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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Mar 8, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 10.

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Study a Personality

By L. A. S.

The Christian is exhorted to “grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 3:18. The expression is sometimes quoted, “Grow in grace and in the knowledge of the truth,” but truth, apart from Jesus Christ, is of no value in the Christian life. It is not saving truth. Jesus says: “I am the way, the truth.”
We should get the point clearly fixed in our minds that divine truth is to be learned through the study of a personality. We do not study truth to learn about the personality, but we study the personality to comprehend the truth. Wedo not study nature to find out about God, but we study the revelation of God to understand the real significance of what we see in nature. “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.” But studying the heavens to learn about God, apart from the revelation God has given of himself in his Word, led men to become worshipers of the sun and moon, and to liken God to objects seen in nature. Our study is God himself, through the revelation given in the person of Jesus Christ. To know the truth, we must see it “as it is in Jesus.”
L. A. S.