The vital importance of studying the Scriptures, not merely for intellectual knowledge or argumentation, but for spiritual growth and glorifying God. It highlights the regret of those who haven't studied the Bible and uses examples like the Bereans and Timothy to show the benefits of daily engagement with God's word. The core lesson is that prayerful reading, seeking Christ on every page, warms the heart, fosters a desire for lost souls, and equips believers to share the gospel. The message concludes by urging listeners, both saved and unsaved, to act on the simple truths revealed in the Bible, particularly the saving work of Christ, for true spiritual understanding and salvation.
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A praising God, how can it be? Have found my God to shine for me? A praising God, how can it be? How can I find my God to shine for me? By God's grace, we are again permitted this privilege of coming into your home to bring you messages in song and from God's precious word. I trust that you will be able to lend your ears to the entire program. The Word of God has a cleansing effect on those who are saved and a convicting effect on the unsaved.
May God's richest blessing be upon you as you listen to our gospel program. The choir is ready to sing a lively song of praise, the awakening chorus. Away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away, away. is leaving from the radiant sky, the rock there is a veil, and he'll resound with gladness all day, the Lord, to seek the triumphs of the Lord before the wind, and play it in heaven.
Rejoice, rejoice with heart and heart. behold the rain. Reign, be God, be God, be God, be God, always. Bring us, bring us, bring us, bring us, O bells of joy and gladness, repeat, repeat, repeat, come here the story or again, till all the earth, the earth shall lose its weight of sadness, forgive us, The new
and glorious retreat With angels in the high, think of the great salvation, be wrestled from the hand of sin and death. The Lord, we call the rain, and rain in the sand. Rejoice, rejoice, lift our hearts and voice, To save his heart and power to do our work. And let him be a treasure. And let him be a treasure. Be a treasure. Be a treasure. Be a treasure. Be a treasure. Be a treasure. Be a treasure. I am reading from the ninety-fifth Psalm.
O come, let us sing unto the Lord. Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and make a joyful noise unto him with song. For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. O come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker, for he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.
There'll be light in the sky, From the powers on high, When I come to the end of the road. Sweet relief from all care, Will be waiting me there, When I come to the end of the road.
When the one day is ended, The journey will go, I shall render them For the Savior I love will be waiting for me when I come to the end of the day. Every long weary mile I'll recount with a smile When I come to the end of the road I'm the foes that be said God will make me forget when I come to
the end of the road. When the long day is ended, the journey is long. I shall end with a blessed hour. The Savior and love will be waiting for me when I come to the end of the road. My Lord, I go on my journey, My Lord, I go on my journey, My Lord, I go on my journey, Go on my journey, Go on my journey Go.
Be careful, I go before I do, And shall my Lord, I go on my journey, I will carry through, And I go on my journey Go. My Lord, I go on my journey, Our Lord and all my journey, Our Lord and all my journey from my journey goes. Our Lord and all my journey goes. You grew and grew and grew and grew and grew and grew and grew and grew and grew and grew and grew and grew and grew and grew and grew and grew and grew and grew my journey The poem I have selected is entitled, Are You at Whitsend Corner?
Are you standing at Whitsend Corner, Christian, with troubled brow? Are you thinking of what is before you? And all you are bearing now. Does all the world seem against you? And you in the battle alone? Remember that which end corner is where God's power is shown. Are you standing at which end corner, blinded, with wearying pain, feeling you cannot endure it, you cannot bear the strain, bruised through the constant suffering, dizzy and dazed and numb? Remember, at which end corner is where Jesus loves to come?
Are you standing at Witsend Corner your work before you spread, or lying begun unfinished and pressing on heart and head, longing for strength to do it, stretching out trembling hands? Remember at Witsend Corner the burden bearer stands. Are you standing at Witsend Corner yearning for those you love, longing and praying and watching, pleading their cause above, trying to lead them to Jesus, wondering if you've been true. He whispers, at which end corner I'll win them as I won you.
Are you standing at which end corner? Then you're just in the very spot to learn the wondrous resources of him who faileth not. No doubt to a brighter pathway your footsteps will soon be moved, but Only at which end corner is the God who is able, prudent. Our God has given from me and his grace forbid the flag.
His child cherished it to ye, in the humble of his hand. Let go of the grave our way, our way of heaven. Peace be still, is his command, thy providence in peace eternal, in the hollow of his head.
O soul, did thou not trouble, so thou dost not understand? No tremor shall molest thee in the hollow of his hand. Let come your place, Oi wave, I pray, please be still, please be so mad, thy soul is heard in this eternal, in the hollow of this hand.
