These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. (Acts 17:11)

I commend scrupulous obedience to all of you, and especially to those young people who have lately made a profession of their faith in Christ.

Do not be as your fathers were, for the generation that is now going off the stage neither reads its Bible nor cares to know the Lord’s will. If people searched the Scriptures, we should find them come together in union; but the least read book in all the world, in proportion to circulation, is the Word of God.

It is distributed everywhere, but it is read scarcely anywhere with care and attention and with a sincere resolve to follow its precepts at all hazards. You come and  listen to us, and we give you little bits taken from it here and there, but you do not get a fair notion of it as a whole.

How can you? Ministers make mistakes, and you follow them without inquiry. One elects this leader and another that, to the creation of varieties of opinions and even sects, which ought not to be, and would not be if all stood fast by the standard of inspired truth. 

If the Bible were but read and prayed over, many errors would die a speedy death, and others would be sorely crippled. Had that inspired Book been read in the past, many errors would never have arisen. Search you, then, the Book of God, I pray you; and whatever you find there, be sure to attend thereto.

At all costs, keep to the Word of God.

Charles Spurgeon

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End notes:

[1] Charles Spurgeon, At the Master’s Feet [Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005], January 1.

See also:

SBC’S BETH MOORE MERELY PRETENDING TO BE PROTESTANT

RICHARD FOSTER’S RENOVARE PROMOTING EMERGING HERETIC TONY JONES

SOUTHERN BAPTIST KAY WARREN PROMOTING DEVOUT ROMAN CATHOLIC JEAN VANIER