Sluice Box Adventures

Believing Bible Study in the 21st century

The Sluice Box

Figuratively ... we must perform a dredging operation while we are in this old world.

1 Thessalonians 2:13 "For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe."

Psalm 12 ... is the promise to us!

Purified seven times ... God's word is kept in spite of men!

Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
[Verse 1]

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. [Verse 2]

The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: [Verse 3]

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? [Verse 4]

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. [Verse 5]

The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. [Verse 6]

Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. [Verse 7]

The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted. [Verse 8]

The Sluice Box

The Sluice Box Saves The Gold!

Now what is a sluice box?

A sluice box is a long, open-ended trough containing many riffles.

It rests on trestles.

The trestles provide for a uniform and gradual descent.

Material is placed in the head of the sluice box.

Water flows continuously through the material, washing it and breaking up any clumps.

The lighter material is then carried away, while the gold and the heavier materials are trapped in the pockets formed by the riffles.

Gold is caught here!

Figuratively ... we must perform a dredging operation while we are in this old world.

We must do just as the sluice box does. The sluice box saves the gold!

"Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart" (Psalm 119:2).

It is they "that seek him with the whole heart" that will hide the commandments of God in their hearts. "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee" (Psalm 119:11).

We must save the GOLD!

The BIBLE! (by putting God's word into our HEART!)

THE SLUICE BOX!

Our theme is from Psalm 119:9 and 11:

"Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee."