Pleasure & Profit in Bible StudyMoody, Dwight Lyman
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Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Bible -- Study and teaching
It is a most absurd statement for a man to say he will have nothing to
do with the supernatural, will not believe the supernatural. If you are
going to throw off the supernatural, you might as well burn your Bibles
at once. You take the supernatural out of that Book and you have taken
Jesus Christ out of it, you have taken out the best part of the Book.
There is no part of the Bible that does not teach supernatural things.
In Genesis it says that Abraham fell on his face and God talked with
him. That is supernatural. If that did not take place, the man who wrote
Genesis wrote a lie, and out goes Genesis. In Exodus you find the ten
plagues which came upon Egypt. If that is not true, the writer of Exodus
was a liar. Then in Leviticus it is said that fire consumed the two sons
of Aaron. That was a supernatural event, and if that was not true we
must throw out the whole book.
In Numbers is the story of the brazen serpent. And so with every book in
the Old Testament; there's not one in which you do not find something
supernatural. There are more supernatural things about Jesus Christ than
in any other portion of the Bible, and the last thing a man is willing
to give up is the four Gospels. Five hundred years before His birth, the
angel Gabriel came down and told Daniel that He should be born. "And
whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen
in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me
about the time of the evening oblation." Again, Gabriel comes down to
Nazareth and tells the Virgin that she should be the mother of the
Saviour. "Behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a Son,
and shalt call his name Jesus." We find, too, that the angel went into
the temple and told Zacharias that he was to be the father of John the
Baptist, the forerunner of the Messiah; Zacharias was struck dumb for
nine months because of his unbelief. Then when Christ was born, we find
angels appearing to the shepherds at Bethlehem, telling them of the
birth of the Saviour. "Unto you is born this day in the city of David a
Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." The wise men seeing the star in the
east and following it was surely supernatural. So was the warning that
God sent to Joseph in a dream, telling him to flee to Egypt. So was the
fact of our Lord's going into the temple at the age of twelve,
discussing with the doctors, and being a match for them all. So were the
circumstances attending His baptism, when God spake from heaven, saying:
"This is my beloved Son." For three and a half years Jesus trod the
streets and highways of Palestine. Think of the many wonderful miracles
that He wrought during those years. One day He speaks to the leper and
he is made whole; one day He speaks to the sea and it obeys Him. When He
died the sun refused to look upon the scene; this old world recognized
Him and reeled and rocked like a drunken man. And when He burst asunder
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