DL Moody

2.27.24 DL Moody

This is pastor tim from Hazard First Baptist with Today’s Good News

Preachers love to talk about the great old evangelist, Dwight L. Moody. You hear all these sermon illustrations about him. But sometimes we forget Dwight L Moody was never an ordained minister. He was never a pastor. He was just a shoe salesman who was born again, and got so excited about it, he never got over it, and he went everywhere sharing the good news.

He later became an evangelist although he was never ordained. He was a big man with a big, full beard. We would call him obese today.

It was said that Dwight was an uneducated, uncouth man. It was said, “He murdered the Queen’s English.” In fact, in 1870, he went to London, and he was speaking in front of a huge crowd of educated, sophisticated English people and he started his address this way with poor grammar: “Don’t never think that God don’t love you, for he do!”

He just went on talking about Jesus. Some people were offended by his lack of correct grammar. After one of these meetings a sophisticated, dignified English woman came up to Dwight and said, “Mr. Moody, you ought to be ashamed of yourself!” and he hung his head, and he said “Ma’am, you’re right. I am ashamed of myself, but I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

This simple man “shook” two continents for Jesus Christ. I hope that we all can say the same, oh yeah there may be times when we are ashamed of the way that we have acted, ashamed maybe even of some dumb thing that we have done, but may we never be ashamed of the gospel.

May we realize the great value of the truth that has been so graciously given to us, the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ.

You don’t have to be an ordained minister to share the Good News. Ask God to give you an opportunity today to share the gospel with someone today. To tell someone “Don’t never think that God don’t love you, for he do!”

That is the Good News, simply stated. And this has been pastor tim with Today’s Good News.