Only the Christ of the Scriptures could have brought us the salvation of the Scriptures.
James Stalker, The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1966), 174.
Tag Archives: Bible
The Highest Secret of Bible Study
The highest secret of Bible study is that teachable spirit which is inseparable from obedience…. Our Lord says, “If any man will do His will He shall know of the doctrine” (John 7.17); in other words, obedience is the organ of the spiritual revelation. Insight into the Scriptures is never independent of the obedient frame, but is conditioned upon actual conformity to their precepts and sympathy with their spirit. True biblical learning is not so much mental as experimental. There are professed teachers and preachers who no more grasp the truth they nominally hold than does a sparrow grasp the message that passes through the telegraph wife on which it perches.”
original emphasis, Arthur T. Pierson, Knowing the Scriptures (Chattanooga: AMG Publishers, 1994), xi.
Hearing the Voice of Christ
Unless as a result of your study of the Bible you hear the imperial tone, the voice of the living Christ talking in your inmost soul, your Bible knowledge is a mere technique that will burn and ruin you…. No man or woman, young man or young woman, youth or maiden, will cultivate the habit of waiting to listen for the direct message of Christ and be disappointed. Then your Bible will be a new book.
Practice What You Preach
Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself.
Never Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Neglecting God’s Word
Neglect of God’s law weakens the power of understanding it.
Where God’s Word Is Purely Taught
Where God’s Word is purely taught, there is the upright and true church.
HT: @albertmohler
Christian Discernment
Though… discernment may have a basis in natural shrewdness, it comes to fruition only through a sustained attunement to God and a habit of asking himself at every point in life what makes for His glory (that is, His own self-expression and His creatures’ appreciation and adoration of Him).
J. I. Packer, A Passion for Faithfulness (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1995), 134.
Worship Is a Reflection of Our Perceptions of God
The feelings of a worshipper will always be reflections from what he thinks he perceives its in the countenance of his God. They will be gloomy if the god is a sombre personage, and cheerful if he is a glad being. Now the revelation of God in the Bible is the unveiling with growing clearness of a countenance of unspeakable love and beauty and gladness. He is made known to us as ‘the blessed God’ — the happy God…. This same communication of gladness is seen in the life of our Lord, not only during those early sunny days in Galilee when His ministry opened under a cloudless sky, but even amid the darkness of the last hours at Jerusalem, for in His final discourse Jesus prayed that His joy might be in his disciples in order that their joy might be full.
W. F. Adeney in Peloubets Select Notes on the International Bible Lessons for Christian Teaching: 1948 (Boston: W. A. Wilde Co., 1947), 145.
Stop Arguing and Start Worshipping
When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.
HT: Challies.com
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