The Spirit of Prophecy-A Gift for Me

[Thompson, Darryl]

The Spirit of Prophecy--A Gift for Me 

     The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Rev. 19:10  

     God has been pleased to communicate His truth to the world by human
agencies, and He Himself, by His Holy Spirit, qualified men and enabled
them to do this work. He guided the mind in the selection of what to
speak and what to write. The treasure was entrusted to earthen vessels,
yet it is, nonetheless, from Heaven. The testimony is conveyed through
the imperfect expression of human language, yet it is the testimony of
God; and the obedient, believing child of God beholds in it the glory of
a divine power, full of grace and truth.  

     In His Word God has committed to men the knowledge necessary for
salvation. The Holy Scriptures are to be accepted as an authoritative,
infallible revelation of His will. . . .  

     As presented through different individuals, the truth is brought
out in its varied aspects. One writer is more strongly impressed with
one phase of the subject; he grasps those points that harmonize with his
experience or with his power of perception and appreciation; another
seizes upon a different phase; and each, under the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, presents what is most forcibly impressed upon his own mind--a
different aspect of the truth in each, but a perfect harmony through
all. And the truths thus revealed unite to form a perfect whole, adapted
to meet the wants of men in all the circumstances and experiences of
life. . . .  

     Yet the fact that God has revealed His will to men through His Word
has not rendered needless the continued presence and guiding of the Holy
Spirit. On the contrary, the Spirit was promised by our Saviour, to open
the Word to His servants, to illuminate and apply its teachings. And
since it was the Spirit of God that inspired the Bible, it is impossible
that the teaching of the Spirit should ever be contrary to that of the
Word. 

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