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Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study

A QUICKENING that will last must come through the Word of God. A man stood up in one of our meetings and said he hoped for enough out of the series of meetings to last him all his life. I told him he might as well try to eat enough breakfast at one time to last him his lifetim...

Chapters

9. CHAPTER IX.

THERE are two opposite ways to study the Bible. One is to study it with a telescope, taking a grand sweep of a whole book and trying to find out God's plan in it; the other, wit...

2. CHAPTER II.

WE DO NOT ask men and women to believe in the Bible without enquiry. It is not natural to man to accept the things of God without question. If you are to be ready to give an ans...

29. CHAPTER XIV.

Bible Marking--Borrowing and Lending Bibles--Necessity of Marking--Advantages--How to Mark and What to Mark--Taking Notes--"Four things which are little upon the earth, but they...

27. CHAPTER XII.

I FIND some people now and then who boast that they have read the Bible through in so many months. Others read the Bible chapter by chapter, and get through it in a year; but I...

30. CHAPTER XV.

Personal Work--Three Kinds of Church Services--Church Members--Individual Experience--One Inquirer at a Time--Those who lack Assurance--Backsliders--Not Convicted of Sin--Deeply...

1. CHAPTER I.

A QUICKENING that will last must come through the Word of God. A man stood up in one of our meetings and said he hoped for enough out of the series of meetings to last him all h...

5. CHAPTER V.

I KNOW nothing that will upset an honest skeptic quicker than _fulfilled prophecy_. There are very few Christians who think of studying this subject. They say that prophecies ar...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

SOMEONE has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit. First, admit its truth; second, submit to its teachings; third,...

6. CHAPTER VI.

HERE is a word of counsel for young men who have their eye on the ministry. If you take my advice, you will seek not to be a text preacher, but an expository preacher. I believe...

7. CHAPTER VII.

We must study it thoroughly, and hunt it through, as it were, for some great truth. If a friend were to see me searching about a building, and were to come up and say, "Moody, w...

4. CHAPTER IV.

CHRIST speaking of the law, said: "One jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law until all be fulfilled." In another place He said: "Heaven and earth shall pass away,...

26. CHAPTER XI.

It is a very interesting thing to study the types of the Bible. Get a good book on the subject and you will be surprised to find out how interested you will become. The Bible is...

3. CHAPTER III.

I WANT to show how absurd it is for anyone to say he believes the New Testament and not the Old. It is a very interesting fact that of the thirty-nine books of the Old Testament...

28. CHAPTER XIII.

Or take just one word that runs through a book. Some time ago I was wonderfully blessed by taking the seven "_Blesseds_" of the Revelation. If God did not wish us to understand...

31. CHAPTER XVI.

3. Do not be afraid of marking it, or of making marginal notes. Mark texts that contain promises, exhortations, warnings to sinners and to Christians, gospel invitations to the...

10. CHAPTER X.

I KNOW some men who never sit down to read a book until they have time to read the whole of it. When they come to Leviticus or Numbers, or any of the other books, they read it r...

11. Chapter 1. The call of the first five disciples.

It was about four o'clock in the afternoon that John stood and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God." Two of John's disciples then followed Jesus, and one of them, Andrew, went out an...

15. Chapter 6. We called that the _bread_ chapter. If you want a good loaf

of bread, get into this sixth chapter. You feed upon that bread and you will live forever. Key verse: Christ the bread of life. "I am the living bread which came down from heave...

13. Chapter 4. A disreputable sinner, and how Jesus dealt with her. If we

had been dealing with her, we would have told her what Jesus told Nicodemus, but He took her on her own ground. She came for a water-pot of water, and, thank God, she got a whol...

12. Chapter 3. This is a chapter on Regeneration. It took us more than one

day to get through this one. This gives you a respectable sinner, and how Jesus dealt with him. Commit verse 16: "God so loved the world, that He gave His Only begotten Son that...

24. Chapter 15. The Fruit chapter. The vine can only bear fruit through the

branches. Verse 5: "I am the vine; ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing." Key word, Joy.

14. Chapter 5. Divinity of Christ. Commit verse 24: "Verily, verily, I say

unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." Key word,...

18. Chapter 9. The Sight chapter. There was a man born blind and Christ made

him to see. Key word, Testifying. Memory verse: "I must work the works of Him that sent me while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work."

25. Chapter 17. This chapter contains what is properly the "Lord's prayer.

17. Chapter 8. The _Light_ chapter. "I am the light of the world." Key,

16. Chapter 7 is the _water_ chapter. "If any man thirst let him come unto

20. Chapter 11. The Lazarus chapter. Memorize verse 25: "I am the

23. Chapter 14. The Mansion chapter. Commit to memory verse 6: "I am the

22. Chapter 13. The Humility chapter. Christ washing the feet of his

19. Chapter 10. Here you find the Good Shepherd. Commit to memory verse 11:

21. Chapter 12. Verse 32: "I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me.