Be A Student of ALL The Bible
Deuteronomy 4:2 (HCSB)
You must not add anything to what I command you or take anything away from it, so that you may keep the commands of the LORD your God I am giving you.
Psalm 119:160
ALL your words are true; ALL your righteous laws are eternal.
Acts 20:26b-27
I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God.
(NLT) I didn’t shrink from declaring all that God wants you to know.
Julian of Norwich, The Revelations of Divine Love, Chapter 86, 1670
Beware thou take not one thing after thy affection and liking, and leave another; for that is the condition of an heretique. But take everything with other.
Horatius Bonar God's Way of Holiness
Let the whole soul be fed by the study of the whole Bible, that so there may be no irregularity nor inequality in the growth of its parts and powers. Let us beware of "itching" ears and eyes. True, we must not be "babes," unable to relish strong meat, and "unskillful in the Word of righteousness" (Hebrews 5:13). But we need to beware of the soarings of an ill-balanced theology and an ill-knit creed. True Christianity is healthy and robust, not soft, nor sickly, nor sentimental; yet, on the other hand, not hard, nor lean, nor ill-favored, nor ungenial.
The Word must be studied in all its fullness. Over its whole length and breadth we must spread ourselves. Above all theologies, creeds, catechisms, books and hymns, the Word must be meditated on, that we may grow in the knowledge of all its parts, and in assimilation to its model. Our souls must be steeped in it, not in certain favorite parts of it, but in the whole. We must know it, not from the report of others, but from our own experience and vision, else will our life be but an imitation, our religion second-hand.
Jonathan Edwards A History Of The Work Of Redemption
Those parts of the (Bible) which are commonly looked upon as containing the least divine instruction are as it were mines and treasures of gospel knowledge; and the reason why they are thought to contain so little is, because persons do but superficially read them. The treasures which are hid underneath are not observed. They only look on the top of the ground, and so suddenly pass a judgment that there is nothing there. But they never dig into the mine. If they did, they would find it richly stored with silver and gold, and would be abundantly requited for their pains.
C.H. Spurgeon The Treasure of David (1869)
In these last days there are pickers and choosers of God's words who cannot endure the practical part of the Scripture; they disembowel texts of their plain meanings...It is an ill sign when a man dares not look a Scripture in the face, and tries to make it mean something less condemnatory of his sins and endeavors to prove it to be less sweeping in its demand.
A.W. Tozer
"Encountering the Whole Word of God"
It might be an illuminating experience to peep into a "well marked" Bible sometimes and note how the owner has underscored almost exclusively the passages that console him or that support his views on doctrine. We habitually love the verses that are easy on us and shy away from the ones that disturb us.
We Travel an Appointed Way
Our Heavenly Father takes pleasure in seeing us develop and grow up spiritually. He does not want us to live entirely on a diet of sweet stuff. He gives us for our encouragement Isaiah 41, but He gives us also Matthew 23 and the book of Jude, and He expects us to read it all. The health of our souls requires that we take the whole Bible as it stands and let it do its work in us. We cannot afford to be selective with anything so important as the Word of God and our own eternal future.
Too many preachers are satisfied to dwell primarily on the escape element in Christianity. I acknowledge that the escape element is real. I am going to escape a much-deserved hell because of Christ's death on the cross and His resurrection from the grave. But if we continue to emphasize that truth to the exclusion of all else, Christian believers will never fully grasp what the Scriptures are teaching us about all of the eternal purposes of God.
The Warfare of the Spirit
The Bible is an organic unity, one with itself throughout, and must be received in toto or in toto rejected. I dare not select the parts I want to believe and exclude what disturbs or offends me. That would be to set up my fallible reason as a criterion against which to judge infallible revelation, obviously in itself an unreasonable thing to do.
While it is true that I stand before the Bible to be judged and not the Bible before me; while it is true that I am morally obliged to accept the Holy Scriptures and by the light they afford prepare myself so the Holy Scriptures may accept me, as a serious-minded and responsible thinker I must admit that it is sometimes difficult to know precisely what the Scriptures teach on a given subject. When once we know, we must accept and believe; until we know we can maintain our moral integrity only by admitting our ignorance; and that very ignorance itself obliges us to search the Word in prayerful reverence until the light breaks and our doubts are cleared away.
The Jesus Seminar Heresy
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