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Nathan Pearl: So, why is Bible study crucial for laymen and leaders alike?
The Bible says in Timothy, "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." So we see here division. That God says that you all are to study to show that you are approved to God. You're studying to show yourself approved to God; "a workman that needeth not to be ashamed."
Now I once was working on a house—I do construction—and a guy was laying up a stone chimney. He laid the chimney up all day and worked on the stone chimney and all these big pieces—it was about 4:30 and they were quitting at 5:00—and the whole thing fell down; all that he worked on all day. All over the floor. Hundreds of pounds of stone. He just bowed his head and dropped his shoulders. He was ashamed of himself. He was a workman that was ashamed because his work didn't hold up. If you don't study the Word of Truth, you should—and will eventually—be ashamed of yourself.
You'll be like that guy. It says in Romans, "For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us [the saints] shall give account of himself to God."
There's coming a day when you will stand before the God of heaven and earth and explain to him your stand on his Word. TJ once said, "I'm okay with standing before God and saying ‘I was a dumb hillbilly and I believed in what you said when you wrote it.’ I'm not okay with standing there and just saying ‘Well, I didn't think that you meant it.’"
At one point I'm going to stand before God, and I'm going to give an account for how I've handled his Book, and all the other things that I've done. But it's not just going to be the things that I've done bad. It says in Corinthians "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according that he hath done, whether it be good or bad."
Someday you'll stand before God and give an account whether you've done what was right or whether you've done what was wrong.
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Very good reminder of who we are accountable to Nathan. Thank you. God's word is almost non-existent in our world, and we can see the collapse of societies world wide. How we grieve His heart.