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There are a good many people who think the promises are not going to
be fulfilled. There are some that you do see fulfilled, and you cannot
help but believe they are true. Now remember that all the promises are
not given without conditions. Some are given with, and others without,
conditions attached to them. For instance, it says, "If I regard
iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me." Now, I need not pray
as long as I am cherishing some known sin. He will not hear me, much
less answer me. The Lord says in the eighty fourth Psalm, "No good
thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." If I am not
walking uprightly I have no claims under the promise. Again, some of
the promises were made to certain individuals or nations. For
instance, God said that He would make Abraham's seed to multiply as
the stars of heaven: but that is not a promise for you or me. Some
promises were made to the Jews, and do not apply to the Gentiles.

Then there are promises without conditions. He promised Adam and Eve
that the world should have a Savior, and there was no power in earth
or perdition that could keep Christ from coming at the appointed time.
When Christ left the world, He said He would send us the Holy Ghost.
He had only been gone ten days when the Holy Ghost came. And so you
can run right through the Scriptures, and you will find that some of
the promises are with, and some without, conditions; and if we don't
comply with the conditions we cannot expect them to be fulfilled.

I believe it will be the experience of every man and woman on the face
of the earth, I believe that everyone will be obliged to testify in
the evening of life, that if they have complied with the condition,
the Lord has fulfilled His word to the letter. Joshua, the old Hebrew
hero, was an illustration. After having tested God forty years in the
Egyptian brick-kilns, forty years in the desert, and thirty years in
the Promised Land, his dying testimony was: "Not one thing hath failed
of all the good things which the Lord promised." I believe you could
heave the ocean easier than break one of God's promises. So when we
come to a promise like the one we have before us now, I want you to
bear in mind that there is no discount upon it. "Come unto Me, all ye
that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

Perhaps you say: "I hope Mr. Moody is not going to preach on this old
text." Yes: I am. When I take up an album, it d