“Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me. And ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life.” John 5:39, 40.
15. What constitutes a part of Christian experience?
“And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come.” Heb. 6:5. See answer to question 10.
16. In assigning him his life-work, what instruction did Jesus give to Peter?
“Jesus saith unto him, Feed My sheep.” John 21:17.
17. What apostolic injunction indicates the way in which this instruction is to be obeyed?
“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.” 2 Tim. 4:1, 2.
18. How are we instructed to pray for both physical and spiritual nourishment?
“Give us this day our daily bread.” Matt. 6:11.
Note.—When “the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us,” the thought of God was revealed in human flesh. When holy men of God “spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost,” the thought of God was revealed in human language. The union of the divine and the human in the manifestation of God's thought in the flesh is declared to be “the mystery of godliness;” and there is the same mystery in the union of the divine thought and human language. The two revelations of God, in human flesh and in human speech, are both called the Word of God, and both are the Word of life. He who fails to find Christ thus in the Scriptures will not be able to feed upon the Word as the life-giving Word.