Myth, 99

 ~ Bible Study Is For Scholars ~

Myth  ~  Sometimes newcomers to the Bible are overwhelmed and develop the belief that its study is best left to the professionals, Pastors, seminary Professors and so on.  This can also develop into believing you need to attend a Bible School or Seminary to effectively study the Bible.

Reality  ~  Nothing could be further from the truth.  The best teacher of the Word of God is the Spirit of God who indwells all believers. 

Scripture  ~  Jesus said, “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you.  But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.  Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.  You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’  If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I” (John 14:25-28).

“There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.  Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.  For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Hebrews 4:9-12).

Comment  ~  Don’t expect to understand all of Scripture in a short period of time.  There are strong academic theological scholars who have spent their entire lives studying the Word of God and yet find they have not yet grasped its totality. 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

* * * * *