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The Indispensable Principle

        I  would  like  to  begin  with  what  I  call  the  indispensable
        principle.  When we come to study the Bible there are many
        helps.  There are word studies and books of sermons and all
        kinds  of  aids  but  there  is  only  one  principle  that  is
        indispensable.  You can’t live without it.  That is total reliance
        on God’s Holy Spirit.  It’s God’s book.  Only God can reveal
        God.  I can’t reveal God.  Only God can reveal God.  This Bible
        is like the Lord Jesus.  There is a human side and a divine side.
        Some people only get the human side.  Only God can give the
        divine side.  He promises that if we would come as little children
        He would reveal Christ to us.  Gal. 1:15&16, “But when He
        who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb, and called
        me through His grace, was pleased to reveal His Son in me, that
        I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately
        consult with flesh and blood…”  What was true of Paul is true
        of each one of us.  He set you aside when you were born.  In His
        grace He called you.  Now He wants to reveal His Son in you
        and then He’ll send you out.


               I am Ed Miller and I’m a redeemed sinner and a lover
        of the Lord Jesus.  I’ve set my heart to know the Lord in every
        way possible that a redeemed sinner can know the Lord on this
        side of heaven.  I seek Him and I pray that you are also seeking
        the Lord.  I wish my Lillian, my wife, could have joined me.
        She has an illness and is unable to travel but she promised that
        she will be praying for us during these days.  I’m following the
        suggestion of our Brother Frederic to share fundamental truths.
        It’s limiting but it’s so important to have the foundations.  There
        are so many foundations, it was not easy to choose which to
        speak on.
               So, as I waited upon the Lord, I thought I would share
        the foundations that have most helped me.  Nothing will be new.
        I’m sure you have heard all of this before.  I pray that it will be
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