Great Doctrines of the Bible—God the Father, God the Son/ Martyn Lloyd Jones

4. How to Find the Doctrines 

The first thing we must do is “agree to grasp the Bible as our full and final authority in all matters of revelation” (36). We shall avoid the “temptation to mix philosophy with revelation,” and “never allow ourselves to be governed by our own logic or by our own desire to have a perfect system” (39). What we need to do is to “submit ourselves not only to the authority of the book, but also to the guidance, the inspiration and the illumination of the Holy Spirit” (39), and therefore we should “start always by asking God by the Holy Spirit to enlighten me, to illumine me, to keep me from error and subtle dangers and to lead me into all truth” (40). Any doctrine that we believe from the Bible “must be capable of demonstration from the Bible”; it “must always be clearly found in the Bible” (40). Secondly, it must be “exclusively scriptural” (41). Thirdly, it must be “plain and clear” (42).