Christ is the key to the Bible. The written word reveals the living Word. Christ and the Scriptures are inseparable. The Word, from first to last is full of Christ. Patriarchs, psalmists, prophets, tell of His coming in grace and glory. Types and shadows, persons and things, tell us of His peerless person and of His perfect work. The gospels trace His path from the manger to the cross, and back again to heaven.
The epistle unfolds His glories in resurrection, His people's association with Him, and the glory to come. The Bible is full of Christ. Christ is the Alpha and Omega. Read it to find Christ, not merely to get information. Read it for yourself, for the need of your own soul. Not so much that you may speak of what you read to others, as to nourish your own spiritual life and cleanse your ways to enlighten your path.
Read the Word of God slowly, carefully, and reverently, as one listening to the voice of God who is eternal, and comparing Scripture with Scripture. Do not come to the Bible to get your ideas confirmed or to alter the Scriptures to support them. Come with an open mind, ready to be taught; willing to unlearn the false in order to learn the true. Count on the teaching of the Holy Spirit. He has come. He abides in you to guide you into all the truth.
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