(Radio, c.1947)
Read Psalm 119:9-16.
When shall we study our Bible.
If we expect the truths of the Bible to open up to us we
must open it's pages regularly. Let us
not make this a casual reading but a period of meditative study.
Dr. Howard A. Kelly, a great surgeon, a teacher in Johns
Hopkins University, and a diligent student of the Bible, says...
Let my DAILY Bible then be my rock and my citadel, my high
tower overlooking the city of Zion where I dwell secure from all the wilds of
the enemy, the sword of my spirit for defensive and offensive warfare on the
arch-enemy of our souls, an armory full of weapons, not carnal but spiritual
and mighty through God to the casting down of strongholds.
Our attitude in Bible Study.
To understand thoroughly any book we should know the mind
of the author. The Holy Spirit is the
author of the Bible. Thus we must have
His mind. Thus we must come to the
Bible...
1. Prayerfully. "The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a
sun dial by moon light." In opening
the Bible we ought to pray from the 119th Psalm: "Open thou my eyes that I
may behold wonderous things out of Thy law." Nothing else will open the Bible to us as
prayer will.
2. Obediently. "Sin soon separates from the Bible those
whom the Bible does not separate from sin." Much of our inability to understand the Bible
is due to the fact that our lives are out of accord with its teachings. "If any man willeth to do his will he
shall know of the teaching whether it is of God or whether I speak for
myself." (John 7:17).
3. Persistently. It takes hard work to master God's Book. "God's thoughts are never revealed to
listless readers but only to eager searchers." The Bible is like a mine and its jewels are
not to be picked on the roadside.
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