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Sifting gravel or mining the mother-lode?

BibleGateway: John 5:39-47

ESV Text: John 5:39-47


KJV Text:

The section starts at about 4:53 and ends at about 5:49

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39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. 40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. 41 I receive not honour from men. 42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. 43 I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only? 45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. 46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. 47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?(KJV)


Hymn: TLH 291:
Lamp of our Feet Whereby We Trace

— Organ Audio

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1. Lamp of our feet whereby we trace 
Our path when wont to stray; 
Stream from the fount of heavenly grace, 
Brook by the traveler’s way. 

2. Bread of our souls whereon we feed, 
True manna from on high; 
Our guide and chart wherein we read 
Of realms beyond the sky; 

3. Pillar of fire, through watches dark, 
Or radiant cloud by day; 
When waves would break our tossing bark, 
Our anchor and our stay; 

4. Word of the ever-living God, 
Will of His glorious Son; 
Without thee, how could earth be trod 
Or heaven itself be won? 

5. Lord, grant us all aright to learn 
The wisdom it imparts 
And to its heavenly teaching turn 
With simple, childlike hearts.