Pleasure & Profit in Bible StudyMoody, Dwight Lyman
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Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Bible -- Study and teaching
If the Old Testament Scriptures are not true, do you think Christ would
have so often referred to them, and said the Scriptures must be
fulfilled? When told by the tempter that He might call down the angels
from heaven to interpose in His behalf, he said: "Thus it is written."
Christ gave Himself up as a sacrifice that the Scriptures might be
fulfilled. Was it not said that He was numbered with the transgressors?
And when He talked with two of His disciples by the way journeying to
Emmaus, after His resurrection, did He not say: "Ought not these things
to be? am I not to suffer?" And beginning at Moses He explained unto
them in all the Scriptures concerning Himself, for the one theme of the
Old Testament is the Messiah. In Psalm 40:7, it says: "In the volume of
the book it is written of me." "What _Book?_" asks Luther, "and what
_Person?_ There is only one book--the Bible; and only one person--Jesus
Christ." Christ referred to the Scriptures and their fulfillment in Him,
not only after He arose from the dead, but in the book of Revelation He
used them in Heaven. He spoke to John of them on the Isle of Patmos, and
used the very things in them that men are trying to cast out. He never
found fault with or rejected them.
If Jesus Christ could use the Old Testament, let us use it. May God
deliver us from the one-sided Christian who reads only the New Testament
and talks against the Old!
CHAPTER IV.
"My Word shall not Pass Away"--Printing the Revised Version in
Chicago--Circulation of the Bible.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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