvation. The speaker emphasizes the importance of faith in Jesus Christ as the means of salvation. He recounts a story of a man who witnessed to another person and proclaimed Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away sins. The speaker also mentions the sensitivity of a man named George Cutting to the prompting of the Holy Spirit in sharing the message of salvation. Overall, the sermon highlights the diverse ways in which people come to faith and the role of the Holy Spirit in guiding and convicting individuals.

Today, Fr. Ellen Moody, one night, he was preaching on Matthew 6.33, but he decursed the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. And at the close of the meeting, a man came up to him in extreme distress of soul, and he said something like this. He said, Mr. Moody, when I was leaving home, my mother made me promise that I would attend church every Sunday, and she gave me a Bible, and she wrote in the front of the Bible, but seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. He said, Mr. Moody, the first day, the first Sunday I was away from home, he said, I went to a church, and he said, and he was preaching on Matthew 6.33, but seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. He said, Mr. Moody, the next week I went to a different church, and he said, and he preached on Matthew 6.33, and he said, but seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. He said, Mr. Moody, forty years have gone by. He said, I have gone to a church every Sunday for forty years, and nobody has ever preached on that verse again. He said, the night I came to your meeting, and you were preaching, seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. He said, Mr. Moody, you think God is still with me and saves me. And Moody assured him that the door of salvation was still open, and that night the penitent entered in. Just think of the patience of God over forty years. Long-suffering, not willing that any should perish, and a mother's prayers that followed Him for all those years. Sometimes I think God has a sense of humor. Even in connection with matters like the conversion, most of you have read or heard of George Cutting. He wrote that tract, Safety, Certainty, and Joy. He said, I'm reflecting through so many of my self-influences. It was through his writings that I really got a sense of salvation. I've never read this tract, Safety, Certainty, and Joy. There's a great man of God, George Cutting. One day he was walking down a street in an English village, and the spirit of God seemed to prompt him to say, to shout out, John 1, 20. Behold the Lamb of God, the Savior of the sinners, and the Son of God, the Father, the Lord, the King, and the Holy Spirit. So he comes out of the street, and here's George Cutting walking down, and he shouts out at the top of his lungs, Behold the Lamb of God, the Savior of the sinners, and the Holy Spirit. And he went up and said, the spirit of the Lord prompted him to say that again. And it was the first thing that he did. He said, Behold the Lamb of God, take away the sins of the world. Some two days later, he was in that village, going to work for a contractor. He went to talk to George, and knocked on his door, and he gave him a kiss. And he said, I'm so grateful to you, God, that you have sent me back. He taught a lot of time in the life of Jesus during this time. He was, sin was on his back pocket to his head. And he said, he was crying to the Lord. Deep conviction of sin, he cried out to the Lord, Christ had mercy on me. He heard those words, Oh, and God, take away the sins of the world. And the Lord is asking you to say it again. And he heard the words, Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of the world. You know, I didn't know the kind of a man George Cunningham was. I could tell. He was a real man of God. And you know, he's so sensitive to the prompting of the Spirit of God, that he didn't believe it. Yet, it spoke to his salvation. The Father of the Spirit of God. A certain fellow standing at the edge of an airplane hangar had one of the Christian witnesses to another fellow that had beaten the leader to a book. Around the corner, Taylor was listening. When Taylor gets there, the man that he was witnessing to, that actually happened to be that fellow. The infinite variety of salvation experiences birthed itself as an interesting thing. You know, it had to do with the Rock of Gibraltar. Apparently, the Rock of Gibraltar is honeycombed with corridors and regards unto thee there, Greek soldiers. And, one night there was a Christian soldier at this end of the corridor. And, he's there alone. He's meditating, and thinks of the Lord. And there's another soldier down at this end of the corridor and he's unsaved. And his Spirit of God is really working. And this fellow is standing there in the