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The Rewards of Bible Study, April 2
If, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge
of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and
overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.
2 Peter 2:20
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NKJV.
Great light was given to the Reformers, but many of them received the sophistry
of error through misinterpretation of the Scriptures. These errors have come down
through the centuries, but although they be hoary with age, yet they have not behind
them a “Thus saith the Lord.” For the Lord has said, I will not “alter the thing that
is gone out of my lips.” In His great mercy the Lord has permitted still greater light
to shine in these last days. To us He has sent His message, revealing His law and
showing us what is truth.
In Christ is the fountain of all knowledge. In Him our hopes of eternal life are
centered. He is the greatest teacher the world has ever known, and if we desire to
enlarge the minds of the children and youth, and win them, if possible, to a love of
the Bible, we should fasten their minds upon the plain and simple truth, digging out
that which has been buried beneath the rubbish of tradition, and letting the jewels
shine forth. Encourage them to search into these subjects, and the effort put forth
will be an invaluable discipline.
The unfolding of God, as represented in Jesus Christ, furnishes a theme that
is grand to contemplate, and that will, if studied, sharpen the mind, and elevate
and ennoble the faculties. As the human agents learn these lessons in the school
of Christ, trying to become as Christ was, meek and lowly of heart, they will learn
the most useful of all lessons—that intellect is supreme only as it is sanctified by a
living connection with God....
The greatest wisdom, and most essential, is the knowledge of God. Self sinks
into insignificance as it contemplates God and Jesus Christ whom He hath sent.
The Bible must be made the foundation for all study. Individually we must learn
from this lesson book, which God has given us, the condition of the salvation of
our souls; for it is the only book that tells us what we must do in order to be saved.
Not only this, but from it strength may be received for the intellect.—
Fundamentals
of Christian Education, 450, 451
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