When we have turned to following Jesus, we cannot take with us anything of our past life which will lead us away from Him and our obedience to His teaching.

We have to be utterly ruthless to cut off every thing that is not of God and not of His teaching, every influence, every input, every teaching however appealing, however attractive and benign they might seem to us. Everything that is not of God and not of His teaching will draw us away from Him and from the fullness of life He wants to give us.

The Bible is not a history book. It is a God-breathed, God-inspired, God given book.

It is no good bringing our world taught thinking to the Scriptures: we must read with the help and wisdom of the Holy Spirit: "the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of Jehovah"

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