You can trust no minister really and fully.'

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"Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." John 1:17

The way to learn truth is to be much in
prayer to the Lord Jesus Christ. Beg of Him to
teach you Himself—for He is the best teacher.
The words which He speaks, they "are spirit
and life." What He writes upon our hearts is
written in characters which will "stand every
storm and live at last."

We forget what we learn from 'man'—but
we never forget what we learn from Jesus.

'Men' may deceive—Christ cannot.

You can trust no minister really and fully.

Though you may receive truth from his lips,
it is always mixed with human infirmity. But
what you get from the lips of Jesus—you get
in all its purity and power.

It comes warm from Him—it comes cold from 'men'.

It drops like the rain and distils like the dew from
His mouth—it comes only second-hand from men.

If I preach to you the truth, I preach indeed as the
Lord enables me to speak. But it is He who must
speak with power to your souls to do you any
real good. Look then away from me—look beyond
me—to Him who alone can teach us both.

By looking to Jesus in the inmost feelings of your
soul, you will draw living truth from out of His bosom
into your own—from His heart into your heart—and thus
will come feelingly and experimentally to know the
blessedness of His own declaration—"I am the truth."

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