Required reading
The Fundamentals edited by R. A. Torrey (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Chapter 20 (What the Bible contains for the believers).
My summary
Today Pentecost explains what the Bible contains for the believer.
He teaches us that the Bible:
(i) is the only book that can make us wise unto salvation;
(ii) contains in itself the absolute guarantee of our inheritance in Christ;
(iii) is the means appointed for the culture of our Christian life;
(iv) is the Christian's armory;
(v) is a perfect map and chart to the Christian pilgrimage through the world;
(vi) reveals things to come.
What grabbed me
I always love hearing this quote from John Owen about John Bunyan: 'John Bunyan, locked up for twelve year's in Bedford Jail, with his Bible and concordance for his constant companions, produced and sent forth to the world his immortal dream, written with such beauty of style and in such : chaste and simple manner, as to make it classic in English literature. So perfect arid matchless was the intellectual and spiritual culture of this unlearned "tinker of Elstow," that the scholarly John Owen testified before the King, "Your Majesty, if I could write as does that tinker in Bedford Jail I would gladly lay down all my learning."'
Quite a statement from John Owen, one of the greatest theologians of all time.
Next week's reading
Read Chapter 21 (The hope of the church).
Now it's your turn
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