until we have stopped to say, "Such things are too wonderful for
us." It has read the tracings upon obelisks, and made the past an open
book to us, giving us the secrets of men who have been thousands of
years in their tombs, but I do wish to say that that which comes to us
directly from the Spirit of God is beyond scholarship. Hear what Paul
has said to us in 1 Corinthians the second chapter and the ninth to the
fourteenth verses. "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God
hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto
us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep
things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the
spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no
man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of
the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the
things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak,
not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost
teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural
man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned."

There are certain great truths to which I am sure the Holy Ghost would
say a deep amen.

I

The Bible _is_ the word of God--not simply that it _contains_ the word
of God, but is that very word.

Peter tells us where we got our Bible. 2 Peter 1:21, "For the prophecy
came not in old time by the will of man; but holy men of God spake as
they were moved by the Holy Ghost." It is an inspired Book, and
inspiration is the inbreathing of God himself. This makes the Bible
different from every other book. We cannot study it exactly as we
study others. We may pick it up and say it is just paper, ink and
leather, like any other book, but we have missed the power of it if we
say this. We might say, "Jesus is just a man, eating, drinking,
sleeping, suffering like a man"; but we have missed his power if we say
only this, for the Bible is filled with God, and Jesus is God Himself.
Jesus said, "Ye must be born again if ye are to enter my Kingdom," and
this makes the difference in men. Because of this new birth one man
sees the things of God to which another would be totally blind, and
this makes the difference