Our gracious Father, we bow before thee again, to praise thee for thy tender mercies and for thy matchless grace extended to the unworthy sons of men. We praise thee, our Father, thou dost shower us daily with thy mercies, and we thank thee above all. Thou hast met our soul's deep need by sending thy son. We thank thee besides providing a salvation for us. He is able to meet all of our needs on our journey home. We think of some who are suffering. Some are waiting upon thee for deliverance. We know that thou art able to comfort and thou art able to strengthen and to bless. Sometimes thou dost use physical suffering to bring spiritual blessing.
If this could bring glory to thee, we pray that all who are suffering at this time may cast themselves upon thee and may learn rich spiritual lessons that shall be of eternal profit. We bring the whole household of faith to thee. and ask thy blessing be rest upon them. And then for the dear unsaved, we pray thou wilt make them to see the wisdom of turning from their wicked ways and turning to the Lord Jesus, who is now ready to save them and to give them a life that is worthwhile. Receive our thanks and bless this program as we seek to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ. It's in his precious name. We give thee our thanks and ask our petitions.
Amen. I found a joy when I first came to Jesus, transforming me, so now I really live. You'll find a joy if you will come with Jesus. A joy that nothing in this world can give. My soul is thrilled to know that he must love me.
My soul is thrilled to know he really cares. How could I ever put out his tender mercy? With each day my every burden shed. The joys of earth are pleasing for the moment, But in the little while they fade and bud, The gentle bride becomes a disappointment, The things of Christ, the long and satisfied. My soul is thrilled to know that Jesus loves me. My soul is thrilled to know he really cares.
How could I ever doubt his sins are mercy. When he saves my every burden shed. I want to devote my message on this broadcast to the subject of the study of the Scriptures. It seems to be almost universal that men and women will express their regret of not knowing the Bible. Some express the regret of not being able to attend the Bible school. Others bemoan the fact that they did not have study the Bible while they were young and while their memory was better. Others regret that they did not have the interest in Bible study during those early years. These testimonies express the great need on every hand.
Then, when we turn to the Scriptures, we are many times exhorted to study the Scriptures. Such expressions are, Search the Scriptures. So did you show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. By way of example, you will have the Bereans mentioned in Acts, verse eleven. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica. in that they received the Word of God with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily whether those things were so. Timothy knew the Scriptures from a child, and that knowledge was of great profit to him in later years. The Lord Jesus was very familiar with the Old Testament Scriptures, so we can conclude that everyone should have a general knowledge of the Bible.
certainly because the Scriptures exhorts us and then because of the testimony of regrets coming from those who pass through life without a working knowledge of the Scriptures. Then, too, the Scriptures were written to comfort and cheer us in all the varied circumstances of life. When the burdens weigh us down, the Spirit of God loves to bring to our remembrance a suitable Scripture which will send us on our way rejoicing. But He will not bring to our remembrance that which we have never read. How often when a soul is depressed, because of ill health or bereavement, there is nothing in the human realm that will suffice. But the comfort from the Scriptures is always of utmost help.
At such times the Word of God, the God of all comfort draws near through the Word and lifts our hearts. How bitter these experiences must be to those who know nothing of the comfort of the Word of God. If you feel as though you have come thus far through life without needing the comfort of the Scriptures, rest assured that a day will come in which you will search earnestly for divine comfort and help outside the human realm the motive for the study of the scriptures must be to glorify God and to bring blessing into your life some study the Bible for the sake of arguing their meat and drink is to win an argument they glory for days in the fact that they have won a biblical argument such never grows spiritually and because and they sure become professional Bible twisters.
That is, they pick isolated verses just to prove an argument. Others study the Bible in order to glory in their knowledge. This, too, is an impure motive, and such only acquire an intellectual knowledge which never affects the heart, nor changes the life. The true motive for the study of the Scriptures should be so that God may use that knowledge to glorify himself in our lives. It is possible to read and study the Bible at great length only from an intellectual standpoint, storing knowledge in the mind which never reaches the heart. Such knowledge has a value, but the prayerful reading is far superior. For we must be ever conscious that the wonderful book we hold in our hands is living an eternal word of God.
This in itself should amaze us and cause our hearts to bow in a reverend attitude, just to realize that before us, is the full revelation of God, his mind and his will made known. This should cause worship. The prayerful reading will always keep you dependent on God, freely admitting that we need the illumination of the Spirit of God. If the reading is only from an intellectual point of view, it would be less charming to reread the same chapter. But the prayerful reading makes each successive reading more interesting and unless the heart is touched, your reading is without much value.
