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holiness, and more and more of the treasures of truth and grace will
be revealed to them to be given to the world.
The great storehouse of truth is the word of God—the written word,
the book of nature, and the book of experience in God’s dealing with
human life. Here are the treasures from which Christ’s workers are
to draw. In the search after truth they are to depend upon God, not
upon human intelligences, the great men whose wisdom is foolishness
with God. Through His own appointed channels the Lord will impart
a knowledge of Himself to every seeker.
If the follower of Christ will believe His word and practice it, there
is no science in the natural world that he will not be able to grasp
and appreciate. There is nothing but that will furnish him means for
imparting the truth to others. Natural science is a treasure house of
knowledge from which every student in the school of Christ may draw.
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As we contemplate the beauty of nature, as we study its lessons in the
cultivation of the soil, in the growth of the trees, in all the wonders
of earth and sea and sky, there will come to us a new perception of
truth. And the mysteries connected with God’s dealings with men, the
depths of His wisdom and judgment as seen in human life—these are
found to be a storehouse rich in treasure.
But it is in the written word that a knowledge of God is most clearly
revealed to fallen man. This is the treasure house of the unsearchable
riches of Christ.
The word of God includes the Scriptures of the Old Testament as
well as of the New. One is not complete without the other. Christ
declared that the truths of the Old Testament are as valuable as those of
the New. Christ was as much man’s Redeemer in the beginning of the
world as He is today. Before He clothed His divinity with humanity
and came to our world, the gospel message was given by Adam,
Seth, Enoch, Methuselah, and Noah. Abraham in Canaan and Lot in
Sodom bore the message, and from generation to generation faithful
messengers proclaimed the Coming One. The rites of the Jewish
economy were instituted by Christ Himself. He was the foundation
of their system of sacrificial offerings, the great antitype of all their
religious service. The blood shed as the sacrifices were offered pointed
to the sacrifice of the Lamb of God. All the typical offerings were
fulfilled in Him.