How to Enjoy the Bible Camp '70 (Session 2)
Joh 1:14, 18; Gen 1:1, 2; Rev 20:7-10; Gen 3:15; 2Pe 3:6, 7 2Pe 3:13; Rev 21:1, 23; Gen 1:10, 16; Rev 22:5; Gen 1:17; 3:16, 17, 22-24; Rev 21:4; 22:3, 2; Neh 8:5 Neh 8:6-8; Gen 10:8, 9, 24, 25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LESSON TWO There are two books that we have in the store which I selected for this family camp. I have said to people everywhere in our classes that I believe I could build for any person for $200 or less, the only materials (the research materials and study materials) that they would ever need in a life time on the Word of God. In that category, I would have to place this book by E.W. Bullinger How to Enjoy the Bible. I think this is the finest piece of work that I have ever seen in extent. And it was this book that was given to me by my friend Dr. E Higgins in Chicago. One night after a class at the LaSalle hotel, when she said to me, “Did you ever read E.W. Bullinger?” And I said, “I never heard of him.” She said, “Well, you teach like he wrote.” And I said, “I sure would like to see it.” And she said, “I’ll give you a copy.” So, we went upstairs and into her office, into her quarters where she lived, and she gave me her copy of E.W. Bullinger. If I thought about it this morning I would have brought it along. I’ll think about it next time and show it to you. It will just amaze you the condition it’s in. I read it completely the night she gave it to me. I read it completely the next day and I read it completely the third day. I read it three times completely from beginning to end. It just fascinated me you know why? Because I’ve been told so often I didn’t know anything about the Word and that I was handling it facetiously and that I wasn’t right, that to find somebody who agreed with me was like getting a drink of water in an oasis. Here was a man who back in the nineteen hundreds, 1910-1920 had worked out through the Word some of the things that I was te
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along and they pick out one little item and they dog you with it. Immediately you will know whether that fits with the whole revelation or whether they are just taking it out of context and lifting it up out of the Word. Why? Because you have read the Word to where you have an overall picture and the little picture has to fit into the overall picture. That’s why you get to be real sharp in the understanding of the Word when you begin to enjoy the Bible in just the reading of it. You know in the book of Nehemiah. Nehemiah 8:5 And Ezra opened [the what?] the book… Right. He opens the scroll, the book. Well, if we are going to enjoy it we have to do what? Open it. We got to read it for ourselves. And he, of course Ezra being the man of God, the prophet, he opened the book: Nehemiah 8:5b …in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;)… That means he was up on his stand li