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HERE A LITTLE,
THERE A LITTLE
Anyway, this preacher was
preaching a scorching sermon.
He was preaching a corrective
sermon last Sunday morning.
Of course, it was a Sunday
morning; and he was scorch-
ing these young women of that
new modern fad. He told them
to take that top knot down. He
said, "My sermon this morn-
ing, my text is found in Mat-
thew chapter 24, verse 17. You
can turn to it and read it if you
want.
Matthew 24, verse 17
'...Top not come down ... '"
Now he says, "Young woman,
God says for that top knot to
come down;" and he preached
a whole sermon on that one
Scripture.
It does say 'top not come
down' there because Christ is
talking about a time of trouble
coming when he says that "he
that is on the house top
[should] not come down" to
take anything out of his house.
So the 'top not come down' is
there alright, but that isn't
what it means in that context.
So you see what I mean, in
understanding the Bible you
take a little here, a little there,
a little somewhere else and put
them together. But you've got
to know that you get the
meaning as it is in its own
context and see that it makes
sense put together with the
other Scripture in its context
until you have a complete
picture; and that's the way the
Bible is.
Now if you start to read the
Bible, and you just start in
Genesis 1:1, and you start to
read the Bible through; and
I've heard people say, "Well, I
know about the Bible. I've read
the Bible all the way through
from beginning to end." Well,
you know, I was brought up in
church, until I was 18 years
old, and Sunday school. I
didn't know what the church
believed.
I did know some things.
I know that they
believed and I believed
(and I just took it for
granted) that I was an
immortal soul [and]
that I would live
forever. If I died that I'd
pass on or pass away
out of this body; and if
I'd been good I'd go to
heaven, if I'd been bad
I'd go to hell! But I was
going to live forever
because I was an
immortal soul, or else I
had one, or something.
I didn't know which.
Well, I had to come to
find that I was all wrong. And
I know that after I was mar-
ried when I was age 25; a
marriage that lasted, well, 50
years from the time we fell in
love and were engaged, and it
just lacked 3 months and 15
days exactly it would be 50
years from the marriage date.
But I'm sure we'd been in love
with each other for that long
because we were engaged
some little time before we
were married. Most young
people are, or used to be, or
should be. And, anyway, my
mother sent us a Bible right
after we were married.
Now I didn't read it so much
because I was a slow reader;
but my wife was a more rapid
reader, and I thought we'd get
through it quicker if she read
it. And the main thing was just
to get through it, because I
didn't understand it anyway.
She'd read it to me. It was like
saying "dah dah dah dah dah
dah dah dah." I didn't get
anything out of it.
If you start to read and read
through the Bible verse by
verse, chapter by chapter,
book by book, you will not get
the meaning. You just won't
get it that way, because what
you read in one place must be
put together with some of the
things that you will read in
other places; and I didn't
know that then.
Mr. & Mrs. Armstrong
Philadelphia Remnant Jul/ Aug/ Sept 2013
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