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Searching for Truth, April 7
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and
they are they which testify of me.
John 5:39
.
Christ came in the form of humanity to live the law of God. He was the
Word of life. He came to be the gospel of salvation to the world, and to fulfill
every specification of the law. Jesus is the word, the guidebook, which must
be received and obeyed in every particular. How necessary that this mine
of truth be explored, and the precious treasures of truth be discovered and
secured as rich jewels. The incarnation of Christ, His divinity, His atonement,
His wonderful life in heaven as our advocate, the office of the Holy Spirit—
all these living, vital themes of Christianity are revealed from Genesis to
Revelation. The golden links of truth form a chain of evangelical truth, and
the first, and staple, is found in the great teachings of Christ Jesus. Why, then,
should not the Scriptures be ennobled and exalted in every school in our land?
How little children are educated to study the Bible as the Word of God, and
feed upon its truths, which are the flesh and blood of the Son of God!
“Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no
life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood [that is, continues
to receive the words of Christ and practice them], hath eternal life; and I will
raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is
drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in
me, and I in him” (
John 6:53-56
), “and he that keepeth his commandments
dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us,
by the Spirit which he hath given us” (
1 John 3:24
).
There is necessity for every family to make the Bible the book of their
study. Christ’s sayings are pure gold, without one particle of dross, unless
men, with their human understanding, shall try to put it there, and make
falsehood appear as a portion of truth. To those who have received the
false interpretation of the Word, when they search the Scriptures with the
determined effort to obtain the very marrow of truth contained in them, the
Holy Spirit opens the eyes of their understanding, and the truths of the Word
are to them as a new revelation.—
Fundamentals of Christian Education, 385,
386
.
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