Study to show yourself approved to God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. --2 Timothy 2:15 (kjver)
As a follow-up to his highly successful and much sought after work Dispensational Truth, Baptist minister Clarence Larkin wrote Rightly Dividing the Word to explain how the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith should be "rightly divided" in a series of contrasts, such as law and grace, faith and works, sin and salvation.
Larkin's aim was not to express his opinion or the thoughts of other writers, but to present biblical concepts "based solely on the Scriptures," with chapter and verse given for every statement.
The Bible, Larkin said, "is not a heterogeneous jumble of ancient history, myths, legends, religious speculations, and apocalyptic literature. There is a progress of revelation and
doctrine in it. You cannot understand Leviticus without Hebrews, or Daniel without Revelation. The judges knew more than the patriarchs, the prophets than the judges, and the apostles more than the prophets."
While the Bible is written for everyone, he maintained, it is addressed to three classes of people: Jews, gentiles, and the church.
Larkin's goal in writing this fascinating book was "to confirm in the Christian faith those who are wavering and to instruct those who have not been clearly taught the great cardinal doctrines."
