Should we be just as cautious about what the Bible does not say as about what it does say?
Yes, we should be just as cautious about what the Word does not say as about what it says. Many people have ideas claiming the Word says something when it does not; those things are not in Scripture. We must search the Scriptures and line up all teaching with the Word of God, by which we will be judged.
Les explains that he often qualifies his teaching by the opposite: we must be just as cautious about what the Word does not say, because many people have ideas that the Word says something when it does not—'It's not in here.' He urges listeners not to go by what he says but to line it up with the book. He warns there is much false teaching not according to the Word of God, and says whatever you hear, from any denomination or Timbuktu, search the Scriptures and line things up with the Word of God, because that is how we will be judged—not by denominational criteria, but by what the Word really says.