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God Speaks to Us and Helps Us Understand the Scriptures ㅡ

“And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,” (Luke 24:32,45)

We should come with reverence to the study of the Bible, feeling that we are in the presence of God. All lightness and trifling should be laid aside. While some portions of the word are easily understood, the true meaning of other parts is not so readily discerned. There must be patient study and meditation and earnest prayer. Every student, as he opens the Scriptures, should ask for the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit; and the promise is sure that it will be given.

The spirit in which you come to the investigation of the Scriptures will determine the character of the assistant at your side. Angels from the world of light will be with those who in humility of heart seek for divine guidance. But if the Bible is opened with irreverence, with a feeling of self-sufficiency, if the heart is filled with prejudice, Satan is beside you, and he will set the plain statements of God’s word in a perverted light.

No one should claim that he has all the light there is for God’s people. The Lord will not tolerate this. He has said,“I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.” Even if all our leading men should refuse light and truth, that door will still remain open. The Lord will raise up men who will give the people the message for this time.

(Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers 107.3,108.1,107.1)