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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>Jim & Marie Watt</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><u>“<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>THE
BIBLE”</b></font></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>
2011.10.21</b></font></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>(From:
“Disciples Indeed” by Oswald Chambers)</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">“<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">The
Word” is Jesus Himself (John 1:1); therefore we must have an
experimental knowledge of Him before we understand the literal words
of the Bible.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">The
danger today is that people are being nourished not with the Bible so
much as with conceptions which ignore Jesus Christ.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Bible
facts are either revelation facts or nonsense. It depends on me which
they are to me.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">God
does not thunder His truth into our ears; our attitude of mind must
be submissive to revelation facts. Each one of us bring certain
prejudices, civilized pre-judgments, which greatly hinder our
understanding of revelation facts.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Our
attitude to the Bible is a stupid one; we come to the Bible for proof
of God’s existence, but the Bible has no meaning for us until we
know that God does exist. The Bible states and affirms facts for the
benefit of those who believe in God; those who don’t believe in God
can tear it to bits if they choose.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">People
can dispute the Bible as they like, but get a soul in whom the
craving for God has come, and the words of the Bible create the new
life in him. “…being born again,…by the word God” (1 Peter
1:23).</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">If
we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use
it oftener. The disablement of the devil’s power by means of the
Word of God conveyed through the lips of a servant of His, is
inconceivable.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">The
main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an
amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness
with regard to God’s Word.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">There
is no true illumination apart from the written Word. Spiritual
impressions generated from my own experience are of no importance,
and if I pay attention to them I will pay no attention to the words
of Jesus.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">The
test of God’s truth is that it fits you exactly; if it does not,
question whether it is His truth.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><b>BEWARE
OF BARTERING THE WORD OF GOD FOR A </b></i></font>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><b>MORE
SUITABLE CONCEPTION OF YOUR OWN</b></i></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Every
impulse must wed itself to the express statements of the Bible;
otherwise they will lead astray.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">The
thing to ask yourself is, “Does the Bible say it?” not, “I
don’t think that is a good view of God.”</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Profoundly
speaking, it is not sufficient to say, “Because God says it,” or,
“Because the Bible says it,” unless you are talking to people who
know God and know the Bible to be His Word. If you appeal from the
authority of God or of the Bible to a man not born again, he will pay
no attention to you because he does not stand on the same platform.
You have to find a provisional platform on which he can stand with
you, and in the majority of cases you will find that the platform is
that of moral worth. If Jesus Christ is proved Worthy on the plane
men are on, they will be ready to put Him as the Most Worthy One, and
all the rest will follow.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Whenever
human nature gets driven to the end of things the Bible is the only
Book, and God the only Being, in the world.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">The
reason some of us are not healthy spiritually is because we don’t
use the Bible as the Word of God but only as a text-book.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Beware
of making a fetish of a word God once spoke to you; if you stick to
the word God spoke you will leave Him, and the result is harshness
and stagnation, a refusal to budge from the precedent you have
established.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Watch
every time the Word of God is made a sacrament to you through someone
else; it will make you re-tune your ears to His Word.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">There
are saints who are being rattled out of holiness by fussy work for
God; whereas one five minutes of brooding on God’s truth would do
more good than all their work of fuss.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><b>IT
IS WHAT THE BIBLE IMPARTS TO US THAT IS OF VALUE</b></i></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">The
Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading
of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh
air physically.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">If
I have disobeyed, the Word of God is dried up; there is “no open
vision.” Immediately I obey the Word is poured in.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">To
read the Bible according to God’s providential order in your
circumstances is the only way to read it, viz., in the blood and
passion of personal life.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">The
statements of Scripture apart from the Holy Spirit’s illumination
are dull; it needs no spiritual insight to regard Jesus Christ as a
Man who lived beyond His time. But when I am born again I have
insight into the Person of Jesus, an insight that comes through
communion with God by means of the Bible.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Beware
of interpreting Scripture in order to make it suit a pre-arranged
doctrine of your own.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Exegesis
is not torturing a text to agree with a theory of my own, but leading
out its meaning.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><b>BEWARE
OF REASONING ABOUT GOD’S WORD – OBEY IT!</b></i></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">An
absurd thing to say is – “Give me a text to prove it.” You
cannot give a text to prove any one of God’s revelations; you can
only give a text to prove your simplification of those revelations. A
text-proof is generally used to bolster up a personal spiritual
affinity of my own.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">We
are to be servants and handmaids of the Gospel, not devotees of the
Bible. Then God can make us living mediums whereby His Word becomes a
sacrament to others.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><b>NOTE</b></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
</b></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> “Disciples
Indeed” is available in “The Complete Works of Oswald Chambers”
– through Alibris, Amazon, E-Bay and “Christian Book
Distributors” of Massachusetts – </font><font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="http://www.christianbook.com/"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>www.christianbook.com</b></font></a></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">In
1945 I came across a book that confirmed to me how important it is to
understand the nature of the Bible from God’s Viewpoint. He wants
us to let the Bible mean what it wants to mean, and for God to say
what He wants to say.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">For
the first several years of my life as a believer, I gave this type of
emphasis to God and His Word. Later as I did Greek research I
discovered through E.W. Kenyon that God and His Word are one. John
1:1 states that Jesus and the Word (Logos) are one.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Oswald
Chambers in the above article makes this same point abundantly clear.
This puts the complete “kibosh” to the unbelief, rebellion and
pride of Modernism or the New Theology. The Bible is NOT the book for
unbelievers! It is God’s book for BELIEVERS. Chambers also exhorts
us to “brood on the tragedy of Calvary!”</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Jim
Watt</font></p>
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