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Now, the last thing that I would like

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to pass on to you is the statement

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that's very important.

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It's the last guideline in the seven.

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Pass it on to others.

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And I'd like to pass this on to

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you, by the way.

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Not only read the Bible, not only study

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the Bible, not only meditate on the Bible,

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and not only read what others have written

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about it, and not only obey it, but

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pass it on to others.

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And, frankly, if we obey it, that's what

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we'll be doing.

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That's what we all should do.

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Now, you're going to reach a saturation point

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in the study of the Bible unless you

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pass it on to others.

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That's something that you need to recognize.

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You know, God, for some reason, won't let

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you withdraw yourself from mankind in a monastery

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and become some sort of a walking Bible

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encyclopedia, knowing everything, and the rest of us

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remain ignorant.

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I think that's the reason that he made

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the statement that we are not forsaking the

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assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of

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some is, but exhorting one another.

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And so much the more, as you see

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the day approaching.

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Don't forget to assemble yourself with others.

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And that's one of the reasons, I think,

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that God has blessed this program as He

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has, is because of the fact that we're

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attempting to pass it on to others.

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A preacher wrote me, and he said, Dr.

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McGee, I'm using your program.

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Do you mind if I use your outlines

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and your notes?

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Of course I don't mind.

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You can have anything this poor preacher's written,

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and if it would prove helpful to you,

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why, we'd certainly want you to have it.

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But that's exactly what we want to do,

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is to pass it on to others.

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Because I find that when we pass it

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on to others, that it becomes a blessing.

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Now I learned this lesson early in seminary.

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I pastored a little church, and there were

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about five other fellows in my class that

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did the same thing.

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They had a little church.

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And for two years, I had that little

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church before I graduated.

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And we five fellows, or six of us,

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as the total was, we used to get

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together and talk things over, because as young

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pastors, just seminary students, not even dry back

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of the ears, and we were very green

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concerning many things, why, we'd get together and

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talk over our mutual problems, our mutual situations,

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and what we could do.

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And in the course of the two years,

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we made a discovery that we were taking

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what we were learning in class, that which

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was given to us, and we were passing

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it on to others, that which we'd learned.

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And may I say this to you?

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That we found out that when we graduated,

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we actually were a year ahead of the

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other members of the class.

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Why?

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Because we were smarter than the others?

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No.

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May I say we were not.

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I happened to be in a class in

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which there were several very bright young men,

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and we were not brighter than they were.

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We had just had the experience of passing

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it on to others, and when we did,

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God was able to funnel in to us

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a great deal more than He might otherwise.

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This is important.

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And we have also rejoiced in the fact,

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I've shared letters with you from time to

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time and, as we've said, these letters are

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always typical.

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And these letters tell of folk who began

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listening to the program, got interested, opened up

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their home, and they are now conducting a

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Bible class.

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There are others that open their home, and

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they just use our tapes, and they use

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the tapes of others, and many of them

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have pastors that come in.

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Many pastors have started classes, and all of

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them testify to the fact that it has

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increased their knowledge of the Word of God.

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That's what God wants us to do.

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Pass it on.

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Don't forget, begin with prayer.

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Read the Bible, study the Bible, meditate upon

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the Bible, read what others have written on

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the Bible, and pass the Bible on to

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others.

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And in our guidelines that we're mailing out,

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I don't even mention at this time, I

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have a hand there in which you can

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learn the books of the Bible and put

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them on one hand.

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The chart is there.

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Be sure and write in for your copy

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today.