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Fundamentals of Christian Education
God. Allow no cheap, foolish talk or wrong principles to compose
your Christian experience.
“Chosen of God and precious.” Consider, every one who names
the name of Christ, have you tasted that the Lord is gracious? Has this
become a part of your actual experience, represented in John six as
eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of God? As newborn
babes, are you learning to desire the sincere milk of the word, that
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you may grow thereby? Have you at any time in your life been truly
converted? Have you been born again? If you have not, then it is
time for you to obtain the experience that Christ told one of the chief
rulers that he must have. “Ye must be born again,” He said. “Except
a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” That is,
he cannot discern the requirements essential to having a part in that
spiritual kingdom. “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born
again.” If you open your mind to the entrance of God’s word, with
a determination to practice that word, light will come; for the word
gives understanding to the simple.
This is the very education that every student needs. When this is
obtained, if they are converted, the frivolous life they have heretofore
lived will change. The universe of heaven will look upon characters
that have been transformed. The frivolous, common level will be
forsaken, and their feet will be placed upon the first round of the
ladder, which is Christ Jesus. They will mount step by step, one round
after another, heavenward. Christ will be revealed in their spirit, in
their words, in their actions.
“Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus
Christ.” Will teachers and students study this representation, and see
if they are in that class who, through the abundant grace given, are
obtaining an experience which is in harmony with the real, genuine
experience which every child of God must have if he enters the higher
grade.
When Nicodemus came to Jesus, Christ laid before him the con-
ditions of divine life, teaching him the very alphabet of conversion.
Nicodemus asked, “How can these things be?” “Art thou a master of Is-
rael,” Christ answered, “and knowest not these things?” This question
might be addressed to many who are holding positions of responsibil-
ity as teachers, but who have neglected the work essential for them to