Great message! Thank you very much! 3:54 Scottish missionary activity always flourished most, among those who had given themselves to education and training first… those whom the Lord used most effective… were men who devoted themselves to education and training first.
22:00 & 33:15 John Urquhart 23:34 & 33:57 & 38:36 Alexander Duff 26:54 & 41:00 Robert Nesbit 28:18 & 34:06 & 44:22 John Adam 30:44 “Now what did they learn under Thomas Chalmers? … they had to engage in years of rigorous study…. Students then and now were tempted to take the path of least resistance [which Chalmers always argued vigorously against doing]. And maybe you feel this compulsion even in yourself. 32:00 A kind of anti-intellectulaism… There were those who argued that the only real knowledge worth having was the knowledge of Jesus Christ, which sounds pious and sounds spiritual, but was really a way of saying, you don’t need to study, you don’t need to put years of preparation as long as you know Jesus… There were those who believed that knowledge of the Scriptures came through direct revelation by the Holy Spirit… And then there were those who, when discussing missions work, urged young men not to study, not to devote themselves to study, because after all, the people that you’re going to are uneducated anyway… 33:00 Under the influence Chalmers was that they understood that the work of God had called them to do required careful and rigorous study. 34:39 Chalmers: “If ambitious at all of that wisdom that can devise a right for the service of humanity, this doesn’t happen by the wildly irregular march of a wayward and meteoric spirit, it is by a slow but surer path, by a fixed devotedness of aim and the steadfast prosecution of it, by breaking your day into hours and its seasons, and then by a resolute adherence to them. It is not by the random sallies of him who lives without purpose or plan, it is by the unwearied regularities of Him who plies the exercise of a self-appointed round and most strenuously perseveres in them. 47:00 McCheyne: They also all shared a commitment to study… before they went, all spent years of preparation so that they might know Greek and Hebrew, have a clear grasp on the Bible and theology ,and better understand what we might today called apologetics, how to share and defend the faith. After they arrived in whatever field the Lord sent them to, they spent whatever time they could learning the language so that they might communicate the gospel with clarity and without error. They were all playing the long game. 49:07 “How diligently the cavalry keeps his Sabre clean and sharp, every stain he rubs off with the greatest care. Remember that you are God’s sword, His instrument. I trust a chosen vessel unto him to bear His name in great measure according to the purity and perfections of the instrument will be the success.… it is not great talent God blesses so much as break likeness to Jesus. A holy minster is an awful weapon in the hand of God.
Great message! Thank you very much!
3:54 Scottish missionary activity always flourished most, among those who had given themselves to education and training first… those whom the Lord used most effective… were men who devoted themselves to education and training first.
22:00 & 33:15 John Urquhart
23:34 & 33:57 & 38:36 Alexander Duff
26:54 & 41:00 Robert Nesbit
28:18 & 34:06 & 44:22 John Adam
30:44 “Now what did they learn under Thomas Chalmers? … they had to engage in years of rigorous study…. Students then and now were tempted to take the path of least resistance [which Chalmers always argued vigorously against doing]. And maybe you feel this compulsion even in yourself.
32:00 A kind of anti-intellectulaism… There were those who argued that the only real knowledge worth having was the knowledge of Jesus Christ, which sounds pious and sounds spiritual, but was really a way of saying, you don’t need to study, you don’t need to put years of preparation as long as you know Jesus… There were those who believed that knowledge of the Scriptures came through direct revelation by the Holy Spirit… And then there were those who, when discussing missions work, urged young men not to study, not to devote themselves to study, because after all, the people that you’re going to are uneducated anyway…
33:00 Under the influence Chalmers was that they understood that the work of God had called them to do required careful and rigorous study.
34:39 Chalmers: “If ambitious at all of that wisdom that can devise a right for the service of humanity, this doesn’t happen by the wildly irregular march of a wayward and meteoric spirit, it is by a slow but surer path, by a fixed devotedness of aim and the steadfast prosecution of it, by breaking your day into hours and its seasons, and then by a resolute adherence to them. It is not by the random sallies of him who lives without purpose or plan, it is by the unwearied regularities of Him who plies the exercise of a self-appointed round and most strenuously perseveres in them.
47:00 McCheyne: They also all shared a commitment to study… before they went, all spent years of preparation so that they might know Greek and Hebrew, have a clear grasp on the Bible and theology ,and better understand what we might today called apologetics, how to share and defend the faith. After they arrived in whatever field the Lord sent them to, they spent whatever time they could learning the language so that they might communicate the gospel with clarity and without error. They were all playing the long game.
49:07 “How diligently the cavalry keeps his Sabre clean and sharp, every stain he rubs off with the greatest care. Remember that you are God’s sword, His instrument. I trust a chosen vessel unto him to bear His name in great measure according to the purity and perfections of the instrument will be the success.… it is not great talent God blesses so much as break likeness to Jesus. A holy minster is an awful weapon in the hand of God.