FACT FINDING *By Miles Stanford*

FACT FINDING *By Miles Stanford*
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"Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God,
and of Jesus our Lord" (II Pet. 1:2).

We cannot too highly value and appreciate heart-hunger for the Word. It
is of the Spirit of Truth. We may have been born again without knowing
much of the Bible, but we certainly are not going to grow to any extent
apart from a careful and persistent study of the Word of God. Yes, the
maturing believer is a Spirit---dependent student of the Scriptures,
"whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises; that
by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature" (II Pet. 1.4).

"Christian progress is not a question of attaining to some abstract
standard, or of pressing through to some far-off goal. It is wholly a
question of seeing God's standard in God's Word. You advance spiritually
by finding out what you really are (in Christ), not by trying to become
what you hope to be. That goal you will never reach, however earnestly
you may strive.

"It is when you see you are dead unto sin that you die to it (daily); it
is when you see you are risen that you arise; it is when you see you are
a 'new creation' in Him that you (progressively) grow. Seeing the
accomplished fact in the Word determines the pathway to the realizing of
that fact. The end is reached by seeing, not by desiring or working. The
only possibility of spiritual progress lies in our discovering the truth
as God sees it; the truth concerning Christ, the truth concerning
ourselves in Christ." -W.N.

"Come and see the works of God" (Ps. 66:5 ).