The Word of God by Albert H. Darrow

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · February 19, 1908

The Word of God.

By Albert H. Darrow

THE Bible is God’s revelation of His will to mortal man. It contains everything that is essential, and nothing that is non-essential to the salvation of His human creatures on this earth. It presents the plan that will save them from sin and consequent misery, and that will bring them to moral perfection, well-being, and happiness while in the present state of probation, and finally to their eternal reward hereafter. The interpreter of its teachings should so thoroly study its pages that when he reads a passage of Scripture, every other text calculated to throw light upon its meaning will appear to the mental vision, enlarging the scope and intensifying the importance of its application.

It is as tho a man going into a house, upon entering a blue room, touches a spring which opens other rooms revealing every shade of blue; then, stepping into a green room, perceives in like manner every shade of green, and so of all the different colors of the spectrum.

Every word of Scripture being inspired or inbreathed by the Holy Spirit, one who is well instructed therein is always and necessarily instructed by the Holy Spirit. He who is not instructed and guided to an understanding of the Bible by the Holy Spirit is sure to be misled in his reading by the adversary of souls.

Learning is very helpful; much individual and independent thought is requisite; but a close relationship to the writer, and an intimate connection with the Author of divine revelation is absolutely indispensable to a safe guidance in comprehending the will and mind of God.

He who has written a book can generally tell what it means. The Spirit which inspired the Book can infallibly reveal its meaning. But he who would know the truth must search for it as for hidden treasures. If we have the mind of Christ, the Holy Spirit will show us the deep things of God.

If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His; and only those who are led by the Spirit are the sons of God. If we are sons, then are we heirs, and if heirs of the promise, our heirship is thru a knowledge of the truth, which sets us free. God’s word is the truth which sets us free from the bondage of corruption, and opens to our enraptured vision the gates of immortal existence.

Let us then, in our study of the Bible, add to our faith and virtue, knowledge; but let it be knowledge of the hidden wisdom of God, imparted by His Spirit, which can show us the way to the city; not the knowledge which man’s wisdom teacheth, which is foolishness. May the glory of the Lord, which is the light of the eternal city, rest upon us as we study His sacred word.

ALBERT H. DARROW.