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Guide Book to Salvation, April 28
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been
assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; and that from a
child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee
wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
2
Timothy 3:14, 15
.
The many human inventions to explain the Word, making students un-
derstand it through the assertions of learned men, is a mistake. God has not
made the reception of the gospel to depend upon reasonings. The gospel is
adapted for spiritual food, to satisfy man’s spiritual appetite. In every case it
is just what man needs....
The Word of God is the great educating book. But while many claim to
respect it, they place other books before it. The human reason is exalted above
the divine. Must I speak out plainly, and bear a decided testimony? Had the
Word of God been regarded as it ever should have been—as the voice of God
to men, the source of all wisdom, all truth, all higher education—children,
youth, and parents would have made it not only their study, but their teacher
and their guide, that “in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches
of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus” (
Ephesians 2:7
)....
“In the ages to come.” What a history those ages will unfold. How can
the children of the world endure to look into the heights and depths of that
eternity called by the apostle “the ages to come”? What can be known about
those “ages to come”?
The Bible is the textbook, and it is to be searched diligently—not as
we would read a book among many books. It must be to us the book that
meets the wants of the soul. This book will make the man who studies and
obeys it wise unto salvation. As food cannot nourish the body unless it be
eaten and digested, neither can the Word of the living God profit the soul
unless it be received as the teacher in higher educational lines, as above all
human productions; unless its principles be obeyed because it is the wisdom
of God....
God will work out His own purpose, taking the human agent into copart-
nership with the great firm of salvation, and making of him all that He has
promised in accordance with His Word: “I will make a man more precious
than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir” (
Isaiah 13:12
).—
Manuscript 50, April 28, 1898
, “The Jews Require a Sign.”
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