Ye do err, not knowing the
scriptures, nor the power of God. Matthew 22:29
For all our
education today, we never had more ignorance and error. The root of it is
revealed in this word from our Lord: we do not know the Scriptures or the power
of God. For Scripture we substitute our own explanations, and for the power of
God we substitute our own experience. God has said something to us in the
Scriptures, His written Word, and He has done something for us in His Son, the
Living Word; but we refuse both and live in error.
Like the
generation of Noah’s day, this age lives eating and drinking, marrying and
giving in marriage, and knows not, and will not know until judgment breaks. But
God has provided a cure for ignorance. Again and again He says, “I would not
have you ignorant” (Rom. 11:25; I Cor. 10:1; 12:1; II Cor. 1:8; I Thess. 4:13;
II Pt. 3:8).
The
cause of error is plain: ignorance of the Scriptures and of the power of God.
The cure is equally plain: knowledge of the Scriptures and of the power of God.
The first leads to the second: as we know the Scriptures we may know the power
of God. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
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