Recently I preached in Atlanta, near downtown. One day I rode the rapid transit train from my motel to the Church. This route had me walking right in front of the old College campus where I once studied. What memories flooded my soul!

Today’s Bible Lesson …

The Bible has much to say about “teaching.”

It utilizes the verb “teach” 109 times. And “teacheth” 16 more times, even “teachest” 8 times!

And the noun “teacher” (or its plural, “teachers”) 20 times!

These add up quickly.

The first use of this concept in the New Testament is early in Matthew’s Gospel. “And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching … “ Matthew 4:23, wow!

The School pictured above is Immanuel Baptist College. Long since relocated from that old part of Atlanta, that part of Georgia really. And by now maybe doctrinally different, I just don’t know. But what great “teachers” worked there five decades ago!

God, there, put in my life a man of prayer!

And a man who was a scholar in Bible prophecy!

And a man who loved missions!

And a man who breathed the Greek Language!

And a lady who loved and excelled in Hebrew!

And a man who loved books!

These all (faculty members) dramatically impacted my life, still do in some ways.

Yes, “Jesus came preaching,” so says Mark 1:14.

But He also came “teaching!”

This discussion is now reminding me of the Greatest Teacher of all. John 14:26 tells us of Him. “But the COMFORTER, which is the HOLY GHOST, whom the Father will send in my name, HE SHALL TEACH YOU all things.”

I want to be a learner … all my life!

And I am this morning grateful to everyone who has “taught” me the truths of Scripture, through these seventy years of life. And I am even thrilled with that little place where God brought me to learn!

Oh, by the way, I pray I learn new things today!

As I study God’s Word. Preaching this week in Michigan, in Revival, the Book of Revelation!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell