There is something like a flash from the cloud. A thousand gleaming daggers strike through a thousand quivering hearts. If you want to make a covenant with the Lord and say, “Lord, I am choosing to lay aside everything that would not be in harmony with Your will; I pray that You will fill my heart and mind with Your Holy Spirit and change them,” I invite you to kneel, right where you are, and ask the Lord to give you this experience right now. Startle not at the splashed wine on the table, as though it were blood. Do not jump out of the scales until I have examined them. There have been deists, no doubt, in every age; but this name was assumed by certain persons in France and Italy, who, although inclined to atheistical sentiments, chose rather to … Belshazar tried, but couldn't find A man who could give him peace of mind. Unless the door of the heart is open to Jesus, unless He occupies the soul temple, unless the heart is imbued with His divine attributes, human actions when weighed in the heavenly balances, will be pronounced ‘Wanting.’” Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. September 16, 1949 • Topics: ... Weighed in God’s Balances and Found; Billy Graham’s message from Los Angeles, CA, USA – 1949. Now let the righteous get on the balances. It is well frequently to weigh ourselves in the scale of God's Word. Weighed in the balance, and nothing wanting! When we go to bed at night, we know not that we shall see the day dawn. That will not save you. WEIGHED IN THE BALANCES. An unseen balance had been set up in the festal hall. There is no escape from the scrutiny. That King Belshazzar had been “weighed in the balances and found wanting.” The days of his kingdom and been numbered, and on that very night, that which he treasured would be taken from him. There are not, however, three million Seventh-day Adventists in church every Sabbath. He puts the butt of the gun to his shoulder, lays his eye along the barrel, takes sure aim, draws the trigger; and crash go the antlers on the rocks! Darkness falls upon the room. Go free! We are this moment being canvassed, inspected, weighed. You are too light to budge the balances in your favor. I think she must have been pleased. Yea, our earth itself is to be put on the scales, with all its mountains, valleys and seas. You will find my text to-night in one short word, "Tekel," meaning: "Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting." Weighed in the balance (Sermon Reading) by D. L. Moody Topic: Reading Scripture(s): Daniel 5:27 Description: Though not the actual voice of the great evangelist, this sermon is well read and worth the listen. On with the mirth! Scripture Text: Daniel 5:17-31 Weighed in the Balances (MP3) Weighed in the Balances (Sermon Text) Introduction Have you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting? They may have weighed themselves and given a self-gratulatory decision, but now God weighs them in unmistakable balances. “But my name is down on the church book.” That will not save you. “Many are quieting a troubled conscience with the thought that they can change a course of evil when they choose; that they can trifle with the invitations of mercy, and yet be again and again impressed. His central message was the Christ, His love and sacrifice. But as we just read, if there has been no repentance and no effort to do right, God will say, “No, you are not going to weigh out.”. I feel like America is a slave to your election protocol and it needs to be revised. One of the greatest judgment scenes in the Bible speaks to us today. Welcome to Rev. The earth here deposited was so deep that the largest trees had room to anchor their roots. They believe that they can live in any way that they please and that it is sufficient to just say, “Lord, I am confessing my sins,” and their sins will be forgiven. Though provisioned for twenty years, it shall fall tonight. He has given us light and a knowledge of His will, so that we need not err or walk in darkness. The True Witness declares, ‘I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and has found them liars: and hast borne, and hast patience, and for My name’s sake has laboured, and hast not fainted.’ [Revelation 2:2, 3.] We want on this scale nothing but your soul. Weighed, and found wanting! TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. On a hair-hung bridge we walk over bottomless chasms. “God weighs every man in the balances of the sanctuary. Man’s Morality Not Sufficient When God Weighs You. Weighed in the balance and found wanting. Many suppose that sin is imponderable; but it is heavy enough to crush a world. 2 thoughts on “ Weighed in the Balances & Found Wanting ” Anonymous November 12, 2016 at 4:55 pm. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and appoints over it whomever He chooses. But I am not now to speak of the weighing of coffees and sugars, but of the weighing of principles, of individuals, of churches, and of worlds. ID. Daniel. “They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, and iron, wood and stone.” Daniel 5:4. 4-18-71 10:50 a.m. On the radio and on television you are sharing the services of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, and this is the pastor bringing the message entitled Weighed and Found Wanting.. Your orthodoxy won’t save you. What folly to talk about sin in the abstract when you and I have in our souls a malady that must be cured or it will kill us, miserably and forever! He says it is a Westminster Assembly Catechism. [Daniel 5:25-28] You who have been in attendance upon the services remember the sermons on the first part of the chapter. What is it you have in that other pocket? The reader does an excellent job preserving the heart of Moody in the delivery. Then all the saints cried out with anguish of spirit, and were delivered by the voice of God. No! There is no safety in following the counsel of men who are not vivified by the Holy Spirit, but must be reformed, else they will be weighed in the balances of the sanctuary, and found wanting.” Manuscript Releases, vol. It has seen the rise and downfall of Daniel's four empires. 