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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER">“<b>STUDY”
p. 404 - From “DISCIPLES INDEED” - Oswald Chambers - 2011-10-14</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>INTRODUCTION
- Oswald Chambers' sermon class at the Bible Training College was a
combination of lecture and practical experience. Since each student
had to prepare and present a sermon before the other members of the
class, no visitors were permitted. Oswald wanted everyone to be on an
equal footing, as well as being sympathetic listeners, knowing their
turn to speak was coming.</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b> Because
of the give and take nature of the class, Oswald's lectures were
short and practical. Rather than giving a detailed process to follow
in sermon preparation, he sought to motivate students to think, study
and prepare. He often stressed that the behavior and words of the
person who preaches are inseparable.</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b> From
the <i>BTC Journal</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> articles,
Mrs. Chambers selected thoughts on twenty-one topics and published
them as </span><i>Disciples Indeed</i><span style="font-style: normal;">.
There is a surprising amount of material that appears here and
nowhere else in the books by Oswald Chambers.</span></b></p>
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<b>STUDY</b></p>
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Study to begin with can never be easy; the determination to form
systematic mental habits is the only secret. Don't begin anything
with reluctance.</p>
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Beware of any cleverness that keeps you from working. No one is born
a worker; men are born poets and artists, but we have to make
ourselves “laborers.”</p>
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The discipline of our mind is the one domain God has put in our
keeping. It is impossible to be of any use to God if we are lazy. God
won't cure laziness; we have to cure it.</p>
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More danger arises from physical laziness (which is call “brain
fag”) than from almost any other thing.</p>
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Inspiration won't come irrespective of study, but only because of
it. Don't trust to inspiration; use your own “axe” (Psalm 74:5).
Work! Think! Don't luxuriate on the mount!</p>
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The demand for inspiration is the measure of our laziness. Do the
things that don't come by inspiration.</p>
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It is difficult to get yourself under control to do work you are not
used to; the time spent seems wasted at first, but get at it again.
The thing that hinders control is impulse.</p>
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Your mind can never be under control unless you bring it there;
there is no gift for control. You may pray till Doomsday, but your
brain will never concentrate if you don't make it concentrate.</p>
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In the most superficial matters put yourself under control, your own
control. Be as scrupulously punctual in your private habits as you
would be in a Government office.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style=""> Don't
insult God by telling Him He forgot to give you any brains when you
were born. We all have brains; what we need is </span></span><i><span style="">work</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">.</span></span></p>
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It is better for your mental life to study several subjects at once
rather than one alone. What exhausts the brain is not using it, but
abusing it by nervous waste in other directions. As a general rule,
the brain can never do too much.</p>
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You can never work by impulse; you can only work by steady, patient
plod. It is the odd five minutes that tells.</p>
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To learn a thing is different from thinking out a problem. The only
way to learn a thing is to keep at it uninterruptedly, day after day,
whether you feel like it or not; and you will wake up one morning and
find the thing is learned.</p>
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Beware of succumbing to failure as inevitable; make it the
stepping-stone to success.</p>
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In beginning to study a new subject, you do it by repeated starts
until you get your mind into a certain channel; after that the
subject becomes full of sustained interest.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style=""> Beware
of mental lounging. Whenever we see notebooks for study, or work of
any kind waiting to be done, we either go into dreamland, or we
gather everything around us in an enormously bustling style; but we
never do good solid work. It is nothing in the world but a habit of
nerves which we have to check, and take time to see that we do.</span></span></p>
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<i>A subject has never truly gripped you until</i></p>
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<i>you are mentally out of breath with it.</i></p>
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We have no business to go on impulses spiritually; we have to form
the mind “which was also in Christ Jesus.” People say their
impulses are their guide - “I feel impelled to do this, or that;”
- that may be sufficient indication that they should not do it.</p>
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<i>Remember, there must always be a mechanical outlet</i></p>
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<i>for spiritual inspiration.</i></p>
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We infect our surroundings with our own personal character. If I
make my study a place of stern industry, it will act as an
inspiration every time I go into it; but if I am lazy there, the
place will revenge itself on me.</p>
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Note two things about your intelligence: first, when your
intelligence feels numb, quit at once, and play or sleep; for the
time being the brain must recuperate; second, when you feel a fidget
of associated ideas, take yourself sternly in hand and say, “You
shall study, so it's no use whining.”</p>
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Mental stodge is different. Mental stodge is the result of one of
three forms of over-feeding - too much dinner, too much reading, or
too much meetings.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style=""> </span></span><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">Irritation
may be simply the result of not using your brain. Remember, the brain
gets exhausted when it is not doing anything.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Beware of saying, “I haven't
time to read the Bible, or to prayer”; say rather, “I haven't
disciplined myself to do these things.”</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Before any habit is formed you
must put yourself under mechanical laws of obedience, and the higher
the emotion started by the Spirit of God, the keener must be the
determination to commit yourself.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> If we have no system of work we
shall easily come to think we are working when we are only thinking
of working; that we are busy when we are only engaged.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>The more we talk about work,
the less we work,</i></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>and the same with prayer.</i></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> We must be willing to do in the
spiritual domain what we have to do in the natural domain if we want
to develop, viz., discipline ourselves.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> Vision is an inspiration to
stand us in good stead in the drudgery of discipline; the temptation
is to despise the discipline.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>Enchain your body to habitual
obedience.</i></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style=""> Beware
of being haunted by a suppressed dissatisfaction with the
arrangements of your actual life - </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="">get</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">
the right program! The secret of slacking is just here.</span></font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><u><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">NOTE</font></b></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
</b></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">The
insights of Oswald Chambers can be shocking. His students in the
Bible Training College of London, England from 1911-1915 were often
brought up short by sayings as above! They would catch him at
meal-times to argue over these shocking statements! He would smile
and say, “Put it on a back burner; it will come clear after a
while!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">As
a boy in Scotland he showed little of the tremendous discipline that
characterized his later years, starting about his 18</span></span></font><sup><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">th</span></span></font></sup><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
year in London. His biography by David McCasland, “Oswald Chambers:
Abandoned to <br>God” - is worth its weight in gold. It is the
third biography written on this man, and is the most illuminating.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">For those of you who fit into
his article on “Study” - “The Complete Works of Oswald
Chambers” compiled by David McCasland will be a fitting life
investment. On the “Net” it can be often found for under $40.00 -
1492 pages of over 50 books, of which the one noted above is
included.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Oswald live 43 years, and died
in 1917 as a Chaplain of the YMCA for British Forces in Egypt during
World War II - of complications that arose from appendicitis.
J.A.Watt</font></p>
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