The Value Of Bible Study
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
“From a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus” (II Tim. 3:15).
Timothy
was a fortunate young man. His father was not a believer in Christ, but
his godly mother made up for this lack as, day after day, from his
earliest childhood, she taught him the Word of God. As a result he came
to know Christ at an early age and later became St. Paul’s faithful
co-worker and close associate in making known the wonderful “good news
of the grace of God.”
In his very last letter the great Apostle Paul recalls Timothy’s “unfeigned faith… which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice”(II Tim. 1:5).
If
only we had more such mothers and grandmothers today, with husbands to
help them! If only our American children were not set adrift on a
restless sea of human speculation, but were taught the eternal truths of
God’s Word, the Bible!
We all need to “know the Holy Scriptures,” not only because they teach reverence for God and build moral character, but most of all because they “are able to make [us] wise unto salvation through faith… in Christ Jesus.”
The
theme of the Bible, the Old Testament as well as New, is the Lord Jesus
Christ, the riches of whose saving grace are unfolded to us in the
Epistles of Paul, the chief of sinners saved by grace. It was to Paul
that God committed the preaching of the cross of Christ. He it is who
tells us about the riches that flow from Calvary. He it is who tells us,
by divine inspiration that:
“…WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH [CHRIST’S] BLOOD, THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GRACE” (Eph. 1:7).
“THAT
IN THE AGES TO COME HE MIGHT SHOW THE EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS GRACE IN
HIS KINDNESS TOWARD US THROUGH CHRIST JESUS” (Eph. 2:7).
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The Preserved and Living Word of God
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