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Pamphlet 1456 Hos kc 14-1

Do you think the Word of God is just written to ministers and priests to read and understand?
 Some churches claim that is so, but it is NOT SO!

The questions to consider for today's study are: If you have never read the Personal Letter that your heavenly Father has written to you, then how would you know for sure what it is that pleases or displeases Him? Do you rely on the words of some man who claims to be an official letter reader to tell you what your Father wrote to YOU? Certainly it is a good and wonderful thing to have a knowledgeable and gifted teacher, but is the Word of God just written to ministers and priests to read and understand? Some churches claim that is so, but it is NOT SO! In fact, you can read in Acts 17 where the Bereans, after listening to the words of the apostle Paul, the servant of God who wrote the major portion of the New Testament, searched the scriptures "daily" themselves to see if what Paul was telling them aligned with God's Word!

That's right, they checked him out just as you are commanded to do in 1 Jn. 4:1 with what you hear preached or taught! So do you test the words of your preacher or priest or pope or bishop or elder, etc., to see if they align with God's Word? Hopefully you do! Otherwise you are already disobedient to His Word starting with 1 John 4:1 and 2 Tim. 2:15. Here is the account of the noble Bereans readiness to seek and verify the truth of God's Word:

Acts 17:10
And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.

[11] These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Do you realize it had to be the Old Testament they searched because the New Testament was not get written; therefore, you had better not ignore the Old Testament in your studies. Don't be carrying around only half a Bible like some Christians do! You better search the Old Testament scriptures daily to see if what your preacher tells you is so.!

Why is this so important? Because of deception and because it is written and it is a fact that "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap".

Never forget this because God will not be mocked by man, either on purpose or in ignorance!

Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you accomplish both.


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