Your reading must cause you to turn away from self and self-interest to the mighty God whose love and grace you are enjoying. The prayerful reading will cause you to seek Christ on every page of holy writ, for he is the theme and center of all Scripture. By way of example, I call your attention to an incident in Acts chapter eight, where Philip the evangelist is used of God to lead an Ethiopian to Christ. While the Ethiopian was returning from Jerusalem, he was reading the prophecy of Isaiah, and from this wonderful book Philip preached unto him Jesus. While the name of Jesus is not mentioned in the Old Testament, still he is the theme and center of every book and chapter in the Bible.
And for this simple reason, you will do well to pray a very simple prayer while reading. Where do I find Christ in this chapter? I could almost say, unless you have found Christ in some form, in his varied attributes in the chapter, you have not read prayerfully. It is a fresh revelation of that blessed person in all his beauty that warms the heart of the believer. And to get up from your reading with a warm heart surely makes your reading worthwhile. When your heart is warmed by the reading of the Scriptures you soon find that you have an interest in lost souls that are around you.
Every Christian should be able to lead other souls to Christ, and such a task cannot be accomplished without having a working knowledge of the Bible, for anxious souls will ask a variety of questions which must be answered not by human reasoning, but from the Scriptures. You must show that convicted sinner God's verdict regarding his lost condition direct from the Word of God, for he will not believe it until he sees it in the Bible. You will have to show him that the substitutionary work of Christ is not only necessary but sufficient to save any sinner, regardless of the quantity of sins committed. And he will not believe this until he sees it in black and white in your Bible.
The same is true regarding the assurance of salvation. His assurance cannot rest in the fact that you tell him you think he is saved, but he will have to see it with his own eyes in the Bible. So before you will qualify as a soul winner, you will have to know the scriptures which deal with the subject of salvation. What would you do if someone approached you and said, I want to be saved? Show me from your Bible how I can be saved. Would you have to turn to the telephone and call the preacher? Or could you take your Bible and through the Scriptures lead that soul to Christ? I do not mean to infer that preachers should not be called for what could be sweeter music to a servant of Christ and to get such a call.
But at the same time, each Christian should be able to take the Bible and point souls to Christ. What I have been saying thus far has been addressed to Christians primarily. For those who are unsaved will find a quite different reaction from the reading of the Scriptures. Instead of warming the heart, the unsaved mind finds that it produces conviction of sin, but you will do well to keep on reading, so that the conviction will increase till it brings you to the place where you will voluntarily, like the Philippian jailer cry out in earnestness, what must I do to be saved? Someone say people stop reading because It produces conviction.
This is absolutely wrong. It is like running away from the God who desires to bless you with his salvation. Many will be the souls in heaven who were saved without the aid of human instrumentality, but by the sincere, prayerful reading of the Bible. It's wonderful to know that you do not need to understand the whole Bible before you can be saved. For while the Bible is a profound book, yet there are many simple truths which even a child can understand and believe. And God wants you to believe and act upon the few simple things that God has revealed to you. And he begins to reveal to you, first of all, that you are a lost, guilty sinner, that you cannot save yourself by any effort of your own, be it in the form of prayers, tears of repentance, good deeds, or religious activities.
None of these will avail. Then he will reveal to you the fact that Christ, and Christ alone can save you. that he laid down his life on the cross and bore the penalty of your sins, and that simple faith in him and his finished work means that you are born into his family. When you obey such simple truth, God will give you more light. Perhaps one of the reasons that some of you have not been able to understand the Word of God is because you have not acted upon or obeyed what you did understand. There wouldn't be much need of God revealing Himself to you any farther, if you have not profited by what you have read.
Have you obeyed the simple things that God has revealed? Have you been brought to know Christ? Have you believed the report that Christ died for your sins, and are you willing to trust Him as your Lord and Savior? May God's word be used to bring you to the place where you will put your entire confidence in Christ, and in Christ alone, for salvation. Life and death can never breathe, life can fall in agony, life can't die, can't die, can't be died, can't die, can't die, can't die, can't die, It's time
for the voice of Jesus called to be an hour. It's time if you save me on the race, you may find an open day. And your pride be just today, me it's time. Findly sliding swiftly by, give and dash and draw and shine, with the arms beneath the fiery tide. Oh, I pray you count your call, pray the way the light we call. And you slowly tell me, Lord, he is mine. He is mine. He is mine. He is mine. Why the voice of Jesus told you, he is mine.
He is mine. If we send you out our way, we may find your own way. And you're fighting just today, being a child. When there is a warning for you, praise the Lord your final joy, with all heaven and every joy. He died. Come from darkness into light, from like Jesus made you rise. Come to the Lord for him to die, he died. Be in Christ, be in Christ, be in Christ, be in Christ, be in Christ.
Be in Christ, be in Christ, be in Christ. Be in Christ, be in Christ. Be in Christ, be in Christ. Be in Christ, be in Christ.