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than what? Peter said, “ I was on the mount of Transfiguration, I s&w the majesty of God, I beheld His Glory, and I heard His voice when He said ‘This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.’ ” More certain than the voice of God, spoken from the cloud in the midst of the glory, is the prophecy of ■Scripture. Have you not heard it said and have you not felt, “ If I could just hear the voice of God out of the sky, if I could see a flash from heaven, if God Himself should speak to me with His own voice and let me see His own glory as He speaks, to be sure I would believe” ? No, Peter says “ though I saw that glory, I beheld that majesty and I heard that voice, a more certain prophecy than that is in the Writings.” You can imitate voice and glory more easily than Scriptures. If God should speak to you out of the skies, if He should give you a glimpse of the glqry and majesty in these days of electric light and clairvoyance and all that, somebody might imitate it, the devil himself might imitate it; but he cannot imitate the Scriptures. More certain, than the voice of God from the sky amid the glory of God is the writing in the Book. Do you know that the sky is filling with clouds? Some of our colleges and universities and seminaries are cloud- manufacturers. God help us! Some of our pulpits have also been turned into cloud manufacturies, and instead of pointing to the sky they are cover ing the sky with clouds of doubt and shutting out the Morning Star from the souls of the people. This convention and these Bible schools are God’s great movement over the world for the ban ishing of the clouds and bringing out the sky with the Morning Star heralding the sunrise of the coming glory.
(5) Profitable for character-build ing. “ That the man of God may be complete.” If you want to be a man or a woman symmetrical and complete, you must get that completion and sym metry through studying the Bible. It will make your head and your heart just the right size. If you study other books only, if you don’t mind your head will get too big; but the Bible gives you such things to think as infinity, immensity, eternity, immortality— great thoughts, that expound and strengthen the mind as you think them. If you think only after other books, you will find yourself narrow in heart and sym pathy, but think along the line of this Book, and you become as broad in sym pathy as “ the Son of Man” , with a heart big enough to take in the whole world. (6) Profitable for equipment. “ Thor oughly furnished, unto all good works.” Studying about the Bible is good, but studying the Bible itself will give you the. equipment for service, which you can get in no other way. (7 ). Profitable for assurance. “ Search the Scripture, for in them ye think ye have eternal life.” You have eternal life in Christ, but all your think ing about it is in the Book. “ Think” is stronger than hope, or believe. “ In them ye “ think” , every part of your mental being is brought into action. Life is in Christ but assurance of life is in the Book; and if you will depend upon the Scriptures for your knowl edge of eternal life you may have the assurance of salvation all the time. (8) Profitable „for testimony. “ They are they that testify of me.” As you study the Book everything in it turns into the face of Jesus. Its great pur pose from beginning to end is to reveal Christ. The Comparative Definition Now we come to what I think is the climax text: “We have also a more sure word of prophecy.” More sure
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