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Bishop Alexander (Mileant) Toward understanding the Bible IntraText CT - Text |
By reading the Bible you are adding yeast to the dough of your soul and body, which gradu-
ally expands and fills the soul until it has thoroughly permeated it and makes it rise with the truth
and righteousness of the Gospel.
In every instance, the Savior.s parable about the sower and the seed can be applied to every
one of us. The Seed of Divine Truth is given to us in the Bible.
By reading it, we sow that seed in our own soul. It falls on the rocky and thorny ground of
our soul, but a little also falls on the good soil of our heart . and bears fruit.
And when you catch sight of the fruit and taste it, the sweetness and joy will spur you to
clear and plow the rocky and thorny areas of your soul and sow it with the seed of the word of
God.
Do you know when a man is wise in the sight of Christ the Lord? . when he listens to His
word and carries it out. The beginning of wisdom is to listen to God.s word (Matt. 7:24-25).
Every word of the Savior has the power and the might to heal both physical and spiritual
ailments. “Say the word and my servant will healed” (Matt. 8:8). The Savior said the word .
and the centurion.s servant was healed.
Just as He once did, the Lord even now ceaselessly says His words to you, to me, and to all
of us. But we must pause, and immerse ourselves in them and receive them with the centurion.s
And a miracle will happen to us, and our souls will be healed just as the centurion.s servant
was healed. For it is related in the Gospel that they brought many possessed people to Him, and
He drove out the spirits with a word, and healed all the sick (Matt. 8:16).
He still does this today, because the Lord Jesus “Is the same yesterday and today and forever”
Those who do not listen to God.s words will be judged at the Dreadful Judgment, and it will
be worse for them on the Day of Judgment than it was for Sodom and Gomorrah (Matt. 10:14-
15).
Beware . at the Dreadful Judgment you will be asked to give an account for what you have
done with the words of God, whether you have listened to them and kept them, whether you have
rejoiced in them or been ashamed of them, the Lord will also be ashamed of you when He comes
in the glory of His Father together with the holy angels (Mark 8:38).
There are few words of men that are not vain and idle. Thus there are few words for which
we do not mind being judged (Matt. 12:36).
In order to avoid this, we must study and learn the words of God from the Bible and make
them our own; for God proclaimed them to men so that they might accept them, and by means of
them also accept the Truth of God itself.