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Priceless Quest

II Timothy 2:15
Study and be eager and do your utmost to present yourself to God approved (tested by trial), a
workman who has no cause to be ashamed, correctly analyzing and accurately dividing [rightly
handling and skillfully teaching] the Word of Truth.
[Amplified Bible]

If what has been shared in this teaching series has caused you to be daunted by all of the obstacles
that hinder arriving at the true knowledge of the word of God, I have a word of exhortation for you.
Yahweh never intended for spiritual truth to come easily to His people. It is well within Yahweh’s
ability to have preserved a flawless text of the Scriptures down to this day, but He chose not to do
so. Instead, He has permitted His words to be obscured by thousands of years of creeping error, the
result of the fallibility of copyists and the shortcomings of translators.

The fact that no perfect copy of the Bible exists, either in the original languages, or in translations
to other tongues, requires that those who love truth must work to obtain it. Those who demonstrate
the most diligence, as a workman that needs not be ashamed, will be rewarded with discoveries and
revelations that men of lesser ambition only dream about.

In the writing Divorced From Truth I wrote about the excuses men often give regarding Bible study.
What was shared is worth repeating.
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It requires patient study to rightly divide the word of God. I know Christian men who have spent
hundreds, and even thousands of dollars, upon some hobby. Men who are hunting, fishing,
automobile, stereo, ham radio, sports, and bicycling enthusiasts have often spent a great deal of
money, devoted great amounts of time, and educated themselves to become both knowledgeable and
skillful in the area of their interest. Yet these same men will often argue that they are unable to apply
the same attention to the study of Scriptures.

People of God, the truth is that men will pursue that which is important to them. Our actions reveal
what is in our hearts. If a man will buy a fishing boat costing thousands of dollars, a truck to pull it
with, equip it with rods and reels and bait and tackle, and spend the money for licenses and fuel; if
he will read the fishing magazines, and study where the fish are, when they are feeding, what they