There is a busyness in Western christendom where all are promoting the Bible: Bible reading, Bible truths, Bible preaching, Bible memorization. Yet in the midst of all of this good desire of more conservative godly believers to elevate the Scriptures they have run into the error of forgetting about Jesus our Lord.
How can one forget about the Lord while they are reading His very words and Name over and over in the Scriptures? It is not mental forgetting for His Name is on their tongues continually. It is rather a lack of communion and knowing this Lord in intimate fellowship. The Scriptures testify of Christ so we can come to Him to have life. This is not only a subtle error where we can have the Scriptures exalted yet lose communion with the Lord. What the end of this practice leads to is death, to have Scriptures, Truth and preach against error but in the end not being saved ourselves.
Jesus Christ our Lord taught in John 15 that we must abide with Him continually and not go off on our own. Without the life of Christ in our daily Christian lives we are as dead as a dried out branch.
A dear brother, Blaine Scogin recently shared a testimony on this subject that is worthy of repeating here:
Jesus rebuked the Jewish theologians over their love of Bible study
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“Christianity was birthed in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and will only continue as we have this empowering from above. God is always looking for the willing vessels that will trust Him afresh for the impossible.” from: Principles for the gathering of Believers under the Headship of Jesus Christ.Since 2012, a growing group of believers in North America started to warn of coming persecution to western countries. This message was shared in a variety of ways. One of the responses to this was to compile a book taking principles from underground Churches around the world of how they thrived under pressure and persecution. The volume, Principles for the Gathering of Believers, had in a short time over 50,000 downloads in ebook format and much interest was shown. Some new house churches started through this and other existing groups were encouraged.