Living Sacrifice: by Watchman Nee

Author:Watchman Nee
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion, Christian Life, Christian Rituals & Practice, General
ISBN: 9780935008081
Publisher: Christian Fellowship Pub.
Published: 1972-07-14T22:00:00+00:00

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5 STUDYING THE BIBLE

The Importance of Studying the Bible

No good Christian should be ignorant of the Word

of God, for God’s way of speaking to men today is to

reiterate the words He has already spoken. It is extremely rare to find God speaking to anyone with words that are not found in the Bible.

Although at times God does speak directly to some who have gone on far with the Lord, yet even these utterances are largely words which He has already set forth in the Scriptures. God’s speaking, then, is His repeating what He has said before. Young believers, if unfamiliar with what God has already spoken, create a problem for God in that they do not have the foundation for God to speak to them.

The Bible is the Word of God. It reveals to us all that God has done for us in the past. It also shows us in what ways God has led men to know Him in days gone by. In order to know the richness and fullness of God’s provision for us, we must study the Bible. And to understand by what steps God will lead us to Himself, we also need to study the Bible.

Furthermore, when God desires to use us to speak for Him, He usually uses the words He already has spoken. Should we be ignorant of these words, it is difficult for God to speak through us. We then will be useless persons before Him. Thus we need to store the Word of Christ richly in our hearts that we may hear those words which God wants to speak to us now and also that we may know how God has walked in the past.

The Bible is a big book and a serious one. If we were to spend the whole of our life in the study of it, we would but touch its fringes.

How can any believer know the Word without spending time on it? It 64 A

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is absolutely impossible. Thus young people especially ought to be diligent in studying God’s Word so that as they reach middle age and then old age, they will have a rich supply of the Word for the needs both of themselves and of others.

Whosoever wishes to know God must study God’s Word well.

Every new believer needs to recognize the importance of studying God’s Word at the very start of his Christian life. Let me be very frank with you: there are too few who really know the Bible. This generation is far inferior in the study of the Word. We do not see many of those giants of the Word of four or five decades ago. Today we mostly meet superficial readers. Where can we find people who have thoroughly studied the Bible? This generation is way behind in understanding of the Word. We are not talking here about spiritual life but rather about understanding. People may be able to get something of a devotional nature out of the Book, but few today really study the Bible.

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