minister in our ranks he must come and say I do not know any thing yet as I ought to know it teach thou me and we will learn everyone that comes to his house to this to this house that way will learn something every lesson he hears and this includes that same oldest minister in the ranks he will learn more than any of the rest of us if he sits down like that but how long a time does that text cover how long will it remain there will be go beyond that time during this Institute thank you no sir very good then we have that settled for the whole Institute if we thought we knew anything there are some things we thought we knew pretty well if there is one thing we thought we knew just put it down we don't know anything we are we are always learning the most out of those texts that we already know best don't forget that we are always learning the most out of the text with which we are already the most familiar then don't you see that anyone who takes any text or thought and studies upon it for a long time and thinks he has got all the thought out of it that is in it he just shuts himself off there when he says now I know it he shuts himself off from learning what is really in that text brother Porter here in the lesson of the previous hour spoke to us of God's purpose in making known to us these things what kind of purpose was that spoken of an eternal purpose and the scripture is God's expression to us of his thoughts in that eternal purpose the scripture is the expression of God's thoughts on that purpose in carrying out and setting forth and making known that purpose well then what kind of purpose is it eternal how deep then are his thoughts how far-reaching is that purpose eternal how deep then are the thoughts expressed in the scriptures eternal in how many expressions in the scriptures and in how many scriptures is the thought of eternal depth in how many passages then does it take all the scriptures that are written for the Lord to express to us what he wants to tell us of his eternal purpose yes sir then how deep is the thought in each passage of scripture and the thoughts that are used to tell it eternal then just as soon as any man catches one of these thoughts and thinks I know it now and have