Title: An Old Book
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Jeremiah 15:16
Alexander Duff, the first foreign missionary of the Church of Scotland, got off to a rough start. He was only 23, bright and innovative. But on his way to India in 1829 with his new wife, he was shipwrecked - not once but twice! The most serious wreck occurred when his ship, the Lady Holland, was within a few miles of India.
At 10 o'clock P.M. he was half-undressed when a shock and shudder ran through the ship. He rushed to the deck where the captain met him with terrifying words, "Oh, she's gone!"
The ship split apart, but a portion clung precariously to a reef. Through the night the passengers huddled in terror in the surviving portion, expecting every moment to be swept away. They were saved the next day, but their clothes and prized possessions were lost, including his entire library of 800 books.
Later, standing on the shore and looking sadly toward the reef, he saw a small package bobbing on top of the water. He watched and waited as it floated close enough for him to wade out and retrieve it. It was his Bible. Of all the precious books, it alone had survived. His heart soared, for he it took it as a sign from the Lord that this one book alone was worth more than all of the other books put together.
Thomas Watson - "The Scripture contains the credenda, 'the things which we are to believe,' and the agenda, 'the things which we are to practice.'"
Psalm 119:18 Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
Alec Motyer - "We need special illumination if we are to understand divine truth, but also divine truth has to be revealed to us before we can see it."
:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Derek Kidner - "This is . . . truth for moral choices."
Background II Chronicles 34
Revival :1-7
Josiah - came to be king when he was only 8 years-old and when apostasy and spiritual decline were widely spread in 640 B ...
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Jeremiah 15:16
Alexander Duff, the first foreign missionary of the Church of Scotland, got off to a rough start. He was only 23, bright and innovative. But on his way to India in 1829 with his new wife, he was shipwrecked - not once but twice! The most serious wreck occurred when his ship, the Lady Holland, was within a few miles of India.
At 10 o'clock P.M. he was half-undressed when a shock and shudder ran through the ship. He rushed to the deck where the captain met him with terrifying words, "Oh, she's gone!"
The ship split apart, but a portion clung precariously to a reef. Through the night the passengers huddled in terror in the surviving portion, expecting every moment to be swept away. They were saved the next day, but their clothes and prized possessions were lost, including his entire library of 800 books.
Later, standing on the shore and looking sadly toward the reef, he saw a small package bobbing on top of the water. He watched and waited as it floated close enough for him to wade out and retrieve it. It was his Bible. Of all the precious books, it alone had survived. His heart soared, for he it took it as a sign from the Lord that this one book alone was worth more than all of the other books put together.
Thomas Watson - "The Scripture contains the credenda, 'the things which we are to believe,' and the agenda, 'the things which we are to practice.'"
Psalm 119:18 Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
Alec Motyer - "We need special illumination if we are to understand divine truth, but also divine truth has to be revealed to us before we can see it."
:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Derek Kidner - "This is . . . truth for moral choices."
Background II Chronicles 34
Revival :1-7
Josiah - came to be king when he was only 8 years-old and when apostasy and spiritual decline were widely spread in 640 B ...
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