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Breakpoint

Oswald Chambers on Knowing the Bible

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

How Scripture can inform a well-rounded life.

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0:00.0

With a woman a look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

0:04.2

In November 1917, Scottish Bible teacher and evangelist Oswald Chambers died while serving as a chaplain to British troops in Egypt.

0:11.8

Ten years after his death, his wife compiled her notes of his sermons into one of the most influential devotionals of all time, my utmost for his highest.

0:19.8

Chambers revered the scriptures. God never fits his word to suit me, he wrote. He fits me to suit his word. But he also understood the kind of book the Bible was, not just something to be looked at and to be read, but to be looked through and see everything else. He once responded to a friend who told him that he only read the Bible, that, quote, when people referred to a man as a man of the book meaning the Bible,

0:40.1

he's generally found to be a man of multitudinous books,

0:42.8

which simply isolates the one book to its proper grandeur.

0:46.5

The man who reads only the Bible does not as a rule know it or human life.

0:51.5

The Bible is the lens through which we can see everything else. For the

0:55.7

Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.

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