semi-dark. There's an office that comes in. It says, the password of the day. The fellow says, the person is the blood of Christ. And he recovers quickly and gets the proper password. He isn't thinking about the blood of Christ. And, you know, those words lead their way down that corridor to this fellow down here. He's in his deep repose. That's the first word he needs to hear. The pressure. I tell you, God's natural creation is wonderful, but it's more wonderful than his creation. And the way God works is heart and mind. I like to tell the story of a couple of friends of mine out in Honolulu during the war. And after hours, they used to go out on the basketball court by one of the names of Dick Hegler. He was an unsaved fellow. That was Christian's first race. And they were just playing a bunch of fellows shooting baskets and all the rest. Dick Hegler was watching Bert's race. And he noticed the other fellows used profanity. Bert never used profanity. The other fellows lost their temper. Bert didn't watch Bert. Dick watched Bert. He found that he was different. And the time came Bert had never been with him. He never said a word to him. So one night, Dick Hegler came to Bert and said, Bert, you're different. You've got something to look forward to. I don't know what it is. But I do. And Bert said, I don't know what it is. But that was not my intention. He was hurting Bert. He was hurting me. But no, it was none of our business. He was won by the might of a believer. A passionate believer. And I think that's what the Lord meant when he prayed that they all may be one. The world may believe that all may be one in Christ's likeness. That's what will cause the world to believe that God has been. Some of you, I'm sure, have read the story of W.E. McKay, the young Scottish fellow. And he was leaving his home and his mother gave him a Bible. She wrote in it and added a verse of Scripture in his Bible. And McKay went off from home and lived a pretty bad life. But he was a very clever fellow and he became a very talented virgin. He was an ardent infidel and he adopted a lifestyle that was not very consistent with the home that he had been brought up in. And yet I say, in spite of his lifestyle, he became a very successful physician and he rose to be head of Eliza's hospital. He said, one day he was on duty and a patient arrived who had been horribly mangled. Dr. McKay was amazed by the peace and radiance of the man's life. And Dr. McKay cried to him, you know, well, you're going to be all right. You'll take care of it. The man suspected otherwise. The doctor said, I'm a Christian. He said, I'm ready to meet the Lord. How long? The doctor said, three hours. Well, he said, would you have somebody go to my clothes and take out the money to pay my rent? I'm bringing the book from my lodging. He said, I'm ready, I'm saved, ready, not afraid to die. And he asked that the same lady would send him the book. So the doctor sent an orderly to take the money to pay the rent and to get the book. And then the doctor went on his rounds and later he returned to that particular ward and he said to the nurse, how is that man who was brought in? And she said, he died a few weeks ago. And he said, where is the book that he asked for? And she said, it's under his pillow. And he goes and looks at it. The doctor reached under the pillow and he brought out a Bible which fell open to the floor and there he saw his own name. The verse his mother had inscribed that he rushed back to his office and fell on his knees and cried out to God for mercy and trusted Christ for his salvation. And in later years he wrote that lovely book, Grace and Truth. He fell on his knees and cried. And God controlling that book, bringing it right back to its original form, breaking it apart, beating it apart. The wonders of God and His mercy. The varieties of experience and connection with the new birth. Now look, if we could throw a meeting, the time is gone, but if we could throw a meeting like this, open specific of the testimonies of this book, know to alike, all saved through faith in the Lord, and get to see the ingenuity and the originality of the Holy Spirit in converging circumstances, bringing people to the foot of the cross. What a wonderful God we have. Shall we pray? Father, once again we bow in worship before you. We know so little about you. We think that you're a man just like ourselves, and truly it can be said of us, your God is too small. But we do pray, Lord, that we might go forth from the conference with greater thoughts of you, and with eyes open to see your majesty and your greatness not only in creation, but also in providence, and in redemption as well. Send us forth with a song of praise and worship in our hearts, and may our lives be a perpetual psalm of thanksgiving to you, and the Savior to you. Amen. . . . . . . .