11.1) God uses honest scales! Down went the sins; up went the emperor, with all his surroundings. It is very short,… If you neglect or treat with indifference the warnings that God has given, if you cherish or excuse sin, you are sealing your soul’s destiny. The weight of our character, when put in the balance, will be determined by the motives that caused us to act. The Scales Of Judgment “TEKEL; You are weighed in the balances and are found wanting.” Daniel 5:27. Drink to the defenders of the city. “It is possible to be a partial, formal believer, and yet be found wanting and lose eternal life. The merchant’s measure may be wrong, but God’s measure is just right. Too light yet! We are living in a time when people have become unconcerned about this judgment. But why enlarge? He was aggressive, not concerned with the feelings of his hearers. Hark! You see, if you do not have the love of Jesus in your heart, you can be doing the right thing, but fail to weigh out. They may struggle to keep out, but God will put them in. Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.” Daniel 5:5, 6. Hark! There is, first of all, a night of dissipation. Too light yet! The most tremendous question he ever asks himself is, “How low can I buy these goods, and how high a price can I get for them?” The day is full of rush and din, and he sleeps and sweats under a nightmare of dollars. All this to please his wife. Get on this side, all ye martyrs who went through the fire and flood—Wickliffe, Ridley, and Latimer. Because of your electoral process the leadership of your country is being legally handed over “with a smooth transition” to a person who’s mantra “Make America Great Again” is not original. Inasmuch as an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting dreams, solving riddles, and explaining enigmas were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar, now let Daniel be called, and he will give the interpretation.” Verses 11, 12. He would have you bring the truth of God into the inner sanctuary [that is, your mind], to soften and subdue the soul; for when Christ is dwelling in your heart by faith, you will love those for whom He died. Recording angel, write it down.” If a farmer comes to town with apples for sale and he does not give full measure, the apples are immediately put into God’s peck, and record is made of twenty apples too few. 3:5). On your side are spread all the kind words you ever spoke, all the Christian deeds you ever did. Every day that we live should be a day that we live in reference to that fact, because whether we live until Jesus returns, or die first, there will come a day when our destiny is fixed for eternity and there will be nothing that we can do to change it. The Babylonians may have had the same notion, which would give a peculiar appropriateness to the image here used. You are already confused by men whose counsel is erratic. "Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting." To be weighed in the balance and found wanting in the day of final settlement and rewards will be a fearful thing, a terrible mistake which can never be corrected.” Testimonies, vol. Babylon was the paradise of architecture. Weighed, and found wanting.”, Churches That Do Not Win Souls Are Wanting. Our only safety is in coming to Christ and ceasing from sin this moment. The experience, the education of a lifetime, has so thoroughly molded the character that few then desire to receive the image of Jesus.” Steps to Christ, 33. His eyes, his hand, his heart are full of business—stocks, dividends, percentages, scrip, “buyer, ten days,” “buyer, thirty days.” His heaven is a successful bargain; his eternity, so many feet front by so many feet deep. Angels of light are making ready to shout over your deliverance, or fiends of darkness reaching up their skeleton hands to pull you down into ruin consummate. The 144,000 triumphed. Every day is a day of judgment. He says, “It is my reputation for morality and uprightness and integrity.” Leave that behind. After his lesson was learned and his kingdom was restored, he proclaimed: "Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase." Christ, on your side, has settled the balances forever. The bang of heavy fists against the palace gates is followed by the crashing in of the doors. Give me any rebuke I need, just do not take Your Holy Spirit from me”? I built the gilded opera house!” Then God put on one side of the scales the emperor and the boulevards and the Champs Elysees and the Tuileries and the gilded opera house. How the scales come down on this last side, loud as thunder! In a moment the door of eternity may swing open and invisible ushers conduct you in for reward or for retribution. “When this church is weighed in the balance of the sanctuary, it is found wanting, having left its first love. God will at last see what opportunities the world had and what opportunities it neglected. I kindled up the glories of the Champs Elysees! There is a story of a man facing judgment. What success would a hunter have if he went out to shoot deer in the abstract?
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