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The Bedside Watchman |
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November 20th -- Nehemiah 8 READING -- AND GIVING THE SENSE |
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ONE neglected service to our ecclesias is the reading of the Scriptures which are rarely communicated with the clearness, understanding and conviction which their character merits. We need to recapture something of "the fear of the Lord" and the honour and dignity of reading from the scriptures that Ezra encouraged in his day. When he "opened the book in the sight of all the people... all the people stood up: and Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God." Do not the scriptures contain "great and precious promises" and ought we not to reverence it as the living word of "the great God?"As well as the Levites, certain others were appointed to read the scriptures as "the people stood in their place. And they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading."The daily readings at home, particularly if read aloud with sense and understanding, not only provide instruction but training for the honour of reading in His presence before the members of His household. JOHN MARSHALL, The New Life, page 54
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