old you, Mr. Moody, that I had found a hymn-book last
night you would believe me, would you not? (Mr. Moody: Yes.) Suppose
I said it was the valuable one _you_ lost the other night, you would
believe me also just the same. There is no difference in the _kind_
of faith; the difference is in the _thing believed_. When the Son of
God tells me that He died for sinners, that is a fact for my faith
to lay hold of: the faith itself is not some thing to be considered.
I do not look at my hand, when I take a gift, and wonder what sort
of a hand it is. I look at the gift.

Mr. M.--What about those people who say their hearts are so hard,
and they have no love to Christ?

Mr. R.--Of course they are hard and cold. No man loves Christ till
he believes that Christ loves him. "We love Him, because He first
loved us." It is the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the
Holy Ghost that makes the change.

Mr. M.--Paul said he was "crucified with Christ." what did he mean?

Mr. R.--Oh, that is a grand text! Thank God I have been "crucified
with Christ." The Cross of Christ represents the death due to the
sinner who had broken God's laws. When Christ was crucified every
member of His body was crucified: but every believer that was, or
is, or shall be, is a member of Christ's body, of His flesh, and of
His bones. Again, we read: "Whether one member suffer, all the
members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members
rejoice with it: now ye are the body of Christ, and members in
particular." So when Christ was crucified for sin, I was also
crucified in Him; and now I am dead and gone as far as my old self
is concerned. I have already suffered for sin in Him. Yes; I am dead
and buried with Christ. That is the grand truth that Paul laid hold
upon. I am stone dead as a sinner in the sight of God. As it is
written, I am "become dead to the law by the body of Christ, that I
might be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the
dead, that I should bring forth fruit unto God." "I am crucified
with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in
me;" and God Himself commands me so to regard my standing before Him
as His believing child. "In that Christ died, He died, unto sin
once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. _Likewise reckon ye
also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin_, but _alive unto God_
through Jesus Christ our Lord."

Mr. M.--Should not a man repent a good deal before he comes to
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