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Failure to Study God’s Word
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a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of Thy people Israel.”
And the record declares, “Jesus increased in wisdom and stature,
and in favor with God and man.”
Luke 2:29-32, 52
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Jesus and John were represented by the educators of that day as
ignorant because they had not learned in the schools of the rabbis;
but the God of heaven was their Teacher, and all who heard were
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astonished at their knowledge of the Scriptures.
The first great lesson in all education is to know and understand
the will of God. We should bring into every day of life the effort to
gain this knowledge. To learn science through human interpretation
alone is to obtain a false education, but to learn of God and Christ is
to learn the science of heaven. The confusion in education has come
because the wisdom and knowledge of God have not been exalted.
The students in our schools are to regard the knowledge of God
as above everything else. “The preaching of the cross is to them that
perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of
God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will
bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” “The foolishness
of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than
men.” “But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto
us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the
Lord.”
1 Corinthians 1:18, 19, 25, 30, 31
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Those who profess to believe the word should daily pray for the
light of the Holy Spirit to shine upon the pages of the Sacred Book,
that they may be enabled to comprehend the things of the Spirit of
God.... The words of men, however great, are not able to make us
“perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.”
2 Timothy 3:17
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