Oswald Chambers on Knowing the Bible
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Colson Center
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🗓️ 2 November 2023
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Summary
In November 1917, Scottish Bible teacher and evangelist Oswald Chambers died while serving as chaplain to British troops in Egypt. Ten years after his death, his wife Gertrude compiled her notes of his sermons into one of the most influential devotionals of all time: My Utmost for His Highest.
Chambers revered the Scripture. "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 something only to be looked at, but to be looked through. He once responded to a friend who said he only read the Bible that,
"When people refer to a man as 'a man of the book,' meaning the Bible, he is generally found to be a man of multitudinous books, which simply isolates the one Book to its proper grandeur. The man who reads only the Bible does not, as a rule, know it or human life."
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| 0:00.0 | With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point. |
| 0:04.3 | In November 1917, Scottish Bible teacher and evangelist Oswald Chambers died while serving |
| 0:09.6 | as a chaplain to British troops in Egypt. |
| 0:11.9 | Ten years after his death, his wife compiled her notes of his sermons into one of the most |
| 0:16.1 | influential devotionals of all time, my utmost for his highest. |
| 0:20.2 | Chambers revered the Scriptures. |
| 0:21.6 | God never fits his word to suit me. |
| 0:23.8 | He wrote, he fits me to suit his word. |
| 0:26.3 | He also understood the kind of book the Bible was, not just something to be looked at and |
| 0:30.1 | to be read, but to be looked through and see everything out. |
| 0:33.4 | He once responded to a friend who told him that he only read the Bible, that quote, |
| 0:37.4 | when people referred to a man as a man of the book, meaning the Bible, he's generally |
| 0:40.7 | found to be a man of multitudinist books, which simply isolates the one book to its proper |
| 0:45.8 | ranger. |
| 0:46.8 | The man who reads only the Bible does not as a rule, no it, or human life. |
| 0:52.0 | The Bible is the lens through which we can see everything out. |
| 0:55.2 | For The Carlson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point. |
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