The Bible is, from its commencement to its close, a record of the Lord Jesus.Octavius Winslow, The Precious Things of God
Around Him the divine and glorious Word centers; all its wondrous types, prophecies, and facts gather.
His Promise and Foreshadowing, His holy Incarnation, Nativity, and Baptism, His Obedience and Passion, His Death, Burial, and Resurrection, His Ascension to heaven, His Second Coming to judge the world, are the grand and touching, the sublime and tender, the priceless and precious truths interwoven with the whole texture of the Bible, to which the Two Witnesses of Revelation, the Old and the New Testaments bear their harmonious and solemn testimony.
Beloved, let this be the one and chief object in your study of the Bible - the knowledge of Jesus.
The Bible is not a history, a book of science, or a poem; it is a record of Christ.
Study it to know more of Him, His nature, His love, His work. With the magnanimous Paul, "count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus your Lord."
Then will God's Word become increasingly precious to your soul, and its truths unfold.
In every page you will trace the history of Jesus, see the glory of Jesus, admire the work of Jesus, learn the love of Jesus, and hear the voice of Jesus.
The whole volume will be redolent of His name, and luminous with His beauty.
Oh, what is the Bible to us apart from its revelation of a Savior! . . .
In a word, do we search the Scriptures humbly, prayerfully, depending upon the guidance of the Spirit, to find Jesus in them?
Of these Scriptures He is the Alpha and the Omega, the substance, the sweetness, the glory, the one, precious, all absorbing theme.
HT: Christ . . . Altogether Lovely
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