Now, the last thing that I would like
to pass on to you is the statement
that's very important.
It's the last guideline in the seven.
Pass it on to others.
And I'd like to pass this on to
you, by the way.
Not only read the Bible, not only study
the Bible, not only meditate on the Bible,
and not only read what others have written
about it, and not only obey it, but
pass it on to others.
And, frankly, if we obey it, that's what
we'll be doing.
That's what we all should do.
Now, you're going to reach a saturation point
in the study of the Bible unless you
pass it on to others.
That's something that you need to recognize.
You know, God, for some reason, won't let
you withdraw yourself from mankind in a monastery
and become some sort of a walking Bible
encyclopedia, knowing everything, and the rest of us
remain ignorant.
I think that's the reason that he made
the statement that we are not forsaking the
assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of
some is, but exhorting one another.
And so much the more, as you see
the day approaching.
Don't forget to assemble yourself with others.
And that's one of the reasons, I think,
that God has blessed this program as He
has, is because of the fact that we're
attempting to pass it on to others.
A preacher wrote me, and he said, Dr.
McGee, I'm using your program.
Do you mind if I use your outlines
and your notes?
Of course I don't mind.
You can have anything this poor preacher's written,
and if it would prove helpful to you,
why, we'd certainly want you to have it.
But that's exactly what we want to do,
is to pass it on to others.
Because I find that when we pass it
on to others, that it becomes a blessing.
Now I learned this lesson early in seminary.
I pastored a little church, and there were
about five other fellows in my class that
did the same thing.
They had a little church.
And for two years, I had that little
church before I graduated.
And we five fellows, or six of us,
as the total was, we used to get
together and talk things over, because as young
pastors, just seminary students, not even dry back
of the ears, and we were very green
concerning many things, why, we'd get together and
talk over our mutual problems, our mutual situations,
and what we could do.
And in the course of the two years,
we made a discovery that we were taking
what we were learning in class, that which
was given to us, and we were passing
it on to others, that which we'd learned.
And may I say this to you?
That we found out that when we graduated,
we actually were a year ahead of the
other members of the class.
Why?
Because we were smarter than the others?
No.
May I say we were not.
I happened to be in a class in
which there were several very bright young men,
and we were not brighter than they were.
We had just had the experience of passing
it on to others, and when we did,
God was able to funnel in to us
a great deal more than He might otherwise.
This is important.
And we have also rejoiced in the fact,
I've shared letters with you from time to
time and, as we've said, these letters are
always typical.
And these letters tell of folk who began
listening to the program, got interested, opened up
their home, and they are now conducting a
Bible class.
There are others that open their home, and
they just use our tapes, and they use
the tapes of others, and many of them
have pastors that come in.
Many pastors have started classes, and all of
them testify to the fact that it has
increased their knowledge of the Word of God.
That's what God wants us to do.
Pass it on.
Don't forget, begin with prayer.
Read the Bible, study the Bible, meditate upon
the Bible, read what others have written on
the Bible, and pass the Bible on to
others.
And in our guidelines that we're mailing out,
I don't even mention at this time, I
have a hand there in which you can
learn the books of the Bible and put
them on one hand.
The chart is there.
Be sure and write in for your copy
today.